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Meet Kanzi, a bonobo chimpanzee — and chef (of sorts)… Earlier this week, we introduced you to a chimps as super chefs. Now, see one in action. Below, Kanzi roasts marshmallows (and on NPR radio, vegetables). Enjoy! For more details, please visit this URL.
Is the search for gluten-free funny? Steel Drum In Space wants to know… Enjoy!
Are you missing something — some taste, some food memory…? Maybe you’ve been missing a super-foodie movie — a movie in Spanish, English, Catalan, Portuguese, and Japanese — all at once? Director Roger Gual lets you do just that, with a cast including Jan Cornet, Claudia Bassols, Stephen Rea, Fionnula Flanagan, Timothy Gibbs, Marta Torné,…
OraTV‘s America Cooks With Chefs recently interviewed Mary Sue Milliken about how to keep off weight while eating from her Modern Mexican recipes. Enjoy!
BBC News “PopUp” video journalist Benjamin Zand reports on how the Conflict Kitchen kicked up controversy and brought antagonists to its table to break bread and talk. Enjoy!
Based on the song “The Lone Fish Ball” (1855) by George Marshall Lane, the song got a reworking by Tin Pan Alley as “One Meat Ball” (1944), recorded by blues and folk singer Josh White — a little late for the Great Depression itself, but fresh in people’s minds (and stomachs). While Josh White’s recording…
Is the way to a man’s heart through his stomach? Find out how the Indians do it: watch this trailer from The Lunchbox (“Dabba”). (Coming to U.S. theaters as of February 28, 2014.) Enjoy!
Is heaven on earth — at least, food heaven? The BBC may have found it — in Japan — and it’s for kids. This is a country where one can run a business called “Bento for Kids. That’s because, as the BBC reports, in Japan “A dry sandwich in tinfoil just won’t do: the packed…
For Mesamerica 2014, see chefs Mario Batali and Danny Bowien battle it out in a war of words… Enjoy! Mesamerica Batali Bowien from Mesamérica on Vimeo.
Hear chefs Tony Mantuano and Mary Sue Milliken talk about how they will approach America Cooks with Chefs: The 800 Calorie Challenge. Listen for a little bravado and bluster as each chef contemplates competitive aspects… (This is a a new joint initiative between the Clinton Foundation and the James Beard Foundation.) Enjoy! Chef’s Challenge from…
How can there be peace between Israel and Palestine? In his new documentary Falafelism, Ari A. Cohen takes a new approach. If minds won’t meet, why not meet with stomachs? But even food divides this land, as demonstrated by falafel. Since the 1960s, Israel has claimed this Arab food as its national snack. Enjoy! Social…