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Foodies in the Rocky Mountain region who are both Top Chef and Food Network fans will be pleased to hear that both franchises will be present in Denver, Colorado this weekend.

Food Network's The Great Food Truck Race is currently filming and has finished stopovers in Las Vegas and Salt Lake ...

The James Beard Foundation announced yesterday that for the first time in the history of the prestigious culinary awards ceremony, the events will be broadcast live over the Internet.

"The web stream, along with coverage on our blog and Twitter page, will make it possible for those unable ...

The winner of America's Next Great Restaurant, an NBC reality show that pitted potential restaurateurs against each other in front of a group of celebrity chef investors, was announced last night. The investors chose Jamawn Woods and his restaurant, Soul Daddy, which is now open in three locations across America as of ...

The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, now in its tenth anniversary, showcases and awards films each year that don't necessarily fit into blockbuster movie stereotypes. Awards such as Narrative Feature, New York Documentary, and the Student Visionary Award aren't the categories one would find at the Oscars, but they do reflect the growth ...

Adam Gertler, former contestant on Season 4 of The Next Food Network Star, is now the host of a new Discovery Channel show called Will Work For Food. In each episode, he takes on a different occupation in the food industry that involves more manual labor than culinary creativity.

So far, here's what ...

TV personality Mario Lopez has garnered fame as an actor, dancer, author, fitness guru, and host. Some of his most recognizable roles include Saved By the Bell, Dancing With the Stars, and Broadway's revival of A Chorus Line. He is currently the host of television's second-longest-running entertainment show, Extra, as ...

Today's Easter Egg Roll at the White House continues a tradition in its 133rd year. Over thirty thousand tickets were issued via online lottery, and families from all 50 states will be in attendance to join in the White House's largest annual public event.

Several celebrity chefs will be on hand ...

A new UK research study has discovered that the theobromine properties in chocolate are extremely effective in treating a persistent cough. Theobromine is an alkaloid of cacao, the same plant that chocolate is made from. It is the primary ingredient in both cocoa and chocolate, and is especially prevalent in cocoa powder.

Leading the ...

Molecular gastronomy --  a high-class form of cooking that incorporates equal parts science and art -- has risen in popularity via celebrity chefs such as Grant Achatz and Heston Blumenthal. But many respected chefs still do not fully embrace the concept of molecular gastronomy and feel that it misrepresents their art. ...

On April 17th, the city of Wilmington, DL hosted many recognizable chefs to present a high-class Celebrity Chefs Brunch, part of the city's "Meals From the Masters" series. The event is one of many fundraisers benefiting the non-profit organization Meals On Wheels, a charity that provides meals to homebound ...

On April 11, Food Network Canada experienced a record-breaking number of viewers who all tuned in to watch the series premiere of "Top Chef Canada."

Nearly 317,000 viewers watched Monday's Season 1 episode, making it the highest-rated show ever to air on Food Network Canada to date.

The format is very ...

Scripps Networks Interactive has just announced plans to roll out over 20 new shows to air on Food Network, Cooking Channel, and Travel Channel. Some shows will begin as early as this week, but most are slated to premiere during the 2011-12 season.

Starting May 5, celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse will ...

Academy Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow is widely known for her performances on the big screen, and next week, she'll start gaining new renown as a first-time cookbook author.

Paltrow's new cookbook, "My Father's Daughter," is a tribute to her late father. She credits him for being one of the greatest influences on ...

Inspired by all the April Fool's Day culinary pranks that occurred last week, famed restaurant critic Jonathan Gold of the L.A. Weekly planned to pull a prank of his own. As a result, instead of experiencing the finest gourmet cuisine that the Los Angeles night life has to offer, self-proclaimed food ...

The hype surrounding celebrity chef Grant Achatz's newest business venture has been phenomenal over the past year or so -- and for good reason, since Next promises to reinterpret the reinterpretation that is molecular gastronomy.

Next advertises a menu inspired by turning-point moments in culinary history, both past and future. Timelines include ...

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This recipe for Beef Tenderloin takes very little time to prepare; most of the time is spent cooking the steak and thickening the peppercorn sauce. It's a great recipe to have on hand when you're craving a barbequed peppercorn steak but don't want to fire up the grill.

One important ingredient to keep is the ...

In a recent Travel Channel blog post from "No Reservations" traveling foodie Anthony Bourdain, the host took time to publicly voice his strong opinions against the James Beard Awards, a ceremony which he's been displeased with for years and likens to a "goat rodeo."

