Amy Scattergood

For anyone currently eating a bowlful of pasta for breakfast, remnants of dinner last night at Drago Centro or Angelini Osteria; if you're getting amatriciana sauce all over your brand new copy of The Silver Spoon: Pasta book (out last week from Phaidon Press); or if you're just eyeing your......

It's pumpkin season again, in the fields and on front porches and at local farmers markets, where next Wednesday the Santa Monica farmers market will be holding its annual all-you-can-carry pumpkin patch. It's pretty self-explanatory: pay $5 and load up with as many pumpkins as you can carry ("balance them......

This Sunday afternoon, Los Angeles Magazine is hosting a Food Event out in Malibu. Yes, that's the name: Food Event. Somebody gets points for clarity. 25 local restaurants and 25 of the state's wineries will provide food and drink and, by extension, entertainment, at the vineyards of Saddlerock Ranch. Guest......

Do these bottles look good to you? Guess some wines via Twitter, and you can drink one for free at Drago Centro, Celestino Drago's swank downtown restaurant. All this week, Drago Centro sommelier Michael Shearin (Bouchon, Craftsteak, Restaurant Guy Savoy) is hosting a blind tasting on Twitter: once a day,......

Elements Café, a 4 year-old restaurant in Pasadena, is opening a second location, next to the Pasadena Playhouse, in December. In the meantime, chef-owner Onil Chibas recently expanded both the original space on Fair Oaks and the breakfast and pastry menu. The new restaurant will be even larger, with a......

Yesterday afternoon Martha Stewart was in town, signing her new book, Dinner at Home, at the Sur La Table at the Grove. (Read our interview with Stewart.) The lines stretched down 3rd street in patient formation, as everyone waited with their event tickets and a book (or books), a security......

Flying Pig Truck, a new mobile eatery specializing in (surprise!) pork-themed tacos and other items, rolled out last Friday. (Thanks to Eater LA for the heads up on this.) Run by two chefs who recently graduated from the California School of Culinary Arts, the Cordon Bleu program in Pasadena, and......

You can talk to your car and your phone; now you can talk to your coffee pot too. Today the Primula Speak n' Brew, a 10-cup drip coffee maker designed by a 3rd generation company based in New Jersey, launches at Macy's Home stores, and November 1st on Amazon. "It......

Jason Travi will be coming back to cook in Los Angeles, after an extended time visiting family in Massachusetts and Tokyo, but it won't be at Fraîche, the restaurant he opened in Culver City in 2007. Nor will he be behind the stoves at the second Fraîche, formerly Riva, which......

It's Bocuse d'Or International Culinary Competition time again, in which teams from 24 countries compete for the honor of winning Paul Bocuse' legendary culinary prize. The Bocuse d'Or USA Foundation, which is led by Jerome Bocuse, Daniel Boulud and Thomas Keller (just think about those three names for a minute......