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More Food Events: Chopped Viewing, Taco Night A Vegan Texas BBQ Class

Chopped Viewing with Brandon Boudet Chef Brandon Boudet of Little Dom's, Dominick's, Tom Bergin's Tavern, and 101 Coffee Shop participated as a contestant on the high-intensity Food Network show Chopped. Tonight is his viewing party at Tom Bergin's Tavern. The pub will be extending its normal happy ... More >>

Hurrah for the James Beard Book, Broadcast and Journalism Awards Winners!

The James Beard Book Broadcast and Journalism awards were held this past Saturday night, and a whole new crop of book authors, TV and radio folks and food journalists were honored with what is still considered the food world's greatest honor -- a James Beard medal. You can see the full list of win ... More >>

Who Will Buy the Los Angeles Times?

Why do so many rich men want to buy it? And how did it get to this point anyway?

Current TV To Air Health-Conscious "Currently: Feeding The Need" Series Featuring Wolfgang Puck and Mary Sue Milliken

Around Thanksgiving, more than any other holiday, we think about food. (And not just what we plan to serve alongside the turkey.) We're grateful for food, and we think more consciously about those who don't have enough food, and those who don't have access to good quality food, and are suffering bec ... More >>

63: Slippery Shrimp at Yang Chow

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 63: Slippery Shrimp at Yang Chow. It's a pretty simple directive -- when you go to Yang Chow, you order the slippery shrimp. Everyone does it: Chinatown touris ... More >>

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Wine Tasting at the Royce, Hollywood Indie Night Market, Marcus Samuelsson at the Hammer Gertler Brothers Pop-Up at Shade Hotel

Wine Tasting Experiences in the Royce Royce manager and director of wine Eric Espuny will host a series of wine-tasting classes this summer where guests taste the best seasonal wine and focus on particular regions and varietals. In addition, guests will learn tips for ordering and buying wine. The ... More >>

Food Network Alumni Bruce Seidel and Duff Goldman to Launch YouTube Channel HUNGRY

July 2 will mark a the emergence of a new platform for food television, thanks to former Food Network and Cooking Channel veteran Bruce Seidel. The Associated Press reports that Seidel, the creator of Food Network Star and Iron Chef America, will spearhead the launch of HUNGRY, a specialized YouTube ... More >>

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Chile Dinner, Beer Tasting, Beer Festival Taste of the Eastside

Spicy Chile Dinner A chile-infused five course menu prepared by Monique King, winner of Food Network's Chef Hunter, includes caramelized Brussels sprouts, arctic char, pork tenderloin, lamb pibil, and tamales, plus three tequilas. WHAT: Spicy Chile Dinner WHEN: 7 p.m., May 4 WHERE: Border Grill dow ... More >>

Cascabel: Rick Bayless is Starring in a Play!

If you're going to be in Chicago sometime before April 29th, and want to earn some very esoteric food snob points, you cannot miss Rick Bayless making his acting debut in Cascabel at The Lookingglass Theater Company. Yes, chef Rick Bayless, author, restaurateur and champion of Mexican regional cui ... More >>

Food Network Update: Record Ratings in January Trisha Yearwood is Getting Her Own Show

Hulu​Thanks to gems like Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off, the Food Network reported the highest ratings in the network's history in January. Overall, the network was ranked seventh in cable primetime television, and their viewership was 40 percent higher than one year ago. Celebrity Cook ... More >>

New Food Network Show Fat Chef to Premiere Jan. 26

A new batch of chefs is joining the Food Network later this month, but they won't be doing much cooking. Instead, the group of chefs deemed "fat" will be a part of Fat Chef, a Biggest Loser-type program, focusing on helping twelve professional chefs lose weight while improving their mental and physi ... More >>

Meet Your Food Blogger: Adam Roberts of The Amateur Gourmet

Adam Roberts is one of those food blogger-turned-published authors whose success makes the rest of us drool. He created his blog, "The Amateur Gourmet," in 2004 while studying law at Emory University. "I'd come home from a long day of law school, my brain would be fried, and the only thing I could ... More >>

Rachael v. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off: Pitting Celebrity Non-Chefs Against Each Other to See Who Sucks the Least

​Have we learned nothing from Famous Food? Only disaster can come from letting half-wit D-listers anywhere near a set of knives. Shouldn't the fact that a New Jersey Housewife is now part owner of a Hollywood restaurant teach us we should leave culinary arts to professionals? Unfortunately Rac ... More >>

Wendy Doulton's The Headhuntress and Carrie McCully's Chef Hunter: Is Getting a Real Job Reality TV's New Fantasy?

