Dave Arnold

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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Video

WATCH: Dave Arnold Calls Nathan Myhrvold’s Modernist Cuisine The ‘Greatest Cookbook Achievement Of All Time’

by Tina Nguyen 4:58 pm, December 28th

Also, in this video interview from CNN, Nathan Myhrvold will tell you how to make pea butter, which is all pea and no butter, and requires a centrifuge.
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Holidays

Thanksgiving Food Porn: Chefs Show Off Their Harvest Feasts On Twitter

by Tina Nguyen 3:19 pm, November 23rd

Thanks to the power of social media, it’s far easier for chefs to show off their amazing Thanksgiving skills to their adoring public.
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Tricks Of The Trade

Chef Problems: Trying To Find Liquid Nitrogen During A Hurricane

by Tina Nguyen 1:15 pm, October 29th

Alton Brown wants to know: “I know you guys are busy but anyone know where I can land some liquid nitrogen for my GMA demo on Wednesday?”
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Technology

WATCH: Dave Arnold Predicts That One Day Great Chefs Will Use Microwaves

by Tina Nguyen 12:14 pm, September 27th

“No one has figured out the genius use of the microwave,” he mused to the New York Times in the following video, where he plays around with his set of kitchen gadgets.
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Education

WATCH: Dave Arnold And Harold McGee Transmogrify Eggs At Harvard

by Tina Nguyen 12:40 pm, September 11th

They both spoke about the importance of innovation in the culinary arts and sciences, and the even greater imperative to do awesome stuff with eggs.
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Events

Dave Arnold Kicks Off Harvard’s Public ‘Science And Cooking’ Lecture Series

by Tina Nguyen 11:55 am, September 6th

Last Tuesday, Booker and Dax’s Dave Arnold kicked off the lecture series with a demonstration of dragon’s beard, a type of hand-pulled cotton candy, as well as a paean to the multiple ways one can cook an egg.
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TV

Time Machine Chefs: A Cockatrice Of Entertainment For Nerds

by Tina Nguyen 12:07 pm, August 17th

There are moments where you can clearly tell that ABC tried to surgically attach Doctor Who to Top Chef, but the main appeal is seeing celebrity chefs adapt to some truly inexplicable situations and use some crazy, historically-accurate contraptions.
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TV

WATCH: New ‘Time Machine Chefs’ Preview Shows Chris Cosentino Making Out With A Raw Duck

by Tina Nguyen 6:50 pm, August 14th

For now, the one good thing about Time Machine Chefs is that it’s a second night in the week where we can watch Art Smith and Chris Cosentino snipe about each other’s lovably annoying habits.
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TV

Chris Cosentino, Art Smith, Ilan Hall, and Jill Davie Are Time Machine Chefs!

by Tina Nguyen 10:16 am, July 21st

Are you a history nerd? Are you a sci-fi nerd? Do you not care about either of those things and simply dub yourself a food nerd? Well, you’re in luck, because ABC has heard your unvoiced desire to watch a show about all three of those things.
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TV

WATCH: Dave ‘Batman’ Arnold Uses Cocktails To Defeat His Foe, Jimmy ‘Ice Man’ Fallon

by Tina Nguyen 1:52 pm, July 17th

Jimmy Fallon may or may not be obsessed with Batman. Not even the special relationship between Fallon and the Momofuku Empire could get Batman off his mind, as evinced by last night’s segment with Booker and Dax’s Dave Arnold.
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