Let’s Move!

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

WATCH: Ming Tsai And Cris Comeford Asian Up The USDA’s Nutrition Recommendations

by Tina Nguyen 11:53 am, May 19th

Hewing to the MyPlate dietary recommendations made by the USDA, Tsai and Comeford make two super healthy dishes from Comeford’s home kitchen below: Shrimp, Chicken and Vegetable Fried Rice, and the Filipino dish halo-halo.
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Health

How Restaurateurs Can Solve The Obesity Crisis: Make Customers Run For Their Food

by Tina Nguyen 4:48 pm, March 15th

This is so brilliant on so many levels.
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Health

WATCH: Rachael Ray And Michelle Obama Pit Lunch Ladies Against Each Other

by Tina Nguyen 10:02 am, March 11th

The office of the First Lady released this video containing even more footage from that Rachael Ray episode where she and Michelle Obama single-handedly cure childhood obesity in a Clinton, MS elementary school.
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News

Week In Review, February 25 – March 3: Horse Meat, Harlem Shake, And Twinkies

by Joanna Harkins 11:00 am, March 3rd

We know, we know, you’re busy. In case you’ve been otherwise occupied, here some of the best stories from this week in our chef-obsessed little world.
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Health

WATCH: Michelle Obama And Rachael Ray Hand Out Golden Trays In Mississippi

by Tina Nguyen 11:10 am, February 28th

Michelle Obama stole Rachael Ray and took her to Mississippi to celebrate its recent 13% drop in child obesity rates — an enormous accomplishment, considering that only three years ago, 40% of Mississippi’s children were obese, the highest rate in the country.
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TV

WATCH: Michelle Obama Plays Sous Chef To Marcus Samuelsson On GMA

by Mariella Mosthof 11:59 am, February 26th

Michelle Obama has gotten to mealplan with some pretty exciting celebrities in honor of the third anniversary of her Let’s Move campaign, and today on Good Morning America, she played sous chef to Marcus Samuelsson.
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Video

Michelle Obama To Big Bird In New Healthy Eating PSA: ‘You Look Pretty Svelte For A Big Bird’

by Mariella Mosthof 9:58 am, February 22nd

We’re pretty shameless suckers for the Sesame Street gang around here, and so as soon as we found out that Big Bird was going to be the special guest star in this year’s third annual Let’s Move campaign PSAs with Michelle Obama, we decided it was going to be a good morning.
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Food In Politics

WATCH: Bill Yosses Converts To Michelle Obama’s Healthy Eating, Repents For Years Of Pastry-Making

by Tina Nguyen 11:08 am, February 20th

At yesterday’s TEDx Manhattan “Changing The Way We Eat” conference, White House Executive Pastry Chef Bill Yosses stepped up to the microphone and dropped some major, earthshaking news: the executive cake boss had converted to healthy eating.
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Ideas

Bill Yosses To Speak At TEDx Manhattan About Changing The Way Americans Eat

by Tina Nguyen 11:33 am, December 31st

Everyone likes it when Bill Yosses, explains things in a lecture format. Hence, he’ll be headlining a conference focusing on the successes and challenges of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative.
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Holidays

Of Course Michelle Obama And Cris Comeford Would Make Christmas Candy Using Vegetables

by Tina Nguyen 2:45 pm, December 3rd

This year, Michelle “Killjoy” Obama and Cris “Aiding And Abetting” Comeford have decided to press their healthy eating agenda onto our most valued holiday tradition: the consumption of many, many sugary sweets with no care for consequences.
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