Amy Scattergood

The Wednesday Santa Monica farmers market is a very fun place, between the streets filled with farmers' stands and the enormous variety of fresh produce and the marine layer blowing in from the ocean only a block away. It's also a great spot to run into chefs, as so many......

In these uneasy economic times, when food trucks materialize seemingly overnight and established restaurants can close their doors just as quickly, it's comforting to celebrate a local favorite that's been around for half a century. La Luz del Dia on Olvera Street turns 50 years old next week. And waitress......

If you're the sort of person who TiVo's Ace of Cakes episodes, haunts the aisles of Surfas and Gloria's Cake & Candy Supplies looking for fondant and gumpaste and cake boards, and thinks making a 3-tiered cake adorned with flowers made from royal icing is a good time, then you're......

What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of your content......

Drive up the 101 past the city, into the hills nearing Ventura, to a little strip mall right off the freeway in Agoura Hills, and you'll find a bakery that feels unquestionably like Europe and has some of the best challah you'll find in town or out of it. Stone......

Lemonade, which just opened a third location on Abbot Kinney in Venice last month, is set to open a fourth in a week or two: a museum cafe at MOCA. The opening date is tentatively set as "mid-September." The original Lemonade is on Beverly Boulevard; the second location is in......

If the lines at Nom Nom Truck are too long, or the food runs out or the sweltering sidewalk heat is too much for you, there are still brick-and-mortar options for bánh mì, the awesome Vietnamese baguette sandwiches that Viet street food by way of French Colonialism. Yeah, yeah, it's......

Gastrokids is a kids food blog, written by Bon Appétit features editor Hugh Garvey, who, like Bon Appétit, is based in Los Angeles, and Matthew Yeomans, a writer based in Wales. It is also a cookbook, The Gastrokid Cookbook: Feeding a Foodie Family in a Fast-Food World, published last month......

It's been awhile since Angelenos got to eat Mark Gold's food. The chef left Leatherby's Café Rouge, Joachim Splichal's Costa Mesa restaurant, in late 2007. Gold cooked at Joe's in Venice for awhile (Joe Miller is a good friend), and did some consulting at The Edison while he looked for......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "When you think of it, what is more important than the food we put on our table?" Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announcing his food policy task force. "In thinking about what I thought about today's Pie, it......