Amy Scattergood

When last week I posted about some of the best places to get affogato in this town, not a few people tersely pointed out that I had not included LA Mill's incarnation of the Italian concoction, a happy combination of gelato and espresso. Mea culpa. So here it is, in......

Thanks for playing last week's installment of Name That Burger. For everyone who answered Rustic Canyon, you were correct. Perhaps this game should be more cryptic. But honestly, it's more fun to describe a hamburger if you're not being overly coy. Although this whole guessing game thing does beg the......

Sherry Yard moves at the speed of someone who, for professional reasons, consumes a lot of sugar. But when she's not at the pastry kitchen of Spago or Cut, or overseeing the desserts of Wolfgang Puck's vast and growing empire, or writing cookbooks (her latest, Desserts By the Yard, came......

With the economy questionable and no one exactly sure when the markets will rebound, it's a good time to invest in solid, verifiable assets. Banks in Italy take an even more pragmatic approach, accepting as collateral for loans something not only solid and verifiable--but edible, should it come to that......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Designing a menu for Mars is simply a scientific problem to be solved like any other." This is not Buzz Aldrin's Astronaut Food. "We should be able to live largely disease-free lives until we are well......

It's not only Julia Child's books that have been topping the charts: next week Michael Ruhlman's most recent book hits the New York Times bestseller list. "Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking," which came out this spring from Scribner, is Ruhlman's 13th book; he's the author......

Yesterday the Brazilian beef exporter Bertin reported that it had signed a pact with Greenpeace to refuse to buy cattle from deforested parts of the Amazon. Greenpeace claims that the Brazilian Amazon cattle industry is the largest driver of deforestaton in the world, responsible for 14% of the world's annual......

Every Wednesday during summertime's peak tomato season, Il Grano chef-owner Salvatore Marino puts on a show, constructing a menu built entirely around the tomato. These are not your average tomatoes, or even ones he brings back from the nearby farmers market, but tomatoes Marino grows himself and picks the morning......

The Maginot line between the kitchen and the Internet keeps getting fainter, between the updates of tweeting chefs and the posts from guerrilla food bloggers madly blogging from the bathrooms on a restaurant's opening night (that according to Anisette chef-owner Alain Giraud). But blogs written by chefs are often lovely......

A few weeks ago, we wrote about two new government reports that raised concerns about the safety of bottled water ("New Reports on Plastic Water Bottles: Question Your (Water) Sources & Just Drink From the Tap"), as well as the environmental impact of the bottles themselves. Chief among the concerns......