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Do you know what to look for in a nutrition label? Susan Hendricks reports in today's Health Minute.
Eat less, exercise more. That's the recipe for losing weight, and we all know it by heart. So if we want to get slimmer, and we know the formula, then why can't we do it?
School meals will have to offer fruits and vegetables to students every day under standards issued by the United States Department of Agriculture on Wednesday.
Scientists in Spain say they have developed an electronic "tongue" that can identify different types of the Spanish sparkling wine cava -- a task more usually left to the skilled palate of the sommelier.
Watch a clip of the new reality show about celebrities opening a restaurant
Instead of getting away from it all, go underneath it, and escape to some of the world's unique underwater restaurants and hotels.
Next time a snack attack strikes, restaurants have a battle plan.
First, it was babies in bars. Now, children in fine-dining restaurants are feeding a raging debate.
Next time you find yourself at a boisterous bistro shouting at your dinner companions over the plat du jour, it might be the result of a restaurant up-sell.
Danish cuisine reigns supreme, according to some of the planet's most prominent eaters.
When it comes to fast food, the big chains can't help going over the top.
The supermodel and pals Demi Moore and Rachel Zoe celebrate designer Roland Mouret's new line with champagne and crème brûlée
Liz Lemon, the self-professed relationship neurotic character on "30 Rock" recently became famous for her book on deal breakers.
They arrive cloaked in secrecy, often using fictitious names and sometimes donning disguises.
updated: Sun Oct 18 2009 09:21:00
Critics can make or break a restaurant. CNN's Susan Candiotti is unmasking their secrets.
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.
She broke your heart and won rave reviews as the earnest kid in the coming-of-age drama "My Girl." And then, a few years later, Anna Chlumsky had her own heart broken -- by Hollywood.
How a chance encounter at a nail salon helped bring the child star back to the big screen
Cruising isn't what it used to be. Just ask Steve Roberts, who recently sailed from Costa Maya, Mexico, to Nassau, Bahamas on the Carnival Glory.
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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.
Americans hungry for feel-good fine dining are reaping the benefits of the struggling economy.
Professional golfers and hackers alike try all sorts of unusual things to avoid the dreaded three-putt: cross-handed grips, staggered stances, elongated putters. Jayson Woodbridge has his own trick. He swings with one hand.
Welcome to a secret world. For nearly 500 years, the Forbidden City's fortified walls and 170-foot-wide moat protected the Chinese imperial family from fires, invaders, and nosy Europeans.
So many big arguments begin with small comments. How many times have you started a conversation on friendly terms, then wound up in some kind of dispute that you didn't anticipate?
Local produce, fresh seafood and seasonal ingredients form the foundation of Malmo's exciting culinary scene.
The global economic downturn is taking its toll on gastronomic traditions in France where 3,000 eateries are reported to have gone bust in the first quarter of this year alone.
I'd all but given up on resort vacations for my family. I just couldn't take the food. As the editor of Food & Wine magazine, I've grown accustomed to culinary adventures pretty much every day. But resort meals, with their overcooked pasta and tasteless chicken, managed to fall short of even my lowest expectations.
Nibble your way through Charlotte, North Carolina, and you'll taste the New South. Shining on the Piedmont with a modern skyline and brimming with emerging restaurants, this is a city that savors the fresh and the new.
There is perhaps no better example of the democratization of wine marketing than Gary Vaynerchuk. His almost-daily, 25-minute video rants about the subject, Wine Library TV, boast 60,000 viewers, who post an astonishing 300 to 500 comments per episode.
Of course there is more to life than being cool -- at least that's what our parents said when nobody would invite us to parties in high school.
With complaints about wages, health care and food quality, an organized labor campaign against food-service giant Aramark came to New York this week to target Goldman Sachs, Warburg Pincus and CCMP Capital - three of the firms that took the company private in 2006 in an $8.1 billion deal.
It wasn't so long ago that the McDonald's fast-food empire looked as stale as a burger left under a heat lamp too long.
There's a stillness that permeates the streets -- and the water -- in Irvington, Virginia. The glasslike surface of Carter's Creek is so calm you can't help but touch it to see if you'll cause a ripple. The scent of warm, dry grass fills the air. Colors appear softer. It feels almost magical.
Screwcapped wines are quickly gaining popularity, and it's got cork producers coming up with new ways to stay on top
Justin Timberlake brought some Southern heat to New York City Wednesday night by celebrating the grand opening of his new restaurant, Southern Hospitality.
Welcome to the NBA Finals. The league has thoughtfully fast-tracked its premier event to end the drama a month earlier than usual. Lord knows it's not to beat the heat (or, for that matter, the Heat, which is already beat), because this potential championship series is being contested in the high-mercury venues of Phoenix and San Antonio. But given the level of play in Sunday's opener between the Suns and the Spurs, it sure seems as if the eventual champion will come out of their Western Conference semifinal.
