Amy Scattergood

TiGeorges' Chicken, George Laguerre's Echo Park Haitian restaurant, has become an ad hoc center for earthquake relief. Laguerre, who is from Port-de-Paix, has been fielding calls, doing interviews, organizing a relief effort and operating as a community center in the wake of yesterday's devastating earthquake in Haiti. And tomorrow night,......

Bastide, open less than a month, may not have a website up yet--owner and producer Joe Pytka is not one to put up just any old website--but chef Joseph Mahon's food is very much up and running. After taking the time to chat about this and that, Mahon gave us......

In yesterday's first part of our interview with Bastide chef Joseph Mahon, the chef talked about his road to the kitchen of Joe Pytka's newly-reopened Melrose Avenue restaurant, his time at the CIA (that would be the Culinary Institute of America, not our national spy shop) and his previous life......

What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of your content......

What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of your content......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you courtesy of photographer Renee Rendler-Kaplan, who took the shot at the Hollywood Farmers Market. Photo-sharing is fun, as we can feature your work in blogs and photo galleries. Or, to quote @StephenFalk's tweet this morning: "LAist used a photo of mine......

When Bastide reopened, after a year-long hiatus, a month ago, it was with a recalibrated feel (it's also a bookstore, of all things) and a new chef. Joseph Mahon joined the impressive list of chefs who have helmed Joe Pytka's Melrose Place restaurant, a catalog that reads like a Michelin......

Last week the Beverly Hills Police Department confirmed the arrest on December 30th of Satoshi Kiyokawa on a fugitive from justice warrant. Kiyokawa, you may remember, is the chef-owner of Kiyokawa Restaurant, a sushi restaurant in Beverly Hills, and the subject of a recent downright glowing Jonathan Gold Counter Intelligence......