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Best General Cookbooks of 2011: 3 Cookbooks For 3 Very Different Cooks

jgarbeeThe Well-Stocked Cookbook Bar​Because kitchen skills are exactly that -- skills that take time to master -- we offer the best three general cookbooks this year for three very different cooks. Even we never would have thought we would put Ferran Adrià's latest cookbook in the "general" ... More >>

Celebrity Chef Scandals: Pastry Dude Pleads in Plot to Pop Wife His Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

​One of the more twisted stories in fooddom came to a near-close today when Juan-Carlos Cruz, the former Calorie Commando host on the Food Network, pleaded no contest to the charge that he solicited three homeless men at the Santa Monica Promenade to rub out his wife, Jennifer Campbell. Sen ... More >>

Stephen Colbert's Lastest Forray into Cooking: iPad Salsa

Maybe the Food Network -- or any of the other networks that are currently scrambling to get their share of the reality food television audience -- should just give Stephen Colbert his own DIY cooking show. After cutting sandwiches with an ice skate at the Olympics, the host of Colbert Nation is now ... More >>

Bite Bar & Bakery Open In Santa Monica For Breakfast and Lunch: Dinner, Wine Bar Forthcoming

Bite Bar & Bakery in Santa Monica is entering into its third week since opening their doors, but are still considering themselves to be in preview mode. Their first week began with breakfast and last week they were able to expand to lunch service. Dinner and a wine bar are in the works (license is o ... More >>

Q&A With Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, The Men Behind Animal, Part I

Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo grew up in Florida, met in culinary school, then went on to start a successful catering business. They had a cookbook, a Food Network show called 2 Dudes Catering, and even battled Cat Cora on an episode of Iron Chef America. But then they opened Animal Restaurant on Fairf ... More >>

2010 James Beard Finalists Announed: Suzanne Goin, Matt Molina, Michael Cimarusti, Jonathan Gold, Patric Kuh Nominated

James Beard​Twitter is at it again. The 2010 James Beard Award Finalists were announced this morning via the foundation's Twitter account. L.A's Suzanne Goin, of Lucques, AOC Wine Bar, Hungry Cat and Tavern was nominated for Outstanding Chef, while Matt Molina of Mozza and Michael Cimarusti of ... More >>

Life is Sweet: Checking In With Sweetsalt's Alex Eusebio

It's been two months since Top Chef: Season 5 alum Alex Eusebio and his wife, Sara Mann, opened Sweetsalt Food Shop, Toluca Lake's neighborhood sandwich joint. Admittedly "turned off by the idea of big restaurant drama" after his Top Chef experience, Eusebio and his wife opted for a more simple, co ... More >>

Next Food Network Star Debbie Lee Bares Her Seoul at BREADBAR

BREADBARLee's Housemade Kimchee​ A finalist from Food Network's The Next Food Network Star is popping up in LA. No, not Melissa D'Arabian. We're talking about Debbie Lee, who is cooking up her version of soot jeep - think Korean-inspired pub grub - at BREADBAR's Third Street location until Sa ... More >>

Casting Calls: Season 2 of Worst Cooks in America Wants You!

Food Networkhost Anne Burrell has a moment​ If you accidentally set your kitchen on fire the last time you baked cookies, or have been banned from cooking dinner by your family because they'd rather eat In-N-Out than risk consuming your lasagne, you may have a television gig in your future. W ... More >>

Top Chef Heads to D.C. With Kate Winslet Possible Judge: Why Not Rahm Emanuel??

Greg KadelPadma Lakshmi​ Top Chef is on the move again, trading in the red chips of Vegas for the red tape of Washington, D.C. And in typical political fashion, the show's shooting schedule has been held up - this time due to Emmy-nominated host Padma Lakshmi's pregnancy. "We were supposed to ... More >>

The Cooking Channel: More Options For Your 24-Hour Food Cycle

If you like your food on your television screen as much as you like it on your plate, you're in luck. Debuting Memorial Day, May 31st, the Cooking Channel will provide non-stop food television, featuring new shows by Bobby Flay, Emeril Lagasse and Rachael Ray. If this sounds a whole lot like another ... More >>

Dinner & A Movie: Learn to Cook While You Watch 'Like Water For Chocolate'

Combining food and film is something we're particularly good at in this town (just ask Wolfgang Puck). Tomorrow night, February 19th, art historian and chef Maite Gomez-Rejón combines a class on Mexican cuisine with clips from the film Like Water for Chocolate. Learn how to make chiles en Nogada, c ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Season 2: Chef Contestants Announced