Do you have a long list of restaurants you'd like to try but consistently pass over for fear of eating up your car payment or your child's college tuition?
The best new flies and lures, made and field-tested by entrepreneurs.
The vibrant city of Melbourne, Australia, is rich in cultural life and good food. Budget Travel highlights a handful of memorable eateries.
Eleventh-generation glassmaker Maximilian Riedel may have an antique pedigree, but he is a thoroughly modern man. Two years ago he created a sensation with his stemless “O” series glasses—a 21st-c...
"Think of the world's great travel destinations," says Luca Paschina, wine maker at Barboursville Vineyards near Charlottesville. "Each has history, landscape, food and wine. That's the beauty of Virginia. It has all these things."
Why is it that wine has a singular ability to reduce otherwise worldly men and women to insecure, stuttering naifs--or worse, swaggering poseurs? It's mystifying, frankly. But as chef Mario Batali ...
Springtime on Northern California's Navarro Coast is not for the restless -- it's for those content to nurture the senses and renew the spirit. Along this remote edge of Northern California, the ocean fills the horizon and mossy cliffs crumble into the sea.
There's just no getting around it. Between deals that must be done, conferences that can't be missed, and blue-chip clients who demand personal attention, traveling seems to be the one constant in ...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - 'Tis the season to overeat and to overspend on all those meals out with friends and family.
and pamper yourself with an unforgettable weekend in New York City. Or you can spend a full week kicking back at one of the plush resorts that dot the American West. Either option will set you back the same $5,000. The first one delivers more anything-can-happen excitement and variety. The second promises more of the one thing children don't add to your life: free time. --DONNA ROSATO AND KATE ASHFORD ...
The travels of Coastal Living staffers lead to accommodations that run the gamut in style and service. Read on for a dozen of their latest finds.
You're at a nice restaurant in a strange city with a group of important clients. The waiter circles around and decides to hand you, of all people, the wine list. While you can fake it at the the tw...
If you have children at home, you know that hitting the road without them is the only way to have a true vacation. So go ahead, take the in-laws up on their offer to watch the kids for a few days a...
Extra-quick service is great when you're starving and can't wait another minute to bite into the filet mignon. Other than that, a new study says restaurants risk losing customers if they rush them through their casual dining experience.
On its surface Las Vegas seems to offer a lot of variety. Within a few blocks you can be in New York City, Paris, Cairo, or Venice. Yet most of the big hotels are owned by a decreasing number of co...
Unless you know a lot about grapes, trips to the local wine shop can be unsatisfying: lots of bottles you don't recognize, a few you do, and confusing price ranges. Having a sommelier at your side-...
Show what a thoughtful and creative parent you are: Head Down Under to keep everyone content.
Over the past few decades, as women have made strides toward equality in almost every professional field, progress has been surprisingly slow among restaurant owners and chefs. This year just one-f...
You walk into an upscale restaurant, and the waiter drops a tome as thick as a college biology textbook onto your table. Like that long-forgotten text, it's filled with foreign words and strange co...
In our last issue we reported on biodynamics, a radical viticultural method whose proponents claim it produces superior wines by combining elements of astrology and homeopathy with organic grape gr...
California's wine country, it turns out, was hit just as hard by the economic downturn as the rest of the world. Prices for some of the most coveted brands plummeted by a third, and profits of high...
A few years ago in London, six City bankers, celebrating their good fortune to be City bankers, dined at the restaurant Petrus, a lavish place with a wine list to make a French king drool.
If you were to put together an A to Z of power in America, you could argue about whether it starts with Ashcroft or Aaahnold, but there is every reason to think that it should end with Tim and Nina...
Seasonal pricing is often the key to getting the best deals in the fun category.
In more than 20 years as a professional eater, I have sampled (read: drunk) enough wine to irrigate an artichoke field in California. Back in the early 1980s, restaurant wine lists were largely con...
When Wal-Mart launched its own wine label--Alcott Ridge Vineyards, produced by E&J Gallo--in 2000, wine buffs answered with a chorus of snickers about the new "white trashfandel" and "nasti spumant...
What do you do when you come to a fork in the road? Simple: You ask for directions. And you try to ask someone who not only has been down that way before but has succeeded beyond all expectation. T...
News item: Nina and Tim Zagat, the husband-and-wife publishers of the eponymous restaurant and hotel guides, announced in early February that they would produce other rating books. First up is The ...
Wine or no wine, there is a limit to how much magret de canard and boeuf bourguignon any one person can eat. Certainly, there are citizens of La Republique who would rather face the guillotine than...
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With recent market gyrations, you might be feeling a little frugal when it comes to dining out. But that doesn't mean you have to resort to Big Macs. America's Best Meal Deals ($10.95), a new guide...
