Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon

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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Chef Degrees Of Kevin Bacon: Let’s Find The Bacon Number Of Celebrity Chefs

by Tina Nguyen 2:30 pm, September 17th

Last week, the cheeky nerds at Google unveiled an easter egg in their search bar that allowed anyone to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon without wasting hours on IMDB. Of course, we had to use it to find how many degrees Julia Child was away from veteran Hollywood actor Kevin Bacon — and the answer is 2!

Stunned, we began entering more chefs into Google’s search bar. And more. And more. As we compiled chefs, and then suddenly realized how vast of a reach those chefs — all the chefs they’d worked with, all the cooks they mentored, all the busboys they screamed at — a realization dawned upon us as this enormous web grew and grew: we are all connected to Kevin Bacon.

A single human life is such a precious and fragile existence, full of suffering and sorrow, but we have seen the truth: we are merely drops in the vast ocean of humanity, united as one, through the very nexus of Kevin Bacon.

Check out how these celebrity chefs are connected to Kevin Bacon! (And if we missed any, blow our minds in the comments.)

UPDATE: Mariella Mosthof has discovered a fatal flaw in Google’s Kevin Bacon algorithm:

Tom Colicchio is actually two degrees from Kevin Bacon, not four, as Google indicated. Colicchio’s appearances on Treme put him in scenes with Kim Dickens, who plays chef Janette Desautel. Dickens was also in the movie Hollow Man…with Kevin Bacon.

Given that David Chang, Wylie Dufresne, Alfred Portale, John Besh, and Eric Ripert have also made cameos in Treme, and dozens more may do so in the future, it stands to reason that these chefs are also two degrees away from Kevin Bacon. However, none of these chefs were found in the Bacon Number search bar. This shrinks the number of Bacons anyone in the food industry is away from Kevin Bacon, but we are disappointed that Google missed this simple fact. (It’s an HBO series, dudes, seriously.)