White House

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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Money

White House Crashers’ Vineyard In Foreclosure

by Tina Nguyen 1:35 pm, April 22nd

Tareq and Michaele Salahi, a faux-socialite couple known for crashing parties, creating fake charities, and attempting to make The Real Housewives of Washington, DC a legitimately interesting reality show, are in the news again — because their vineyard is going under.
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Food In Politics

Not Even White House Personal Chef Sam Kass Can Escape Government Furloughs

by Tina Nguyen 9:58 am, April 10th

You might ask, why we, the Bravo-obsessed Braiser, are protesting the intractability of Congress this morning, since it is not our normal business. It’s because handsome Sam Kass was furloughed.
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Events

Anne Burrell And Ina Garten Among Four Chefs Tapped For White House Easter Egg Roll

by Tina Nguyen 10:23 am, March 27th

This year, the First Lady plans on hosting up to 35,000 people at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, where children roll the tattooed, calcified wombs of hen fetuses across the South Lawn, while a man dressed as a bunny cheers them on. Luckily, some pretty major chefs will be on the scene.
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Holidays

WATCH: Bill Yosses Builds A Gingerbread White House In One-And-A-Half Minutes

by Tina Nguyen 10:12 am, December 24th

Yesterday, the White House released this video of the long, labor-intensive, weeks-long process of building the traditional Executive Mansion gingerbread replica — all helpfully condensed to one-and-a-half minutes.
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Holidays

Behold, Bill Yosses’s Glorious Gingerbread White House, Made Out Of Matzoh

by Tina Nguyen 11:58 am, December 12th

Why is this Christmas treat now a Jewish bread? Because Yosses wanted it so, that’s why.
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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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History

Bill Yosses Fondly Remembers Julia Child’s Wild Chef Parties

by Tina Nguyen 9:53 am, August 6th

As part of the centennial anniversary of Julia Child‘s birth, PBS has asked people around the world to send in their fond memories of the iconic chef, and White House executive pastry chef Bill Yosses is the latest to contribute.
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Food In Politics

LISTEN: White House Chef Sam Kass Plays Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me

by Mariella Mosthof 10:33 am, June 10th

Do Sasha and Malia Obama knock on White House chef Sam Kass‘ door in the middle of the night begging for pop tarts after a long day of eating garden veggies? Where does he weigh in on the proposal for chubby kids mowing the White House Lawn?
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Food In Politics

Ron Paul’s ‘Libertarian’ Cookbook Features Chicken Made With Doritos

by Tina Nguyen 11:54 am, June 7th

Ron Paul may have acknowledged that he won’t win the GOP primary, but this uber libertarian cookbook gives us a freaky glimpse into what may have happened to our sexy, glamorous, celebrity chef-filled State Dinners at the White House.
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