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 First you must dress like one. Support Culinary Performance and purchase a Food Pimp t-shirt for yourself or that special someone in your life. Labels: Celebrities and Food, Culinary Diversions, Culinary Performance, Entertainment, Industry, Lifestyle, Notable Chefs  To give makeovers to the unhealthiest places in AmericaMay 10, 2009, 11:00 PM ET ABC is teaming with British chef Jamie Oliver and Ryan Seacrest for a new unscripted series that gives healthy makeovers to an entire city.Oliver will travel to the unhealthiest places in America and find ways to use nearby resources to improve local eating habits. The network has ordered six hours of the project from Ryan Seacrest Productions. The series is loosely inspired on Oliver's acclaimed school lunch project in the U.K., where the chef set about to improve kids' nutrition. His effort to improve one school's offerings, documented in the 2005 series "Jamie's School Dinners," shamed educators into passing new measures to ban certain junk foods. Seacrest said he talked about school lunches during a segment on his KISS FM morning radio show and was struck by the amount of listener response. Then he heard Oliver was looking to bring his public service campaign stateside. The resulting ABC show will not only tackle a city's schools, but workplaces and other avenues for change. "I couldn't do what I do in terms of my schedule if I didn't eat right and exercise right," Seacrest said. "As a kid I was chubby, and I'm a firm believer that the fuel we put into our body results in a healthy lifestyle. Jamie's going to come over here, roll up his sleeves and use the resources of each town to help condition living habits to make it a better and healthier place." More... Labels: Celebrities and Food, Entertainment, Notable Chefs  LONDON, England (CNN) -- Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver will serve a dinner of Scottish organic salmon, Welsh lamb and a traditional Bakewell Tart for G-20 leaders at the prime minister's residence Wednesday. Oliver will use traditional ingredients and recipes inspired from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Channel Islands for the dinner at 10 Downing Street, a statement on his Web site said. Oliver will cook the meal along with a team of young chefs from the apprentice program at his London restaurant, Fifteen. Because some guests have special dietary requirements, Oliver said he will be offering vegetarian options for both a starter and the main course. Here is the menu, as published on Oliver's Web site: Baked Scottish Salmon with Seashore Vegetables, Broad Beans, Herb Garden Salad, Mayonnaise and Wild Garlic-scented Irish Soda bread. More... Labels: Celebrities and Food, Entertainment, Notable Chefs  Teachers are warning that children as young as four and five are using foul language picked up from the telly. Kids in reception class are not only repeating swear words from the likes of TV chefs Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay but copying scenes from shows. So concerned are members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers that they will lobby broadcasters at their annual meeting next month to cut swearing, violence and wild behaviour. Alison Sherratt, a reception class teacher at Riddlesden St Mary's Church of England school in Keighley, West Yorks, says children are using more bad language than ever and becoming more badly behaved and disobedient. More... Labels: Celebrities and Food, Learn, Lifestyle  ShamWow and SlapChop pitchman Vince Shlomi was arrested on felony battery charges in Miami last month following a violent encounter with a prostitute. According to an arrest affidavit, Shlomi met Sasha Harris, 26, at a Miami Beach nightclub on February 7 and subsequently retired with her to his $750 room at the lavish Setai hotel. Shlomi told cops he paid Harris about $1000 in cash after she "propositioned him for straight sex." Shlomi said that when he kissed Harris, she suddenly "bit his tongue and would not let go." Shlomi then punched Harris several times until she released his tongue. More... Labels: Celebrities and Food, Crime  A German frozen food company hopes to raise sales with a new product: Obama fingers. The tender, fried chicken bits come with a tasty curry sauce. The company says it was unaware of the possible racist overtones of the product. Selling products has, of course, become a bit more difficult than usual these days. No wonder then that companies everywhere are turning to optimistic marketing messages in an effort to counteract the steady drum beat of negativity coming from front page headlines around the globe. More... Labels: Celebrities and Food, Eat, Lifestyle, Odds and Ends  Here it is! Your very first look at Padma Lakshmi's sexy new commercial for Carl's Jr. and Hardee's. Didn't I tell you it was hot? I mean, the way she digs in, licks and even hikes up her dress a bit. Fun! Fun! Fun! More... Labels: Celebrities and Food, Eat, Entertainment, Lifestyle  Food safety officers are investigating one of Gordon Ramsay's London restaurants after a reality television star claimed to have been left choking on a piece of cling film. Noelie Klineberg said that she pulled an inch-and-a-half long piece of plastic from her mouth