Amy Scattergood

Brandon Boudet's 5th Annual Crawfish Boil Chef Brandon Boudet is from New Orleans, and every year for the past five years he has celebrated this happy fact by hosting a crawfish boil at Dominick's. Lucky us. Not only will there be plenty of crawfish, by the pound, but Boudet will......

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2014 issue. Check out our entire People 2014 issue. Koreatown is all about juxtapositions these days - with K-pop - attuned, 24-hour nightlife colliding with old-school barbecue joints and mom-and-pop storefronts. If you want to get a sense of how......

Just in time for our next heatwave - triple digit temperatures forecast again in the valleys, woo-hoo - comes news of a new ice cream shop. And not just any ice cream shop, but Portland, Oregon's famous Salt & Straw.  If this sounds familiar to people who don't spend much time......

If your experience of Red Bread, the small batch bakery started by Rose Lawrence and her husband a few years ago, has been limited to their farmers market stall or their pretty awesome bike delivery service, then you haven't been spending enough time in the far western quadrant of Culver City. Although......

If you still don't think climate change is real, maybe you're not spending enough time at farmers markets. This year has been even wonkier than usual (or catastrophic, depending on who you talk to), between the sudden heat waves and the semi-permanent drought. What this means in terms of the......

Hockey fans are crazier than many other sports fans, which you can tell by watching hockey games themselves, and also by the fact that hockey fans like to throw huge cephalopods onto arena ice  So maybe it makes sense that when NBCSN decided to find a product to help promote the......

The Whole Schmear: The Creation of Cream Cheese in America The Culinary Historians of Southern California presents a talk by Rabbi Jeff Marx on how the Industrial Age transformed the making of cream cheese in America. And yes, there will be food afterward. Contrary to popular belief, it was the......

As you probably already know if you follow this sort of thing, the James Beard Foundation has been having its annual party in New York over the last few days, during which it's been announcing the results of the 2014 Beard awards. The book, broadcast and journalism awards were announced Friday. And......

The 2014 James Beard Awards, held at Gotham Hall in New York City, have been going on since Friday and continue through tonight, when the chef and restaurant awards will be announced. So who won the prestigious book, broadcast and journalism awards this year? Congratulations go to British chef Heston......