Amy Scattergood

Mental Floss: Does drinking booze really keep you warm? Hmmm. Ever gotten drunk in Minnesota? Right. The New York Times Diner's Journal: Slow Food USA gets a new leader. Michael Ruhlman: A review of Alex Witchel's book All Gone, a memoir with refreshments. The Smithsonian: Whether or not diet soda......

For those of us who have spent WAY too much time lost near the Burbank airport, driving down one street or another in the concrete tangle of one-way streets chasing Bob Hope's ghost, searching, often in vain, for Rocio Camacho's latest mole palace and maybe a stack of bright green......

As many Angelenos probably already know, Huell Howser died Sunday night at the age of 67. In memoriam, we thought we'd channel-surf through some episodes of Howser's KCET series California's Gold, which have covered myriad subjects over the course of the beloved reporter's long career -- Howser only retired in......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "'I cannot run two houses,' Laguerre told us by phone this morning." TiGeorges' Chicken Closing the End of January. "And no, you don't have to worry about your photo of Kiriko's omakase sashimi plate ending up......

The Guardian: How to eat a persimmon. Pigeons & Planes: 20 Things Everyone Thinks About The Food World (But Nobody Will Say). Riding Shotgun: Happy New Year's from Roy Choi. The New York Times: After Crispy Pig Ears, 10 Trends for 2013. Daily Dish: Fishing With Dynamite, David LeFevre's new......

After weathering enough misfortunes to make Job's afternoon look like a walk in the park (the 2010 Haitian earthquake, his own restaurant fire), George Laguerre is closing his downtown Haitian restaurant. TiGeorges' Chicken will be open through this month, but will close its doors on Jan. 31. As Downtown News......

There are myriad reasons to stand in the seemingly permanent line that fills the San Gabriel strip mall sidewalk outside of Golden Deli. There are the cha gio, or fried spring rolls, which function as magnets for certain neighborhood foodists. There is the glorious pantheon of phở, which is happily......

The conclusion of every year is a time to catalog both beginnings and endings, to look back over what exactly happened in the twelve months now drawing to a close. Which means that we're getting a lot of lists -- thank you, David Letterman -- as we calibrate and recalibrate,......

There are many reasons to stop by Copenhagen Pastry, the bakery and retail shop in Culver City owned and operated by Danish native and longtime Angeleno Karen Hansen. The dark, seed-covered loaves of rye bread. The little bags of holiday sugar cookies. The LAMill coffee. The trays of freshly baked......