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Chefs Hoping For 'Straight F*ckin' Cash' Ended Up 'Bummed' By GoogaMooga

by Laura Norkin

Anthony Falco of Roberta's said "this is what you plan for when you do outside events, this is how it works." But some other chefs are facing some major debt after the downer GoogaMooga cancellation.

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WATCH: The Most Intense Moments (And One Sweet One) In Anthony Bourdain's Trip To Libya

by Tina Nguyen

Goodbye, food porny trips to elegant France; hello, looped footage of Muammar Gadaffi being viciously beaten to death.

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WATCH: Rachael Ray & Guy Fieri Imitate Anchorman In Painful 'Improv' Bit With Wayne Brady

by Mariella Mosthof

Guys, did you know that Rachael Ray and Guy Fieri love Anchorman? Because, they're like, totally obsessed.

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UPDATE: Superfly to Refund GoogaMooga VIP Tickets For Rained-Out Sunday

by Laura Norkin

We spoke to Superfly Co-Founder Jonathan Mayers about the Great GoogaMooga Debacle of 2013 (not to be confused with the Great GoogaMooga Debacle of 2012), and he confirmed that his company would be refunding VIP ticketholders, as well as drink tickets that were purchased today.

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News

Week In Review, July 30 – August 5: Olympics, Food Trucks, and Controversy

by Julia Emmanuele 12:49 pm, August 5th

In case you’ve missed some of the interesting things we’ve been doing here at The Braiser this week, we’ve put together a handy slideshow of the most newsworthy stories. Happy Sunday!
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Social Media

Celebrity Chefs Tweet About The Olympics: August 3, 2012

by Julia Emmanuele 2:20 pm, August 3rd

Last night, history was made at the 2012 Olympics. Michael Phelps became the first male swimmer to win gold in the same event three games in a row, bringing his medal total to 20, and then, Gabrielle Douglas became the first African American to win gold as an all-around gymnast. We’ve pulled together the best Olympics-related tweets from some of our favorite chefs.
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Social Media

Celebrity Chefs Tweet About The Olympics: August 1 – 2, 2012

by Julia Emmanuele 4:46 pm, August 2nd

Everybody’s been glued to their television/computer screens for the last few days to watch the 2012 Olympics, and that includes many of our favorite celebrity chefs. Thankfully for us, they’ve also been tweeting about all of the exciting events — who knew that Bobby Flay had such a high opinion of Michael Phelps? We’ve compiled all of our favorite Olympic-related tweets from the last two days below.
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Olympics

Olympic Food Porn: Team USA Swimmer Dines At St. John In London

by Tina Nguyen 4:40 pm, August 1st

We hate you so much right now, Olympian gold medalist and chef-in-training Garrett Weber-Gale, for the following reasons.
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Olympics

Sorry, Jamie Oliver: Olympic Swimmers Consider McDonalds Healthy

by Tina Nguyen 3:30 pm, August 1st

A WSJ profile of the glorious, musclebound, goofy swimmers of Team USA reveal that they not only eat plenty of junk food, they rely on it to meet absurd nutrition requirements for their training. How absurd? Think nearly 9,000 calories a day.
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Interviews

Meet The Olympic Gold Medalist Who Worked For Rene Redzepi And Daniel Boulud

by Tina Nguyen 6:00 pm, June 27th

After he and his teammates won a legendary freestyle relay race in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Garrett Weber-Gale found himself a few years later ripping through a pile of green behind a cold shed. But unlike his teammate Michael Phelps, he wasn’t inhaling marijuana.
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