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Yesterday night technicolor-haired, James Beard award-winning Mission Chinese Food chef Danny Bowien showed up on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to make/drink boozy Orange Juliuses (which were infused with lemongrass and black peppercorn) and cook some Thrice-Cooked Bacon. This...
Nowness recently toured the "minimal-but-commodious" home of Italian architect Claudio Silvestrin. The place is "free of any physical clutter" and "filled with light, shadow and sculptural forms," which is really no surprise considering Silvestrin was the man tapped to craft...
Here's a video interview from Imbibe and Inspire with owners Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas (Alinea, Next and the Aviary). They talk about everything, from renewing a 10-year lease for Alinea's space, to their thoughts on 50 Best restaurant...
Here's chef Jamie Oliver as he gets revenge on the bacon-loving Epic Meal Time team for kidnapping him earlier this year. Oliver calls his payback segment "Epic Veg Time" — revealing that he currently has Epic Meal Time host...
Owners Amy and Samy Bouzaglo of Amy's Baking Company — the Arizona restaurant that's now infamous for its Facebook freakout following a terrible showing on Kitchen Nightmares — just keep bringing the crazy in this interview with My103.9 in...
It’s been over three years since I first got to know Yoni Bloch, a musician and something of a celebrity in Israel, and got acquainted with his interactive video technology... Keep reading ?
Here's a video of Chicago-born expat chef Daniel Rose talking to interviewer Charlie Rose on his eponymous PBS show about opening Spring in Paris, France. He starts off discussing how he got to Paris in the first place—he originally...
Last night on the season finale of Saturday Night Live, Weekend Update's city correspondent and tweaked-out club kid Stefon (played by Bill Hader) returned to recommend places for tourists visiting New York City in the Summer. Hader, who had...
The Santa Clarita Valley News reminds us of a very important "this day in history" moment. Thirty-five years ago today, filming of the classic KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park took place at Magic Mountain. Via the SCV...
Here's a fun peek inside family meal at the Union Square Hospitality Group: Danny Meyer recently joined USHG culinary director Michael Romano at Google for a chat about Romano's cookbook with Karen Stabiner Family Table. They start off by...
Momofuku chef David Chang recently visited NASA's Space Food Systems Laboratory in Houston, TX, where he teamed up with Tested's Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage (yes, the Mythbusters guys) to help figure out how to make space food a.....
Amy's Baking Company in Scottsdale, Arizona — now infamous for its Facebook freakout following a terrible showing on Kitchen Nightmares — has been the subject of parody Twitter and Facebook accounts, and a Meow Mix remix. And here's a...
Last night on the Colbert Report, comedian Stephen Colbert addressed the UN's suggestion that insects are a possible solution to world hunger. As Colbert puts it, "The UN bullies want to make us eat a bug." (The Nordic Food...
Internet nerdlings are having some fun with Amy's Baking Company, the Scottsdale, AZ restaurant that had an epic meltdown on their Facebook page after being on Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. In the show chef/owner Amy Bouzaglo claimed the she...
Here it is, the trailer to Mixology, a new television show from the writers of The Hangover that ABC presented at its network upfronts this week, according to Grub Street. As revealed a few months back, Mixology tells the...
CBS 5 Arizona sent a reporter to Amy's Baking Company to get a statement from the owners following their epic meltdown on their Facebook page after being on Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. And as expected, Amy and Samy Bouzaglo....
Interstellar food dude Guy Fieri was on the Today show this morning and he shared his opinions on the Scottsdale restaurant that had an epic meltdown on their Facebook page after being on Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. Guy Fier...
Here's a trailer for British restaurant critic Jay Rayner's upcoming book, A Greedy Man in a Hungry World, in which he explains why buying local food is not always the most sustainable option. "Comparative advantage doesn't just apply to...
This past weekend, the Beverly Hills Film Festival featured The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat, about the 1959 post and beam house built by "working-class government employee" Richard Oyler in the tiny Inyo County town of Lone Pine....