while chewing on a lamb main course at the Michelin-starred eatery in Claridge's Hotel. Miss Klineberg, who was dining with her millionaire fiancé Robin Goforth, also claims to have felt unwell later that night. More... Labels: Celebrities and Food, Eat, Entertainment, Industry, Kitchen Catastrophes  Celebrity chef Cat Cora, the first and only female Iron Chef on Food Network's popular program "Iron Chef America," is bringing her culinary talent to the Boardwalk resort at Walt Disney World. Her restaurant, Kouzzina by Cat Cora, will feature what she calls "time-honored recipes passed down from my ancestors, as well as my favorite Greek and Mediterranean dishes that my family loves." More... Labels: Celebrities and Food, Entertainment, Industry, Notable Chefs  HOUSTON, March 23, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ ----Continental Airlines today announced the addition of Chef Bryan Caswell, owner of REEF and Little Bigs restaurants in Houston, to its Congress of Chefs. Caswell joins the 14-member congress, including top chefs Roy Yamaguchi of Roy's Restaurant; Michael Cordua of Americas, Churrascos, Artista and Amazon Grill in Houston; James Canora of the original Del Monico's in New York City; and Paul Minnillo of The Baricelli Inn in Cleveland. "Continental is pleased to welcome Bryan Caswell to our Congress of Chefs," said Sandra Pineau, Continental's staff vice president of food services. "We will draw on Bryan's extensive culinary knowledge and world travels to continue to provide the best possible dining experience for our passengers." More.. Labels: Celebrities and Food, Eat, Industry, Notable Chefs  Who needs old-fashioned khana-pakana when we can have food porn. In a Harper’sMagazine article titled “Debbie does Salad”, Frederick Kaufman charted the emergence of gastroporn, the reinvention of cooking as salacious spectacle, designed to titillate all our appetites, gustatory and otherwise. Kaufman’s piece focused on the Food Network channel shows, featuring dishy chefs creating just-as-gorgeous dishes, aimed not at stodgy little housewives but “that choice prime-time demographic, the 18-35-year-old male can’t-cook-won’t-cook crowd—the men who like to watch. As people cook less and less, they ogle cooking shows more and more”. Where there are foodie celebrities—chefs, hosts, food critics—there will be cookbooks, gastroporn’s equivalent of literary smut. More... Releated Link: Padma Lakshmi (http://www.lakshmifilms.com/) Labels: Celebrities and Food, Learn  As a marketer, I’ve bashed the competition. It’s never personal. It’s only to remind them that local television should be good television. If you don’t think that’s a good enough reason, you don’t know Jack. I can only dream of being as “bashingly” brilliant as the creative geniuses at Secret Weapon Marketing, the folks behind the new Jack in the Box commercial. More... Click here for - Office of Jack in the Box Video: Jack in the Box's "Jack" "If I'm Saying Something that is not true. Do something about it!" Labels: Celebrities and Food, Drink, Eat, Entertainment, Odds and Ends  Here are some of the places President Obama eats when he's in Hawaii, along with some of the eateries he spent time in growing up. More... Raw Video: First Lady Breaks Ground for Garden Labels: Celebrities and Food, Drink, Eat  Rapper Leon Ivey Jr., better known after his stage name Coolio, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday on suspicion of possessing drugs, according to TMZ.com.The 45-year-old artist, who shot to fame with his 1995 “Gangsta's Paradise,” was found with illicit drugs at an LAX terminal. Officials gave no further details on the arrest, but according to celebrity website TMZ the rapper was found with crack cocaine while going through security before boarding a Southwest Airlines flight.It appears that the artist was released after posing $10,000 bail. He was arrested in June last year for riving with his license suspended. He was caught after officers noticed he had expired license plates on his gray 1996 Hummer. He had also an outstanding traffic warrant on his name. The artist has a family history of driving without a license. According to TMZ, Coolio’s dad, Artis Leon Ivey, Sr., a carpenter, was also caught driving on a suspended license in 2006.Coolio has appeared recently on several reality TV shows, including “Celebrity Fear Factor” and hosted the program “Cookin With Coolio.” The artist surnames himself as “the ghetto witchdoctor superstar chef," whose goal is “to make you forget about every cooking show you've ever heard.” Ivey became famous after he had released his 1995 song “Gangsta’s Paradise,” which reached the 1st position in three charts: US Hot 100, US Rap, UK Singles Chart. The same album went four times Platinum. More... Warning: Video below contains Inappropriate Language and may not be suitable for display at work or a educational environment were children may be present. Cookin' with Coolio Labels: Celebrities and Food, Crime   Ray took another PR hit when racy photos of her were printed in FHM magazine. Ray's mother was furious, but Ray said she was proud. "I think I was 35 at the time," she said. "And I thought about it for a while, and I said, 'You know what? This magazine has as young as 17-, 18-year-olds in hottie bikinis, and these are all actresses, models, pin-up girls. I don't belong to any even remote club of theirs.' "And I thought, 'If I'm gutsy enough to do this, this is a good thing for everybody. This is the everywoman, here she is,' she added. "And I did it, and it was the most scared I've ever been, and I wouldn't change a thing. I'd do it again tomorrow." Ray has faced plenty of public criticism, especially on the Web. "Television itself is an intimate medium," she said, explaining why it doesn't hurt her feelings. "It's in your house. You're visiting with these people. ... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life -- especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself. "If you spend so much time thinking about the people who dislike what it is you're doing, you're doing a disservice to the people that employ you," she said. "I'm not employed by those people. I work for the people that want the type of food I write [about], the type of food we share with people." But Ray seems completely comfortable with her role in the kitchen -- funny, relaxed and even humble. She maintains that anyone could have done what she's done. Does she really believe that? "I absolutely 100 percent believe that," she said. "I'm a waitress from upstate New York. Anyone that likes chatting, that likes to cook, certainly. Could have happened to anybody." A waitress atop an empire. A syndicated daytime talk show, four hit food network shows, 16 bestselling cookbooks, a self-titled monthly magazine, and her own brands of dog food, olive oil, and even a line of pots and pans. Part of her success is making cooking as easy as possible -- with short-cuts, including using chicken stock from a can and pasta sauce from a jar. Labels: Celebrities and Food, Entertainment  WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is the place to be on Wednesdays. Since the presidency changed hands less than six weeks ago, a burst of entertaining has taken hold of the iconic, white-columned home of America's head of state. Much of it comes on Wednesdays. The stately East Room, where portraits of George and Martha Washington adorn the walls, was transformed into a concert hall as President Barack Obama presented Stevie Wonder with the nation's highest award for pop music on Wednesday. A week before that, the foot-stomping sounds of Sweet Honey in the Rock, a female a cappella group, filled the East Room for a Black History Month program first lady Michelle Obama held for nearly 200 sixth- and seventh-graders from around the city. Cocktails were sipped during at least three such receptions to date, all held on Wednesdays. Bookending the midweek activity were a Super Bowl party for select Democratic and Republican lawmakers and a dinner for governors, the new administration's first black-tie affair. It was capped with a performance by the 1970s pop group Earth, Wind and Fire. And a conga line. The flurry of entertaining is in keeping with the Obamas' promise to make the White House a more open place for everyone. The governors' dinner was "a great kickoff of what we hope will be an atmosphere here in the White House that is welcoming and that reminds everybody that this is the people's house," Obama told the state chief executives after they had dined on Maryland crab, Wagyu beef, Nantucket scallops and citrus salad. "We are just temporary occupants. This is a place that belongs to the American people and we want to make sure that everybody understands it's open," he said. Labels: Celebrities and Food, Entertainment, Lifestyle  The guy who brought us the PBS cooking show “Made in Spain,” starring D.C. chef-ebrity Jose Andres, now has turned his eyes to Capitol Hill for his next venture. Phil Lerman wants to film members of Congress cooking “at home for their family/friends” — the show aims to tape each cooking politician while working, meeting with staff and then cooking. (John Podesta, are you listening? You’d love this.) The goal is to get one Republican and one Democrat, have them whip up something and then have a D.C. chef-ebrity judge which one is best. Lerman wouldn’t offer names, but we hear Laura Ingraham has agreed to do a show. But wait — do congresspeople even cook? “At first, we wondered if we were barking up the wrong tree, but a lot of them do cook,” especially the congressional parents, he says. “They run home, make the fastest meal possible and come back,” Lerman tells us. “Nobody’s busier than them. If they can cook dinner, I can cook dinner.” (He notes the Midwestern congressfolk seem up for it.) “Food is the ultimate communal experience,” he says, but right now he’s just focused on finding “A. who’s going to pay for it, and B. who’s going to air it.” Early stages. But be aware: They’re looking for authentic. “It can’t be someone like Hillary Clinton who doesn’t like to cook,” Lerman adds, though surely he’d never turn her down. “People will know.” More... Labels: Celebrities and Food, Entertainment, Odds and Ends
Dave let the raw oysters and vodka get to him in a cooking segment with Martha Stewart.
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Cereal and snack maker Kellogg Co. said it won't renew its sponsorship contract with Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps because of a photo that showed him inhaling from a marijuana pipe.
