- Anthony Bourdain, Art Smith, Celebrity Chefs, Cookbooks, Feature, Jacques Pepin, Jamie Oliver, José Andrés, Nigella Lawson, Sara Moulton
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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...}
- Dinner: Impossible, Feature, Michael Symon, News, Robert Irvine, TV Food Shows
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21 Apr 2008
Didn't see this one coming! Food Network has decided on it's replacement of Robert Irvine for the new host of Dinner: Impossible. And who is this new-comer stranger? That's the surprise; it is apparently a familiar face instead, none other than Iron Chef Michael Symon.
That's right, Symon is taking over the helm of the Food Network's third highest-rated show.
From his home-town paper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
He begins shooting 10 "Dinner: Impossible" shows next week, finishing at the end of May. [...] One episode of "Dinner: Impossible" will air in July, said (the show's) executive producer Marc ... {More...}
- Celebrity Chefs, Feature
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18 Apr 2008
With everything I cover here eventually and naturally I got to thinking ... Exactly how much money do these celebrity chefs actually make? Funny thing, searching the web, the news articles, the periodicals, the blogs, etc ... I found two things. One, almost all of the information was old (aka, one or two and often three years old). And the information I found, even when dates were similiar -- aka, two seperate articles in October 2007 or two different articles from February 2006 -- never agreed on the amounts. Sometimes they were within the same ball ... {More...}
- Celebrity Chefs, Feature
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13 Apr 2008
It appears the article in question was published on April 1st. While I wish I could take it as an April Fool's joke I can't. We're talking about Forbes' bland version of the their ten best up-and-coming chefs for the year. I'm guessing they either have Food and Wine Magazine envy or figure to cash in on the $560 billion food industry. Either way, with five of their 10 chosen in or just outside of NYC, this is one Manhatten-based elistist article if I ever saw one.
Beyond those five, one chef is from Boston and another ... {More...}
- Celebrity Chefs, Feature
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09 Apr 2008
... that's (essentially) the name of the article I found the other day over at Smart Money magazine.
First off there's:
1. "I'm a celebrity first and a chef second."
Take one part America's obsession with celebrity, stir in a cup of our passion for all things culinary, marinate in a mix of specialty cable channels and BAM! You've got the perfect recipe for the celebrity chef phenomenon. It's no surprise that more and more chefs are stepping into the media spotlight — "they're the new most likable celebrities," says Susan Ungaro, president of the James Beard Foundation — and they've grown in ... {More...}
