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WATCH: Danny Bowien Makes Jimmy Fallon Cook With Absurdly Huge Chopsticks
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)
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?'
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
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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One-Third Of U.S. Honeybee Population Died Last Winter And We’re All Gonna Starve
Though we fear bees with a healthy passion, the news that nearly one-third of America’s bee population died last winter is grave enough for us to 1) accept bees for what they are, and 2) acknowledge the potential disaster facing the U.S. agricultural industry.
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Documentarians Urge: Eat Swamp Rats To Save Louisiana
In the 1920s, a ginormous rodent called nutria was imported from Argentina for the use of its fur, by the man who invented Tabasco sauce. Fur fell out of favor (way to go, PETA) and the 20-pound rat-things were released into the wild. Nearly a century later, the hungry herbivores are destroying Louisiana’s bayou and depleting the swampland that protects the fragile, low-laying land from hurricanes. So, we should eat them.
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The Day That Magnus Nilsson Cried: Killing A Lamb He Raised Like A Son
As he recounts in his cookbook Faviken, he’d raised eight lambs on a family farm, hand-feeding them crushed barley and and named the largest one Valdemar, after an ancient Swedish king. Adorable, right? Right?
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Daniel Boulud’s Forager Is Totally Over This Whole Ramps Thing
Tama Matsuoka Wong is really annoyed with people who harvest and consume ramps like so many of nature’s Tostitos.
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Starbucks Buys A Farm; Somewhere Alice Waters Is Weeping
Starbanzo Beans finally saddled up and bought its first coffee farm in Costa Rica for somewhere from $5-10 million, not to lovingly cultivate each and every bean from harvest to brew like some hipster coffee joints out there, but rather, to find a cure for “coffee rust,” an epidemic affecting Asian coffee purveyors that has now jumped continents to Latin America.
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Eric Ripert Discovers Rare White Cocoa Nibs, Is Now Willy Wonka
Somewhere in the mountains of Peru, as he was personally harvesting each and every cacao pod for the Good and Evil bar (the chocolate bar he makes with his best friend Anthony Bourdain), Eric Ripert discovered an extremely rare, wondrous plant.
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Jamie Oliver’s Prized Black Swan Murdered By Fox (Or Was It An Evil Doppelganger?)
Jamie Oliver once owned a pair of rare black swans as pets, until one of them was viciously murdered by a fox yesterday morning.
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Curtis Stone To Singlehandedly Save All The Baby Seals In Canada (With Help From The Humane Society)
Curtis Stone and a bevy of other famous chefs have made a commitment to protecting the adorable, fluffy, cutie patooties known as baby seals, from the evil clubs of the meany seal hunters of Canada.
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Hurricane’s Sandy Aftermath: Who’s Open, Who’s Closed, And The Craziest Storm Photos
Check out our roundup of tweets from chefs and restaurants affected by the storm.
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Could Oysters Have Saved Us From Hurricane Sandy?
New York Times contributor Paul Greenberg proposes that Sandy’s destruction has something to do with the fact that there are no more oysters in New York. The ones in the ocean, not the ones you’re scarfing down at the John Dory:
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PHOTOS: Which Chef’s French Bulldog Should Be The New El Bulli Mascot?
WATCH: PETA’s Latest Ad Is Actually Really Sex-Positive, So We’re Confused About Hating It (NSFW)
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