Via NBCUniversalThe Headhuntress Wendy Doulton, right, coaches a job seeker.​I watch the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills every week. I watch New York and Orange County, too. (Though we all agree DC was whack, right?) I watch these shows partly for the ability to laugh at the dippy one-liners ... More >>

Taste Awards Nominees Announced: Anthony Bourdain, Alton Brown Steve Jobs

Taste Awards​What do Steve Jobs, Kung Fu Panda 2 and The Chew have in common? They'll each be recognized during the next annual Taste Awards. Contrary to the name, the award ceremony, held January's 3rd in Hollywood, honors not just food but style and home lifestyle programming in television, ... More >>

Chef Hunter: The Food Network is Hiring, Sort Of

Perhaps you think the chef competition show, like the seemingly endless barrage of singing contests on TV, has been overdone. The titles of Top Chef, Iron Chef, Master Chef and even Extreme Chef are doled out left and right, but The Food Network's new show Chef Hunter hands out a prize we haven't he ... More >>

Cookbook Of The Week: Alton Brown's Good Eats 3 Is Really Good Nostalgic Eats

amazon​Alton Brown's just-released Good Eats 3: The Later Years is, as we are told on the front jacket flap, The End. Per Brown: "Everyone knows that part three is the end (unless, of course, you're Bond or Potter), and expectations run high." Yes, after ten years of watching Brown investiga ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Guisados

Top 5 Good Eats Episodes Alton Brown's Good Eats 3: The Later Years Cookbook Out Soon

Amazon​If you've been in Alton Brown withdrawal since the Food Network aired the last episode of Good Eats back in May, perhaps secretly watching episodes on YouTube when you should have been watching, well, the Food Network I guess, you now have something to look forward to. Brown's third Goo ... More >>

Heat Seekers Aaron Sanchez and Roger Mooking Tackle Guisados: Can They Handle It?

Via the Food Network blog.​In tonight's episode of Heat Seekers on the Food Network, chefs Aarón Sanchez and Roger Mooking take a tour of L.A.'s spicy food scene, stopping at Lucky Devils, Hana Sushi Bar, and of course, Guisados, where they sample some "10 " spice-level tacos. So can they ta ... More >>

Monday Morning Food News Roundup

Guzzle & NoshDear Brits: Enjoy our barbecued ribs.​--Michelle Bachmann eats a footlong corndog. At least if this whole presidential run doesn't work out, she has other career options. [Telegraph] --Some dude from Chicago wins Food Network Star. [Chi Trib] --The Brits discover BBQ. [WSJ] --Dine ... More >>

The Power Of The Riff: Skip The Smoke Break For These Five Bands

Nathaniel ShannonPentagram vocalist Bobby Liebling​Last year, The Power Of The Riff festival packed hundreds of metal kids, hardcore kids, and old geezers that remember the tape-trading days of the 1980s into the Echo and Echoplex, partly due to the ability to offer free admission thanks to a ... More >>

Heat Seekers Aaron Sanchez and Roger Mooking Visit L.A. via the Food Network

Via the Food Network blog.Chefs Roger Mooking and Aarón Sanchez.​If you were to take yourself on a spicy foods tour of Los Angeles, where would you go? There'd certainly be no shortage of options; hell, that tour could probably last a decade. But for the sake of TV, the Food Network narrowed ... More >>

Debbie Lee's Poutine Truck Hits the Streets

​Chef Debbie Lee must like running the Ahn Joo food truck because she's launching another truck, only this one is Canadian not Korean. Along with partner James MacKinnon, the Food Network regular will debut The Poutine Truck (@thepoutinetruck) this weekend at the Little Tokyo Design Festival.

Extreme Chef on The Food Network: Over the Line?

