The Top Chef runner-up is preparing a season tasting menu in Milbrook, N.Y.
Food has been a part of our TV lineup even before Julia Child's classic show "The French Chef" took off in 1963, but since then, it's become an increasingly inescapable mainstay.
After a grueling season, Richard Blais and Mike Isabella square off in a final challenge in the Bahamas
After a heated challenge, only two chefs will be cooking in the final episode
With five chefs left standing, the judges face their toughest decision yet
CNN visits the annual National Wedding Show in London and finds the wedding industry is abuzz with the royal nuptials.
Embry Lotus Blais is the second girl for the Bravo star and his wife Jazmin
The chefs must go fishing for their food this week - then serve guests on the beach
Tom Colicchio joins the chefs in the kitchen for a super speedy challenge
Whatever your food resolutions, look to these culinary all-stars for inspiration.
After several weeks of competition it was time for the remaining chefs to really make an impression. And on Wednesday night's Top Chef: All-Stars, they did that - literally.
With 18 contestants attempting to cook their way to victory, the competition is already piping hot
Find out if Yigit, Morgan or Danielle tasted sweet success as the show's first winner
Find out which pastry chefs decided they couldn't cut it and quit on Wednesday night
Cue the tears! Pastry chef Seth Caro loses it on the show's second challenge
The season one victor ties the knot with his longtime girlfriend, Meredith Lynn Davies, in downtown Atlanta
Padma Lakshmi told Phil Keoghan, "We're taking you down this year!" - and they did
The 2006 champion will marry his longtime girlfriend, Meredith Lynn Davies, in September
Two years on the unemployment line is devastating. You deplete your savings. You borrow from your family. You feel that your life is slipping out of your control.
"My wrist is very important to me - it's my world, my job, my life," the Iron Chef tells PEOPLE
Juan-Carlos Cruz, the former host of Food Network's "Calorie Commando" is accused of plotting to hire homeless people to carry out a murder, California police said Friday night.
'Top Chef' judge Tom Colicchio dishes out on this season's top contestants and shares pictures from his trip up the east coast.
Art Smith and painter Jesus R. Salguerio will wed in the fall in Washington, D.C.
Meet CNN iReporters who are passionate about sharing their culinary skills online.
As the Disney film "Ratatouille" taught us, anyone can cook. Thanks to the Internet, anyone can have a cooking show, too.
A giddy fan of the TV reality show "Top Chef" greets Kevin Gillespie as they pose for a picture, "You should have definitely come in first!"
The Top Chef host will make a traditional choice for her first child, due this spring
The first lady of the United States has opened up the White House to the Food Network in an episode of "Iron Chef America" that will air in January.
The young actors in My Sister's Keeper benefited from her kitchen prowess
"Are we best friends? No," though they're friendly, says De Laurentiis
LOUISVILLE -- They feel neglected. The trainers, the owners, the jockeys. The players in Saturday's 135th running of the Kentucky Derby are part of one of the great sports spectacles in America, and yet this year the stage feels a little smaller. The spotlight leading to the race feels a little dimmer.
TV host Rachael Ray has shopping tips to survive today's economy. See the rest of the interview on tonight's Larry King Live.
On Monday's night edition of "Larry King Live," guest host Ali Velshi talked with TV cooking host Rachael Ray.
The TV chef plans a "very quiet" Christmas to follow a procedure on her vocal cord
"She's missing teeth and hair. I'm hoping for both in the near future," says the mom
The TV chef is having "very minor surgery" for a benign cyst on her vocal cord, says her rep
The Live with Regis and Kelly host shares tips on food and fitness
The Naked Chef star and his wife, Jools, are expecting their third child in April
Thailand's ruling party nominated Samak Sundaravej to return as prime minister Thursday, two days after a court stripped him of the post.
Thailand agrees to a referendum breaking a deadlock, as the prime minister vows to stay on. CNN's Hugh Riminton reports.
If you've ever walked among the RVs and tents during a Nextel Cup weekend, you've likely encountered makeshift barbeque pits and spreads that would give any Iron Chef a run for his skillet.
