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Top Chef Chicago: Stephanie Redeems Herself with a Wedding Cake!

No restaurant wars this season... Instead, we got wedding wars. Two teams, assigned to the bride or groom, created menus — and cakes! — for the actual reception. And Stephanie turned out a stunne...

Top Chef Chicago: We Stand Corrected

Well, we're not above eating a little crow. A few chefs we'd dismissed earlier in the competition completely hit the mark this week. Maybe the producers are toying with our emotions and creating ups ...

Cutest Cupcake Winners at Martha Stewart

The cupcake is not dead after all. We have seen so many cupcakes on the internet these last few years that our eyes were glazing over. But enthusiasm for the cute little cakes is still strong, as evid...

Speaking of Top Chef... Casting is On for Season 5

In case you haven't already heard, Bravo is casting for the next season of Top Chef. They've already had casting calls in New Orleans and San Francisco... Remaining cities below the jump....

Top Chef Chicago: Fill Us In!

We were traveling last night when Top Chef aired (ending up in a Tivo-less hotel), so we've only read the recaps of what happened. Dessert, the lonely step-child of the Top Chef world, finally had it...

Top Chef Chicago: Were You Surprised?

Since the elimination challenge centered around tailgating at a Bears game, we'll go with some football terminology to describe our reaction... Quarterback sneak? Blitzed? It came out of left field? ...

Top Chef Chicago: Blind Tastings and... Bacon!

Every year, Top Chef does a Quickfire challenge where they blindfold the chefs and have them identify or distinguish between ingredients. We love it, we wait for it, and we occasionally dream of havi...

Food on TV: Sara's Weeknight Meals

We were excited to see Sara Moulton's new PBS show, Sara's Weeknight Meals, debut last night. Her show and cooking philosophy seems particularly to fit in with The Kitchn's mission and philosophy: co...

Video: Curtis Stone On How to Cut a Mango, Plus Bellinis!
International Home and Housewares Show 2008

All right, many of you may think we saved the best for last. This is a whole mini-episode of reality food TV with Curtis Stone, the Take Home Chef himself. Stone is currently a spokesperson for Br...

Bobby Flay Will Judge Next Food Network Star This June

The fourth season of Next Food Network Star will kick off on June 1. The new batch of smiling contestants are on deck and Iron Chef Bobby Flay will join the show as a weekly celebrity judge. Do you p...

Top Chef Chicago: Grab Your Popcorn (or Tapioca "Caviar")... It's Movie Night!

MARK (right): OK, Ryan, so we're creating a dish based on one of our favorite movies. I'm thinking... RYAN: Dumb and Dumber, right? MARK: Er.... RYAN: Old School! MARK: Huh? What about Bad Boy Bub...

Tuning In: Martha Stewart Makes Rhubarb Fool

We aren't the only ones thinking about fool, that old-fashioned, English dessert, today. We watched Martha Stewart make a rhubarb version on her show with Saturday Night Live's Seth Myers. There wer...

Video: Alton Brown Rags on Paula Deen
International Home and Housewares Show 2008

It's April Fools and the sun is shining, so here's a bagatelle of a video from the Housewares show. It's just Alton Brown, doing some of his schtick. He followed Paula Deen at the cooking theatr...

Hot Trend: Rachael Ray for Your Backsplash
International Home and Housewares Show 2008

So, this trend at the Housewares show was one that took us by surprise at first, but now we think we kind of like it. The good people at Rachael Ray and Emeril's cookware lines were pushing their new ...

Top Chef Chicago: Episode 3...What's in Your Pantry?

We think the good folks at Bravo might be reading our minds. Just when we are enjoying some great kitchen tours and thinking it's time to bring back the cupboard challenge, Top Chef sends its contesta...

Top Chef Chicago: Episode 2

Watching Top Chef last night, we were reminded that you can't judge a book by its cover. Or its language. Andrew, the contestant who seemed like a freewheeling time bomb during Episode 1, actually tur...

Top Chef Chicago: What Did You Think?

OK, here's what we learned last night while watching the first episode of Top Chef Chicago: The contestants are still cocky, faux hawks are apparently still a popular hair style, and Bravo is not afra...

Top Chef Chicago: Premieres Tonight!

Tom and Padma are back.... Are you in? Season 4 of Top Chef is cooking in Chicago, and the first challenge tackles the city's signature food: deep dish pizza. Pack your knives......

Emeril Goes Green: Former Food Network Star Partners with Whole Foods Market and Discovery Channel

Emeril Lagasse is cooking up a whole new career direction for himself these days. He closed his show at Food Network after ten years of anchoring their programming, and then recently sold his franchis...

Rescue Chef Danny Boome Launches Saturday on Food Network

Danny Boome's new show launches on Food Network on March 1. We had a quick call with Danny Boome yesterday. He told about helping a soldier who had just returned home from Iraq cook a special dinner ...

It's a Bam Thing! Martha Stewart Brings On Emeril

We've all heard of TomKat, Beniffer, and Brangelina. Now a little bit of media synergy brings us Stewlag or is it Martheril? We got the release about Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia buying up asse...

USDA Ground Beef Recall: 143 Million Pounds of Beef from California Slaughterhouse

Big news this weekend: over 143 million pounds of ground beef from a Southern California slaughterhouse have been recalled by the USDA after a whistle-blower animal-rights activist video showed crip...

DVD Review: Shirley Corriher's Kitchen Secrets Revealed

Are your favorite shows on hiatus due to the writer's strike? Do you need a little extra help to fill those dark, cold January primetime hours? We really recommend Shirley Corriher. Some of you know...

Is Mario Batali Leaving Food Network?

Chef Mario Batali has been chopped from TV's Food Network, said yesterday's New York Post. Now in today's Post, Batali says he is not done. He might stick around on Food Network's Iron Chef America. ...

Happy Birthday Julia! Julia on TV

Hours of Julia Child's cooking shows are available online for free! PBS has a website devoted to Julia Child's show Cooking with Master Chefs, as well as to other programs like Baking with Julia and C...

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