Amy Scattergood

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Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food

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,......
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Eat A Peach: What to Buy Now At the Farmers Market

Even if you're not an Allman Brothers fan, this is the time to be eating peaches--out of hand, in cobblers and pies, over ice cream, while spinning 37 year-old records. At the Venice farmers market this morning (open at 7 a.m., the marine layer like a low heaven), Tenerelli Orchards'......
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Salad Days: The Mathematics of a Good Vinaigrette

Given the triple-digit temperatures wilting much of Los Angeles and vicinity at the moment, the best thing to make for dinner is a dish that requires little time and less cooking. Preferably none. A salad, perhaps: either a riot of greens tossed into a bowl or an artful composition of......
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TMZ Orders Take-out: Another Reason to Hit Mozza Mid-afternoon

If you needed yet another reason to go to Mozza during non-peak hours, TMZ provides you with one. Minions from the tabloid website were out in front of the Silverton-Batali-Bastianich restaurants the other night, stalking a vacationing (hey, at least he's home) Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and sometimes dinner guest Ryan......
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Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "So you're just going to have to go with me on this: I was a baby bulimic." NYT restaurant critic Frank Bruni. "I'm dabbling in it and looking at becoming a chef." Keanu Reeves on molecular......