But Rachael Ray trumps Ellen to be named best talk show
A new study suggests that ultra-fancy and hard-to-read type convinces diners that the dishes are worth the high prices
"It's so great to get something in return," the new mom tells PEOPLE
Until recently, celebrity rocker Tommy Lee didn't worry about the environment. He was too busy being one of his industry's foremost rude boys. Now the Motley Crue drummer thinks it's "really cool" to evangelize about how the earth is in trouble.
It's the Food Network and Today show contributor's first child
While speculation continues to swirl about the possible sale of Newsday to the likes of Rupert Murdoch or Mort Zuckerman, the Long Island newspaper's owner, real estate magnate Sam Zell, won't confirm whether the estimated $600 million asset is actually for sale. Some analysts, in fact, believe it doesn't make sense for Zell to sell.
Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis has a new menu to plan: her own.
Walk into a London supermarket, read the label on a bag of Walker's crisps - that's what the British call potato chips - and you will learn that 75 grams of carbon dioxide were emitted when making the 34.5-gram package. What does that mean? I have no idea. Nor do most Brits.
Since claiming the coveted Iron Chef title in November, Michael Symon, chef-owner of Lola and Lolita in Cleveland, has had a jam-packed schedule full of travel and press interviews. But now, Symon says that things have "leveled off a little bit," and he's getting back to business as usual, planning for the year ahead and exploring new business opportunities.
Ann Cooper is on a one-woman whirlwind campaign to change the way kids eat in schools. "We're killing our kids with food," she says.
Food Network chef and Today show regular – and expectant mom – Giada De Laurentiis isn't expecting her baby to be the Next Iron Chef.
Rachael Ray welcomes the world into her kitchen every day. But finding eating companions wasn't always so easy. For years, she says, she was a lunchtime pariah.
Last time we heard from Michael Symon, chef-owner of Lola and Lolita in Cleveland, he had just battled some of the nation's best chefs on the Food Network's Next Iron Chef to earn the esteemed title of Iron Chef. Joining the four other Iron Chefs -- Mario Batali, Cat Cora, Bobby Flay, and Masaharu Morimoto -- means he will test his skill, speed, and creativity against cunning culinary challengers in Iron Chef America's Kitchen Stadium on a rotating basis.
Michelin guide rates Tokyo the world's top city for gourmet food. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.
Video courtesy The Rachael Ray Show. Rachael Ray briefly got as hot under the collar as her oven Friday, when she said tabloid reports about her marriage "are really killing me."
Rachael Ray is hitting back at tabloid rumors that her marriage is on the rocks.
And the next Iron Chef is ... Michael Symon! The mission for last night's grand finale of The Next Iron Chef: "Attain Greatness."
Michael Symon, chef/owner of Cleveland's acclaimed Lola and Lolita restaurants, is currently competing with some of the country's finest grub slingers on the Food Network's The Next Iron Chef. The show pits professional chefs in a weekly cook-off based on a unique challenge announced at the beginning of each episode. The winner will join star chefs Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, and Cat Cora as a regular contestant on Iron Chef America, also on the Food Network, a subsidiary of EW Scripps Co. For the next few weeks (until he either wins the competition or gets eliminated) Chef Symon will report on his contest experiences for FSB.
Michael Symon, chef/owner of Cleveland's acclaimed Lola and Lolita restaurants, is currently competing with some of the country's finest grub slingers on the Food Network's The Next Iron Chef. The show pits professional chefs in a weekly cook-off based on a unique challenge announced at the beginning of each episode. The winner will join star chefs Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, and Cat Cora as a regular contestant on Iron Chef America, also on the Food Network, a subsidiary of EW Scripps Co. For the next few weeks (until he either wins the competition or gets eliminated) Chef Symon will report on his contest experiences for FSB.
Michael Symon, chef/owner of Cleveland's acclaimed Lola and Lolita restaurants, is currently competing with some of the country's finest grub slingers on the Food Network's The Next Iron Chef. The show pits professional chefs in a weekly cook-off based on a unique challenge announced at the beginning of each episode. The winner will join star chefs Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, and Cat Cora as a regular contestant on Iron Chef America, also on the Food Network, a subsidiary of EW Scripps Co. For the next few weeks (until he either wins the competition or gets eliminated) Chef Symon will report on his contest experiences for FSB.
