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The National Cherry Blossom Festival will be in full swing, so there is no better time to visit the Nation’s capital and enjoy it’s version of Southern charm, while learning about Simple Fresh Southern.
How does a book like Cooking Dirty: Life, Love and Death in the Kitchen (Farrar Strauss Giroux 2009) by Jack Sheehan, come into existence? See, there is this superstition among publishers: if someone else comes up with a hot-selling books, knock it off. You know, Hollywood style. You’ve seen it: one studio does a volcano…
If a tally of prizes and honors is worth the same in the culinary world as it is in the film world, then Jose Andres is having a terrific year. The Vilcek Foundation, which awards annual prizes in biomedical science, and the Arts to immigrants, bestowed its 2010 Culinary Arts award to Jose. It is…
What do two chefs, a politician’s wife, and a talk show host have in common? The desire to take on the American obesity epidemic. It seems Jamie Oliver (that’s the first chef) recent TED Prize wish might just come true: My wish is for you to have a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child…
East Coast restaurants may have been tweeting customers to let them know they are open for business during the recent blizzards, but there are still more ways to tweet and email and generate business, even if you haven’t got nasty weather. Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger are asking their fans to let Los Angeles…
Super Chef applauds First Lady Michelle Obama‘s new campaign to fight childhood obesity: Let’s Move. Highlights of this new initiative include: The FDA will work with foodmakers to make labels more “customer friendly.” The beverage industry will start putting calorie information on the front of its products. The American Academy of Pediatrics will encourage doctors…
Written by Jason Atherton as Gordo’s Maze in London.