The Battle Creek, Mich.-based company said Thursday that Phelps's behavior _ caught on camera and published Sunday in the British tabloid News of the World _ is "not consistent with the image of Kellogg." The company put Phelps on boxes of its Frosted Flakes and Corn Flakes. The 23-year-old swimmer, who won eight gold medals in Beijing, has kept the backing of many sponsors since the photo surfaced from a November house party at the University of South Carolina. Among those standing by him, even if they don't condone his behavior, are Visa Inc., Speedo, luxury Swiss watchmaker Omega and sports beverage PureSport's maker Human Performance Labs. Labels: Celebrities and Food, Crime, Industry  Lieutenant Chris Cowan said that sheriff's investigators in Richland County, South Carolina, where the alleged incident took place, are gathering more information about the photograph. Cowan did not specify what charge was being considered and declined to discuss details of the investigation. Phelps, the American winner of eight gold medals at Beijing 2008, this week apologized for his "regrettable" behavior and "bad judgment" after a Sunday newspaper published the picture, which was apparently taken at a party at the University of South Carolina in Columbia last November. The 23-year-old made no admission of what substance was involved, but major corporate backers, which include Speedo, Omega, Visa, Subway, and Kelloggs, have so far remained supportive, even though the episode is the second time he has fallen into controversy following an arrest for drunk-driving in 2004. Labels: Celebrities and Food, Crime, Industry  Celebrities Robert De Niro, pop star Justin Timberlake, and rapper Jay Z as well as celebrity chefs Jean-Georges Vongerichten and "Top Chef" TV show judge Tom Colicchio are among restaurant owners who have been hit with lawsuits for mistreating employees at their posh eateries, including allegedly dipping into tips and refusing to pay overtime. The celebrity-owned restaurants have been hit with class actions representing hundreds of current and former workers. In one of the latest developments, the Nobu restaurant chain, in which De Niro is a partner, agreed to settle the case against it on Friday (Jan. 30) for $2.5 million, according to court papers. A hearing to approve the Nobu settlement is set for February 6. Two waiters sued in 2007 on behalf of hundreds of workers at three of the exclusive Japanese restaurants. They said they were forced to share tips with management and the chain, which charges high prices for its fare and also allegedly cheated them out of overtime pay. Chef Nobu Matsuhisa and others, opened Nobu in New York's Tribeca area in 1994. It has since expanded to 16 locations around the globe. The settlement covers Nobu, Nobu 57 and Nobu Next Door, all in Manhattan. Current employees and ex-employees who worked there between August 2001 and August 2008 will get an average of $3,300 each, court papers said.More... Labels: Celebrities and Food, Crime, Industry, Kitchen Catastrophes  The Rocky star joined Danny DeVito, Charlie Sheen and his Planet Hollywood restaurant partners at eatery Buca di Beppo in Hollywood on Wednesday night to celebrate its recent purchase. "If someone said you have to eat one kind of food for the rest of your life, Irish, English, German or Italian, it’s Italian," Stallone told Fox News of Buca di Beppo's fare. "And the beauty of this is, my wife doesn’t have to cook for a long, long time," Stallone joked. "Thank God." Labels: Celebrities and Food, Drink, Eat, Industry  Sam Kass, a private chef for the Obamas while they were living in Chicago, is now working in the White House. A spokeswoman for Michelle Obama, Katie McCormick Lelyveld, said Mr. Kass will not be the only cook preparing the family’s meals, but “he knows what they like and he happens to have a particular interest in healthy food and local food.” He will work alongside the White House executive chef, Cristeta Comerford, who was promoted to that job by the Bushes and is being kept on in that role by the Obamas. Mr. Kass’s appointment signals changes at the White House that should please chefs like Alice Waters, who have lobbied the Obamas to set an example for the rest of the country by emphasizing food that is healthy, local and sustainable. It further suggests that a vegetable garden on the White House grounds, another of Ms. Waters’ dreams, could be on the horizon.Read the whole story here... Labels: Celebrities and Food, Notable Chefs, Odds and Ends  One year after she set the blogosphere on its collective ear by invading the indier-than-thou confines of South by Southwest with her own party — and then shocking everyone when that party actually turned out to be pretty good — Rachael Ray is at again, with plans for another SXSW soiree. While details are still limited, a source close to the event told MTV News that Ray is looking to throw an "expanded" party at this year's South By, tentatively scheduled for the afternoon of Saturday, March 21. Last year's party was held at Austin, Texas' Beauty Bar, but no location has been determined for this year's event. Labels: Celebrities and Food, Entertainment, Lifestyle  Culinary news and information for Chefs, Cooks and Foodies. Labels: Celebrities and Food, Crime, Critics, Drink, Eat, Entertainment, Health, Industry, Kitchen Catastrophes, Learn, Lifestyle, Notable Chefs, Odds and Ends, Uncategorized, Young Culinarians |
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