Beyond the vast windows of Palm Beach’s iconic Breakers resort, the ocean sparkled as women in designer florals paraded under the lobby’s vaulted, hand-frescoed ceilings. They were headed to network with Martha Stewart and Tommy Hilfiger and swap Hermès and Gucci purses for charity at a $600-per-ticket “Old Bags” luncheon.
Later, many of them joined the daily flock gathered poolside at the historic Colony Hotel, sipping cocktails served by young men in pink shirts. Apart from the rose-hued hotel’s interior update, including a new Goop-designed bungalow, similar scenes could have unfolded a half-century earlier — which is why the new Apple TV+ show Palm Royale, set in 1969, doesn’t seem very dated. The characters played by Kristen Wiig, Laura Dern and Allison Janney could have easily mingled among this crowd, and when the show incorporated shots of The Breakers, the only thing they had to adjust for historical accuracy was the cars.
Later, many of them joined the daily flock gathered poolside at the historic Colony Hotel, sipping cocktails served by young men in pink shirts. Apart from the rose-hued hotel’s interior update, including a new Goop-designed bungalow, similar scenes could have unfolded a half-century earlier — which is why the new Apple TV+ show Palm Royale, set in 1969, doesn’t seem very dated. The characters played by Kristen Wiig, Laura Dern and Allison Janney could have easily mingled among this crowd, and when the show incorporated shots of The Breakers, the only thing they had to adjust for historical accuracy was the cars.
- 4/5/2024
- by Beth Landman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Top Chef” started its 21st season last week with 15 cheftestants vying for the grand prize, but the show revealed there will be a 16th contestant entering the kitchen: Soo Ahn will fight his way through “Last Chance Kitchen” for a chance to win a spot on the main show and ultimately win the whole competition. In past seasons Brooke Williamson, Joe Flamm and current host Kristen Kish won “Lck” and then came back to win the grand prize. Can he make that arduous climb?
“Top Chef” is unique in giving its eliminated contestants a chance to earn their way back into the competition. In the digital after-show “Last Chance Kitchen,” hosted and judged by Tom Colicchio, the ousted chefs face off against each other to complete a challenging culinary task in a limited time. The loser is eliminated from the show for good, while the winner gets to stay in...
“Top Chef” is unique in giving its eliminated contestants a chance to earn their way back into the competition. In the digital after-show “Last Chance Kitchen,” hosted and judged by Tom Colicchio, the ousted chefs face off against each other to complete a challenging culinary task in a limited time. The loser is eliminated from the show for good, while the winner gets to stay in...
- 3/26/2024
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: Jon Rosen, senior partner and board member at WME, has set his plans to launch the management production firm Envisionary after exiting the agency earlier this month.
Envisionary will use the skills Rosen honed over three decades with the agency, especially in the non-scripted and on-air areas specializing in news, sports and culinary talent. The new venture will offer a comprehensive suite of services including management representation, production verticals, advisory and consulting, as well as an investment arm.
Joining Rosen to start Envisionary is an elite roster of clients including including Alex Rodriguez, Stephen A. Smith, Al Roker, Bobby Flay, Brent Montgomery & Wheelhouse, Buddy Valastro, Giada De Laurentiis, Hallie Jackson, Julia Fox, Lara Spencer, Natalie Morales, Robin Roberts, Stephanie Ruhle, Van Jones, Willie Geist, E Street Band consigliere and actor Steven Van Zandt and more.
Rosen over the past 30 years held key leadership roles at the William Morris Endeavor and William Morris Agency,...
Envisionary will use the skills Rosen honed over three decades with the agency, especially in the non-scripted and on-air areas specializing in news, sports and culinary talent. The new venture will offer a comprehensive suite of services including management representation, production verticals, advisory and consulting, as well as an investment arm.
Joining Rosen to start Envisionary is an elite roster of clients including including Alex Rodriguez, Stephen A. Smith, Al Roker, Bobby Flay, Brent Montgomery & Wheelhouse, Buddy Valastro, Giada De Laurentiis, Hallie Jackson, Julia Fox, Lara Spencer, Natalie Morales, Robin Roberts, Stephanie Ruhle, Van Jones, Willie Geist, E Street Band consigliere and actor Steven Van Zandt and more.
Rosen over the past 30 years held key leadership roles at the William Morris Endeavor and William Morris Agency,...
