Amy Scattergood

Today Julia Child would have turned 100 years old, a centennial that has generated a country-wide celebration. All over America, in newspaper food sections and bookstores, in restaurants and on the radio, we're toasting Child's birthday. (Check out Google's homepage! Take the PBS Julia Quiz!) And in Pasadena, Child's hometown,......

GOOD: Why banning junk food in school vending machines actually seems to work. Mother Nature Network: 12 tips for kicking the refined sugar habit. Bon Appetit: Bon App names its top 10 restaurants of 2012. (Congrats, Baco Mercat!) The New York Times: "There is no dignified way to eat deep-fried......

L.A. Weekly's food section is looking for interns. If your idea of fun is writing about tamales or food trucks or which local chef is secretly building a french fry oil-powered food truck in his garage AND you're currently enrolled in school and can get academic credit for an internship,......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Aside from the chocolate covered blueberries, the best part of Shutters, he says, is the ocean view." Top 5 L.A. Hotels for Room Service, According to Adam Richman. "Cocktail, schmocktail: When it comes to a party,......

From our 2012 Restaurant Issue, celebrating everything pizza in L.A. Sixteen-year Domino's veteran Mark Porter drives like my old driver's ed instructor. In fact, Porter's maneuvering of his red Hyundai on a recent Wednesday afternoon reminds me, viscerally, of that long-ago driver's ed class. Maybe because Porter resembles my instructor......

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 72: Persian Mulberries at Weiser Family Farms. If you've never had a bowl of ripe Persian mulberries -- a berry about which the Homeric......

See Anne Fishbein's photography celebrating pizza. There are those who might argue that we have always been in a Pizza Moment: college students, say, or preteens. And while that may be true — and may always be true — for people in those demographics, it has never been quite so......

Have you ever turned on the television or the radio or spent the morning trolling the web and wondered who the hell is deciding the programming? Of the political scene maybe, or the Olympics. Why are you watching an interview with Michael Phelps and not something else? Why are you......

5. You work at the USDA (or maybe don't anymore): And thus got an internal memo last week, which helpfully pointed out that "one simple way to reduce your environmental impact while dining at our cafeterias is to participate in the 'Meatless Monday' initiative." (Meatless Mondays is a 2003 non-profit......