Amy Scattergood

If you stop by some of your favorite restaurants next weekend and wonder where the chef is, he may not be fishing or skateboarding, but off judging the Bocuse d'Or. Walter Manzke (Church & State), David Myers (comme Ça, Sona) and Michael Cimarusti (Providence) will all be at the Culinary......

If pot brownies are becoming passé, what with the casual surfeit of medical marijuana dispensaries all over town, there's always the psilocybin mushroom omelet. The L.A. Times reports that L.A. County sheriff's deputies arrested a Lake Los Angeles couple yesterday for growing hallucinogenic mushrooms. "We don't see a lot of......

When I was a teenager, my sister and I would decorate gingerbread men to resemble Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten and hang them on the Christmas tree. Check out this image--and 2 dozen more--from ohnotheydidnt via The Huffington Post (and Bon Appetit), proving that whether it be The Sex Pistols......

If you like to take pictures of your food as well as, eventually, eat it, and if you'd like to make sure that your photos look as good as the food does, or did, you might want to check out this food photography workshop, Phototasting, held Saturday, February 7th, from......

Food & Wine Magazine just came out with their list of the World's Top 10 Life-Changing Restaurants. Proving once again that we all seem to fantasize about the same restaurants, and that all narrative should now just be written in list format. F&W's Top 10? ElBulli, The Fat Duck, Pierre......

If getting screamed at by celebrity chef-ranter Gordon Ramsay happens to be one of your lifelong ambitions, then you have someplace to be this Sunday. On January 31st, there will be an open casting call for the L.A. auditions of MasterChef, Ramsay's new Fox show, at the Farmers Market Sur......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "But it is in Thai Town, where the hollow-stemmed water vegetable is usually translated as "morning glory," that it seems the most compelling - possibly because of the slight buzz we imagined we were getting when......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you courtesy of photographer Muy Yum: a terrific shot of a dirty martini with two onions at Bouchon Bistro. Bar Bouchon, by the way, is now open downstairs, below the bistro proper. A perfect image for a waterlogged Friday. Better gin-soaked than......

Not a bad weekend to stay at home and make soup, all things considered. This recipe for Provençal vegetable soup au pistou, from Anisette Brasserie chef-partner Alain Giraud (see yesterday's interview with Giraud), would be just the thing: a meal in a bowl, and pretty as the spring we'll have......

Guess I haven't been checking in with the parole officer enough lately (or watching Planet Green, like who gets Planet Green, except maybe Emeril?) because I completely missed this. Finally, a reality show that combines the best of Top Chef, Cops and Celebrity Rehab. Conviction Kitchen mixes together an executive......