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Graham Elliot Recruits Tony Mantuano To Headline Lollapalooza's ChowTown
The only shining beacon of hope on the Chicago summer food festival scene isn't really at a food festival at all.
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Jacques Pepin: Manly Grilling 'Doesn't Really Make Any Sense'
Plus: the best burger techniques, the best burger joint in America, and why Julia Child loved McDonald's.
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Lady Gaga's Dad Threatens Bloomberg, Blames Potatoes In Twitter Rant Over Health Inspection
All it takes is one potato to send Joe Germanotta, owner of Joanne Trattoria and father of Lady Gaga, into a full-blown Twitter rant against the oft-maligned NYC Department of Health.
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PHOTO: Glee's Cory Monteith And Gordon Ramsay Hang Out On Set
We practically gave ourselves heart attacks last time MasterChef and Glee crossed paths, but luckily, we made it through last season of everyone's favorite Ryan Murphy musical comedy without any Gordon Ramsay, Graham Elliot, or Joe Bastianich cameos. Sadly, MasterChef won't be spared the same crossover fate.
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Sam Sifton Is ‘Team Taco’ For Staff Meal, These 5 Chefs Might Disagree
In a New York Times column entitled “Team Taco”, Sam Sifton dissects the kitchen tradition of the staff meal, and finds that many chefs fall in favor of the Mexican dish when deciding what to serve. We also had an inkling that staff meals were highly regarded among the restaurant-working ilk, so we asked a few well known chefs what their knife-wielding staff favor around the dinner table (or bar, or sitting on a crate in the walk-in). Surprisingly, they didn’t all say tacos.
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Meme Watch: The 10 Best #FakeDCBars Tweets
Even this editor right here, a DC native, was not expecting #FakeDCBars to turn into such… a thing. But our friends down I-95 had other ideas. Here we are two days later and the followers are still eking out their ideas before the weekend. (They know none of these bars will exist this weekend, right?). Here’s a sampling of our favorites from the food scene meme du jour.
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Slow News Day? Let’s Play Word Association With Celebrity Chefs!
Not every story on The Braiser can be breaking news or exclusive interviews. We can’t even always deliver drool-inducing Food Porn (much less animal porn) on a daily basis. Sometimes, the world just keeps turning and there’s nothing to report except for random collections of words.
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11 Chefs Tell You What To Bring To This Weekend’s Cinco de Mayo Parties
We reached out to 11 celebrity chefs for advice on exactly what to bring to the millions (maybe one) Cinco de Mayo parties we’d be attending this weekend. With contributions from Marcus Samuelsson, Andrew Zimmern, Bobby Flay, and more, the gallery’s a good time, but we can’t promise all the answers are replicable.
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7 Regular Celebrities Who Awkwardly Crossed Over Into Celebrity Chefdom
Sometimes a reg celeb can transition into a celeb chef with ease. Take Coolio, for example! Homeboy garnishes caprese salad like a boss. Others do it with such bizarre force that, after making this slideshow, we’re stuck with permanent cringe face.
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The Top 10 Chefs (And Trucks!) You Need To Know In The Coachella Valley
New York may be a culinary mecca, but it’s not the be-all and end-all of food talent. As such, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight celebrity, notable, or otherwise up-and-coming chefs you should know about across the country. This week, we visit the Coachella Valley for obvious, timely, and topical reasons.
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A Guide To Bobby Flay’s TV Cameo Career: Disney, SVU, Being Called A ‘Genetic Mistake’ On HBO
Bobby Flay boasts one of the richest filmographies of any celebrity chef on our radar; richer even than those of Wolfgang Puck, or seasoned Treme actor David Chang. Check out his totally respectable body of work (clips included!) after the jump.
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The Top 10 Chefs You Need To Know In Columbus, OH
Everyone thinks of this city the doughy, boorish, strip mall-laden cousin of Cleveland, who’s hot in that girl-next-door kind of way, if that girl were Michael Symon. But there are quite a few hidden talents buried in that post-industrial snowscape.
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Why Eleven Madison Park Didn’t Make The Foodie Top 100 List
We get it, Gael Greene, you have a reputation of being a classically foxy tease to uphold. But as a member of the new Foodie.com Top 100 Restaurants Judges’ Panel, tasked with listing the best restaurants in the world along with a cohort of peers, you cannot expect to keep dropping hints about certain restaurants and not get us hot and bothered with speculation.
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10 Animals We’d Name After Chefs If We Owned A Zoo
Much like our imaginations, our Dream Zoo is limitless, and this is only part one out of a 468 part series of animals we wish we’d owned. Cuddles! Cuddles for EVERYONE!
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WATCH: PETA’s Latest Ad Is Actually Really Sex-Positive, So We’re Confused About Hating It (NSFW)
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