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Influential media isn't just about TV anymore. Several celebrity chefs already have their own television shows, but these days, it's what they do off the air that can really make an impact.

Social media analysis firm Klout uses a ranking system for sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+, and LinkedIn. They've arranged a list of the ...

Has the elusive identity of the James Beard Award-winning Twitter account @RuthBourdain finally been revealed?

According to Lee Svitak Dean, who's the food editor at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the identity can only be pinned down to one person: Robert Sietsema, food critic at Village Voice.

The Twitter feed of Ruth Bourdain is a ...

This year's New York City Wine & Food Festival kicked off with a glorified "scavenger hunt" of the NYC Meatpacking District. On Friday night, "Meatpacking Uncorked" allowed dozens of restaurants and retailers to host an open-house tasting experience, sponsored by Corcoran.

Patrons were handed passport-style maps marking each participating location throughout ...

The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards were televised on Sunday, September 18 and hosted brilliantly by actress and comedian Jane Lynch. TV fans with a penchant for food-based programming tuned in excitedly to see if Bravo's veteran reality series Top Chef would snatch the Outstanding Reality Competition Programming award from long-time ...

UK celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay of MasterChef and Hell's Kitchen was pulled over earlier this week by a police officer in Los Angeles for driving his brand-new Maserati on the wrong side of the street.

According to the Michelin-starred chef, he momentarily forgot he was in America.

"For a moment I thought ...

These days, it's not too hard to enjoy a celebrity chef's culinary inspirations. Patrons can choose from gourmet restaurants and popular chains to specialty food products available at thousands of grocery stores in the nation.

When shopping for those celebrity chef-endorsed foods, it's extremely common to see increased prices due ...

The definitive guide to restaurant reviews, Zagat Guide has just released this year's Top 10 list of the best barbecue locations in the U.S. -- places with "amazing piles of meat" that always have something for everyone, especially genuine BBQ lovers.

10. Bill Spoon's Barbecue in Charlotte, NC, a family-owned business home to pulled pork BBQ ...

This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of chef and sustainable food expert Alice Waters' Chez Panisse Restaurant & Cafe in Berkeley, CA. To celebrate the occasion, many institutions in the Berkeley community are hosting special foodie events as well.

"Join us as we celebrate 40 years with food, art, music, ...

In a promotion to launch the new "1969" clothing line, Gap stores in Los Angeles tapped former Top Chef contestant Marcel Vigneron, host of the SyFy network's Marcel's Quantum Kitchen, to create a menu for Pico de Gap -- an eye-catching bright blue food truck that moonlights as a mobile ...

At New York City's The Kitchen, celebrity chef Anne Burrell of Food Network's The Secrets of a Restaurant Chef met with execs of Wente Wines to launch a new product line: Entwine.

Four different kinds of wine -- Pinot Grigio, Chardonnay, Merlot, and Cabernet Sauvignon -- will soon be available in grocery ...

Celebrity chef Guy Fieri was one of the featured hosts of the 2011 Atlantic City Food & Wine Festival held this past weekend. Guy's Big Bite Brunch on Saturday packed the Caesars Atlantic Grill with 300 guests, each excited to meet and greet the host while dining on a 6-course brunch ...

Yesterday was the last business day for elBulli, a widely heralded 3-star Michelin restaurant located in Catalonia, Spain. Helmed by global celebrity chef Ferran Adrià since 1987, the restaurant has received a record number of awards by Restaurant Magazine as "The World's Best Restaurant," featured atop its Top 50 list five ...

The American Culinary Federation held the 2011 National Convention and Awards Ceremony during July 22-26 in Dallas, TX. Over 1,200 chefs and food service industry professionals were on hand to participate in seminars, cooking demos, trade shows, and hands-on workshops.

Featured celebrity guests at this year's event included Bryan Caswell of ...

At the American Culinary Federation convention in Grapevine, TX, celebrity chef Alton Brown revealed that he's not as big of a fan of molecular gastronomy as some might perceive. He's fed up. In fact, some aspects of the craft he'd rather never see again in his lifetime.

"You can't live on it. It's ...

On Saturday, the James Beard Foundation hosted the annual Chefs & Champagne gathering in New York's prestigious Wolffer Estates. Forty-two celebrity chefs were given the honor of presenting their aptly paired culinary creations to nearly a thousand foodies at the event.

This year's Chefs & Champagne recognized popular TV ...

The Wall Street Journal Test Kitchen recently spent their testing efforts on all sorts of food processors that are on the market today. Models from all spectrums -- budget, high-end, multi-purpose, etc. -- were included in this test.

Below, WSJ reveals the the pros and cons of the Top Five food processors that stood ...

