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 Michelle Pushes 
 Healthy Meals 
 —on Iron Chef 

First lady will guest on Food Network competition's season opener

Nov 4, 09 11:54 AM CST
(Newser) - Michelle Obama’s campaign to wean kids off junk food is taking a slightly unorthodox turn: The first lady will guest on Iron Chef America’s Jan. 3 episode. In addition to discussing her crusade for healthy school lunches and more, Obama will reveal the secret ingredient for the show's... More »

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entertainment • Michelle Obama • cooking • Mario Batali • Emeril Lagasse • Bobby Flay • Jay-ZTV • Iron Chef

 The Top 20
 Chef Kings 
 (Oops, 1 Queen) 

Gordon Ramsay rules the roost, in more ways than one

Sep 26, 09 6:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - The phenomenon of the celebrity chef is well past the saturation point, but the restaurants, cookbooks, kitchen gadgets, and personal appearances keep coming. Presiding over the largest international empire is British pottymouth-cum-culinary genius Gordon Ramsay, according to a new list by New York's Grub Street blog. The Grub Street formula... More »

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entertainment • cooking • chef • Rachael Ray • Alain Ducasse • Gordon Ramsay • Wolfgang Puck • Nobuyuki Matsuhisa • Joël Robuchon • celebrity chef • Lidia Bastianich

(Newser) - If an industry group's cooking competition is any indication, the Wall Street Journal reports, hospital food ain’t what it used to be. This year's winner of the National Society for Healthcare Foodservice Management's gold medal produced a “Machaca Flat Iron Steak” that met with his hospital nutritionist’... More »

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cooking • steak • cuisine • health care industry • contest • hospital food • executive chef • National Society for Healthcare Foodservice Management

Now In Child's Old Kitchen, No Meat—or Butter!

Vegetarian occupants hope chef 'is not rolling over in her grave'

Sep 1, 09 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - The sacrilege! Not only has the kitchen in Julia Child’s former Cambridge home—familiar to millions of devotees of her show—been renovated to within an inch of its life, the Boston Globe reports, its new owners have hung a picture of a cow with the caption: “... More »

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French cooking • cooking • vegetarianism • vegan • cookbooks • kitchen • Julia Child • Cambridge, Mass. • Lisa Landsverk

(Newser) - Nearly half a century after it was published, Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking is entering the New York Times bestseller list—at No. 1. The film Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep as the famous chef, has electrified sales of the cookbook despite its antiquated recipes... More »

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cooking • publishing • butter • cookbooks • best seller • Julia Child • Julie & Julia

OPINION

Pollan: We Love Cooking Shows, But Not Cooking

Americans would rather watch food shows than make food

Aug 1, 09 12:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - When Julia Child came on the scene, she changed the way America cooked. Child inspired women everywhere to try their hands at French cuisine. Today, we have loads more food shows, yet the average American spends just 27 minutes a day making food. “How is it,” asks food... More »

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cooking • Food Network • Julia Child

INTERVIEW

Cooking: What Separates Men From Apes (and Women)

And anthropologically speaking, women are always the cooks

Jul 29, 09 1:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cooking—not just eating—meat is what prompted human evolution, Richard Wrangham argues in his book Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, and he discusses his beliefs—including an opposition to the trend of raw diets—with Salon. “Raw foodists argue quite strongly that it is our... More »

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evolution • cooking • human evolution • human • anthropology • book • raw food • Richard Wrangham

 The Most Overused 
 Menu Descriptions 

From 'grilled to perfection' to 'garden fresh'

Jul 6, 09 6:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tired of menus that use the same old phrases over and over? So are the food critics at the Chicago Tribune. They nominated nine menu clichés for the compost pile:
  • "Grilled to perfection": Subjective to the point of meaninglessness. And why always grilled, and not “
... More »

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food • advertising • cooking • steak • list • restaurant • chef • menu

(Newser) - There’s a vampire resurgence in Chad, and no, it’s not because Twilight has swept the African country. Cost-conscious residents have resurrected a dish slyly known as “vampire”: cooked animal blood, the BBC reports. With global food prices soaring and meat increasingly expensive, traditional vampire is “actually... More »

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Africa • Chad • cooking • meat • blood • food prices • vampire

GLOSSIES

 Get Fired Up for Grill Season 


May 24, 09 4:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the outdoor cooking season kicking off this week, barbecue guru Steven Raichlen offers some grill tips in Esquire you shouldn’t have gone so long without:
  • Get the grill screaming hot: Put your hand 3 inches off the grate, and if “ouch” comes in 2-3 seconds,
... More »

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cooking • beer • meat and poultry • grilling • Memorial Day weekend

book review

From Romantic Lemons, Literary Lemonade

It's fizzy, too—and comes complete with recipes and regrets

Apr 9, 09 10:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Recipes for "Morning After Pumpkin Bread" and "Ineffectual Eggplant Parmigiana" should clue readers in that Giulia Melucci's I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti is no how-to on gaining a man's heart through his stomach, Joyce Wadler writes for the New York Times. Melucci—"... More »

