Amy Scattergood

For anyone else who drove by the closed Bay Cities Italian Deli on Monday and about choked on their coffee when they noticed the workmen on ladders attacking the roof, paint dropcloths on the ground and masking tape bandaging up the windows, and wondered if something was amiss or, better,......

Last night, less than a month after Josef Centeno and Michael Cardenas opened The Lazy Ox Canteen in Little Tokyo, Centeno made his first bäco. It was on the chalkboard menu, scrawled discreetly above the crispy pigs ears with horseradish sauce and escabeche of branzino and whelk (also spelled welk,......

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......

Between tonight's Orange Bowl and the crowds slowly gathering in Pasadena for Thursday's BCS championship game (with all the Longhorn banners fluttering along Del Mar, you'd think that half the faculty at Cal Tech was secretly from Texas), we thought it was time for a little food fashion weigh-in. Because......

Since Suzanne Tracht, opened Jar, her Los Angeles chop house, in 2001, there has been one recipe that epitomizes her approach to comfort food more, perhaps, than any other: the Jar pot roast. It has never been off the menu, even in L.A.'s blistering summers when pot roast, you'd think,......

So here's a rhetorical question for you: how many National Food Days are we technically allowed? Can we designate all 365 of them, or are some days reserved for non-edibles, like National AK-47 Day, or National Monopoly Day? Today, for example, is National Spaghetti Day. Which means, perhaps, that you......

Every year, Saveur Magazine comes out with their list of 100 great things in the world of food. In issue 126, just out in newsstands, they've given us the Saveur 100 Reader's Edition, in which readers sent in 1,348 entries from 18 countries and 48 states. Lists are great, and......

A recall on Christmas Eve of almost a quarter million pounds of beef has focused attention not only on the beef, but on the process of mechanically tenderizing the meat. 248,000 pounds of beef products were recalled by the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety Inspection Service from National Steak......