During the Sicilain Food Festival in San Diego's Little Italy this summer, celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis was on hand to sign cookbooks, host cooking demos, and share her origins as well as influences that played a part during her extensive culinary journey.

The chef enthusiastically divulged her favorite foods; they include ...

A man in New Castle, Delaware was arrested on Wednesday for posing as a new Food Network celebrity chef. The tip-off? Not having enough culinary skills to fool his students.

20-year-old Leonard Ruebeck began promoting this scam in May while teaching a cooking class. He called himself "Chef Lenny" and wore ...

Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse lent his talents to Mississippi's The Viking Classic, recognized as the PGA Tour's Best Special Event due to its impressive fundraising for charitable organizations.

The chef performed two cooking demos during the Viking Classic; first, an "economical and weather-friendly" chicken entree, followed by a fresh and ...

Celebrity chef Bobby Flay of Food Network fame has been investing time in a separate hobby this past year. Let's just say, it's a classy way to enjoy horse meat (for a chef, especially). And from the looks of things, the investment is certainly paying off.

Flay is the ...

Pimento cheese is a very popular item in Southern cuisine. It's made from a base of three ingredients: cheese, mayonnaise, and pimento chili peppers. These are combined to make a paste used as a sandwich spread or dipping sauce. A pimento cheese sandwich is even one of the traditional menu ...

Top Chef fan favorite Fabio Viviani has now put his unique spin on a cooking app for the iPad. He's partnered with Bertolli Olive Oil to create an app called Let's Cook!, which showcases his Italian and Mediterranean-style recipes.

Sixteen feature recipes can be found in Let's Cook!, all with ...

NBC's America's Next Great Restaurant aired for the first time last spring as a series endeavoring to give budding restaurant entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams a success. The show was hosted by celebrity chefs Bobby Flay, Curtis Stone, Lorena Garcia, and Chipotle founder Steve Ells. Over the course of nine ...

Anthony Bourdain, Emmy-winning host of the Travel Channel's No Reservations, will be debuting a new TV series on the same network this fall. It's called 24-Hour Layovers, a show which Bourdain says will be "faster, more democratic, and more caffeinated than No Rez."

The premise of the series showcases Bourdain as he's ...

Many home cooks dream of attending a cooking seminar taught by their favorite celebrity chef in person, but often don't have the funds or the time to do so.  Tonight, for those in the San Francisco area, Tyler Florence hopes to change all that.

Florence will be hosting a free one-hour ...

Celebrity chef Traci Des Jardins is no stranger to stardom. But since her appearance on Season 3 of Top Chef Masters (where she emerged as a Top 3 finalist alongside Mary Sue Milliken and winner Floyd Cardoz), her celebrity status and popularity have risen sky-high.

Jardins admits, however, "I still feel like a humble ...

The 2011 Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, CO was held this past weekend, June 17-19. It was a special occasion for all who attended, especially since it marked Food & Wine's 30th anniversary celebration. Celebrity chefs Thomas Keller, Mario Batali, Michael Chiarello, and Lidia Bastianich were among the hundreds of celebrity and ...

This quick recipe for salmon patties involves very little cooking time, so it's a great one to have on hand when you're craving "fast food" with a healthy, Mediterranean spin to it. As a light lunch, this salmon patty can be paired with your favorite Greek salad.

Salmon Ingredients:

1 can (14 oz.) ...

Sunday night, CBS aired the 38th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, a celebration of daytime television hosted by Wayne Brady of Let's Make A Deal. The Las Vegas awards show featured performances by Cirque Du Soleil, Celine Dion, Marie Osmond, and Penn & Teller. Lifetime achievement awards were presented to ...

Need some grilling advice or last-minute ideas from the pros? Below, five celebrity chefs offer some flavorful recipes that they use both at home and in their own restaurants.

Mario Batali recommends his Pizza Margherita recipe, shown on Good Morning America, from the Mario Batali Italian Grill. The pizza dough is first fired over ...

Top Chef runner-up Bryan Voltaggio has announced plans to open a restaurant experience in his hometown of Frederick that's very similar to Mario Batali's newly successful Eataly concept. It's tentatively called North Market Kitchen and will be located in the historic Market Street district in early 2012.

To be fair, ...

The 27th annual TCA (Television Critics Association) Awards have been announced, and this year, a new category has been added that will please fans of culinary TV programming.

In this year's new Outstanding Achievement in Reality Programming category, both Top Chef: All Stars and Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations have been ...

Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, currently estimated as America's wealthiest chef with a vast empire of restaurants, cookware, prepared foods and television shows, is moving yet another step forward with the introduction of Wolfgang Puck Wines.

The wines from Puck's debut collection have been aged since 2009 and are produced ...

