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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.
Christmas
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Your Morning Tweet: That’s It, Jamie Oliver Won At Christmas Presents
“For jools xmas present I took her 3rd hand super Awful run around car ( she loves it with a passion?) and i gave it the pimp your ride treatment !!!!” — Jamie Oliver, December 26, 2012
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Can You Guess Alton Brown’s Secret Christmas Ingredient?
Take your minds out of the gutter for this brain tease.
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Eddie Huang Carries On Time-Honored Jewish Tradition Of Celebrating Christmas With Chinese Food
On the night before Christmas, Eddie Huang will take over Jezebel, a kosher restaurant in Soho, and serve a prix-fixe, six-course Chinese menu — completely kasher.
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Behold, Bill Yosses’s Glorious Gingerbread White House, Made Out Of Matzoh
Why is this Christmas treat now a Jewish bread? Because Yosses wanted it so, that’s why.
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Nigella Lawson Wears A Bra And Nothing Else To Run On The Treadmill
In a new interview to be published by Red Magazine, Nigella Lawson reveals a few things that just puzzles us — not in a bad way, mind you, but in a “How the hell do you do that?!” kind of way.
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Heston Blumenthal Wants You To Pay $475 To Eat Tinsel Off A Christmas Tree
Okay, we cannot write this story straight. At all. We love you, Heston Blumenthal, and we hold a deep and abiding respect for your whimsy and childlike wonderment at the marvels of the world. And then you decide to create an edible Christmas Tree.
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Heston Blumenthal Makes 8-Foot-Tall Christmas Pudding That Spins In A Vortex Of Flames
For his upcoming Christmas television special celebrating England’s “food nostalgia,” Heston Blumenthal has decided to make some Christmas puddings and give them to England’s service men and women serving over the holidays. But why make a traditional Christmas pudding like a normal, non-molecular-gastronomy chef, when one could instead make the entire thing in the biggest KitchenAid mixer known to man — a cement truck?
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Jamie Oliver To Cook Dinner During 12 Days Of Brangelina Christmas
We suggest that while Jamie’s cooking, Pitt should teach his children this Brangelina Christmas Carol.
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