Amy Scattergood

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "But I'm not one of those people out in Southeast Asia looking for whatever, fermented chickens in their shells'" Q & A With Thomas Keller, Part 2: The Best Meal He Ever Cooked, The Importance of......

Want to be a food writer? Think you can write witty, pithy posts for this blog? L.A. Weekly's food blog (the very blog you're reading now) is seeking qualified freelance food writers. Must know the L.A. food scene, be able to write intelligently about it, come up with creative pitches......

If you have an ice cream and volleyball fetish, tomorrow's your lucky day. Professional volleyball players will be serving not volleyballs but ice cream at a fundraiser this Saturday, November 14th, to help raise money for Padres Contra El Cancer at Manhattan Beach's Tin Roof Bistro. The highlight of the......

As Thomas Keller week comes to an end, we'll leave you with an interior shot of one of the rooms that comprise Bouchon's massive kitchen. This is the baking room, where on Monday night were stacked an impressive array of breads. More went in and out of the oven: épis......

When filmmaker and photographer Douglas Gayeton decided to write a book that would chronicle the 5 years he spent in rural Italy, he didn't dash off a guy's version of Under The Tuscan Sun. Fortunately for the rest of us. Instead Gayeton assembled a patchwork of sepia prints, singly and......

The vast Condé Nast recipe database Epicurious.com is a phenomenal resource for both home and professional cooks, kind of like The Beatles catalog for food people. With the closing down of Gourmet Magazine (this month is the last issue), Epicurious became even more valuable, as it now functions as a......

Michelin may have declined to hand out stars in Los Angeles this year (and Las Vegas too), but they're scattering them around Europe. Yesterday the Michelin Guide to Germany awarded 24 new stars, giving out one new 2-star rating, and 1-star awards to 23 previously unstarred restaurants. Bloomberg News reports......

Last year, Bon Appétit ran a slideshow of the best pictures of holiday desserts from national food bloggers. It was, to put it mildly, a rather popular slideshow. This year, they're going one better and holding a contest: the Bon Appétit Blog Envy Bake-Off. Anyone with a food blog can......