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New York • cooking • literature • writer • relationship • book reviews • book • publishing industry • Giulia Melucci

 Save Dough: 
 10 Super Bowl 
 Snacks Under $20 

Don't break the bank or a sweat with these snack tips

Feb 1, 09 12:47 PM CST
(Newser) - In these penny-pinching times, don’t blow your Super Bowl snack dough on that bucket of chicken or delivery box full of fourth-quarter disappointment. Instead, create your own budget-friendly Pro-Bowl quality snacks at home, Kim O'Donnel writes in the Washington Post. Here are 10 snacking ideas for less than 20... More »

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food • sports • cooking • Super Bowl • party • snacks

OPINION

 Cooks' Books: Can 
 You Try This at Home? 

Rarely the same, but effort offers insight

Jan 25, 09 10:18 AM CST
(Newser) - Restaurant cookbooks allow you to tap into a chef's genius, but rarely do they yield perfect re-creations of beloved dishes, notes food writer Lauren Shockey for Slate. Shockey tries her hand at recipes from a couple of Manhattan's renowned restaurants— Shopsin's, Carmine's, and Chantarelle—and goes on-site for a taste... More »

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cooking • recipes • restaurant • chef • cookbooks

Top Kitchen Gadget ... the Cell Phone?

It won't make coffee or dice, but can download recipes, call Mom

Jan 21, 09 12:18 PM CST
(Newser) - Forget about trying to buy newlyweds the ultimate kitchen appliance: They almost certainly already have two. For both everyday cooks and professional chefs, the cell phone has become the go-to gadget, the New York Times reports. What other tool could combine the functions of timer, measurement converter, recipe generator, shopping-list... More »

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technology • cell phones • cooking • recipes • kitchen • home appliances

GLOSSIES

Cheap and Comforting:
Food Trends for 2009

Gourmet outlines how we'll eat well in the downturn

Jan 11, 09 9:34 AM CST
(Newser) - With a recession weighing on our minds (and wallets), Gourmet breaks down new home cooking trends for 2009:
  • Drinking will, unsurprisingly, be on the rise, with a wider variety of high-end spirits for simple homemade cocktails.
  • Simple ingredients like large beans will be central in a new wave
... More »

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cooking • China food exports • recession • Korean food • financial crisis • Indian food

(Newser) - If you want white truffle shavings sprinkled over your Thanksgiving leftovers, the biggest specimen found in Italy this year is up for auction tomorrow. You'll need some big bucks—and perhaps the moxie to outbid David and Victoria Beckham. The delectable fungus weighs about 2½ pounds and is expected to... More »

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food • cooking • Italy • cuisine • Victoria Beckham • auction • chef • David Beckham • truffles • Posh Spice

GLOSSIES

 Cured for What Ails You 

Chefs, diners can't get enough of salty beef and pork salumi

Sep 10, 08 4:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Move over, fancy cheese, there's a new kid in town. Cured meat—salumi is the catchall term—is the latest foodie obsession, JJ Goode writes in Details. Salumi ranges from the familiar—think salami and prosciutto—to the more obscure like bresaola, cured beef made by artisans who "rub... More »

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cooking • meat • restaurant • Mario Batali • top chefs • salumi • prosciutto • salami • bresaola

 Court Boots Thai PM 
 Over Cooking Show 

Samak forced to resign as protests continue in Bangkok

Sep 9, 08 6:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thailand's supreme court has ruled that the prime minister and his government must resign, declaring that his participation in a TV cooking show violated the constitution. The unanimous ruling comes as opponents of Samak Sundaravej continue to occupy Government House in Bangkok, reports the AP. While Samak may seek a... More »

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Thailand • cooking • Bangkok • constitution • Samak Sundaravej • constitutionality • television personality • People's Alliance for Democracy

Cooking Show Could Cost
Thai PM His Job

Ruling tomorrow on Samak's TV work
could ease unrest

Sep 8, 08 3:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thailand’s prime minister could be forced from his post tomorrow, the Guardian reports—not by protesters who have taken over government offices, but by a court ruling that hosting a TV cooking show was unconstitutional. Samak Sundaravej, 73, hosted Tasting, Grumbling, for years before being elected, appeared a handful... More »

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television • Thailand • cooking • constitution • lawsuit • prime minister • Samak Sundaravej • protesters • Thai protesters

GLOSSIES

 Steak: More Than  
 Meats the Eye 

Esquire provides the basics, from grades to cooking times

Aug 29, 08 3:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - There's more to a mouthwatering steak than meets the eye. So Esquire offers some tips and terms every steak lover should know before a Labor Day meat-fest:
  • Types of beef: Grass-fed: "Healthier but ... less flavorful than corn-fed." Heritage: "Rare heirloom breeds ... without the hormones or
... More »

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cooking • beef • steak • list • Esquire

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