Photo courtesy of The Food Network.Run, chef, run!​Somewhere out there, the Top Chefs of the world are sitting around sharing a massive chuckle about what idiots the contestants of new show Extreme Chefs are making of themselves. Either that, or they're suddenly feeling like major pansies. To ... More >>

Kate and Wills Do Los Angeles: The Royal Itinerary

As if the July 4 forecast wasn't hot enough!​Might as well just get this out of the way now. You either want to follow the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, formerly known as Prince William and Kate Middleton, around L.A. like creepy red-coat sympathizers (the weekend after Independence Day, no l ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Truly Mexican A Pipián Verde (Green Pumpkin Seed Sauce) Recipe

​Mexico City-born (now New York City based) chef Roberto Santibañez's latest cookbook. Truly Mexican: Essential Recipes and Techniques for Authentic Mexican Cooking with JJ Goode is truly exactly what the subtitle describes -- something that is not as common in the cookbook world as it should ... More >>

Gather 'Round the Induction Stove Campfire: 7 Summer Cooking Classes for Kids

J. Ritz​ Art, soccer, drama and the like are all edifying pursuits that help young people find their passions and build character. But you can't eat them for dinner. Cooking classes for kids are fun, educational, and let's face it, useful. Come summertime in Los Angeles -- and it's just around ... More >>

Q & A with Bobby Flay, Part 1: A New Yorker's Take on L.A. Food

Image courtesy of The Food Network.Bobby Flay on the set of his newest cooking show, Barbecue Addiction.​When it comes to television, we live in blurry times. Who's got real talent, and who is famous just for being famous? The popularity of many reality stars far eclipses that of real actors, ... More >>

Q & A with Bobby Flay, Part 2: Why Being on TV is the Easy Part

The Food NetworkBobby Flay on the set of his newest cooking show, Barbecue Addiction​In the first part of our interview with Bobby Flay, he gave us some insight into how his opinion of the L.A. restaurant scene has changed over the years, as well as how he thinks the Food Network has molded th ... More >>

The New AP Stylebook Food Guidelines: More Fun With Locavore Ghee

Flickr/toddmundtamuse-bouche​ Thanks to Gustavo Arellano for this one. (We just forwarded your post, Gustavo, to our own overworked and much-appreciated copy editor. All in italics.) Just in time for a whole summer of writing about new Food Network shows, the AP has come out with a new Food Gu ... More >>

Noooooooooooo! Alton Brown to End "Good Eats"

​One of our favorite cooking shows ever, right up there with the Galloping Gourmet when he was still a drunk, is finito. Alton Brown announced yesterday that after 249 episodes, his Food Network show Good Eats is done. (Chicago Tribune reports Brown announced it as his first post on Twitter, b ... More >>

Don't Be a Mayo Swoosher 99 Other Tips from Chefs

Food Network​The May 2011 issue of Food Network Magazine claims to give you the "100 Greatest Cooking Tips (of All Time!)." These are the "greatest" tips, presumably, because they come courtesy of "the top chefs in the country." Los Angeles represents well, with a number of our city's chefs ... More >>

Panna Cotta Is (Usually) Boring A Recipe for Buttermilk Panna Cotta with Blood Orange Compote

Ryan Millerpanna cotta​ Panna Cotta is boring. Gingered versions show up on "fusion" restaurant menus all over town, and just about every Food Network star (insert desired perkiness, accent, girth or cleavage here) has demonstrated just how easy the Italian "cooked cream" is to make. But, this ... More >>

Somebody Stole Guy Fieri's Lamborghini

Food Network/Alan PoulinGuy Fieri​ Ah, the perils of fame, money and expensive cars. And no, sorry, this is not a Charlie Sheen story. Food Network star Guy Fieri (Minute to Win It, Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives) had his $200,000-plus Lamborghini sports car stolen, and not just ripped off by an ... More >>

Breadbar Brings Food Trucks Into the Kitchen with Hatchi Truck Stop

Guzzle & NoshBreadbar Century City (left) and the Grill 'Em All truck (right).​ Is Breadbar bringing its Guest Chef Series to the streets or bringing street food to its guests? Either way, the Century City restaurant will morph its once popular Hatchi Guest Chef Series into the Hatchi Truck St ... More >>

Chiseling Away At Randy Finch, Star of the Food Network's Ice Brigade

Food NetworkRandy Finch putting the finishing touches on a frozen craps table​Tonight the Food Network premieres a show about extreme ice sculpting. Perhaps your first question is the same one we had: why does the Food Network have a show about ice sculpting? Sure, you often see ice sculptures ... More >>

Wanna See an Ice Sculpture of Justin Bieber's Head? Of Course You Do!