- 1/30/2024
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
“I just can’t believe it. Today a 15-year-old boy in regional Australia has lived his dream. I didn’t dream to be an astronaut. I didn’t dream to be anything else. I dreamt to be right here,” said Buddha Lo after being announced as the winner of “Top Chef: Houston.” He was crowned in the season finale that aired on Thursday night, June 2, and pitted him against fellow finalists Evelyn Garcia and Sarah Welch.
See‘Top Chef: Houston’ finale recap: Did Evelyn, Buddha, or Sarah win season 19?
The final challenge of the season was to prepare a four-course progressive meal for a table of judges including past “Top Chef” champ Stephanie Izard and renowned chef Eric Ripert. And Lo impressed them from his very first dish, a hamachi and caviar plate which Tom Colicchio called a “three-star Michelin first course,” and which Padma Lakshmi compared to the work...
See‘Top Chef: Houston’ finale recap: Did Evelyn, Buddha, or Sarah win season 19?
The final challenge of the season was to prepare a four-course progressive meal for a table of judges including past “Top Chef” champ Stephanie Izard and renowned chef Eric Ripert. And Lo impressed them from his very first dish, a hamachi and caviar plate which Tom Colicchio called a “three-star Michelin first course,” and which Padma Lakshmi compared to the work...
- 6/3/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
"I'm really worried about this industry going down..." Somm TV has revealed the official trailer for a new documentary film titled Saving the Restaurant, marking the feature debut of cinematographer Andrew Ackerman. This film follows the Master Sommelier Bobby Stuckey for the entire pandemic lockdown, as he struggles to fight to keep restaurants alive and keep restaurant employees paid during the last two years of the ongoing pandemic. "This is the story of one of the greatest restaurateur's struggle to save restaurants in America." Featuring appearances by Bobby Stuckey, Danette Stuckey, Dustin Wilson, and Thomas Keller. It's hard to watch anything about the pandemic because we're still in it, and it is still affecting everything around us. But I do sympathize with this issue. Especially because at the end of the day, food Is an essential part of daily life for everyone. Even during a pandemic. And restaurants shouldn't have to suffer this much.
- 2/4/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The Food Network & Cooking Channel New York City Wine & Food Festival presented by Capital One (Nycwff) returns for its 13th annual edition this Fall, October 2 – 11, 2020.
The Festival will look and feel different this year, but the commitment is unchanged – to support the New York City hospitality community and serve as a resource that connects people with world class chefs, restaurants and bars all while continuing the fight to end hunger for No Kid Hungry and Food Bank For New York City, whose missions are now more crucial than ever. With more than 60 events taking place over nine days, this year’s Festival offers a robust lineup of virtual and live programming including Behind the Burger Bash, Nycwff Goes Virtual presented by Capital One, an Intimate Dinner Series and an Online Wine Auction all for a good cause.
“As a Festival, we understand the power of food and its ability to bring people together,...
The Festival will look and feel different this year, but the commitment is unchanged – to support the New York City hospitality community and serve as a resource that connects people with world class chefs, restaurants and bars all while continuing the fight to end hunger for No Kid Hungry and Food Bank For New York City, whose missions are now more crucial than ever. With more than 60 events taking place over nine days, this year’s Festival offers a robust lineup of virtual and live programming including Behind the Burger Bash, Nycwff Goes Virtual presented by Capital One, an Intimate Dinner Series and an Online Wine Auction all for a good cause.
“As a Festival, we understand the power of food and its ability to bring people together,...
- 10/2/2020
- Look to the Stars
As confirmed cases of the coronavirus continue to grow in Los Angeles County, Donald Trump today crashed right into the region’s attempt to keep the health crisis under control with language straight out of Charles Bronson.
“That’s a death wish,” snapped the former Celebrity Apprentice host of news from last week that the City of Angels and surrounding region could extend its safer-at-home orders until August. “Because there’s death on both sides,” Trump added after using the same term as the title of Bronson’s 1974 vigilante flick in reference to coronavirus and the battered economy during a roundtable at the White House on Monday with restaurant executives.
Having made a splash this morning at the same meeting by revealing that he has been ingesting the potentially harmful drug hydroxychloroquine for over a week now to warn off Covid-19, a seemingly shocked Potus was responding to remarks from Napa Valley (Aka not L.
