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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.
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WATCH: Jim Meehan Discusses The History Of The Cocktail
If you have 48 minutes to spare today, you should spare it on this video of Jim Meehan, famous NYC bartender at PDT, giving a talk at Google about the history and evolution of the cocktail scene.
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Last Call: WTF Is This Wretched Porcine Abomination?!
Plus, how Andrew Zimmern tweeted his way into running a stadium stand, the best kitchen pranks, and yet another way to run for your food.
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Google Glasses The Next Instagram? Bar Threatens To Toss Patrons With The $1,500 Specs
A Seattle restaurateur recently placed a ban on cyborgs entering his bar, saying that any humans augmenting themselves with $1,500 Google Glass will receive immediate “ass-kickings.”
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WATCH: Tyler Florence Discusses Hot-Button Food Issues At Google
At a Google Talk hosted by the tech giant’s executive chef Liv Wu, Tyler Florence seems like he’s right at home talking about everything from innovation and sustainable food to how last year was a particularly bad one for his vineyard.
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Chefs Love And Loathe Cooking The Free Gourmet Food At Silicon Valley Companies
While there’s something so pleasant about not having to worry about money, the desire to cook good food often screws over chefs at Silicon Valley companies.
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Google Honors Julia Child With Doodle
We’re slightly saddened that the code monkeys didn’t do anything cool for Julia’s birthday, like animated recipe demonstrations, or a video of her thwacking the heck out of a chicken, but this is pretty cool as is.
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WATCH: The Six Best Quotes From the Anita Lo/April Bloomfield Panel
Anita Lo and April Bloomfield stopped by the Google offices to talk about their careers, their restaurants, and their cookbooks. The video from their panel is up on YouTube, and is one of the most entertaining and interesting ways that a foodie could spend a half an hour.
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YouTube’s New Food Channel HUNGRY Releases Complete Program Guide
Are you dying to know what tasty treats you’ll have to look forward to when HUNGRY, one of 200 niche market original channels being rolled out by Google for YouTube, debuts later this summer? Well, we got our hands on HUNGRY’s programming guide, and we’re actually kind of legitimately excited by some of the three-minute episode concepts.
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Bing Partners With Yelp To Compete With Google And Zagat In Search Wars
To compete with Google’s recent rollout of search results integrated with Zagat reviews, Bing announced that they would do the same thing, but this time with Yelp reviews.
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Google Integrates Zagat Into Local Search Results To Compete With Yelp
Though it’s hardly the Yelp-killer that Google’s been looking for, the move gives Google one clear advantage that benefits restauranteurs and chefs the most: Zagat’s sterling reputation, built up over the past three decades.
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