Used to be, people fantasized about quitting their day jobs to become the next Barbra Streisand or Reggie Jackson. Belting show tunes or home runs may still tempt some, but these days the trendiest...
Go Global, Eat Local: When George Chen began looking for new space to open his third Bay Area restaurant, he wanted a location that could really help his business take off. But when developers at S...
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Tom Stoppard recently explained to the New York Times that when his plays start their U.S. runs in San Francisco, his real competition isn't other theaters, it's restaurants. Now, thanks to the exp...
I knew I was on to something when homemade pasta with caramelized onions and a walnut sauce emerged from my kitchen. My guests were rhapsodizing about the foie gras bread pudding barely minutes aft...
I'm not a geek, although I sometimes go around disguised as one. I typically carry three radios: a pager, a cell phone, and a wireless personal digital assistant. I also subscribe to a voice-contro...
You see it everywhere these days: the pocket-width, burgundy restaurant survey that is commonly mispronounced "ZAG-itz" (correctly called "Zuh-GAT"). The restaurant review books began as a hobby fo...
In early August, I was out to dinner with my husband and two other couples at a trendy place on Long Island. We'd had a good time, and an even better meal, and we were busily scraping up the last c...
One sure-fire cure for the winter blahs is to send your taste buds scorching into the stratosphere. While the spots below draw spicy inspiration from different corners of the globe, each one makes ...
Few things pique the appetite like skiing. But after a day full of double black diamonds, it's nice to dig in to something more civilized than a burger. These western outposts offer high-end dining...
Where do you reserve a table the next time you want an exceptional meal prepared by one of the most talented chefs in your area? For many discerning diners, today's choice ticket is often the local...
As summer ends and the local clam shack shutters for the season, there's no more excuse for stuffing yourself with batter-fried fish. At the spots below--rated among the very finest by Zagat Survey...
Nothing heralds spring like sidewalk cafes filled with smartly clad urban folk sipping pink drinks from behind designer shades--or better still, a sign in a restaurant window proclaiming THE TERRAC...
For lazy crustacean lovers, now's the time to head to the local fishmonger. This month soft-shell crabs hit the shores for their annual four- to five-month run in restaurants like Zagat's picks bel...
In the Zagat Survey, some restaurants are known for their "Rainbow Factor," named for New York City's Rainbow Room--spots where the rating for decor far outclasses that of the food. Few places have...
Imagine a betoqued, heavily accented chef presenting an haute five-course feast--and eschewing his excellent wine cellar for beer. Try very hard, because it's becoming a common image in serious res...
All of us have scenes of Christmastime dining etched in our minds. For me, it's sitting under the towering tree at the Walnut Room at Marshall Field's in Chicago eating a grilled-cheese sandwich wi...
So you've landed the vice presidency, you're spending tons of your company's money at the bistro of the moment, and the maitre d' still sniffs and seats you near the busboy. Now what? For those of ...
Washington will be buzzing in the months ahead with talk about balancing the budget, cutting back government outlays, and pruning federal programs, but here's a prediction: Until Congress dramatica...
As a general rule, entrepreneurs don't have much in common. Some drive pickup trucks, others Maseratis. Some treat their employees like kin, others like kindling. But all are alike in an important ...
For those travelers who want to follow their palates around the U.S. this summer, the most delectable roads lead to New York City. Says who? None less than the country's leading restaurant critics ...
Delivering sloppy service is always shortsighted. According to Forum Corp., a Boston-based consulting firm, the typical consumer tells nine people about a bad experience before he or she ever tells...
Not long ago the U.S. food map was a variation on the celebrated New Yorker magazine cover: a huge, deliciously detailed Manhattan filled the foreground, set off by a hinterland of boring plains. T...
A FRIEND OF MINE WAS AT A RESTAUrant in Little Italy once when the owner, beaming with pride, stopped by his table and whispered, ''This is a very exciting night for us because the New York Times f...
The heat is equatorial, your gullet is a mini-Sahara and you'd give your right Reebok for an ice-cold beer. But you have a meeting right after lunch, and you'd rather not show up sudsy-brained. So ...
Jules Kabat was delighted. The maitre d' at the Ivy, one of the haughtiest of haute cuisine hangouts in Los Angeles, had seen fit to seat Kabat, a local lawyer, and his three companions next to the...
For the traveling business person, Sunday night is the loneliest night of the week. What is more dispiriting than arriving in a strange place only to find the downtown streets empty and the best re...
A glance into any well-stocked bookstore these days suggests that restaurant guidebooks are no less a growth industry than the restaurant business. At least 150 guides are in print, ranging from id...
Airport dining, like English cuisine, is no longer necessarily a contradiction in terms. As airports play host to ever larger hordes of travelers, many marooned by flight delays and most more criti...
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