“That’s a death wish,” snapped the former Celebrity Apprentice host of news from last week that the City of Angels and surrounding region could extend its safer-at-home orders until August. “Because there’s death on both sides,” Trump added after using the same term as the title of Bronson’s 1974 vigilante flick in reference to coronavirus and the battered economy during a roundtable at the White House on Monday with restaurant executives.
Having made a splash this morning at the same meeting by revealing that he has been ingesting the potentially harmful drug hydroxychloroquine for over a week now to warn off Covid-19, a seemingly shocked Potus was responding to remarks from Napa Valley (Aka not L.
- 5/18/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
At a time when so many biographical documentaries feel more like advertisements for their subjects than they do pieces of art in their own right, it’s pretty surprising that Cameron Yates’ “Chef Flynn” is one of the few recent films to buck the trend. On the surface, it seems like it has the makings of an insufferable cinematic puff piece: This is the story of wünderkind chef Flynn McGarry, a cute little kid with a carrot-colored pompadour who transformed the living room of his mother’s Los Angeles home into a Michelin-worthy supper club when he was only 10 years old. The kitchen staff was adorable, the food was delicious, and the hook was catchy enough to earn national attention.
First there was a brief piece in the New Yorker. That was followed by a major profile in the Times Magazine, which led to a blitz of talk show appearances,...
First there was a brief piece in the New Yorker. That was followed by a major profile in the Times Magazine, which led to a blitz of talk show appearances,...
- 11/9/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Hell’s Kitchen is back for Season 18 with something old and new, but also something tried and true from other reality competition shows: pitting Rookies vs. Veterans. For the first time ever, former competitors, including several first runners-up who just missed coming in first – have returned and are hungry to savor redemption.
One other twist: For the first time since Season 1, the teams aren’t split up by gender.
What’s up for grabs as these 16 competitors face either the praise or wrath of Chef Gordon Ramsay? It’s a career-changing goodie: a position at the world’s first Gordon Ramsay Hell’s Kitchen Restaurant at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas – with a bonus of $250,000.Yummy, indeed.
Let The Sizing Up Begin
It doesn’t take long for the all-stars on the Blue Team to check out the Red Team of newbies. Kevin Cottle, 44, the runner-up on Season 6 from Plymouth,...
One other twist: For the first time since Season 1, the teams aren’t split up by gender.
What’s up for grabs as these 16 competitors face either the praise or wrath of Chef Gordon Ramsay? It’s a career-changing goodie: a position at the world’s first Gordon Ramsay Hell’s Kitchen Restaurant at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas – with a bonus of $250,000.Yummy, indeed.
Let The Sizing Up Begin
It doesn’t take long for the all-stars on the Blue Team to check out the Red Team of newbies. Kevin Cottle, 44, the runner-up on Season 6 from Plymouth,...
- 9/29/2018
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
I’ve always thought I understood the arcane workings of the star system, but I still marvel at how cooks and bottle washers have achieved the star status of actors and musicians. Famous foodies are much in the news lately — Mario Batali, Gordon Ramsay, Wolfgang Puck and the late Anthony Bourdain — and the shows of star chefs sprawl across the TV landscape. “Misfits, free spirits and wanderers have created a new American profession,” heralds Andrew Friedman in his new book titled Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll, which is good summer reading.
Friedman writes colorfully about his cast of foodie miscreants, but I am left wondering whether we’re all falling victim to a feast of hype. I’m willing to pay a hefty tab at a top restaurant heralding a “name” chef, but still wonder how the egos, prices and sexual...
Friedman writes colorfully about his cast of foodie miscreants, but I am left wondering whether we’re all falling victim to a feast of hype. I’m willing to pay a hefty tab at a top restaurant heralding a “name” chef, but still wonder how the egos, prices and sexual...
- 7/5/2018
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
Anthony Bourdain, the television personality and writer, who shot to fame with his culinary-driven globe trotting, has died by suicide. He was 61.
CNN, the network for which Bourdain hosted the popular “Parts Unknown,” a food-focused travel series, confirmed the news.
“It is with extraordinary sadness we can confirm the death of our friend and colleague, Anthony Bourdain,” the network said in a statement on Friday morning. “His love of great adventure, new friends, fine food and drink, and the remarkable stories of the world made him a unique storyteller. His talents never ceased to amaze us and we will miss him very much. Our thoughts and prayers are with his daughter and family at this incredibly difficult time.”
