An investment banker who got laid off picks himself up and changes careers by starting his own martial arts company.
This is the story of two entrepreneurs with two very different interests. One thing they have in common: Both took major risks and started a business in the middle of the global financial crisis. What was the motivation?
Several years ago a houseguest visiting me in New York said, "You've taken me to four bars and two restaurants, and none of them have been marked. What is going on?" It was the height of Manhattan's speakeasy craze, and although it may have gotten (and may still be!) a little out of hand, there was something irresistible about exploring an underground New York just for New Yorkers.
Spidey will cast his net across millions of TV screens during Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, but that's not where Thursday's televisual treats end.
The grateful singer tells fans that he's a "very lucky man" - then parties past midnight
For starters, the redhead is actually a natural blonde - and she's already spoken for
She uses baked goods to sabotage Ryan Reynolds's workouts for Green Lantern
A large herd's worth of beef cattle has passed through the Cooking Light Test Kitchen over the past 24 years, almost all of it standard-issue, grain-fed supermarket meat.
Son Carlo Salvatore arrived Monday evening in New Jersey
The veteran baker, who starred on the TLC reality show, died in New Jersey at 63
Buddy Valastro gets cooking with his wife and kids - and explains why they're his biggest food critics
A new storyline on the show, Valastro's wife Lisa is due in February
Actress Debi Mazar recently put her cooking skills to use, raising money for a food bank in Los Angeles.
Chef Pierre Thiam puts Senegalese cuisine at the center table in the Big Apple.
Chef Pierre Thiam is on a mission to teach New Yorkers about African cuisine.
Inspired to cook
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New York celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson tells CNN about what inspired him to start cooking and how he got his break.
Celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson is a gastronomic tour de force.
A ubiquitous Olive Garden TV commercial shows a picturesque cooking school in Italy as a voice croons words like "artisanal" and "fonduta" and smiling chefs in starched whites coats taste tomato sauce straight from a simmering pot and kiss their fingertips with glee.
There are some very happy chefs and restaurateurs, cookbook authors, food journalists and other outstanding names in food and drink.
Danish cuisine reigns supreme, according to some of the planet's most prominent eaters.
We hear it on the news like a drumbeat: Millions of kids eat out too much, lack access to fruits and vegetables, and it seems no one's teaching them how to make healthy choices.
When celebrity chef Jamie Oliver sat down for an interview with CNN -- just after giving a speech in which he railed against America's unhealthy food system -- he remarked that he was tired and wished he had a beer.
Al Goodman profiles Ferran Adria, who has announced he will close his famed restaurant for two years.
Spanish chef Ferran Adria is concerned about the success of his El Bulli restaurant, rated the world's best by various publications and where it's almost impossible to get a reservation.
The ubiquity of the "Joy of Cooking" is staggering. More than 18 million copies have sold since the Great Depression -- when a Midwestern widow named Irma Rombauer published her recipes and anecdotes in the hope of lifting America's spirits.
St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, with its colorful onion domes, is an architectural icon. And now you can eat it.
Entertainment producer KJ Matthews talks to the cast of "The Princess and the Frog."
"The Princess and the Frog" is not just Walt Disney's newest animated film, it's also Disney's latest marketing campaign.
Tables set in apple green, ruby and gold with arrangements of roses, hydrangeas and sweet peas awaited guests to Tuesday's White House state dinner.
The hot new star of V loves to cook, drink wine - and travel with her dog
I take my first bite of a truffle in Franklin Garland's sunlit kitchen, which overlooks a greenhouse and an orchard of budding hazelnut trees.
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.
In the starry universe of books about food, the dominant galaxy is occupied by the works of celebrity chefs -- men and women who perpetrate cookbooks gloriously illustrated with photographs that rev up your salivary glands and lavishly produced on paper so thick and creamy you could eat it.
The busy mom got tips from Food Network star Sandra Lee to create an easy treat
This week in iReport, we've received visually beautiful photos and a culturally beautiful story. See iReporters' gourmet home cooking, and take a look at the images that signal autumn's arrival. And be sure to take in the story of a small barbershop where customers can find common ground on controversial political issues. Check out the video here, or get a better idea of the stories below.
The Top Chef host reveals that after a struggle with endometriosis she is cooking for two
If our Best Places rankings were based on availability of muses, New York City, with its cultural diversity and dynamic arts scene, would probably take first place. Other highlights include its status as the world's financial services capital and its steady influx of ambitious, educated workers.
Foodies got some sour news Monday.
It's late afternoon, and chef Barbara Lynch has been at her new restaurant and cafe, Sportello, all day: hand-rolling pasta, refining menus and, now, fueling up on coffee for the long evening ahead.
