2012 May | The Braiser

WATCH: Danny Bowien Makes Jimmy Fallon Cook With Absurdly Huge Chopsticks

by Tina Nguyen

Yes, they look like props from a late night comedy show -- but any self-respecting Asian knows of the enormous chopsticks that their parents used for stir-frying. (Remember, the ones the length of a child's entire arm?). Danny Bowien respects the giant chopsticks.

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Eddie Huang On Cooking With Weed (And Cheetos)

by Tina Nguyen

Incredible revelations about the Human Panda abound in the latest edition of High Times. For instance: did you know that Eddie Huang smokes the reefer? If you didn't, prepare to be totally astounded by the rhapsody of weed that is this interview.

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Martha Stewart On Her Ex-Husband: 'He Went Nuts And Left Me! Can You Imagine?'

by Mariella Mosthof

Martha Stewart stopped by The Dr. Oz Show today to hawk her new book Living the Good Long Life, and while conversation turned inevitably to her Match.com dating life, she revealed a few bawdy tidbits we didn't expect to hear from ever-cordial Martha.

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GIVEAWAY: Tickets To Meet (And Eat With!) Adam Richman And 40 Of NYC's Best Chefs

by Laura Norkin

Richman's hosting the NYC event for the third year in a row, and says, "whenever you have a chef that's like, 'this is just something I'm playing with,' you know that's always going to be the dope shit." You know what else is dope? Winning free tickets to The New Taste of the Upper West Side. See how right here:

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May 2012

Restaurant Closings

Everyone Calm Down, Wolfgang Puck Isn’t Closing Spago Forever

by Tina Nguyen 11:35 am, May 31st

When people heard that beloved Austro-Californian pizza godfather Wolfgang Puck would “close Spago“, they freaked out mightily, their shrieks drowning out the next part of the sentence…
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Social Media

Your Morning Tweet: Don’t Even Ask Bourdain About Madagascar 3

by Verena von Pfetten 10:54 am, May 31st

“The posters alone for “Rock of Ages” make me want to jab my own eyes out and leap from a high window.” [@NoReservations Twitter.]
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TV

Around the World In 80 Plates Recap: Beet-Gate 2012

by Mariella Mosthof 10:49 am, May 31st

This week, on Around the World in 80 Plates, Game Master (?) Curtis Stone takes the competition to Marrakech, Morocco. Upon arriving in the motherland, Chaz and Gary drop and kiss the ground in reverence of their first time visiting Africa.
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TV

WATCH: Colbert Warns World Of Snack Cartels And Their ‘Nacho-Stained Fingers’

by Verena von Pfetten 10:03 am, May 31st

Over the weekend, a Mexican drug cartel burned down a Pepsico chip warehouse, and Colbert would like them to know who they’re messing with. To hear Colbert tell it, America’s Snack Cartel has its “nacho-stained fingers in markets all over the world” — they’re even in bed with Ferran Adria — and includes such unsavory characters as “El Fuñons” and “Don Pringles”, the latter of whom will “pop a cap in your ass, and once he pops, he cannot stop.”
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TV

WATCH: Giada De Laurentiis And Bobby Flay Compete For Sad Trophy On Today

by Tina Nguyen 9:41 am, May 31st

Televised culinary competitions are the backbone of food media, which is why Bobby Flay has three competition shows and Giada De Laurentiis has one. So clearly, they love food fights, maybe a bit too much, since their competitive streak occasionally leads them into meaningless competitions over dinky prizes, like the rather sad trophy that they fought over this morning on The Today Show.
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Social Media

Google Integrates Zagat Into Local Search Results To Compete With Yelp

by Tina Nguyen 6:58 pm, May 30th

Though it’s hardly the Yelp-killer that Google’s been looking for, the move gives Google one clear advantage that benefits restauranteurs and chefs the most: Zagat’s sterling reputation, built up over the past three decades.
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Last Call

Last Call: Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Sommelier?

by Mariella Mosthof 6:45 pm, May 30th

We may finally feel comfortable listening to Dr. Ruth “Could Be Our Bubbe” Westheimer discuss naughty things ad nauseum and hawk sex toys, but we don’t think we’re ready to sip on her wine just yet.
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Food In Politics

Thomas Keller Clarifies His Sustainability Stance

by Mariella Mosthof 5:50 pm, May 30th

In typically placating fashion, the chef-owner of The French Laundry, Per Se, and Bouchon felt the need to quiet the fight with another article, this time penned himself, expounding on his feelings towards the locavore movement.
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Interviews

Daniel Humm Dreams Of A World In Which Chefs And Rock Stars Can Co-Exist

by Mariella Mosthof 5:30 pm, May 30th

We heard some music snobs got cranky during the Comparing Chefs To Rock Stars Fad. We also heard some chefs got cranky during the Comparing Chefs To Rock Stars Fad. But standing up for a peaceful synthesis of music and food is Eleven Madison Park‘s James Beard Award-winning executive chef Daniel Humm.
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Food In Politics

PETA Targets Gordon Ramsay With Screaming Fish ‘Empathy PSA’

by Mariella Mosthof 4:26 pm, May 30th

You know what’s just as bad as abusive husbands screaming at their wives and children, old ladies getting assaulted, and bullying? Gordon Ramsay‘s yelling. You know what’s worse? Innocent fish suffering for your petty, indulgent red snapper risotto. At least, that’s what PETA says.
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