Amy Scattergood

If you're the sort of person who stocks bottles of Oban and Talisker and Bunnahabhain the way some people hoard cans of soup, you're in serious luck. Whisky Live is coming to Los Angeles for the first time this month. It may sound like a sadistic fraternity drinking game, but......

A reminder that it's lunchtime. Go eat something. And while you're at it, if you're feeling aesthetically inclined, in a Diane-Arbus-Orders-À-La-Carte kind of way, take a picture and submit it to the LA Weekly Flickr pool. Everybody else can look at your pictures, and we can showcase them in slideshows......

You can never have too many awards, or too many award ceremonies, can you? Today Foodbuzz announced the nominees for their 2009 Blog Awards. Among the nominees, selected from some 3,500 nominations from readers and fellow bloggers, and including a few notable local stand-outs, are Smitten Kitchen for Best Overall......

Bravo announced yesterday that Top Chef will be renewed for a seventh season. You didn't really think that Tom and Padma would be packing their knives any time soon, did you? The Emmy and James Beard Award-winning show is the No. 1 rated food show on cable. Casting calls for......

A reminder that this Thursday, October 8th, is the grand opening and dedication of the Farmer's Kitchen, a community kitchen, café and retail space that serves as a permanent addition to the Hollywood Farmers' Market. The Kitchen is operated by the Sustainable Economic Enterprises of Los Angeles (SEE-LA), the non-profit......

Lobsters come with their own iconography. Think Woody Allen chasing one around a kitchen in Annie Hall. Or, more recently, a squeamish Amy Adams in Julie & Julia. Sure, you boil them alive, but that's the way it's done, and they don't have any feelings anyway. Didn't Cobain write a......

Joe Miller (Joe's, Bar Pintxo) and John Sedlar (Rivera), who have been friends for some time, must be logging some after-hours good times at their respective restaurants, or somewhere, because the two Los Angeles chefs have collaborated not on a dish or a drink, but on the idea for a......

Next week, Paula Wolfert's new cookbook, Mediterranean Clay Pot Cooking, her 10th, officially hits the bookshelves. Wolfert--who lives, cooks, writes and tweets (@Soumak) in Sonoma, California--has received numerous awards and last year, the James Beard Foundation inducted her work into the Cookbook Hall of Fame. We caught up with her,......

Gourmet Magazine is closing, according to reports from the New York Times. The Condé Naste magazine will reportedly announce this morning that it will stop publication after its November issue. The magazine, which was first published in 1941, has seen sharply declining ad revenue and there had been speculation that......

It's a safe bet that grasshoppers will not be on the menu at The Foundry at Melrose, now or ever. Eric Greenspan, the only Los Angeles chef on this season's The Next Iron Chef, which is set in LA, was eliminated in the first round yesterday. The 10 chefs were......