Amy Scattergood

Homer and Plato both described salt as divine, although Lot's wife wouldn't have thought so, having been transformed into it. According to Tacitus, certain Germanic tribes believed prayers were heeded somewhat more if they were offered in salt mines; during China's Cultural Revolution, Chiang Kai-shek's local headquarters were turned into......

Even if you don't live in New Mexico, you're perhaps aware that it's Hatch chile season. Hatch chiles are grown in Hatch, New Mexico, in the Mesilla Valley, just north of Las Cruces. They're similar to Anaheim chiles, to which they're related, and they're only in season for a few......

Now that we have taco trucks, BBQ trucks, sushi trucks and cupcake trucks (and now perhaps signs of a backlash)--why not food trucks with something really useful, like fresh fruit and vegetables? In a neighborhood of Detroit where there are 26 liquor stores to one grocery store, a food truck......

There is a mystique to the hamburger in this country, a reverence born of childhood and road-trip, of inchoate memory and embedded emotion. I get it. I read Proust. (Or at least all the interminable paragraphs that dealt with food.) But I'm sorry, I do not understand the myth of......

To the side of a dead-end street, off the one-way section of Olympic as it nears the beach, sits an industrial quadrant of concrete and delivery trucks and, though you may easily miss it if you're not among the initiated, one of the best Italian import shops in town. Guidi......

If you live in Nancy Silverton's neighborhood or, to be more specific, the vicinity of her new Mozza 2 Go restaurant, you doubtless know that you can now get her near-legendary pizzas delivered. Many years ago, one's hipness in this town was measured by whether one lived in the 90210......

Time magazine's new issue covers the food crisis in America: Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food. "Unless Americans radically rethink the way they grow and consume food," writes Bryan Walsh, "they face a future of eroded farmland, hollowed-out countryside, scarier germs, higher health costs -- and bland......

Although many Pillsbury Bake-Off cookbooks have been published during the years, it's the 1959 book that is the classic, assembling the best 1000 winning recipes in the Best of the Bake-Off Collection. The book, which Wiley is reissuing in a facsimile of the original edition on its 60th anniversary, reads......

If you spend your days watching Top Chef or playing Restaurant City online or even actually attending culinary school, you might be thinking about opening your own restaurant. So what do you do if you're young and broke and still think this is a good idea and not, say, getting......