If you were a TWA first-class passenger traveling from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco, California, in October 1970, your menu read more like a feast for the Sun King than a precooked meal heated in a convection oven.
When chef Wheeler Del Torro found out that singer Erykah Badu was a vegan, he knew he had to get her his ice cream.
Here's what I've learned from my hours in the kitchen.
I'm standing with 140 other ravenous diners outside a pigpen on Devil's Gulch Ranch, about 30 miles north of San Francisco, looking at an exhausted 350-pound sow named Penelope. She's resting, having given birth to seven five-pound piglets a few hours earlier.
When Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1971, she wasn't trying to start a food revolution. But long before buzzwords like organic and locavore entered the popular lexicon, she was preaching the gospel of sustainable food to her customers.
It could be that Arnold Schwarzenegger is the man Californians go to whet their political appetites.
A search warrant for Jackson's doctor's house says authorities were seeking evidence of the powerful anesthesia propofol
Cook Kai Chase says children and staff gathered to pray - but it was too late
The Oscar winner dishes on her film role as celebrated chef Julia Child
Talk Asia's Anjali Rao sits down with celebrity chef Bobby Chinn to talk about his love of cooking.
Celebrity chef Bobby Chinn has tried his hand at a number of things.
Have you ever wondered about the origins and namesakes of our favorite spreads, sauces, and dressings? Here are a few stories that you can use to regale your friends the next time you chow down.
Tired of hearing that everything tastes like chicken? So are Seattle entrepreneurs Justin Esch and Dave Lefkow. They want it all to taste like bacon.
I recently learned that my total cholesterol and triglycerides are very high, and my doctor recommended oatmeal, which I do not like. I did find a way to make it palatable, though. It's such a pain to make it every day. My question is this: If I make a large batch of it at once, will it lose its benefits by reheating? And what about instant oatmeal? Are the benefits the same?
When it comes to food, everyone's a critic -- even a gentleman like J.W. "Bill" Marriott, the longtime chairman and CEO of Marriott International, the $12.9-billion-a-year hotel giant.
For years, hospitals have embodied a paradox.
If Daniel Vaughn has his way, he said, his newborn daughter will "teethe on a rib bone."
Former White House chef David MacFarlane talks about his new restaurant. CNN's Chris Welch reports.
David and Christina Macfarlane always dreamed of opening a restaurant. And with David's background as a White House chef, they certainly have the in-house culinary ability.
Hours after G-20 leaders agreed to a trillion-dollar bailout of the world economy in chilly London, one of the world's most flamboyant hoteliers opened his latest luxury hotel in sunny South Africa.
Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver will serve a dinner of Scottish organic salmon, Welsh lamb and a traditional Bakewell Tart for G-20 leaders at the prime minister's residence Wednesday.
As ITN's James Blake reports, there are fears there could be violent protests at next week's G20 summit.
Budget-conscious celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has been hired to cook for G20 leaders in London next week, nearly a year after they provoked outrage by eating an eight-course meal while discussing the global food crisis.
Watching Jean-Georges Vongerichten working out the kinks on the afternoon before he opens his latest restaurant, you might think Market by Jean-Georges was his first. As the chef walks through the kitchen, perched above Vancouver, British Columbia, in the new Shangri-La tower, his team is stirring sauces and filleting whole fish. The restaurant's manager swings by to report on the servers' uniforms. "I had to send them back," he says. "The shirts were too translucent."
Imagine being invited to the White House for one of those lavish state dinners -- with menu items like Herb Roasted Lollipop Lamb Chops, Sweet Potato Souffl� or Chocolate Peppermint Cookies.
The sad state of the economy doesn't appear to be affecting the festive mood in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The "crime scene cookies", "baaji custard" and "sponge shafts" depicted in Oliver Beale's letter of complaint to Virgin Atlantic struck a chord worldwide.
A six-page rant to Virgin Atlantic's Sir Richard Branson about a woeful in-flight meal attracted so much attention on the Internet that it was rumored to be a clever marketing stunt.
Sam Kass, "a really righteous guy and an excellent cook," is moving to D.C.
The Hell's Kitchen star shrugs off talk of a feud with Mario Batali
White House staffers greeted the First Lady with frosting and candles
A guide to the hot spots in snowy Park City, Utah, for the annual movie festival
You have access to more nutrition information than ever -- from magazines like Cooking Light to the Internet, newspapers, and television. When you add to that the hype about fad diets, the resulting information overload creates more confusion than clarity.
Last year, the Michelin guide's first foray into Tokyo left the city with some 190 Michelin stars, compared with 95 in Paris and 50 in London and New York. Of course, that's partly down to the sheer number of eateries in Tokyo -- estimated at more than 180,000 establishments -- but it's also testimony to the reverence Tokyoites have for fresh ingredients prepared with the utmost care.
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