- Celebrity Chefs, Cookbooks, Daniel Boulud, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Joe Bastianich, Mario Batali, Michel Richard, News, Star Restaurants
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09 Jun 2008
The winners of the 2008 James Beard Foundation Awards announced Sunday night, June 8th, include:
Restaurants and Chefs, National
Outstanding Restaurateur: Joe Bastianich and Mario Batali, Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca, New York
Outstanding Chef: Grant Achatz, Alinea, Chicago
Outstanding Restaurant: Gramercy Tavern, New York (Danny Meyer)
Outstanding New Restaurant: Central Michel Richard, Washington (Michel Richard)
Rising Star Chef: Gavin Kaysen, Cafe Boulud, New York
Outstanding Pastry Chef: Elisabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson, Tartine Bakery, San Francisco
Outstanding Wine Service: Eleven Madison Park, New York
Oustanding Wine and Spirits Professional: Terry Theise, Terry Theise Estate Selections, Silver Spring, Md.
Outstanding Service: Terra, St. Helena, Calif.
Chefs - Regional
Best Chef: Great Lakes - ... {More...}
- British Chefs, Celebrity Chefs, Delia Smith, Gordon Ramsay, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver, News Bites, Nigella Lawson
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17 Apr 2008
We just, I mean literally just the other day posted about ten new food shows coming on the Food Network and wham we found yet another one. This time we found it through the casting call pages. The current working title of the show is Food: True Life and would be on FN via Al Roker Productions, so you can guess who the host of the show might be. From the casting call:
Food Network is looking for amazing food related stories for a groundbreaking new series! (Just so you know, really, this was originally in all caps ... {More...}
- British Chefs, Delia Smith, Emeril Lagasse, Feature, Gordon Ramsay, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver, Raymond Blanc
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26 Mar 2008
Ok, so what exactly is going on there in England when it comes to cooking? Basically, as with cooking in other parts of the world, Canada, America, Australia, France ... The whole "organic" movement is taking root. Organic and artisan and free-range poultry and local veggies grown in a local farm or your back garden (we see this exemplified by television shows shown in the US such as Chef's Afield on Public Broadcasting or UK's own Jamie Oliver's Jamie at Home on the Food Network, or the show Manic Organic on one of the Discovery Channels, or this ... {More...}
- British Chefs, Food Supply, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver, News
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09 Mar 2008
Not one, but three stories revolving around Jaime Oliver this week.
In the United Kingdom, celebrity chefs have crazy, mad followings. I mean what in America Oprah can do for a book sale, chefs there can do the same for food. For instance, when Gordon Ramsay made a live meal on television where people where to cook along with him a month or so ago the supermarkets in England ran out, completely ran out of the meal's ingredients. So when chefs talk there, people follow in overwhelming droves.
With this in mind and therefore in the better watch out what ... {More...}
