Amy Scattergood

Although the massive Station fire north of Los Angeles continues to grow, the Yucaipa and Oak Glen fires are under control, which is very welcome news for residents--and for area apple lovers. Oak Glen is home to many Southern California apple farms, a constellation of U-pick farms and ranches, gift......

It's finally September, which fact you can tell by the school bus fleets, the onset of Trojan football season, and the resurgence of pears at farmers markets. This morning at the Santa Monica farmers market, the Flora Bella Farm stand was heavy with crates of them: Asian pears, red Bartlett......

In an effort to regain customers who are shopping at discount stores and watching their ever-tightening budgets, supermarket chains are lowering prices, sometimes dramatically. Today Vons dropped the prices on 15% of its products in the chain's 274 stores. Ralph's also announced that it's reducing prices; Stater Bros. lowered it's......

So, in our ongoing quest to eat every good burger in this town (and some not so good, but let's not dwell on that; let's just say that Thomas Keller and I agree to disagree), let us recap. In order, we've played Guess that Burger with Umami Burger, Rustic Canyon,......

Stop in for lunch at comme Ça, David Myers' bistro on Melrose, and you'll probably order the hamburger. You and everybody else in this town. But after the burger has vanished, the tall cup of pommes frites has been emptied, the aïoli has been licked from its little cup, you......

Anybody who's ever read Roald Dahl's classic children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remembers the defining moment when we learn that the factory is a cypher, the owner absent, the doors perhaps permanently closed. "Nobody ever goes in and nobody ever comes out." Despite this fact, or maybe because......

We have Italians to thank for many things, of course. These five items are not what immediately come to mind. But then I guess it depends on the kind of playlist you have on when you're thinking about this. 20 guesses which restaurant this piece of paper came from......

At the end of a 60 Minutes show, Andy Rooney takes his time to complain about stuff. I guess you get to do that when you've been around as long as he has. Once, though, he did something rather fascinating: he emptied out his kitchen drawers and complained about all......

In yesterday's Dear Prudence column in Slate, the online advice columnist is asked a dining question. "How do you have a group dinner, with conversation, when some still have their phones on and are checking texts and e-mails?" Prudence, or rather Emily Yoffe, who writes for Washingtonpost.com every week, replies:......