Amy Scattergood

If you live in Southern California, you may take the abundance of fresh fruit for granted. We have farmers markets every day of the week, with fruit growers and even expert pomologists bringing gorgeous citrus and stone fruit, picked hours before. You may even have trees of your own, where......

Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival This huge food and wine event, the fourth of its kind, isn't until August, but you might want to plan ahead and reserve your tickets (and your time and appetite) now. Presented by Food & Wine magazine over the course of three nights and......

Lavender & Honey Espresso Bar owners Melanie and Charlie Porter have officially fired up their La Marzocco. The coffeehouse and deli had its grand opening on Saturday, June 21, as a crowd of obviously caffeine-deprived locals filled the corner brick building on E. Washington Blvd., on the northern edges of Pasadena......

Among the many excellent mash-ups in the food world, one of the simplest and most blissful is the affogato, the marriage of two of Italy's finest exports, espresso and gelato. The word comes from the Italian affogare, to drown, and it's a pretty accurate summation of the dish, in which......

DTLA Night Market Brought to you by the 626 Night Market folks, this two-day food event will be in downtown L.A. this time, instead of in the actual 626 area code, where the extremely popular Asian street market began (and continues). Filled with arts, crafts, entertainment, music and food -......

Saturday, June 28 is turning into Christmastime for foodists. Not only will this paper be throwing a taco party  but the Rose Bowl will be crammed full of chefs, food trucks, food carts and stands - over a hundred vendors - for the fifth LA Street Food Fest. So much food, so little......

Cheese-lovers on the Westside don't have to trek all the way to Norbert Wabnig's shop in Beverly Hills to get good cheese anymore. They now have over a hundred cheeses, some very hard to find, to choose from in a small shop of their own in Culver City. On June 7,......

Do you crave ice cream and popsicles when you go to the beach? If you don't already, you probably will this summer, which is promising to be a scorcher. To help you out with this, the Shore Hotel, on Ocean Ave. near the Santa Monica Pier, is hosting a series of......