Chef Michael Symon, chef/owner of Cleveland's acclaimed Lola and Lolita restaurants, is currently competing with some of the best chefs in the country on the Food Network's The Next Iron Chef. The show pits professional chefs in a weekly cook-off based on a unique challenge announced at the beginning of each episode. The winner will join star chefs Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, and Cat Cora as a regular contestant on Iron Chef America. For the next few weeks (until he either wins the competition or gets eliminated) Chef Symon will report on his contest experiences for FSB.
Anthony Bourdain suffered quietly as he dined on wart hog -- encrusted with sand, fur and fecal bacteria -- in the African country of Namibia.
Rachael Ray has a real-estate deal cooking in the Hamptons.
There's a lot of talk these days about healthy food, but it's not always what we're looking for on the Internet
Six years ago, you probably didn't know Rachael Ray from Ray Liotta, Billy Ray Cyrus, or a manta ray. But unless you've been swimming with the manta rays ever since, you know who she is now. So how, in less time than it takes most of us to change our hairstyles, did she go from buyer at a gourmet grocery in upstate New York to nationally known TV star, magazine editor, and purveyor of kitchen tools? By marketing herself and her ideas as shrewdly as any multibillion-dollar corporation pitching its latest widget. On the following pages, Ray and four other name-brand entrepreneurs share the secrets they used to build their eponymous empires. Even if you don't aspire to have your name stamped on anodized cookware, you'll learn valuable lessons about selling your most valuable asset: yourself.
I expected one of the world's most expensive meals to start with a few sublime cocktails and some mind-blowing appetizers prepared in exquisite style by celebrity chef Mario Batali.
Tori Spelling, who recently gave birth to her first child, says she began reconciling with her mother, Candy, in the last weeks of her pregnancy.
TV chef Jamie Oliver's crusade to improve school meals brought him a double helping of honors at Britain's BAFTA television awards.
Bam! Allez Cuisine! EVOO.
Maureen Stapleton died Monday, eulogized as an Oscar winner and a fine actress. But even though she was known, she wasn't so easily remembered.
Is it money well spent? Even as the airline industry has spiraled into financial duress, carriers have partnered with celebrity chefs, sommeliers and gourmet food producers to create an in-flight food and wine experience that rivals top restaurants.
In his prime-time cooking debut, Dave Lieberman put the finishing touches to his centerpiece -- roasted salmon wrapped in romaine leaves and seasoned with Italian dressing -- and brought it to the table.
With the low-carb craze mercifully nearing its end and balanced eating returning to the spotlight, home cooks everywhere can take joy in a slew of new cookbooks that prove delectably sinful eating can be healthy, too.
Anthony Bourdain never intended to become a cook. In fact, he considered the possibility ridiculous.
Readers of a British magazine have rated President Bush the year's top screen villain, for his appearance in Michael Moore's documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Who's the kingpin, Al Franken or Bill O'Reilly? If Franken had his way, the answer would be decided with a bowling ball.
Airdate: August 21st, 2004.
As summer approaches, bikini wearers near and far (not to mention those guys with washboard abs) are chomping on carrot sticks and celery stalks, neglecting the finer delicacies of the summer season -- all in a last-ditch effort to squeeze into their barely-there "swimming" gear.
Anyone who knows me accepts that consistency is not one of my attributes. Now, dear readers, you too can join that club. Just a few months back in this column--last October, if you must know--I dub...
Food fans in Southern China are being lured to restaurants run by two of the finest French chefs in the world, as the Francophile cuisine takes off in this part of the world.
You probably can't tell the difference between imitation vanilla extract and the real thing. Cheesecake will almost always crack at 160 degrees, so use a thermometer and take it out once it hits 15...
While cooked books are landing executives in hot water, the business of cooking is hotter--and more lucrative--than ever. That's because in addition to their kitchen duties, top chefs are spending ...
Celebrity chef Todd English remembers the moment he morphed from a person into a brand. It happened a few years ago during a meeting with some marketing guys. "They started talking about Todd Engli...
Just two years ago the Food Network was a flop. Ratings were so low they were almost undetectable. During one ten-month stretch, there were three different owners and three different CEOs. One form...
Time was, vacations were an escape from the kitchen stove. But a growing travel trend -- so-called culinary getaways -- finds more people trotting the globe in search of special cooking programs of...