Go find your knife kit and your remote. The second season of Bravo's Top Chef Masters is scheduled to premier on April 7th at 8 p.m. 22 chefs, including 6 who are returning from the first season, will compete for All That Plastic Wrap. (Okay, and charity money too.) This season's L.A. chefs includes ... More >>

Rick Bayless Report: Calm Down, It's Just a Consulting Gig

Rick Bayless​Over the last few months there have been a lot of rumblings about Rick Bayless (Frontera Grill, Topolobampo, Top Chef Masters) coming to Los Angeles. So, from the chef's Twitter account, as Bayless runs his own Twitter feed, we have this: @Rick_Bayless: The restaurant will be cal ... More >>

Oinkster on Diners, Drive-thru's and Dives A Butter Tart Update

Last night, a crowd gathered at the Oinkster in Eagle Rock to eat even more pastrami than usual as they watched a new episode of Guy Fieri's Food Network show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. Featuring, you guessed it, their favorite neighborhood "slow fast food" joint. Oinkster chef-owner Andre Guerrer ... More >>

100 Words For Foodies: CliffsNotes For The Gourmand

Amazon.com​Tired of trying to Google culinary terms when you're right in the middle of an episode of Top Chef or, I don't know, reading your favorite food blog? Well the editors of American Heritage Dictionaries have come out with a book for you: think CliffsNotes for food people. Six bucks to ... More >>

Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is ... More >>

The Food Network's Worst Cooks In America: Gordon Ramsay Meets Deepak Chopra

The cooking reality shows just keep coming. The Food Network will debut its newest elimination series, Worst Cooks in America, on January 3rd. The five-week series will put "12 of the most hopeless cooks in the country" through a boot camp led by Anne Burrell, host of Food Network's Secrets of a Res ... More >>

The Next Iron Chef: Jose Garces Takes the Podium

The Food NetworkIron Chef Jose Garces, with Alton Brown​If you watched the final episode of The Next Iron Chef last night, you know by now that Chef Jose Garces will take his place on the Kitchen Stadium podium, next to Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, Masaharu Morimoto, Cat Cora and Michael Symon. I ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Mr. Scorsese: How to Cook Pasta in Prison

Happy birthday, Martin Scorsese. Here's the perfect YouTube birthday card, courtesy of the director himself, who turns 67 today. For anyone who loves Goodfellas, good pasta, and properly sliced garlic, here's a better cooking demo than anything you'll find on the Food Network.

Next Iron Chef Eric Greenspan: Will The Foundry's Cuisine Reign Supreme?

After stints in the kitchens of Alain Ducasse, Rocco Despirito, David Bouley and Ferran Adria, the jocular Eric Greenspan made a quick leap from sous chef to executive chef at Joachim Splichal's Patina, then opened a place of his own, The Foundry on Melrose, two years ago at age 32. Now the culinar ... More >>

Cooking With Werner: Werner Herzog and Jim Jarmusch Make A Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Ever wonder what it would be like if the Food Network or PBS or whomever gave a cooking show to somebody completely unlikely? Not Bobby Flay or Mario Batali or even Brian Boitano (yes, this month), but Werner Herzog? Imagine the German filmmaker, director of Fitzcarraldo and Nosferatu (and writer of ... More >>

Riverside Cook is Finalist in Ocean Spray Cranberry Contest Her Red-Ribbon Recipe

Cooking Contest CentralLaureen Pittman (left) at the Pillsbury Bake-Off​Riverside's own Laureen Pittman has been selected as one of four finalists in Ocean Spray's Ultimate Cranberry Recipe Contest consumer category. On October 5th, Pittman will face off against the three other finalists in Ne ... More >>

"The God of Cookery:" Cinefamily's 35 mm Kung Fu Cook-off

"It's like 'Iron Chef' meets 'Kung Fu Hustle'," says Cinefamily' manager Hadrian Belove of Hong Kong director Stephen Chow's "The God of Cookery." Tonight at midnight, Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theater will host a rare screening o ... More >>

Tonight: Plushies and Furries Screens for "Fetish Film Night" at American Cinematheque

By Paul Gaita Editor's note: View photos of the Plushies and Furries art display at the Egyptian in the NSFW slideshow. Sexual subcultures just ain't the hot button topic they used to be. Once strictly relegated to the musty back rooms of adults-only establishments or RE/Search publications, in th ... More >>

Food, Dude! Stoner Caterers

Chef duo's Food Network show falls flat, but they've moved on to the Carson Daly show and their first restaurant, Animal

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