Corby Kummer

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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Smackdowns

Thomas Keller Slams Interviewer, Food Media & ‘Tyrannical Chefs’ Piece

by Mariella Mosthof 5:30 pm, March 19th

Charlie Trotter who? The Chicago stalwart may have a reputation for being the scariest head chef at the pass, but Thomas Keller has us, and probably all self-respecting food media personnel, quivering in our boots.
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Last Call

Last Call: Jose Andres Compares Tasting Menu Complaints To Seeing Lincoln And Not Wanting Him To Die

by Mariella Mosthof 6:14 pm, January 21st

Plus: Bourdain calls Nigella “a real broad,” heroic waiters, and Guy Fieri wine.
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Podcast

Andrew Zimmern Blames Tyrannical Tasting Menus On Diners Who Exalt Spike Mendelson As ‘A Great Chef’

by Mariella Mosthof 12:09 pm, January 19th

Andrew Zimmern’s Podcast Go Fork Yourself is back for 2013 with an all-new season, and the first topic he and his co-host Molly Mogren tackled, natch, was Corby Kummer’s ‘Tyrannical Tasting Menus’ piece in Vanity Fair.
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Last Call

Last Call: Tom And Gail Spin Together, Officially Kill The ‘Chefs Are Not Celebs’ Argument Dead

by Mariella Mosthof 6:10 pm, January 11th

Plus: a Lucky Peach guide to dim sum, a Grubstreet guide to New York’s most “tyrannical”
tasting menus, and Andy Milonakis’ YouTube cooking show.
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Smackdowns

Chefs React To Vanity Fair’s ‘Tyrannical Chefs’ Takedown

by Mariella Mosthof 5:26 pm, January 7th

In Vanity Fair’s February 2013 issue, food writer Corby Kummer slams The Tasting Menu and chefs like Ferran Adria, Charlie Trotter, and Thomas Keller for starting the trend in the first place. Naturally, celebrity chefdom has something to say about it, and chefs are taking to Twitter to issue their rebuttals.
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Smackdowns

Vanity Fair Accuses Thomas Keller, Ferran Adria, Charlie Trotter & More Of Culinary Tyranny

by Mariella Mosthof 12:32 pm, January 5th

In a lengthy Vanity Fair op-ed on today’s most celebrated restaurants, Corby Kummer maligns chefs like Thomas Keller, Ferran Adria, and Charlie Trotter for bastardizing the French degustation menu to such a degree that a meal lasts four hours and stuffs diners with 40 courses over which they have no control.
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