- Celebrity Chefs, Cookbooks, Daniel Boulud, Jacques Pepin, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Joe Bastianich, Mario Batali, Mark Bittman, Masaharu Morimoto, Michel Richard, News, Star Restaurants, Wolfgang Puck
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28 Mar 2008
Earlier this month we ran a partial list of the Semi-Finalists Announced for 2008 James Beard Awards. Well, a few days ago the giant list got paired down for the last time and the Finalists have now been announced.
If you're unfamiliar with the great length of awards from the Beard Foundation, you'll get a better understanding of it when you actually glance at their page. For instance, categories are not just for Restaurants and Chefs, they also include: Book Awards, Journalism, Broadcast Media, Design and Graphics, Humanitarian Award, Lifetime Achievement Award and America's Classics.
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- Chefography, Duff Goldman, Feature, Rachael Ray, Tom Colicchio, Top Chef, Wolfgang Puck
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23 Mar 2008
Lot's of "food buzz" around the Net this past week on a few different things. The loudest was over the "text poll" conducted Wednesday on Top Chef where the question was "which animal is Tom Colicchio" and the overwhelming answer was "bear". This caused a major gigglefest amongst the gay community, blogs and forums alike. With Gawker being a prime example with their "Colicchio Outed" headline, albeit tounge-in-cheek:
Last night's challenge, in which chefs were asked to design a menu based on the diets of five animals, seemed an elaborate set up to make the joke, as mathnet did ... {More...}
- Anthony Bourdain, Celebrity Chefs, Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, Mario Batali, Rachael Ray, Videos, Wolfgang Puck
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20 Mar 2008
I told you I'd have something speical for you all.
Here's a video of Gordon Ramsay holding forth with his non-censored opinions on Rachael Ray, Jamie Oliver, Anthony Bourdain, Wolfgang Puck and Mario Batali.
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- Star Restaurants, Wolfgang Puck
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18 Mar 2008
In doing this site, I find more and more places either as reference points, resource sites, just plain enjoyable blogs and/or places I end up quoting more often than others. In short, I find some good stuff out there in web land. One of the best that I keep finding myself at is Robin Leach's Vegas Luxe Life.
I mean it, that ol' tycoon has got the pulse of Vegas down so unerringly and perfectly it's amazing. Someone comes to town, there's a photo on the site, often with Robin next to them. Someone sneezes in town ... {More...}
- Contests, Top Chef, Ultimate Recipe Showdown, Wolfgang Puck
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17 Mar 2008
First up is a reminder. We first told you about this one 17 days ago, and now there's only a couple days left. You need to come up with a recipe, take a photo, enter it and you can cook with Wolfgang Puck. Details here. This ends March 19th.
Second one is open until March 31st (same with the remainding contests) and that's the one for Foodnetwork's Ultimate Recipe Showdown. According the the site, categories include Breakfast, Chocolate, American Hometown Favorites and dozens more. Details and legal junk here.
The third and fourth contests have some, ... {More...}
