Amy Scattergood

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "We've done over 800 dishes at The Foundry since we've been open, and not one of them had grasshoppers in it.'" Next Iron Chef Eric Greenspan: Will The Foundry's Cuisine Reign Supreme? "If you don't walk......

For everyone who's been following along on the blog, we've been playing Name That Burger, in which you guess the venue of a hamburger based on a picture and a brief (and getting briefer) description. Given the fact that we're almost up to 10 hamburgers (we'll stop when we hit,......

Foodies in this town have long beaten a track to Surfas, the cooking and restaurant supply store in Culver City. You can probably trace the origins of half the bannetons and cannelé molds and bottarga and sea salt caramels in Los Angeles kitchens right to the corner of National and......

Even if you're the sort of person who follows Top Chef instead of Project Runway, it's difficult sometimes not to feel a bit guilty as you watch Padma in her cocktail dresses and halter tops while you sit on the couch eating actual food. (Of course this may change soon,......

This happy news just in via @thefoodsection: Crocs will stay in business. And thus Mario Batali (Mozza, Babbo, empire) will not need to switch to Birkenstocks, for which we are all grateful. On Wednesday the troubled shoe company, which has been trying to orchestrate a turnaround (you try pirouetting in......

Maybe somebody declared October Chocolate Month and hoped that we'd all just figure it out by the trail of cacao nibs and empty Chuao boxes. The LA Chocolate Salon is coming next weekend, and this month the newly-opened Rosa Mexicano at LA Live is hosting their LA Chocolate Festival, which......

No, despite this being Best Of week here at the paper, this is not the best burger in LA, although it was extremely tasty. For our next edition of Name That Burger, in which you guess the venue of a hamburger based on a picture (below) and a brief description,......

If you haven't picked up this week's issue or checked out the website today, i.e. if you're only seeing this now via the haiku Ritalin universe of Twitter, you may not yet realize that this year's edition of LA Weekly's Best of L.A. came out today. Consider yourself enlightened. This......

Yes, you may still be shaking from Tuesday's National Coffee Day caffeine binge, but you'll get over it. Have another cup of joe or, better yet, learn about your habit. Next Saturday, October 10th, Intelligentsia coffee roaster and quality control specialist Jared Linzmeier will be teaching a class on coffee......

Happy October. And a reminder that Thanksgiving is only 8 weeks away. If you're truly organized, you may be thinking about ordering your turkey already. If so, you might consider putting in an order for a Good Shepherd Turkey Ranch heritage turkey from Heritage Foods USA, the sales and marketing......