Elina Shatkin

Cochon 555, the traveling, pig-centric competition, will finally come to Los Angeles for the first time. The roving contest, which features five chefs in each city preparing a nose-to-tail menu from heritage breed pigs, kicks off its 10-city tour in New York in January 2011. The tour winds its way......

What thousands of food-writers couldn't do with their online ranting, Barneys did with a single billboard. They killed the word "foodie." Despite the way it has come to connote a "dilettante who knows little about food but insists on imposing their opinions on others"... Despite the fact that it has......

Chef and founder Niki Tehranchi likes for an evening at Eatz to feel as much like a dinner party as it does a cooking class. After nearly two-and-a-half years of running her DIY cooking school out of her house, she'll be moving into new, professional digs on December 1st. The......

Royal/T changes identities more often than Madonna, but where she's turned into a Kabbalah cultist with impressive and terrifying monkey strength, the hyphenate Japanese maid café/gallery/store has seamlessly morphed from Hello Kitty hub to Andy Warhol shrine. Beginning tomorrow, November 19th, and running through December 23rd, Royal/T transforms into something......

Coke au Vin. Spotted Dick Cheney with Condoleeza Rice. Phlègm Brûlée. Ted Nougat. Elderly Berry Crumble. Hushed Puppies. Risottomayor. Your newest food-based Twitter meme, #failedmenuitems, has arrived. Now, if only we could put Tila Tequila on that list. Have at it, you crazy pun-dits......

There have been no shortage in the past few years of books chronicling the secret and not-so-secret lives of various foodstuffs: lobsters, vodka, oysters, foie gras. Punch gets its turn with the release of David Wondrich's Punch: The Delights and Dangers of the Flaming Bowl, a fascinating and stylish entry......

Molecular gastronomy may be dead in Pasadena, but it's alive and kicking in Marina del Rey. When Vü Restaurant opens on December 1st, chef Kyle Schutte hopes to inject, aerate and freeze-dry a little flare into a notoriously stodgy dining category: the hotel restaurant. His "gateway dish"? Chicken-fried watermelon......

You can't actually get drunk on GelatoVino's gelati, but what their dense, creamy, custom-made flavors lack in intoxication, they make up for in flavor. Owned by the prince of East Hollywood, George Abou-Daoud (Bowery, District, Mercantile, Tamarind Avenue Deli and more), GelatoVino opened in mid-September, seemingly to take advantage of......

More than miniature twinkling lights or The Little Drummer Boy blaring from every boutique, the surest sign the Christmas season has arrived is the return of Candy Cane Joe-Joe's -- or, as they're known on the street, Christmas Crack. Thanks in part to their seasonal nature, these ersatz Oreos have......

I adore bacon (who doesn't?) but I have less love for bacon desserts, most of which make me want to scream: You're not making dessert any better, you're only making bacon worse! The bacon cornbread cupcake from Frosted Cupcakery is a rare exception......