According to the network, Bourdain was in France working on an upcoming episode of his CNN series. His friend, French chef Eric Ripert, found him unresponsive in his hotel room on Friday morning.
CNN, the network for which Bourdain hosted the popular “Parts Unknown,” a food-focused travel series, confirmed the news.
“It is with extraordinary sadness we can confirm the death of our friend and colleague, Anthony Bourdain,” the network said in a statement on Friday morning. “His love of great adventure, new friends, fine food and drink, and the remarkable stories of the world made him a unique storyteller. His talents never ceased to amaze us and we will miss him very much. Our thoughts and prayers are with his daughter and family at this incredibly difficult time.”
According to the network, Bourdain was in France working on an upcoming episode of his CNN series. His friend, French chef Eric Ripert, found him unresponsive in his hotel room on Friday morning.
- 6/8/2018
- by Brent Lang and Shirley Halperin
- Variety Film + TV
If you can, steal away from the TV upfronts (May 14-17) and check out New York's latest food hot zone: a corridor between 28th and 39th streets, from Park Avenue to the Hudson River, and overlapping with Hudson Yards, the 28-acre mini-city that will house HBO, Warner Bros. and Turner Broadcasting. New restaurants abound, including upcoming outposts from Thomas Keller and David Chang. Says Cindy Tenner, HBO vp special events, "The West 20s and 30s are definitely experiencing a restaurant renaissance."
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- 5/12/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
By Peter BelsitoI liked this Sundance film and have never seen anything like it before.The film intimately follows the budding career of teenager Flynn McGarry, the California chef and wunderkind who was creating hot-ticket tasting menu dinners at 12 and working under some of the world’s most celebrated chefs at 13.
Beyond the shots of luscious dishes, there’s a pretty interesting character study here as well.
The doc starts with home movie 2014 footage of a young teenage Flynn in the woods, foraging for things most people wouldn’t recognize as food. “How cool is this?!” he enthuses holding up leaves and twigs he’s picked from the ground
Back home in La, he’s throwing a dinner at a restaurant he calls Eureka, aka the house he lives in with his mother Meg.
By this point, he has already been the subject of a “Talk of the Town” New...
Beyond the shots of luscious dishes, there’s a pretty interesting character study here as well.
The doc starts with home movie 2014 footage of a young teenage Flynn in the woods, foraging for things most people wouldn’t recognize as food. “How cool is this?!” he enthuses holding up leaves and twigs he’s picked from the ground
Back home in La, he’s throwing a dinner at a restaurant he calls Eureka, aka the house he lives in with his mother Meg.
By this point, he has already been the subject of a “Talk of the Town” New...
- 2/4/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
In the 1%-iest crime of 2014 ... thieves made off with $300,000 worth of wine from French Laundry ... the Bay Area restaurant that is known to be the hardest place in the country to get a table. Thieves cracked open a door to the wine room on the property and made off with 76 bottles ... some of which retail for as much as $15,000.The alleged break-in took place on Christmas Day after the restaurant served its last meals on...
- 12/31/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
The cooking competition "The Taste" returns tonight to ABC for its third season. The series introduced blind tasting of food to reality competitions--judges don't know whose food they're eating or even what's in the dish. It also brought Anthony Bourdain to a big, bright, glossy ABC reality show. The star of Travel Channel's Emmy-winning "No Reservations" and now CNN's "Parts Unknown" seems like perhaps the last person to gravitate to a "The Voice"-like competition for food, but when we talked Wednesday, one day before he was heading to Madagascar for "Parts Unknown," he was clearly, unabashedly enthusiastic about the series, which he also executive produces. When I asked about whether skeptical fans have now warmed to "The Taste" and his participation, Bourdain said, "I honestly don't think about. It's always a quality of life issue for me. Am I having fun? Am I working with people I like?...
- 12/4/2014
- by Andy Dehnart
- Hitfix
It’s back: Our annual post asking which gift made you cheer or cry in complete happiness. (If you don’t believe the latter happens, you should have seen me open up a Dukes of Hazzard TV dinner tray four Christmases ago. It was like the one I had when I was a child. Instant tears.)
