Amy Scattergood

If you have not yet been to The Spice Table, chef Bryant Ng's utterly beautiful brick house of a restaurant in Little Tokyo, you might try finally getting around to in next week. Although why you haven't yet gone to eat the marvelous marrow bones, or Ng's take on dishes......

When you cross the beautiful threshold of Lucques, Suzanne Goin's Melrose Avenue restaurant, her first -- of now many, including A.O.C., Tavern and the recently opened The Larder at Maple Drive -- you are at once reminded of how profoundly relevant both that restaurant and, more importantly, the chef behind......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "So much can happen between two slices of bread." 10 Best Sandwiches in Los Angeles. "Maybe Jazz will give you some more Thai tea and pat your hand. Maybe Matt Groening will draw on your napkin."......

If you read the Los Angeles Times story this morning by business writer Jerry Hirsch, you will doubtless know about the paywall the newspaper is (finally) putting up, effective March 5. Like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal did recently, to reportedly good results. What you had......

Last September Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced that Anthony Bourdain (chef, crime novelist, No Reservations guy, friend-of-Chang, occasional writer of Treme episodes, etc.) would have his own line of books, one that would publish a small handful of titles every year. Well, yesterday Ecco announced the first three......

5. Denial: In which you refuse to read news blogs and Twitter feeds, and instead have lunch at Jitlada, preferring the comfort of ghost chiles to anything looming on the horizon. Windstorms. SigAlerts. More Republican debates. You feel fine. You like anesthesia. Maybe Jazz will give you some more Thai......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Bay Cities' mac is enough to give heartburn to an 8-year-old and good enough for him to know it's worth it." 9 Best Macaroni & Cheese Dishes in Los Angeles. "OK, it's not out just yet,......

OK, it's not out just yet, but it's good to get advance warning for some things. (Obama traffic, windstorms, certain NBA point guards.) On March 13, the third issue of Lucky Peach hits the stands and kitchen countertops and behind tsukemen bars (where Ikemen keeps theirs). Lucky Peach, if you......