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WATCH: Every Whack-Job Montage From Last Night's MasterChef Auditions
MasterChef Season 4 kicked off last night with a two-hour premiere, and, as we look forward to every summer, the kooks came out of the woodwork for the open audition rounds. Of course, those are way more entertaining than the tear-filled, moving stories of overcoming adversity or whatever, so we conveniently compiled all the Crazies Montages in one convenient space for your perusal. You're welcome.
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Lady Chef Stampede: Here's Why Amy Scherber Is The One Baker Ever To Be Profiled In This Column
This week, on the Lady Chef Stampede, we get baked with Amy Scherber, the woman behind Amy’s Bread. Normally I am deeply suspicious of bakers, regarding them as a mutant offshoot of pastry cooks (if you want to know about pastry cooks, I suggest trying reading some H.P. Lovecraft, who wrote about them in great detail).
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Amy Bouzgalo Served Time In Federal Prison For Social Security Fraud
In an Arizona Republic article, Jennifer McClellan reports that Bouzgalo formerly went by the name "Amanda Bossingham," and spent 14 months in federal prison in 2008.
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The Braiser Is Hiring Summer Interns!
If you know your Blais from your Bourdain and are passionate about the culture surrounding food; if you can write in a compelling -- if sometimes sarcastic -- tone and wait with bated breath for the James Beards Award announcements and other foodie news, please apply.
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Andrew Zimmern Surmises Border Check Was Buried In Travel Channel Revenge Plot
We suspected Andrew Zimmern’s Go Fork Yourself podcast this week would be full of juicy gossip following last weekend’s James Beard Awards, and we were correct. But, drowning in all that spilled James Beard tea was a subtle Travel Channel call-out (and not the first we’ve heard this week, either).
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Gabrielle Hamilton: ‘Sometimes This Industry Fails Me’, And The Worst Part Of Her East Village Location
WNYC host Leonard Lopate invited Gabrielle Hamilton, Marcus Samuelsson, and Andrew Carmellini onto his “Food Fridays” radio broadcast to speak about opening successful restaurants in New York City, and Gab-Ham followed through with a characteristically scathing, honest, but hopeful word on the hipster restaurant scene.
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Alton Brown Settles An Unseemly Domestic Dispute, Judge Judy Style
Fancy a little middlebrow humor this afternoon? How about a podcast in which faux-historian and humorist John Hodgman puts on his best “People’s Court” robe and settles piddling domestic disputes? And let’s throw in Alton Brown as an expert witness, for good measure.
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Thomas Keller’s Stance On Peeps Might Surprise You
Hideously embarrassed that you’re obsessed with marshmallow Peeps? It’s totally cool! Thomas Keller says they’re cute!
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Andrew Zimmern Presents An Idiot’s Guide To The 2013 James Beard Awards In One Easy Podcast
Totally at a loss for how to plot out your 2013 James Beard Awards bracket, due to those pesky, more obscure categories? Enter: Andrew Zimmern and Molly Mogren, who artfully break down the nominations, category by category, in dutiful Andrew as The Teacher and Molly as The Student terms for you to follow along with.
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Andrew Zimmern Wonders Why Papacy Can’t Be More Like Law & Order: SVU Cameos
On this week’s installment of Go Fork Yourself, Andrew Zimmern and Molly Mogren tackled everything from the New York City Soda Ban overturn to a hearty endorsement of the new NBC reality show Food Fighters. But Andrew also took the opportunity to air out his beef with the papal conclave in failing to elect him as the first Jewish-American pope
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‘Asians Are The Black People Of The Food World’ According To Food Is The New Rock Hosts
Francis Lam stopped by Food Is The New Rock this week to weigh in on the topic for which he is the foremost scholarly expert: the effect of food mentions in Notorious B. I. G. lyrics.
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Andrew Zimmern Slams Roy Choi’s Spam Endorsement On Go Fork Yourself
On this week’s edition of Andrew Zimmern’s podcast Go Fork Yourself, he and Molly Mogren tackled the vast and complex pizza-verse, but first, they obliged to tackle the week’s biggest food news. In this case: Roy Choi’s Spam endorsement, just a year after he announced he’d be going veg, because the animals spoke to him, or something.
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Eddie Huang Calls Being A TED Fellow ‘Like Being At A F*cking Scientology Summer Camp’
Eddie Huang put TED on blast last week after being booted from the Fellowship program for skipping out on part of a day’s events to do a podcast hosted by an artist and a porn star. NBD. But his tirade continued on an installment of The Joe Rogan Experience, which Eddie did a guest appearance on last week.
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Andrew Zimmern Defends His Security Detail, Praises The ‘Fake Boob On Display’ At SoBe WFF On Go Fork Yourself
Andrew Zimmern has been catching Twitter flack from the non-famouses for the snooty security detail following him through the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, but here’s the thing: crazy fans exist.
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The Mary Sue
Shirtless Benedict Cumberbatch was deleted from STID, but that doesn't mean sexism is over: http://t.co/xn3uC2SiTT
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The Braiser
So Eddie Huang did an interview with High Time Magazine about weed. Oh, come on, what did you expect? http://t.co/z7aVSpVC8G
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HuffPost Food
Bacon helps bring missing dog home http://t.co/neACEFoth5
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Geekosystem
Drawings Against Humanity manages to make Cards Against Humanity more offensive. Which I didn't think could happen. http://t.co/bRFTq2mKBr
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The Daily Meal
First Look: Pride & Joy, Myron Mixon’s New York Barbecue Hot Spot: http://t.co/fzkabNyXRw
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TMZ
Earlier: Foxy Brown -- I Never Said Jay-Z Was a 'Tranny Chaser' http://t.co/A4suSjhX7Q
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Jo Stougaard
5/23/13 #Pedometer steps 14,104 (5.61 miles) #LATfit #fitbit #PedometerWars #BarbieShoes! http://t.co/f3yAkla95F
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NYT Food & Drink
Wines of The Times: White Wines as Greek as the Sea http://t.co/UtGXvAYq5K
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Sean Brock
The end of the day..... Thank you Nashville for the support on our first night. I can't wait to play some more. http://t.co/ideWnazIlb
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Mercato di Vetro
Let's CIAO down! http://t.co/9eNTWu4T2K http://t.co/BzFxSsncek
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The Daily Beast
Naming a special prosecutor in the IRS scandal would destroy Obama's presidency http://t.co/XSYoKGhQYd
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EntertainmentTonight
Fashion Flashback: Kristen Stewart's red carpet looks from 2002-2013! http://t.co/a06RurmJHV
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TMZ
Earlier: 'Intervention' Has Been Cancelled ... http://t.co/GFdPOH8rro
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Jo Stougaard
Ooh baby!! @TroismecLA: Making its debut tonight, Iberico pork. http://t.co/voLPFYIEZi
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Francis Lam
Really amazing the people who are like, "Well, obviously the stimulus failed because a bridge fell down."
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The Jane Dough
RT @womensmediacntr: Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones: women can't be successful traders bc babies ruin their focus...? http://t.co/zVV74OIMkm
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The Daily Beast
3 years after the finale, checking in on the stars of 'Lost' http://t.co/PLrGKfhZNd
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