Amy Scattergood

OK, step away from Wordpress for a minute. Put down your camera and your fork and read something instead. Specifically, Amanda Hesser's "Advice for Future Food Writers," which she posted this morning on Food52, the foodcentric website Hesser runs with Merrill Stubbs. In the piece Hesser, also an award-winning cookbook......

In today's adventure in word clouds, we've clouded a number of Ruth Reichl's recent tweets. Imagine if Bashō and Paul Bocuse met for breakfast. It is a perfect spring morning, of course, somewhere utterly bucolic. And the conversation -- what little of it there would be in this minimalist haiku......

When you walk into the Spice Table, the Little Tokyo restaurant chef Bryant Ng and his wife, Kim Luu-Ng, opened just over a year ago, you are presented with a composition of place so complete that you might not even notice it. The wood-burning open fire behind the bar like......

Preparatory to naming the World's 50 Best Restaurants, the folks at S. Pellegrino, Acqua Panna and Restaurant magazine and, it seems, Veuve Clicquot, last year established a shiny new award: The World's Best Female Chef. This year's winner has just been named. The 2012 Veuve Clicquot World's Best Female Chef......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Does Los Angeles boast the best sushi in the entire country? If even Ferran Adriá is on our side, we can probably feel confident it's true." 10 Best Sushi Restaurants in Los Angeles. "Anticipation in the......

Sure, you may think you know a lot about tacos, but do you really? Because however knowledgable you may be, Gustavo Arellano knows more than you do. Arellano -- OC Weekly editor, author of ¡Ask a Mexican! and of the forthcoming book, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, etc......

Proving that some menus are way more fun than others, today's food word cloud reconfigures the first of Laurent Quenioux and Starry Kitchen's marijuana-infused dinners, held last weekend. The first, you say? Well, as your mother maybe told you, once you try some things there's no going back. The second......

Last night Food & Wine editor Dana Cowin announced the winners of that magazine's 24th annual Best New Chefs in America award. You know the drill: ten chefs from around the country are picked, awarded, featured in the July issue and fêted at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic this......

The IACP, which would be the International Association of Culinary Professionals and not the International Association of Chiefs of Police -- yes, that's an old joke now, but you try googling IACP and see what you get -- announced their 2012 award winners at their annual conference last night in......