Amy Scattergood

Readers of food magazines often like to pit Condé Nast's two culinary powerhouses, Gourmet and Bon Appétit, against each other. Like Letterman and Leno, one is based in New York (Gourmet), the other here in Los Angeles (Bon Appétit). Gourmet has historically been worldly and a touch academic, Bon Appétit......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "C'est banal!" Eating L.A.'s Pat Saperstein on a recent Top Chef dish. "One bite and I'm done." The LAT's S. Irene Virbila on Boa in West Hollywood. "As at City, an evening at Street feels halfway......

Figs are a late summer crop, ripening after months of heat and dryness, and right now the Black Mission figs, Brown Turkey figs and pale green Kadotas are starting to hit their stride. In Southern California, where fruit trees can be found on street corners, overhanging alleys and sidewalks and,......

Last night at Eva, chef-owner Mark Gold was in fine form, greeting guests and chatting table-side on the third night since his new Beverly Boulevard restaurant opened. "You know, I wouldn't have ordered that," he said, considering the plates of foie gras with summer melon and maple, and Hokkaido scallops......

Mark Peel has had a busy summer. In addition to working on the new bar up the street from his La Brea Avenue restaurant Campanile, opening a new take-out place (more on both projects coming), competing in Top Chef Masters and appearing as a judge in the new season of......

After a short hiatus, spent eating impossibly fresh vegetarian meals (imagine a small universe of market greenery and vine-ripened vegetables, whole grains and tofu, fruit plucked from nearby trees... I'm kidding), it's time to once again play Name This Burger. My job is to eat and document. Your job is......

This Saturday morning LA Weekly restaurant critic Jonathan Gold will be giving a talk, "The Rise of Regional Cuisines in the San Gabriel Valley," at the Los Angeles Central Library's Mark Taper Auditorium. The talk is presented by the Culinary Historians of Southern California, a not-for-profit organization that supports the......

This weekend marks the start of the NFL season, and Monday the beginning of Monday Night Football, and thus the onset of football-watching at local bars and eateries and pretty much any restaurant with a nice big flat screen television turned to the game. Henry's Hat, the new gastropub in......

Between Buellton and Lompoc in Santa Barbara County, about 11 miles from the ocean on the inland side of the Santa Ynez Mountains, you'll find Rancho La Viña--and some of the best walnuts in this part of the country. This pleasant fact is particularly noteworthy at the moment, as the......