courtesy Food Network​ The Food Network has just sent us today's incredibly strange image: a man proudly displaying an ice sculpture of Justin Bieber's head. From the Food Network: This morning on Good Day LA, Randy Finch (focus of Food Network's new primetime series, Ice Brigade, premierin ... More >>

Cookbook Review: When Those Great Easy Meals Aren't So Perfect On The Food Network

​How many times are we going to say the magazine-cum-cookbook seems to be the publishing trend du jour? One more time, apparently, when the The Food Network Magazine releases Great Easy Meals: 250 Fun & Fast Recipes in the coming weeks. The press release promises the magazine's first cookbook ... More >>

James Beard House Brings Its "Friends of James Beard" Benefit To SoCal

James Beard Foundation​ If you missed the James Beard Celebrity Chef Tour stop in L.A. last summer, not to worry; the culinary powerhouse is headed back to Southern California, this time bringing with it a weekend full of cooking demonstrations, extravagant meals and even a few Food Network s ... More >>

More Italian for Brentwood: Villetta Debuts in February

L. Balla​ It seems that Brentwood just can't have too many Italian restaurants. The newest on the horizon: Villetta, slated to open next month in the former Chez Mimi space across from the Brentwood Country Mart. Locals were saddened when Chez Mimi shuttered (the owners are still looking for ... More >>

[Updated] Calorie Commando Juan-Carlos Cruz Sentenced to Nine Years in State Prison

​Update: Of course this story gets weirder, the more details come out. For one, Juan-Carlos Cruz claimed that he hired two men to kill his wife not for the normal reasons, say, insurance fraud or temporary insanity or complete marital dysfunction, but for love. "Even though I was planning on w ... More >>

[Updated] Finally, A Reason to Eat at Chipotle: Nate Appleman Will Make Your Burrito

Food NetworkNate Appleman​It seems like Chipotle has finally figured out how to get some of us to walk through its doors. No, not by dreaming up a well-placed ad campaign. Not by being in seemingly every mall in America. Not even by serving natural meats and reducing sodium and supporting loca ... More >>

Woodland Hills Rotary Arts & Crafts Fair: Food Trucks, Photography & More

Flickr/Rios-EnriquezLake Street Creamery, one of the food trucks at this weekend's Rotary Arts & Crafts Fair​ L.A. is chalk full of holiday events this weekend -- from downtown's Artisanal L.A. to Bond Appetit: James Bond, Foodie event -- and now the Valley is getting into the mix. On Saturda ... More >>

How To Deep Fry Chicken Wings in 1983 Pontiac Bonneville

We have Sam Sifton to thank for many things, of course, but the latest in the list is perhaps the funniest. It's the link to this YouTube video, which documents how to use a partially snow-buried 1983 Pontiac Bonneville to deep fry chicken wings. It's hilarious for a lot of reasons: the conceit, th ... More >>

Web Surfing: A Roundup of News from L.A. Food Blogs & Beyond

-- Le Van Ba, Founder of Lee's Sandwiches, Dies At 79. [Stick A Fork In It] -- Pet Pantry: a food bank for the four-footed. [Los Angeles Times] -- The new front in the culture wars: food. [The Washington Post] -- A French farmer is fined for feeding his ducks pot. No, he wasn't force-feeding them ... More >>

Q & A with Scott Conant, Part 2: Silverton, Celebrity, and Defending the Spaghetti Price Structure

Flickr user Muy YumScott Conant in the kitchen of Scarpetta Beverly Hills​ In part 1 of our interview with Scarpetta chef Scott Conant, we discussed his youth; how rejection from a plumbing program lead him to the life of a chef; what it felt like to get that first three-star review in The New ... More >>

Web Surfing: A Roundup of News from L.A. Food Blogs & Beyond

-- Michael Voltaggio to open Ink next year. [Daily Dish] -- Jose Andres blasts Congress over pending school lunch bill. [Chicago Tribune] -- Just one dish: District's spam sliders. [Eating L.A.] -- Divided We Eat, on class and food in America. [Newsweek] -- T minus 3: A laid-back guide to Tha ... More >>

Have Fondant, Will Travel: Ace of Cakes Canceled

The Food Network announced that Ace of Cakes, the reality show that followed Duff Goldman and the staff of his Baltimore bakery, Charm City Cakes, has been canceled. Ace of Cakes will begin its 10th -- and final season -- this January. The show began in 2006. As Goldman wrote on his Charm City Ca ... More >>

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