Amy Scattergood

It's April at Los Angeles farmers markets, which means more citrus, Fava beans and sugar snap peas, asparagus and radishes -- and yet more citrus. Check out our virtual grocery list, taken at the Tuesday Torrance Farmers Market. Torrance, by the way, has an enormous farmers market, with many prepared-food......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "You complete the machine, in other words, but the machine does not complete you." Coca-Cola Machine Dispenses Can of Coke for the Price of a Hug. "I have to watch out for bears? Are you serious?"......

If you have read Bill Buford's terrific book Heat, in which the New Yorker writer plays out his very creative midlife crisis at Mario Batali's pasta station at Babbo, you of course know all about Dario Cecchini, the most famous butcher in the world. You may know about Cecchini anyway,......

It's not as if Roy Choi (Chego, A-Frame, Kogi, the world) doesn't have lots of things to do in his off hours, what few there are of them. But if Mike D (Beastie Boys, the world) asks you to cook some food, you'd probably do it too. Or, to quote......

If you read Laurie Winer's story about L.A. cookbooks and chef David Myers, you may have had a lot of reactions -- one of which might have been hunger. Sure, you can go to Comme Ça and eat Myers' take on French bistro food. But, if you frequented Sona (late,......

It's July at Los Angeles farmers markets, which means some pretty spectacular tomatoes and stone fruit and citrus, plus eggplant and artichokes and lettuces and, well, we could go on. On Wednesday afternoons for the last few weeks, the Altadena farmers market has been in full swing, making it well......

If you are the sort of person whose bookshelves are stacked with cookbooks written (a relative term these days) by fancy New York chefs, the volumes of titles bearing the names of folks like Eric Ripert and Andrew Carmellini and David Chang, and you've kind of wondered where all the......

Maybe the folks at Guisados should get out the blue dye number whatever more often. In honor of opening day at nearby Dodger Stadium, the jar of horchata at Guisados taqueria in Boyle Heights was a lovely shade of Dodger blue last night. It was only for the evening, a......