What a Weekend – and Week – for Food TV: New Shows, New Episodes

Anne Burrell, Anthony Bourdain, Bobby Flay, Cooking For Real, Emeril Lagasse, Emeril Live, Grill It!, Hell's Kitchen, Masaharu Morimoto, Michael Psilakis, Sara Moulton, Sara’s Weeknight Meals, Secrets of a Restaurant Chef, Sunny Anderson, TV Food Shows, The Next Food Network Star
05 Jul 2008 What a wild weekend and week this is for food shows! Really. It's probably the busiest in quite a while. Why? Changes in shows, brand new programs and new episodes and "seasons" of returning favorites. First, a lot happens tomorrow, Sunday. The first big thing is the premiere episode of a certain Iron Chef's latest cooking show: Grill It! with Bobby Flay How does this new one differ from Boy Meets Grill? Well, first-off Flay put the word out in the Spring he wanted to hear from the best grillers. So each episode features ... {More...}

Quick Top Chef Recap for Weeks 9-12

Anthony Bourdain, Padma Lakshmi, TV Show Reviews, Tom Colicchio, Top Chef
29 May 2008 ©2008 Harry Kenney And so the third month, another four weeks, has rolled by already and it's time to do a monthly recap -- the last one -- on Top Chef. Pssst, here's the first and the second monthly recaps we did in case you want to recall what happened from the beginning. Top Chef, Season 4. The standings at the end of Week 12. Super quick Top Chef recap of the past month: Week 9: This is the one where the Quick Fire was the prep relay and Dale throws a tantrum. What we remember most about this ep ... {More...}

The Recipes of the Moms of the Chefs

Anthony Bourdain, Art Smith, Celebrity Chefs, Cookbooks, Feature, Jacques Pepin, Jamie Oliver, José Andrés, Nigella Lawson, Sara Moulton
11 May 2008 As today is Mother's Day where better to go for a delicious and appropriate article than Epicurious ... That's right recipes for Jamie Oliver's mum's Rhubarb Daisy Cake, Spain's Jose Andres' delicious Beef with Cabrales "Mama Marisa". Anthony Bourdain's mom never taught him to eat those strange things, she taught him good stuff like Coquilles St.-Jacques. And there's more, again just click the article link above. And while we're talking about Mom's, there's some good cookbooks out there that follow this line of thinking, such as: Behind Every Great Chef, There's A Mom - More Than 125 Treasured Recipes From ... {More...}

Quickie ‘Top Chef’ Recap of the Month

Anthony Bourdain, Daniel Boulud, Rick Bayless, Rocco Dispirito, TV Show Reviews, Top Chef, Wylie Dufresne
05 Apr 2008 ©2008 Harry Kenney So why haven't I talked about Top Chef more? Wny not give a weekly recap or review? You see, if you have a show like Hell's Kitchen or Last Restaurant Standing or some of the others, you get one chance of seeing what you missed the following week. With Top Chef, however, let's admit it, Bravo gives you three more chances the very night; you heard me, within the first six hours of the first episode of that week you have no less than three more chances. And then, over the course of the ... {More...}

Anthony Bourdain: He’s Turning Up Everywhere and Is In Demand

Anthony Bourdain, Celebrity Chefs, Videos
30 Mar 2008 Hey! We're smack in the middle of the big Florida Film Festival 2008 that runs from March 28th through April 6th! Ok, well, what's that got to do with this blog? Glad I asked. Well the theme this year is "Eat It Up!" ... which has this really cool logo of a large fork and film tape lapping about the prongs of the fork as though spaghetti. And that would therefore explain why they're selling limited-edition Andrew Bourdain T-shirts and exclusive art print posters too! Wait wait, that's not all, His Spicyness has also has a sold-out lecture ... {More...}