Amy Scattergood

Squid Ink is taking the day off tomorrow, but will be back on Monday. We leave you with this look at the interior of 3 Square Café + Bakery, on Abbot Kinney in Venice. Every year Hans Röckenwagner hangs his Christmas tree upside down, suspended from the ceiling and decorated......

When we stopped by to visit Butter Tart bakery--which is set to reopen next month--the other day, pastry chef Jan Purdy was in the kitchen, baking holiday cookies. Purdy has been working with Butter Tart chef-owner Andre Guerrero since their days together at Linq (which is now the home of......

The reopening of Butter Tart in Glassell Park has been pushed back to mid-January, as chef-owner Andre Guerrero (The Oinkster, Marché , BoHo) fine-tunes his new bakery/restaurant. For Guerrero, fine-tuning in not simply figuring out which coffee to buy (Intelligentsia) or tweaking his granola recipe, although he's done both in......

Ilan Hall, chef-owner of downtown's The Gorbals (yeah, yeah, and season 2 Top Chef), likes to play with his food as much as the next chef, particularly with offal and other interesting bits. On the menu the other day? Octopus with gizzards and lemon; tripe fries with romesco sauce; Manischewitz-braised......

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......

Got a question for the expert? Ask Jonathan Gold. Email your culinary questions to [email protected]. This town is too big to navigate by yourself. And why, really, when you can get discerning and possibly outrageous feedback from himself with a simple email......

In yesterday's post, The Best Baking and Pastry Books of 2009, we promised the recipe for soft pretzels from Lovina Eicher's terrific baking book, The Amish Cook's Baking Book, which we named Best of 2009 for All-Purpose Bakers. As we noted in the roundup, the pretzels are easier than most,......

Via @Atlantic_Food ("you might need an engineering degree for this one"), we found this post from the Australian blog A Table For Two: a gingerbread house based on the recent Spike Jonze' film Where the Wild Things Are. It's not really a house, but a recreation of the house-cave from......