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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  Gordon Ramsey, of the Fox show "Hell's Kitchen," is known for his 16 Michelin stars and for being kind of crazy. He regularly curses at the contestants on his cooking show and calls them donkeys, or worse. More...Labels: Entertainment, Young Culinarians  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  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   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 Associated Press A Las Vegas casino cafe is rewarding patrons who can put away a 2-foot, 6-pound burrito with a most logical prize — free unlimited rides on a roller coaster that runs in both forward and reverse. The offer comes with a caveat, though: Those who accept the challenge but can't finish "The Bomb" burrito have to take a picture with an extra small, pink T-shirt that says "Weenie." The NASCAR Cafe at the Sahara Hotel & Casino began selling the cheese-and-guacamole slathered burrito on Thursday for $19.95. Those who can finish the monstrous entree get it for free, along with two unlimited coaster passes and a T-shirt proclaiming they "Conquered the Bomb." Labels: Eat, Entertainment, Odds and Ends  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
"This is why you're fat" is a collection of caloric and gastronomic overkill.
A shrine if you will, to our lust for food.  The Double Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt and others... Labels: Culinary Diversions, Entertainment, Odds and Ends
Dave let the raw oysters and vodka get to him in a cooking segment with Martha Stewart.
Labels: Celebrities and Food, Drink, Eat, Entertainment  Just to make your day a little bit brighter, try adding a slice of bacon. Need a side of bacon on your web site? Just put it at the end of http://bacolicio.us/ For example: http://bacolicio.us/http://www.culinaryperformance.com Labels: Culinary Diversions, Entertainment, Odds and Ends By James Hibberd LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - No F-bombs allowed. How will he do it? The Fox network aims to air at least one live special in which "Hell's Kitchen" star Gordon Ramsay, famous for his R-rated language, shows viewers how to make a dinner. The program will urge viewers to make a three-course homemade meal along with the world-famous British chef. "It has been picked up, and I can't wait for it to go live," Ramsay said Wednesday. "My frustration is that most cooking shows don't really cook ... their ingredients are prepped earlier, that's not cooking ... It's nice to show the journey from live ingredient to (finished meal)." Labels: Eat, Entertainment, Industry, Learn, Notable Chefs  The film directed by Nora Ephron, starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child. Labels: Entertainment, Notable Chefs  ONE of his television shows is called The F-Word, but celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay's famous use of the expletive has landed him in hot water with British audiences. Viewers flooded Channel 4 with complaints after Ramsay swore 243 times in a two-hour screening of Gordon's Great British Nightmare on Friday, The Sunday Mirror reported. His language included "187 F-words", the newspaper said. Lib-Dem MP Don Foster told the tabloid: "This is getting beyond a joke. When you hear about this much swearing in a single programme, you're tempted to utter an expletive yourself. "We have got to tone it down because bad language on TV is seeping into society.'' An Ofcom spokesman said the UK's communications watchdog could not immediately comment on complaints received over the weekend. Labels: Critics, Entertainment, Kitchen Catastrophes, Notable Chefs The game debuted to poor reviews. Some things are better left to actual Chefs. Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine is a disgracefully bad attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Iron Chef. Labels: Entertainment, Lifestyle, Odds and Ends  There is something special about food related graffiti in the bathroom. Labels: Entertainment, Odds and Ends  A former Hooters girl who says she's got the right assets - but the wrong accent - is suing the Hawaiian Tropic Zone for crushing her dream of working as one of its bikini-clad beauties. Melody Morales said she was rejected for a job by a manager at the Times Square restaurant who griped, "You don't speak white" and "you are ghetto." Labels: Crime, Entertainment, Industry, Lifestyle, 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  Rachael Ray is giving Food Network fans a taste of the Latino kitchen. Ray is producing a new show for the network starring actress and cookbook author Daisy Martinez. The weekly "Viva Daisy!" premieres Saturday for a six-week run. The show is the network's second focused on Latino foods, joining Ingrid Hoffman's "Simply Delicioso." Labels: Eat, Entertainment, Learn, Lifestyle  Pit bull inspires Rachael Ray in and out of the kitchen.Isaboo eats better than most restaurant critics. She is, after all, connected. The 3-year-old American Pit Bull Terrier is owned by photogenic foodie Rachael Ray, she of the eponymous syndicated television talk show and magazine, and frequent exclamations of “Yum-o!” and “Delish!” More here... Labels: Entertainment  Artist Victoria Reynolds has taken the artistry of displaying meat to an entirely different level. Her paintings of meat are somewhat disturbing and fascinating. As a chef, working in the kitchen with raw meat, thinking of it's beauty, could be disturbing for some. Maybe she knows someone in the industry? More here... Labels: Entertainment, Odds and Ends  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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