Health Inspections

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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Health

Mario Batali’s Food Safety Director Disavows Any Talk Of A Health Inspector Alarm System

by Tina Nguyen 3:49 pm, January 29th

Health inspector alarm system secretly installed in all of Mario Batali’s restaurants? What health inspector alarm system secretly installed in all of Mario Batali’s restaurants?
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Health

Mario Batali Allegedly Installs Alarm System To Warn Employees About Health Inspections

by Tina Nguyen 11:16 am, January 28th

Mario Batali, allegedly fed up with the “arbitrary and unfair” nature of New York’s health inspections, has installed a sophisticated alarm system in his restaurants that warn kitchen staff when health inspectors are on the premises.
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Restaurant Openings

Gordon Ramsay’s Unopened Vegas Pub Scrambles To Undo ‘C’ Rating From Health Inspectors

by Tina Nguyen 2:30 pm, December 11th

They were probably quite concerned with the very real threat of not opening Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill on time, thereby losing hundreds of thousands of dollars, as well as the wrath of Caesars Palace and Gordon himself.
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Food In Politics

WATCH: Romney Ad Blames Obama For Closure Of Bad Restaurant With Health Code Violations

by Tina Nguyen 3:09 pm, November 6th

A current Mitt Romney ad running in Virginia, which claims that a local barbecue chain was forced to shut down due to the downturn in economy (caused by Barack Obama, obvi), is completely inaccurate.
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