Chef

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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Movies

Sony Sends Cease-And-Desist To Jon Favreau For Ripping Off Their Bradley Cooper Chef Flick

by Mariella Mosthof 12:42 pm, May 16th

Earlier this week, we juxtaposed the stats of the upcoming John Wells-directed Bradley Cooper drama Chef with those of its cinematic doppelganger, the Jon Favreau-directed Robert Downey Jr. comedy Chef. Turns out RDJ won’t be playing the lead chef character, but that didn’t stop Cooper’s people from sending a cease-and-desist to Favreau’s people for ganking their name.
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Movies

Chef Vs. Chef: Robert Downey Jr. Goes Up Against Bradley Cooper In Twin Food Movies

by Mariella Mosthof 11:46 am, May 13th

This is sort of like the comical twin cinematic experience that was No Strings Attached vs. Friends with Benefits, except that both Bradley Cooper and RDJ are as hot as JT/Mila, and no one is the poor man’s Ashton Kutcher/Natalie Portman duo.
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Crime

High-Pressure Job Likely Cause Of Canadian Chef’s Disappearance

by Tina Nguyen 3:04 pm, January 9th

So far, investigators still have no leads as to his location, but details from his friends indicate that Jonathan Gushue might not be in danger — in fact, there was a similar incident a few years back — but that the pressures of his job affected him.
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Feuds

Marcus Samuelsson Doesn’t Want Pity Because Of Gordon Ramsay’s Rudeness

by Tina Nguyen 4:31 pm, June 22nd

Last week, food bloggers everywhere had the vapors when we chanced upon an excerpt of Marcus Samuelsson’s new memoir Yes, Chef, that recounted a racist phone call between the Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef and the volatile Gordon Ramsay. The only person unruffled by the story? Samuelsson himself.
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Feuds

Marcus Samuelsson’s New Memoir: Gordon Ramsay Called Me A ‘Black Bastard’

by Tina Nguyen 3:02 pm, June 15th

Ramsay: “I’m going to make sure you have a fucking miserable time here [in London]. This is my city, you hear? Good luck, you fucking black bastard.”
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