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Fake Guy Fieri American Bar Kitchen Online Menu Accused of Fakery

Yesterday, a New York programmer launched a mock online menu of Guy Fieri American Bar Kitchen, complete with spoof appetizers, entrees and sides. Quite a few sites found Bryan Mytko's roast funny, albeit with the occasional voice of protest. Since this initial wave, Gawker has picked up on a tip ... More >>

The Daily Meal Names The 50 Most Powerful People in Food

For the third year running, The Daily Meal has released a list of the 50 most powerful people in food, the people, as they say, "decide what and how you eat, whether you realize it or not." And while the list has its fair share of celebrity chefs -- the Wolfgang Pucks, the Anthony Bourdains -- there ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/3 - 9/7

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Take a nut, fill your mouth with its flavors. Take a small sip of sherry and see what happens." Serious Drinking: Sherry Marcona Almonds. "No, Ammo at The Hammer isn't the poorly translated name of a Jean-Claude Van Damn ... More >>

Ruth Bourdain's Comfort Me With Offal: From Twitter to Your Local Bookstore

If you've spent the last two years laughing over the comic genius of Ruth Bourdain, you'll need no reminder that her eagerly (to some) awaited book has just come out from Andrews McMeel Publishing. If you are not among the initiated, here's a thumbnail sketch: In March of 2010, a hilarious Twitter f ... More >>

Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival: The Wine Part of the Equation

The second annual Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival concluded Sunday, a slickly produced, three-day debauch mostly held in and around the capacious digs of L.A. Live and its Marriott property -- though neither conference room nor rooftop exhibition tent could adequately contain the assemblage of whit ... More >>

Gwynedd and Guy: One Woman Cooks Her Way Through Guy Fieri's Cookbook

"Remember Julie & Julia? This is like that but with more Sammy Hagar." That's the tagline for the brilliant blog, Gwynedd & Guy, in which one woman, writer Gwynedd Stuart, attempts to cook her way though Guy Fieri's cookbook Guy Fieri Food: Cookin' it. Livin' it. Lovin' it.

Guy Fieri Gets His Stolen Lamborghini Back What You Can Fit Inside a Storage Container

The Associated Press reports that celebrity chef Guy Fieri can finally start driving his stolen $200,000 bumblebee yellow 2008 Gallardo Spyder convertible to all those diners and dives again. 17-year-old Max Michael Wade, from San Rafael, California, was charged yesterday with an assortment of crime ... More >>

Food Forward: New PBS Food Show Airs Tonight

When you think of food shows, you're stuck between formulaic cooking contests, bacon-huffing Canadian bozos on YouTube, and the flecks of tartar sauce trapped in Guy Fieri's beard. There's not all that much else. But tonight a new food show debuts on PBS, and it promises (though this is not to say ... More >>

Saturday Night Live Spoofs Paula Deen

Paula Deen made her debut on Saturday Night Live over the weekend -- or rather, Kristen Wiig debuted her best Paula Deen impression. During a segment on "Weekend Update with Seth Meyers," Wiig slowly swiveled in as Deen, with a drumstick in one hand and a big stick of butter in the other, to address ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 2/6-2/10

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "It is the manliest cooking video ever made, a video with enough pure T to reduce Guy Fieri into a whimpering puddle of gel." Where to Find Breakfast Tacos in L.A.? "They had to clean all the grease off of the walls, then pai ... More >>

Where to Find Breakfast Tacos in L.A.?

Dear Mr. Gold: As a former resident of South Texas, I often miss the unique Texas-style breakfast tacos so ubiquitous there. (I like mine with machacado.) I'm sure you know that these are not the same as breakfast burritos, and are defined well in this article about how New York has "discovered" th ... More >>

Matthew McConaughey on Super Bowl Sunday: One Toque Over the Line

In Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused, Matthew McConaughey's character, David Wooderson, is an aging post-grad who still hangs with the high school kids. He likes girls, reefer and football, though not necessarily in that order. A Texan and a football flick veteran, the real McConaughey isn't ... 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 >>

A Rawkin' Guy Fieri Drinking Game

Sometimes there are things that are out of your control. What the office orders for lunch, say, or what you're forced to watch when you're at Uncle Bob's house, trying to fulfill your New Year's resolution to Visit the Relatives More. If your Uncle Bob, like a startling large number of men, platoni ... More >>

Cannibalism on Dutch TV: Eating Human Flesh

A shot from the Dutch TV show Proefkonijnen in which the two hosts ate each other's flesh.​Anytime you think American reality TV has stooped so low it can't go any lower, look across the Atlantic for inspiration. Two Dutch TV presenters, Dennis Storm and Valerio Zeno, will eat each other's fle ... 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 >>

10 Favorite Food Quotes in Simpsons' "The Food Wife"

L. Balla​The food media world was chomping at the bit to see last night's highly anticipated Simpsons episode. "The Food Wife" has Marge, Lisa and Bart write a food blog called The Three Mouthkateers as they make their way through the surprisingly eclectic Springfield food scene. There are sno ... More >>

