Elina Shatkin

1 hour and 26 minutes into Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, as he's about to lead a daring raid on the decrepit Hotel Citroën, Bill Murray, with his trademark deadpan brilliance, tosses off an intriguing line (one of many such throwaways in the film): "They had a......

It took five months and nearly 50,000 resumes, but Mario Batali has finally filled the Media Production Coordinator opening he posted back in April on Monster.com. The coveted job goes to Drea Bernardi, a New Yorker who loves food, is fluent in Italian and recently graduated cum laude with a......

Today, our favorite Eastside vegetarian duo releases The Hot Knives Vegetarian Cookbook: Salad Daze. The 128-page book ($25/Mark Batty Publisher) has, unofficially, been in the works for five years, as long as Alex Brown and Evan George have been posting to their cooking blog, Hot Knives......

The high fructose corn syrup battle has many fronts: There's the court of public opinion, the court of law and, perhaps most importantly, the "court" of the Food and Drug Administration. Last September, the Corn Refiners Association, petitioned the FDA to let them replace "high-fructose corn syrup" with "corn sugar"......

Vosges, the gourmet chocolatier best known for Mo's Bacon Bar, last week opened its first Los Angeles boutique. It's a large, luxurious shop with high ceilings and gorgeously detailed arches where chocolate, spiked with nutmeg and plantains, curry and caramel, wasabi and hibiscus, rests triumphantly like a museum curator's cache......

Farid Zadi's 2nd annual couscous festival, originally scheduled for Sunday, was cancelled (of cous, it was) as the chef is in the process of opening his first restaurant, but you can still head out to Arcadia for the Greek Fest, which is maybe a teensy bit similar. Or you can......

Jeremiah Cillpam's path to deep-fried success began, serendipitously enough, with a drunken water balloon toss and an act of chivalry. Nearly a decade later, the 28 year-old is one of Chick-fil-A's youngest and most successful owner/operators, having overseen not one, not two, but three of the chain's highly coveted franchises......

The hiring is finally done, the liquor license accomplished, and tonight, Farmshop expands its hours and opens for dinner. Jeffrey Cerciello's kitchen, which has already created one of L.A.'s newest cult items, the perfect shoestring fry, will offer 3-to-4-course family-style dinners ($40-60) with a menu that changes nightly and might......