As a kid, I watched Julia Child and Graham Kerr, the Galloping Gourmet, on television while my friends were watching cartoons. In grade school I learned how to make hollandaise from my mom, and during high school in Boulder I started throwing dinner parties and collecting cookbooks. After college I went to the Culinary Institute of America [in Hyde Park, N.Y.] and then to San Francisco to work at Stars restaurant. I aspired to have my own restaurant, but quickly realized I didn't know the economics of full-scale restaurants.
Chef Pierre Thiam is on a mission to teach New Yorkers about African cuisine.
Chef Pierre Thiam puts Senegalese cuisine at the center table in the Big Apple.
The country star has published her second cookbook - and will write for PEOPLE
Everything will glow -- the balloons, the table cloths, the blue martinis and the party favors. The red carpet will turn blue. Even the female impersonators will be painted -- you guessed it -- blue.
John Krasinski, Zoe Saldana, Zach Galifianakis and Jane Lynch get the laughs and box office bucks, but are unlikely to get Oscar nods
Despite an industry dominated by young Hollywood, older actresses ruled the Golden Globe nominations on Tuesday morning. But "Up in the Air" was the critical darling with six nominations.
I learned how to write at the bowling alley.
One month after the record-breaking opening of "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," the team of Paramount and game-maker Hasbro proved again that toys are serious business at the box office.
The Julie & Julia star says her future husband is a model of patience
The Oscar winner dishes on her film role as celebrated chef Julia Child
At 94, Barbara Podoski finally gets to tell the story of how she punched a German sergeant in the face during World War II, when she was a secret U.S. interrogator.
Barbara Podoski punched a German sergeant in the face during World War II when she was a secret U.S. interrogator.
All of the names and previously classified files identifying nearly 24,000 spies who formed the first centralized intelligence effort by the United States have been released
He's no Julia Child, but Honduran President Manuel Zelaya showed Tuesday he can attack a cantaloupe and U.S. government claims in a single motion.
Anthony Bourdain suffered quietly as he dined on wart hog -- encrusted with sand, fur and fecal bacteria -- in the African country of Namibia.
A "Brick," a "Noodle," and eight other things we recommend this week:
Fortune: A wild goose chaseupdated: Mon May 02 2005 00:01:00
Does foie gras amount to cruel and unusual punishment? California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, PETA, acclaimed chef Charlie Trotter, and the states of New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Oreg...
Julia Child, who revolutionized cooking in the United States with her cooking school, cookbooks and television shows, has died, according to a statement from her publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. She was 91.
Money Magazine: Magic chef COOKWAREupdated: Sat Nov 01 2003 00:01:00
Copper pots are the sort of luxury most of us go without--we know they'll enhance our cooking experience, but we can't justify the price tag. Enter Broadway Panhandler (broadwaypanhandler.com). Thr...
FSB: Going Coastalupdated: Sun Apr 01 2001 00:01:00
This low-key and artsy coastal community may be just 90 minutes from Los Angeles, but Santa Barbara feels nothing like the sprawling metropolis to its south. Santa Barbara's downtown is lined with ...
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