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Amy's Baking Company Hires Joe Arpaio's PR Firm To Change Public's Perception
How good is Rose, Moser & Allyn? They represent the highly controversial Maricopa County Sherrif Joe Arpaio, the law enforcement official so divisive that someone recently tried to blow him up with a package bomb.
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WATCH: The Sussman Brothers Ride Horses And Crash Tea Parties On Truckers In The Wild
God forbid that Max and Eli Sussman, the pride of Brooklyn, ever betray their hipster roots by doing such WASPy things as equestrian activities and gossiping with ladies over tea.
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WATCH: Why Is Anthony Bourdain At A Fake KFC In Libya?
"That kid who you see, a militia member, at one point looks in the camera and says, 'This is the taste of freedom.' Which is both dismaying and heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time."
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WATCH: Jay Rayner Takes Down Locavorism In Snarky New Book Trailer
British food critic Jay Rayner just released a trailer for his new book A Greedy Man in a Hungry World, which contains a sneak peek of his mind-blowing anti-locavorism argument. Turns out sustainability based on geography is poppycock!
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Last Call: Like A Guido Prodigal Son, Mike Isabella Is Opening A Restaurant In New Jersey
PLUS: Norovirus apologies, Yonkers jokes, and the springy scent of lamb’s intestines.
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D.C. Chefs Share Their Fondest Memories Of Obama’s First Four Years
As the chefs of D.C. know, four more years of the Obama family’s presence in the White House means four more really, really good years for the restaurant industry in DC. We asked some of them at the Chef’s Ball if they had any memories, wishes, or other such observations about Barack and Michelle — and they responded.
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Art Smith’s Chef’s Ball: Crawfish Pies, Bowties, And Bipartisan Fried Chicken
The Chef’s Ball was first and foremost a celebration of Barack Obama’s inauguration, as well as a charity fundraiser. But more importantly, it celebrated the status that chefs now hold in the District of Columbia.
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The 11 Highest-Winning Top Chef-testants Of All Time
Starting in Season 6, Top Chef: Las Vegas began a fresh twist on the show’s competition format that stuck: cash money muthafuckin’ prizes. After a day of being reduced to glorified data entry slaves, we crunched the numbers and came up with the 11 richest, cash-prize-winning chefs to date in the show’s ten-season history.
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Bryan Voltaggio Will Be The First Chef To Take Over Mike Isabella’s Restaurant For ‘Industry Night’
As previously reported, Mike Isabella is turning over his Washington, DC pizza bar Graffiato to a different chef/mixologist on the first Monday night of every month from 10pm-1am for an “Industry Takeover Night,” featuring complimentary small plates from the guest chef and specialty cocktails from the mixologists.
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The 11 Worst Restaurant Reviews Of 2012
Here are the best of the best from the past year, wherein the nation’s most prominent critics awarded some very high profile restaurants no points. May God have mercy on their souls.
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Mike Isabella Hosts ‘Industry Takeover Night’ At His DC Resto
Did you miss out on snagging a reservation at the Top Chef pop-up restaurant in New York this fall? Good news! We’re pretty sure a Top Chef pop-up kitchen is the extent of what Mike Isabella’s “Industry Takeover Night” idea is going to amount to.
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Tim Gunn Rallies Celebrity Chefs For Marriage Equality In Maryland
On October 24th, celebrity chefs including Jose Andres and Bryan Voltaggio will converge at Chefs for Equality, an event emceed by Tim Gunn and co-hosted by the Human Rights Campaign and food columnist David Hagedorn.
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WATCH: Mike Isabella On How Running A Restaurant Is Different From Competing On Top Chef
If you’ve ever wondered what the difference is between running Graffiato and running around on Top Chef, Mike Isabella’s pretty excited to tell you. If you’ve also wondered how many potatoes Mike can squeeze through a ricer, he’s excited to show you that, too.
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Bravo Turns Top Chef’s Restaurant Wars Into Reality
Imagine that “Restaurant Wars” consisted of a group of your favorite cheftestants, cooking four-course meals they had adequate time to plan for, without worrying about elimination. Surprise! This isn’t your imagination. This is real life.
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The 13 Most Infamous Chef Feuds
9 Ridiculous Food Products That Actually Exist
Former Waitress Spills On Working For The Kitchen Nightmares Crazies
UPDATE: Treme Creator David Simon & Andy Cohen Trade Barbs Over BP’s Top Chef Money
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