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WATCH: Amy's Baking Co. Did Kitchen Nightmares 'To Combat Cyberbullying'

by Mariella Mosthof

Amy's Baking Co. owners Amy and Samy sat down with Phoenix radio station My103.9 to hash out their side of what is now everyone's own personal Kitchen Nightmare in no less than a seven-part interview, all conveniently uploaded to YouTube.

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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: Astronaut Chris Hadfield And Traci Des Jardin Make A Space Burrito...In Space

by Tina Nguyen

The Mythbusters brought Traci Des Jardins to NASA so that she, too, could help feed Canada's spacefaring hero. (Whatever, America's Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. On the moon!)

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Robicelli's Crowdfunds Oklahoma Relief Efforts, Blasts The Red Cross As 'MIA'

by Tina Nguyen

Although Robicelli's got legendarily rained out of GoogaMooga last weekend, there's still charity in Allison Robicelli's heart to fundraise for Team Rubicon, a disaster relief group, immediately after yesterday's devastating tornadoes in Oklahoma.

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Food In Politics

Anthony Bourdain Saves Secret Service From State Dept. Inquiry

by Tina Nguyen 9:48 am, November 30th

Dear members of the Secret Service who were recently in Myanmar and who may have recently thrown a kegger while accompanying Barack Obama on his tour of Southeast Asia: you owe Anthony Bourdain big time.
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Food In Politics

State Department To Follow Up On Bourdain’s Claims Of Secret Service Keggers

by Tina Nguyen 4:58 pm, November 28th

After Anthony Bourdain tweeted a scandalous tip from Myanmar, where he was shooting Parts Unknown, and refused to comment further, rabid Washington journalists seized upon it and took it all the way to the State Department.
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Food In Politics

Celebrity Chefs To Serve As Actual Diplomatic Corps For US State Department

by Tina Nguyen 5:29 pm, September 4th

Remember that time where Hillary Clinton made the U.S. State Department infinitely cooler by tapping celebrity chefs to cook fancy meals for important diplomatic guests? It was apparently so successful (and beloved by the public) that the State Department decided to build an actual diplomatic corps of talented celebrity chefs to serve as culinary ambassadors around the world.
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Food In Politics

Hillary Clinton Taps Celebrity Chefs As Part Of Diplomatic Strategy

by Tina Nguyen 1:40 pm, July 3rd

Hillary Clinton loves using soft power whenever the situation calls for it, like, say, retooling the State Department’s catering services to serve delicious food from celebrity chefs whenever she hosts visiting heads of state.
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