Next time you think about coating the bottom of a sauté pan using that prized stash of primo extra-virgin olive oil to impress your guests, consider this: According to Olive Garden's culinary guru, because of their low acidity, heating these oils...

You know something is going on when a company with the stature of beer industry titan Anheuser-Busch rolls out a product like BE (pronounced B-to-the-E, with the "B" standing for "beer" and the "E" signifying "extra"). It's a beer that also...

Wait. Did we just write "Subway" and "offering Wild Alaska Salmon" in the same sentence? Yep. On Feb. 9—Ash Wednesday—Subway restaurants in eight upper Midwest markets began serving Applewood smoked Wild Alaska Salmon. Customers can get it in a...

In Europe, nothing boosts your restaurant's reputation, visibility and profitability like a favorable write-up in the Michelin Guide. Relatively few restaurants achieve the coveted one-, two- or three-star rankings American are familiar with, and...

The Trump Tower resident, whose Rice to Riches serves up 18 flavors of rice pudding at $4.50 a cup, reportedly ran an operation drawing a weekly average of $420,000 in football and basketball bets (in pudding terms, 93,333 happy customers). His 19...

LONG DISTANCE: Shiok Far Eastern Cuisine reaches out to the world with a blog offering commentary from Chef Madhu Menon, as well as an online tour of the restaurant. BUZZ MACHINE: The unofficial Starbucks Gossip (http:/...

The Caesars gig for Flay is just one more item for this multitasking chef's to-do list. He already operates two fine restaurants in New York City (the original Mesa Grill and Bolo) and has plans for a new American brasserie, Bar Americain, in the...

The new "Iron Chef America" series follows on the heels of last April's "Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters." That five-part miniseries featured top American chefs (Wolfgang Puck, Mario Batali and Bobby Flay) against chefs from the original...