It’s Chef’s Week on Martha Stewart

Eric Ripert, Jamie Oliver, Johnny Iuzzini, Lidia Bastianich, Martha Stewart, TV Food Shows
20 Jul 2008 It's time for another big Martha Stewart cooking week block! Remember as The Martha Stewart Show is syndicated, the channel and times vary by location. (You can find your time and channel at the handy Martha finder here, btw.) And if you miss one and forgot to TIVO it, each show is repeated the successive evening on the Fine Living channel at 8pm Eastern. Listings below are for the original first syndicated air dates (so for FL it's the next day). Monday: New Orleans restaurateurs Ti Adelaide Martin and Lally Brennan prepare two cocktails, sazerac and sidecar; chef ... {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...}

2008 IACP Cookbook Awards Winners

Cookbooks, Jamie Oliver, Mark Bittman, Masaharu Morimoto
19 Apr 2008 Back in late March we announced the International Association of Culinary Professionals 2008 book awards finalists. Yesterday in New Orleans, the winners were announced. Among the familiar names, the double Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto won two awards for his book and Jamie Oliver won best in the general category, plus NY Times Food Columnist Mark Bittman takes home yet another one. The complete list of winners are: 2008 IACP Cookbook Awards Winners Cookbook of the Year Fish Forever: The Definitive Guide to Understanding, Selecting, and Preparing Healthy, Delicious, and Environmentally Sustainable Seafood by Paul Johnson American Category The Pastry Queen Christmas: Big-Hearted Holiday Entertaining, Texas ... {More...}

News Bites: Roker Show in Fall; Jamie Top UK Chef; London Mayor Ramsay ?

British Chefs, Celebrity Chefs, Delia Smith, Gordon Ramsay, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver, News Bites, Nigella Lawson
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...}

Delia Smith: UK Cooking Icon — and Rebel — Turning Things on It’s Ear

British Chefs, Delia Smith, Emeril Lagasse, Feature, Gordon Ramsay, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver, Raymond Blanc
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...}