The Want Ads: A Bacon Cheeseburger Bed Of One's Own

Craigslista cheeseburger bed​If you're the sort of person who eats out way too often at Umami Burger, frequently invokes Thomas Keller's well-documented love of In-N-Out as justification for your fast food burger fetish, and spends your weekends in close proximity to your charcoal briquets and ... More >>

Top 6 Weekend Food Events: LA Food & Wine, Taste of Mercado La Paloma, Beer Float Showdown, Sunset Beer Company, Golden Road Brewing, LQ's Cheese Cart Pop-Up

LA Food & Wine This four-day extravaganza features dozens of events including special lunches and dinners cooked by top chefs from around the country. Sang Yoon of Lukshon hosts Chris Cosentino of Incanto (San Francisco), Tom Colicchio throws a clambake, Michel Richard will discuss his book Happy ... More >>

Epicerie Fine: Chef Guy Martin Takes Us Back to Basic Ingredients

Food television already has a Guy in Guy Fieri, but we'll soon have another Guy (pronounced "gee" as in "oui") starting Sunday, Oct. 16th, when French chef Guy Martin and his show Epicerie Fine premiere on American TV. Less of a cooking show and more of an exploration of ingredients, Epicerie Fine ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

Flickr/dubh​ 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 mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Final Pho, Guy Fieri's Pepper Grinder $250 Worth of Food in L.A.

-- Very cool old kitchen tools. [Alice Medrich] -- An elegy for Bernard Clayton Jr. [The New York Times] -- What $250 Will Get You in Los Angeles. (Love this.) [Diana Takes A Bite] -- The Final Pho championship game, um, dinner. [OC Weekly] -- Guy Fieri is overcompensating. [Warming Glow, v ... 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 >>

Will Tweet For Fried Food: On The Road With A Hungry Kathy Griffin

Tiffany Rinehart ​ What do you do if you're on the road all the time, have grimly chewed your way through way too many chain restaurant meals and have six hundred thousand social network followers? If you're comedian Kathy Griffin you turn Twitter into your personal Yelp or Chowhound, one tha ... More >>

The Feast's Top 20 Most "Liked" Chefs on Facebook: Y'all May Be Not Agree With #1

The FeastMichael Symon, the #5 most "Liked" chef on Facebook​Do you think Michael Symon is sneering at Mario Batali across Kitchen Stadium right now, mocking him for having an inferior number of "Likes" on Facebook? We can almost hear Symon's Nelson-esque "hah-hah" from here. "Only 23,000-some ... More >>

The Daily Meal's 50 Most Powerful People in Food

Listmania continues (David Letterman's cultural legacy, perhaps, along with Velcro suits) but this time The Daily Meal has come up with something more compelling than a list of Top 10 Cupcakes. Theirs? America's 50 Most Powerful People in Food. It's a good list, as it would be: The Daily Meal is h ... More >>

New Jersey Woman Eats 30,000-Calorie Christmas Meal

Donna Simpson​When Donna Simpson dreams, she dreams big. The 650-pound New Jersey mom aims to be the fattest woman in the world. And to be the best, you have to make sacrifices. After gaining more than 50 pounds this year, Simpson celebrated by downing a 30,000-calorie Christmas meal. Yes, yo ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of 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 mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>

Your Andre Guerrero Update: No on Señor Fred and BoHo, Yes on Oinkster, Etc.

Food Network screenshotAndre Guerrero with Guy Fieri​ Andre Guerrero is a busy man these days, what with running his hugely popular Oinkster joint, location scouting for a second Oinkster, and co-ordinating with the Lefebvres on their upcoming LudoBites 6.0, which will be running out of Guerr ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of 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 mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>

L.A. Casting Call For The Next Food Network Star

The Food Network​If you have devotedly watched the last six seasons of The Next Food Network Star; if you've papered your kitchen with posters of Guy Fieri, winner of Season 2 and current host of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives; if you secretly hear Giada De Laurentiis and Bobby Flay while you pi ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/1-6/4

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "If you are planning on opening a modern gastropub without pigs' ear on the menu, you might as well stick to Beer Nuts and Bac-O-Nets."

One Step Closer to Smell-o-vision: North Carolina Billboard Smells Like BBQ

Associated PressSteak-scented Billboard​ You're watching your favorite food TV show when the chef looks down at his mouth-watering creation and announces, "Wow, I sure wish you could smell this! The aroma in here is just incredible." Instead of being bitter that you can't smell Bobby Flay's cu ... More >>

High on Life at North End Caffe

Ben CalderwoodWiener trifecta​ Creole, Opie and Tijuana are not strains of medicinal marijuana--at least not in this section of the LA Weekly online. They are the fellowship of hot dogs that compose North End Caffe's insidious, kamikaze Trio of Dawgs. Two are coiled with bacon, two are tucked ... 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 >>

Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: --Before Venice went vegan. [Eating LA] --Sara Lee goes lo-so. [Chicago Tribune] --Smell, don't swallow: Can food aromas satiate hunger? [POPSCI] --Climate change affects our food, too! Food secur ... More >>

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Nickel Diner: Heart Attack and Main

Not your father's diner but it still might kill you.