Amy Scattergood

PigOut 3.0  This is the third edition of this annual pig-centric event, which features chefs, specialty pork, cocktails, a pig-deconstruction demo, a pig farmer Q&A and a knife-skills demo. This year's main attraction will be a  250-pound Templeton Rye Duroc pig from the Templeton Rye Heritage Pork Project. Among the......

Ramen Yokocho FestivalThe Ramen Yokocho Fest is back! The latest one is part of the Nisei Week Japanese Festival, a weekend of celebrating Japanese culture with not only noodles but live entertainment and food trucks. The festival includes the Day-Lee World Gyoza Eating Championship on Saturday afternoon (watch, not eat). As......

When one ramen shop closes, another one opens. Just remember that, when you show up at Marukai market in Gardena and stare longingly at the ramen-ya-shaped hole where Ramen Iroha used to be. Yep, Iroha closed about a month ago. So go buy some baumkuchen and bags of dried squid......

If you’ve driven by Sawtelle during lunch hours lately, you’ve likely noticed a crowd around Tsujita, the artisan noodle shop that has grown famous for the specialty ramen dish called tsukemen. The crowd is part of a growing legion in Los Angeles who've chosen to dig deeply into noodle culture......

Butcher & Beer Night at Picnik Picnik butcher Michael Puglisi joins chef Eduardo Ruiz for an evening of butchery demos, dinner and bottomless Eagle Rock Brews. Other than beer and meat, there will be a whole hog breakdown and instruction demo, which will include information on cuts and techniques, brining......

It's August in Los Angeles. Time to listen to Vin Scully on the radio (here's that Time Warner petition), dream of rain, and get tickets to our Pancake Breakfast. Plan your weekend events and juice fasts accordingly. If you haven't seen the (pink!) artwork on your neighborhood's LA Weekly newspaper box, here's a......

Some of you may recall that Chris Knight — the Iowa-born, Paris-based journalist who started a project called Darn Brownies — came to town recently, to continue his mission of making and giving away free brownies just to make people happy and, hopefully by example, to so something good for their......

Yeah, yeah, we know it's not ramen weather, nor is it likely to be on the weekend of August 16-17, when the next Ramen Yokocho will be taking over Little Tokyo. Suck it up, literally, and just have an umbrella and a jug of ice water handy. Because ramen transcends minor......

Big Bite Bacon FestSince we will not collectively ever tire of bacon, and since everybody who went to the San Diego County Fair for Big Bite Bacon Fest probably is out of that food coma, the sizzling pork adventure will travel north for its debut at the Queen Mary in Long......

A random act of kindness starts like this: a rain of cocoa powder, dark and rich and intensely chocolatey, poured into a big ceramic bowl with sugar and butter, then creamed with vanilla and eggs, then flour and salt (a very simple recipe; use excellent chocolate; don't forget the salt)......