The month of June brings about the summer solstice, the first day of summer vacation, and (to the delight of kitchen retailers everywhere) wedding season -- which, in turn, means kitchenware sales and wedding registry promotions galore.

Both Consumer Reports and The Wall Street Journal shared their thoughts on the best-selling ...

Love's Kitchen, a UK romantic comedy directed and written by James Hacking, debuts today in American theaters. The film stars Scottish actor Dougray Scott, his real-life spouse as love interest Claire Forlani, and celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, who plays himself.

This is Ramsay's first appearance in a major motion picture. The host of Hell's Kitchen, ...

Celebrity chef Tyler Florence, a Food Network host, cookbook author and restaurateur, has just been served a lawsuit by his former business partners. They claim that Florence "bailed" on them and their investment for a new restaurant venture.

The plaintiffs (Michael Musleh, Hani Musleh, Martel & Nabiel, Inc., and DBA ...

Gale Gand is a renowned celebrity pastry chef as well as a mother of three. She is the former host of the first dessert series on Food Network (Sweet Dreams), a former Top Chef judge, and a featured guest chef appearing on Oprah and Martha Stewart's daytime shows.

In a recent ...

As of tomorrow, one won't be able to match his or her culinary and nutritional standards to the USDA's well-known "food pyramid" -- because as of tomorrow, there won't be a pyramid.

The USDA is changing the shape of the informative graphic to represent a dinner plate.

Consumers have been familiar with the ...

Need some last-minute burger ideas for Memorial Day? Here's a quick suggestion from celebrity chef and grilling expert Bobby Flay: Pimento cheeseburgers.

To make them, mix grated cheddar cheese with chopped roasted red pepper, mayonnaise, cayenne pepper, and salt and pepper to taste, then let the cheese melt into a patty ...

This week, Subway celebrated their one-year anniversary of introducing breakfast foods to their menu. The celebration was held in New York City with a breakfast sandwich cook-off, judged by Subway's poster boy Jared Fogle and the chain's executive chef Chris Martone.

Celebrity chef Robert Irvine of Dinner: Impossible and Restaurant: Impossible ...

This week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture made a few changes to the cooking safety guidelines acceptable for pork products. The acceptable temperature for pork cuts is now 145 degrees F, down from the previous 160 degrees F.

And chefs across the nation couldn't be happier.

"USDA confirms what chefs have been ...

Former Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl has just announced a new business venture aimed at the high-end specialty foods market. It's called Gilt Taste, a website currently in beta testing that is part webzine, part food retailer.

The idea behind Gilt Taste is to offer luxury and artisan foods without becoming ...

Todd Kliman is a James Beard Award-winning columnist and restaurant critic, awarded in 2005 for his column in The Washington City Paper with published works in The New Yorker, National Geographic Traveler, and Harper's among others. His first book, The Wild Vine, garnered much praise with its unique character-driven perspective of the ...

Last year, the average yearly salary for an executive chef at a single restaurant was $71,063 according to Nation's Restaurant News. Chances are, though, that the annual salaries of celebrity chefs are far above and beyond that number.

In a list compiled earlier this week by The Daily Meal, the 25 most ...

Food writer James Oseland is the current editor-in-chief of Saveur and is also a former James Beard Award winning cookbook author, notably for his 2006 collection of recipes found in Cradle Of Flavor. The cookbook was hailed as one of the best books of the year by The ...

PBS is now promoting a follow-up series to the widely acclaimed Spain... On the Road Again starring celebrity chef Mario Batali and guest stars Gwyneth Paltrow, NY Times columnist Mark Bittman, and Spanish actress Claudia Bassols. This time around, the traveling food concept goes to Korea and is titled Kimchi Chronicles.

The new series will be ...

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for the 2011 Daytime Emmy Awards this week. Here are this year's nominees in all culinary categories:

Outstanding Lifestyle Host -- Ina Garten of Barefoot Contessa (Food Network), Bobby Flay of Boy Meets Grill (Food Network), Giada De Laurentiis of Everyday Italian ...

On the eve of May 9, the 2011 James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards took place in New York's Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center. The theme of "The Ultimate Melting Pot" was hosted by celebrity chef and restaurateur Tom Colicchio, Ming Tsai of Simply Ming, and San ...

The most recent season of Top Chef brought back fan favorites in an All-Stars edition of the series, including Mike Isabella, an East coast chef and alum from Top Chef Season 6. During the All-Stars finale, Isabella lost to Atlanta chef Richard Blais from Season 4.

But things have picked up quickly for Isabella since ...

The James Beard Foundation Awards Ceremony for all media-related categories was held on Friday, May 6 at Espace in New York City. Awards were given to the winners in television, print media, radio, and Internet journalism.

Renowned as the Julia Child of Mexican cuisine, Diana Kennedy won the JBF Best Cookbook Award ...