Amy Scattergood

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Finally, a way to mitigate the Starbucks caffeine high, or at least a chance to start fiddling with DIY energy drinks. The giant Seattle-based coffee company began selling wine and beer, as well as "more upscale food" (savory snacks! hot flatbread!) at a Seattle cafe in October, and now five......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo, taken by photographer Cooking On The Weekends, is of a lovely plate of pasta. Roasted grape pasta sauce and pasta, to be specific, the recipe for which (grapes marinated in wine, Mascarpone) you can find on the photographer's blog. And a reminder that if......

Got a culinary question? Ask Jonathan Gold. You'd think he'd get an avalanche of esoteric, pithy or just downright necessary questions, now wouldn't you? Not as many as you'd think. Send an email to [email protected], tweet him your question @thejgold, or ask him via his Facebook page. Come on, pretend......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Ike-san was never a flashy sushi chef, but he was beloved for his skill at the early-morning fish markets, and his ability to less cut fish than to coax it into its ideal form." Sushi Kimagure......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo, taken by photographer Darin Dines, comes from the latest incarnation of LudoBites. (We're on number 8 if you've lost count.) It's a ramekin of uni crème brûlée, a very neat trick variation on the bistro classic. LudoBites 8, at Lemon Moon in Santa Monica,......

If you follow food sites and current cookbooks, you'll doubtless be aware of Food 52, the website run by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs. You will perhaps also know about their annual cookbook tournament, The Piglet, in which a number of this year's best cookbooks are pitted against each other......

This week Jonathan Gold visits Angeli Caffe for the last time, as Evan Kleiman's Melrose Avenue restaurant closed this past Friday night after 27 years. The chilly Wednesday evening before Angeli Caffe closed for good, you could grab a bar seat at Pizzeria Mozza without waiting, and there were only......

What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of your content comes......