Amy Scattergood

Tired of trying to Google culinary terms when you're right in the middle of an episode of Top Chef or, I don't know, reading your favorite food blog? Well the editors of American Heritage Dictionaries have come out with a book for you: think CliffsNotes for food people. Six bucks......

Stone Ground Bakery in Agoura Hills, just off the 101 between Calabasas and Ventura, is one of those L.A. shopping mall treasures, a great bakery trapped in anonymous concrete that you find only if you know the happy repeat customers--or have exited to get gas and discovered great bread instead......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "If this were a medical school exam, you would have failed miserably. But Lilly's is a taqueria. You have just had lunch." Good Head: Eating Barbacoa at Lilly's Taqueria. "Exploring options. Trying to move fast... We......

Tomorrow in Pasadena, Mama's Small Business Kitchen Incubator will be hosting an open house and food event. Just so you know that Pasadena is good for things other than frilly parades and QB-crunching BCS title games. Step over any remaining passed-out Bama fans and check out an "Iron Chef-style" cook-off......

Starting February 4th, The Los Angeles Times Food section will be published on Thursdays instead of Wednesdays. Food section editor Russ Parsons says that the move, which he announced yesterday, is the result of "losing some press capacity." The Times is shutting down their Orange County printing operations. Today's Times......

Via @Atlantic_Food, here's a very funny catalog of odd pizzas from the blog Now That's Nifty. The best of the bunch: this Yoda pizza. A fitting homage, really. So now, of course, what we really need is an Avatar pizza. Wonder what James Cameron is doing with all that 3D......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you courtesy of photographer stephenfalk, who took the shot on January 4th with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS. It's a conceit, of course. Maybe the chefs are dangerous, or maybe they scored a gig private cheffing for Roman Polanski--or maybe they......