Amy Scattergood

You troll the web, you find some interesting things. Like this picture, from Daniel Boulud's website Daniel NYC, of the award-winning French-born chef, author and occasional (and hilarious) television host posing with a pair of oysters. Sea to Fashion Accessory to Table......

Sure, you can watch plenty of food throwdowns or smackdowns, or whatever cute WrestleMania term you want to use, on television. But if you want a real cooking challenge, you might tune into Slate, which is currently hosting a recipe "showdown" between none other than Cook's Illustrated and Food 52......

Happy Cinco de Mayo. From all of us, and from your sitting Governor, who just tweeted out this twitpic about an hour ago with the companion text of "Happy Cinco de Mayo!" (We are none of us that creative, either before or after whatever taxpayer-funded beverages you can make out......

At last, a portable kitchen gadget for anyone trying to keep halal, kosher, vegan, vegetarian, or any combination of the above. Scientists in Kazakhstan have come up with an instant pork tester. The plastic-stick test, which changes color rather like a pregnancy test, detects food molecules that are found only......

Catering usually means insanely long hours, mediocre pay, a big pile of worn-out cooking clogs, and -- unless you work for Wolfgang Puck Catering -- very little glamour. But who needs real life when you've got NBC. Jay Leno's home network has just picked up a new series from J.J......

The James Beard Foundation announced the second round of winners, naming the Restaurant and Chef awards last night at Lincoln Center. Tom Colicchio (Craft) was named Outstanding Chef, beating out L.A.'s Suzanne Goin (Lucques, AOC, Tavern). The award for Outstanding Restaurant went to Daniel Boulud's Daniel, and New York City's......

If you missed last week's cover story on our Top 50 Happy Hours -- or if you're still barhopping and need to work your way home -- this Google Map might help to orient you. Many thanks to reader @DwriteN for compiling the map. Maps are inherently cool. Maps when......

The James Beard Foundation has announced the winners of the 2010 James Beard Foundation Media & Book Awards. The Restaurant and Chef awards will be announced tonight. The Weekly's longtime restaurant critic Jonathan Gold has won the Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Reviews award. Cookbook of the Year went to Colman......

If you're sitting at home this morning wondering what to cook for dinner and happen to have a whole chicken, a jar of mustard and a bottle of Port lying around, you might want to turn on the television sometime between 7 and 9 a.m. Wolfgang Puck will be cooking......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "I don't mean to be coy -- I'm just more interested at the moment in the popsicle-qua-popsicle than I am in the particular place of origin." Ask Mr. Gold: An Icy Taste of Hell, and Other......