Amy Scattergood

If you are not a farmer or a regular backyard gardener--and thus unaccustomed to the seasonal operatics of vegetables--the glut of produce that can appear seemingly overnight in your casually-planted home garden can be astonishing, overwhelming, perhaps even horrifying. Those few innocent-looking Early Girl tomato plants you put into the......

Now that New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni is moving out of the anonymous shadows (Bruni resigned his post in May; the identity of his replacement, not yet named, has generated much amusing speculation), his mugshot is now public record. In fact, not only is his picture up on......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "You want Americans to eat less? I have the diet for you. It's short, and it's simple. Here's my diet plan: Cook it yourself." As quoted in "No One Cooks Here Anymore," by Michael Pollan. "They......

Leave your castanets at home tonight, and head to Tinto Tapas España for its first flamenco show. Previously the West Hollywood Spanish tapas restaurant has had recorded flamenco music, but starting tonight a professional will do the clicking during the two dinner shows, which will include flamenco guitar and singing......

John Sedlar, whose downtown restaurant Rivera opened in January, is known more for his flower-embedded nixtamal tortillas, his mole-sauced kurobuta pork chops, his buratta-stuffed chile relleno, his duck enfrijoladas, his chile-powder-as-art plate stencils, and his curating of Latin food history (the New Mexico-born chef has been working on his Museum......

I don't know about you, but when I was a kid we read the Sears, Robuck catalog, the Farmers' Almanac and Consumer Reports like kids now read Harry Potter or Manga comicbooks. Okay, the windswept prairie circa 1960-whatever was not a cultural Mecca, but my point is that those publications......

Early Wednesday morning, 2 a.m. to be precise, Eric Greenspan issued a hamburger challenge to L.A.’s reigning hamburger king, Sang Yoon of Father’s Office. Greenspan, chef-owner of the Foundry on Melrose, staged what can only be called a covert food op, nailing his challenge — with ketchup — to the......

On Tuesday, the NPD Group, a Chicago-based market research company, released its spring 2009 report, an annual census of commercial restaurant locations in the United States compiled in the spring and fall each year, which showed a decline of 4,000 restaurants nationwide from the previous year. While this reflects a......

The next time you're trolling the aisles of cooking supply stores, coveting that pricey panini press (the good ones can set you back $150) or even a retro bacon press (more like $10), consider taking a page from your grandmother's book (or your grandfather's, were he a mason), and use......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The positive growth in summer employment is one indicator of the likely beginning of economic recovery for the restaurant industry." National Restaurant Association Releases Industry Employment Outlook for Summer of 2009. "When I saw the pineapples,......