When skyrocketing gasoline prices first began to put the squeeze on consumer discretionary spending, logic told you, and a survey by Chicago-based foodservice prognosticator firm Technomic, Inc. confirmed, that restaurant meals would be the first...
You may be asking: How could they make a movie out of Making of a Chef? Michael Ruhlman's fine nonfiction book followed a small group of students as they progressed through the standard two-year program at Culinary Institute of America.Their...
Paul Kahan CLEAN: Blackbird's clean, sophisticated look, a James Beard Award winner, puts the emphasis on Kahan's food. Take a look at Blackbird's Chef Paul Kahan and you'd swear the guy looks like he just rolled out of bed. But the...
Charles Phan VIEW: Slanted Door is now located in the waterfront Perry Marketplace. There are turning points in everyone's culinary life, and surely anyone who has eaten at The Slanted Door in San Francisco has experienced one. Few of us...
BELOVED: After eight years, Balthazar has become a New York City fixture and destination. When renowned New York restaurateur Keith McNally and co-chefs Riad Nasr and Lee Hanson opened Balthazar in 1997, they had an instant hit on their hands...
WOW!: When Elizabeth Blau called, the stars came out to Las Vegas. To begin to appreciate Elizabeth Blau's impact on the madcap world of Las Vegas food and beverage, it's best to scroll back to October 1998 when Bellagio opened. Now, stroll...
We know now the three judges on "Cooking Under Fire" (Todd English, Ming Tsai and Michael Ruhlman) preferred Hagan-Welchel over runner-up Sara Lawson and were dead-set on picking her no matter how she performed on the finale. How? The final...
No one can deny that U.S. obesity rates are climbing. A report issued in late August by nonpartisan health advocacy group Trust for America's Health found obesity increasing last year in every state but one-Oregon. Overall, 119 million American...