This year, Bourdain has ...

Did Gmail really come up with a way to utilize webcam motion sensors? And is Virgin Airlines' Sir Richard Branson really the new owner of Pluto with plans to reinstate it as a planet? Yes -- if you believe everything you read on April 1.

Websites, blogs, newspapers, and Twitter accounts were ...

This week's season finale of the Emmy-winning reality series "Top Chef" pitted the final two All-Stars against each other in a restaurant battle. After chefs Richard Blais and Mike Isabella were asked to create their own dining experience complete with a four-course menu, the judges named Season ...

Celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson, JBF award-winning chef and frequent judge on culinary competition shows such as "Iron Chef" and "Top Chef," has just launched a new cooking website as of last week that caters exclusively to men.

The website is called Food Republic and targets an audience that Samuelsson ...

The restaurant scenes in cities such as New York, Chicago, and San Francisco have always been a few steps ahead of the national curve, offering some of the finest dining to be found anywhere. These cities attract food lovers from all over to sample what's new and see how their ...

Academy Award-winning actress Kate Winslet, known for such blockbusters as Titanic, The Reader and Revolutionary Road, is now paring her talents with celebrity chef Tom Colicchio to star in the new HBO miniseries "Mildred Pierce."

An adaptation of novelist James M. Cain's 1941 work, "Mildred Pierce" centers around a newly divorced mother ...

The James Beard Foundation has just revealed its recipient for this year's Lifetime Achievement Award. The honor goes to Kevin Zraly, a renowned sommelier, author, and former JBF winner. According to the official James Beard press release, Zraly received this award because his "lifetime body of work has had a ...

The 9th Annual S. Pellegrino Almost Famous Chef Competition was recently held in Napa Valley, CA at Greystone's Culinary Institute of America. For three days, rising-star chefs completed challenges akin to what they'd experience on "Top Chef" or "Iron Chef" with mystery ingredients, signature dishes, and a panel of celebrity chef judges.

Kendall ...

Several celebrity chefs, many from "Top Chef" fame, were criticized earlier this month by The New York Times as being too "telegenic." The article accused them of using their good looks to get ahead unfairly in the culinary industry.

"[This] is a new breed of celebrity chefs who have coasted into culinary fame, ...

A new chef memoir has hit the bookshelves this month in paperback form. The musings are by Kim Severson, an acclaimed food writer from the Anchorage Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York Times as Atlanta Bureau representative.

Titled "Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life," Severson divulges her ...

The Emmy Award-presenting Television Academy of Arts & Sciences has just announced its nominees for the TV Academy Honors, a ceremony that recognizes television episodes and documentaries for their potential to inspire, inform, motivate, and change lives. According to the organization's official website, this award ceremony in its fourth year celebrates "Television With A Conscience."

This year, celebrity chef ...

Anthony Bourdain, host of the Travel Channel's "No Reservations" and author of best-selling memoir "Kitchen Confidential," has accepted a new position on the writing staff of the popular HBO series, "Treme."

The drama series is based in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina -- in fact, the show debuted on HBO just ...

This weekend, the Food Network cooking competition show "Chopped" is about to step it up a notch with "Chopped: All-Stars." Sunday marks the first of five special episodes in which sixteen celebrity chefs will duke it out for a prize of $50,000, which will be awarded to their favorite ...

With his latest cookbook, celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito has a goal to meld healthy eating with "sinfully delicious" flavors. He aims to introduce unhealthy foods in a diet-friendly way.

A follow-up to last year's NY Times bestseller "Now Eat This!," Rocco's "Now Eat This! Diet" says that his ...

Next month, two new chef autobiographies that are already garnering a lot of favorable press from celebrity advance readers will be hitting bookshelves across the nation and online.

The first is "Blood, Bones and Butter: An Inadvertent Education From a Reluctant Chef," the debut memoir from New ...

The 2011 International Home + Housewares Show will be coming to Chicago during the first full weekend of March. Sponsored in part by the International Home Association (IHA), All-Clad, Groupe SEB USA, KitchenAid, and Whole Foods Market, this event will bring celebrity chefs, local restaurateurs, and specialty food reps under the same ...

The official list of James Beard Award semifinalists for 2011 has just been released. It's significantly longer than the list of finalists, which will be announced in March.

A record number of 28,000 online nominations were received this year, making the process of elimination quite a daunting task for the semifinalists ...

