While it may seem from media reports that culinary schools are the predominant suppliers of cooking talent to restaurants, most of the people who cook professionally came up the hard way. Which is why so many of the applicants you interview for...
One thing you don't know about me is that I cry at movies. I even cried at Legally Blond when the character succeeded at the end - I was touched! I love when the underdog wins and the bad guy loses. If I could trade places with one chef it...
You have to hand it to the people who run Sage Restaurant Group. They knew they had to make a big splash when they opened The Original Dinerant in Portland, OR, early last summer, and they did. It's hard to overlook a 191-seat restaurant that...
It's a good thing the restaurant industry was able to ramp up its efforts on behalf of food advocacy groups like Share Our Strength in 2009. Thanks to a lagging economy and markedly fewer working adults, this organization's mission — ending...
Kim Kardashian is parlaying one of her favorite things—a bed picnic—into a paying gig as the latest spokesbabe for Carl’s Jr. Kardashian, probably best known for her E! Entertainment “Keeping up with the Kardashians” reality TV show, has been...
At first we thought Denver restaurant Ganja Gourmet’s severely limited target demographic—medical marijuana cardholders—would preclude economic success. Then we noticed its pricing—$10 per cannabis-laden brownie, $89 for a pot-laced pizza. And we...
