Amy Scattergood

Eater LA: 50 years behind the bar at Musso & Frank with Manny Aguirre. Michael Ruhlman: Holiday cookbooks picks for 2012. Grub Street Los Angeles: Riot like a European dairy farmer and fill your spray hoses with milk. Daily Dish: A new chef steps behind the stoves of Thomas Keller's......

11. Sugar and Spice Beignets at Hatfield's. There are myriad glorious things to find at Hatfield's, Quinn and Karen Hatfield's lovely study in elegance and culinary atavism in what was once Michel Richard's Citrus. There is the open kitchen, in which you can see the chefs in their toques (hence......

For all of you who've been watching your Twitter accounts or stalking Ludo Lefebvre on his motorcycle (good luck with that), eagerly awaiting news of another incarnation of Ludo's justly famous pop-up, you're in luck. LudoBites 10 is coming. This will probably be the last iteration of these events, as......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "What's the toy surprise inside? A mini defibrillator? A dose of nitroglycerin? A Valium?" Cracker Jack Introduces Caffeinated Version: Cracker Jack'd. "Well, that is not entirely accurate: the bottles of nouveau that 'arrive' on Thursday were......

Last night, under the gorgeous iron bird cages that hang above the back dining room at The Spice Table, chef-owner Bryant Ng held court with Food & Wine editor-in-chief Dana Cowin to mark the release of Cowin's new book, America's Greatest New Cooks. Just published by Food & Wine Books,......

Celebrating this year's Best of L.A. issue -- now out in print and online -- we're counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 13. Rivera's Tortillas Florales. It's perhaps fitting that John Sedlar's downtown restaurant Rivera is on Flower St., as one of the few dishes......

Celebrating this year's Best of L.A. issue -- now out in print and online -- we're counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 14. Spago's Baked Jonagold Apple. When Spago closed its Beverly Hills doors over the summer, for a $4 million overhaul, it was not......

Sure, you can see the beautiful dishes that your favorite chefs spend hours making in real life. When, perhaps you go to their restaurants and actually eat their food. But since we often spend more time looking at pretty pictures of dinner than we do consuming it, the tech gods......

Maybe it's a good thing that New York City Mayor Bloomberg has targeted soda as a leading cause of the obesity epidemic, because he could have targeted something far, far more important: Nutella. Which is precisely what the government of France has done. In an effort to curb obesity, France......

If you want more validation for choosing not to eat meat today, the Los Angeles City Council just gave it to you. On Friday, L.A. became the largest city in America to support the Meatless Monday campaign when the City Council voted unanimously, in a 12-0 vote, to support the......