An experienced team of business executives and chefs is planning on launching  a new fast food restaurant concept this summer in Palo Alto, California. It's called Lyfe Kitchen, where the letters in "Lyfe" stand for "Love Your Food Everyday." The concept is to present customers with healthier fast food ...

Porthole Cruise Magazine has just named Chef Rudi Sodamin as the Best Cruise Line Chef as of February 2011. Additionally, Sodamin's Master Chef's Dinner was named the Best Culinary Secret Afloat.

Sodamin is both a chef and culinary consultant for the Holland America cruise company. His on-board ...

Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck will be returning to the Governor's Ball to cater the party for his 17th consecutive year. The Governor's Ball is the highlight of all Academy Awards after-parties, flocked with A-list celebrities and overflowing with gourmet appetizers, desserts, and drinks.

Puck will likely coordinate the evening's menu with the interior ...

In a recent study performed by taste testers at The Village Voice, two popular brands of chocolate candies were closely examined to determine which one reigned supreme in terms of value and flavor. Testers chose assortments of Russell Stover and Whitman's chocolates, packaged in familiar heart-shaped boxes geared for ...

Celebrity chefs Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert are scheduled to appear at the Boston Symphony Hall on March 4, 2011.

The live experience is being marketed more as a celebrity cage match instead of an intimate evening among culinary friends. But no matter how the evening progresses, "An Evening With Anthony Bourdain ...

Professional cooking has always been known as a male-dominated industry. This trend is something that can be seen even in a Westernized country, so one can imagine what the industry must be like for women living in countries that still hold to strict cultural gender roles -- like the Middle East, ...

It's almost here -- the American pastime of watching NFC vs. AFC football, laughing (or grimacing) at the best new commercials that multi-million dollar companies have to offer, and chowing down on mouth-watering appetizers galore. Yes, it's Super Bowl time, and it's increasing in popularity. Last year's ...

"We have set out on a mission to create the most epic meals and then eat them. In a time where people are putting an emphasis on dieting and health, we choose to rebel."

Such is the mission statement for Epic Meal Time, a newly launched YouTube show that ...

Las Vegas is a city known for its lavish and never-ending entertainment, a place where you can never have too much money to spend. For foodies and travelers, this can only mean one thing: the best selection of gourmet, over-the-top restaurants anyone can find in one place, ...

Friday, January 28 marked the beginning of a new advertising campaign for popular fast food joint Taco Bell in response to legal claims being made against its taco and burrito beef filling.

The ads are Taco Bell President Greg Creed's answer to a class-action lawsuit filed last week in federal court ...

Long-time columnist for the New York Times Mark Bittman has officially announced the cessation of "The Minimalist," a column that captured Bittman's insights into world travel, exotic cuisine, cooking myths, and inventive techniques, all with a generous helping of his curmudgeonly (and hilarious) dry wit. But he's not laying down ...

This year, pro football's most interactive culinary event will be celebrating its 20th anniversary as "Taste of The NFL" comes to the Fort Worth Convention Center on February 5, the day before Super Bowl XLV.

The event isn't just a way to pit celebrity chefs in the same kitchen as NFL players and see ...

Last night, James Beard award-winning celebrity chefs Michael Symon and Jonathan Waxman were both exhausted and delighted as they prepared an elaborate dinner during a JBF Gala in Mauna Lani, Hawaii.

Over 175 guests attended the Big Island six-course dinner, which was just one stop on the James Beard ...

This year's much-anticipated Super Bowl XLV will be held at the Dallas Cowboys' new stadium in Arlington, TX, drawing in the masses to experience Texas culture and cuisine during the festivities.

However, fans that are headed to the Super Bowl and want to enjoy a pre-celebration in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area may ...

According to fourth quarter reports from Nielsen Media Research, the celebrity chef mecca known as Food Network is suffering a decline among its viewers -- changing the most within its key demographic, to boot.

The Nielsen reports collect samples of television viewing habits from selected individuals at random ...

UK celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver have both decided to remove eel from their restaurant menus -- against the recommendations of their suppliers, the Dutch Eel Company, but in favor of conservationists across the globe.

Eel has been a controversial seafood for both businesses and non-profits for years. In 2008, ...

The second annual Tasty Awards were held on Thursday, January 13 at the historic Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard to recognize a year's worth of culinary, fashion, and travel media.

Several celebrity chefs and entertainment hosts were on hand to present the awards, including Brian Boitano, Hubert Keller, Nathan Lyon, Aida Mollenkamp, ...