The best entertainment-themed present of the 2013 holidays for me was a Sons of Anarchy fleece throw blanket (pictured). Thanks, mom. I enjoy this new tradition — last year, she got me an equally badass George Jones throw.
My mother, for the record, squealed when she...
The best entertainment-themed present of the 2013 holidays for me was a Sons of Anarchy fleece throw blanket (pictured). Thanks, mom. I enjoy this new tradition — last year, she got me an equally badass George Jones throw.
My mother, for the record, squealed when she...
- 12/26/2013
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
Three restaurants with three wildly different agendas make for three generally compelling stories in "Spinning Plates," a documentary that plays like a very good pilot for a Food Network series that never was.
Writer-director Joseph Levy tells the tale of one of the finest restaurants in the world, Alinea in Chicago, with its storied "molecular gastronomy" pioneer chef Grant Achatz and its pursuit of that treasured three-star Michelin Guide rating. Levy also hangs out in Balltown, Iowa, where Breitbach's Country Dining has been in the same family for 150 years, and is an anchor in the tiny community it calls home.
And Levy follows the week-to-week struggles of the Martinez family, Latin-American immigrants whose American dream is to open a Mexican restaurant (La Cocina de Gabby) in Tucson's crowded Mexican restaurant market.
Achatz, whose story is dramatic enough to have warranted a New Yorker profile, worries about his "legacy," showing off...
Writer-director Joseph Levy tells the tale of one of the finest restaurants in the world, Alinea in Chicago, with its storied "molecular gastronomy" pioneer chef Grant Achatz and its pursuit of that treasured three-star Michelin Guide rating. Levy also hangs out in Balltown, Iowa, where Breitbach's Country Dining has been in the same family for 150 years, and is an anchor in the tiny community it calls home.
And Levy follows the week-to-week struggles of the Martinez family, Latin-American immigrants whose American dream is to open a Mexican restaurant (La Cocina de Gabby) in Tucson's crowded Mexican restaurant market.
Achatz, whose story is dramatic enough to have warranted a New Yorker profile, worries about his "legacy," showing off...
- 10/24/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Watch the trailer and check out the poster for The Film Arcade and Inception Media's Spinning Plates, with Grant Achatz and Thomas Keller. The film from director and writer Joseph Levy, opens on October 25th at the Landmark (Los Angeles) and Landmark Sunshine (New York City). Spinning Plates is a documentary about three extraordinary restaurants and the incredible people who make them what they are. A cutting-edge restaurant named the seventh-best in the world whose chef must battle a life-threatening obstacle to pursue his passion. A 150-year-old family restaurant still standing only because...
- 9/19/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Written and Directed by: Joseph Levy
Featuring: Thomas Keller, Grant Achatz
Spinning Plates, the new documentary by writer/director Joseph Levy, is the story of three incredibly varied restaurants and their owners. The restaurants could not be more different in style and cuisine. We have the Michelin three-star-rated Alinea in Chicago, the small Tuscon Mexican restaurant named La Cocina de Gabby and the 150-year-old Breitbach's Country Dining in Balltown, Iowa. But Levy was able to tell each of these unique establishments' stories while still connecting them on some of our most basic, most important levels: family, food and love.
La Cocina de Gabby's story is one that is far too familiar to anyone who has any knowledge of the food industry. It is a family-run business trying to create a name for itself and struggling to bring in enough customers to just pay the bills. The passion and dedication of...
Featuring: Thomas Keller, Grant Achatz
Spinning Plates, the new documentary by writer/director Joseph Levy, is the story of three incredibly varied restaurants and their owners. The restaurants could not be more different in style and cuisine. We have the Michelin three-star-rated Alinea in Chicago, the small Tuscon Mexican restaurant named La Cocina de Gabby and the 150-year-old Breitbach's Country Dining in Balltown, Iowa. But Levy was able to tell each of these unique establishments' stories while still connecting them on some of our most basic, most important levels: family, food and love.
La Cocina de Gabby's story is one that is far too familiar to anyone who has any knowledge of the food industry. It is a family-run business trying to create a name for itself and struggling to bring in enough customers to just pay the bills. The passion and dedication of...
- 11/5/2012
- by Katie Jordan
- Planet Fury
Forget molecular gastronomy and the haute cuisine style which has turned the world's most famous chefs into wild scientists. A new style of cooking is heating up as home chefs and the pros looked to the distant past for inspiration.
Avant-garde cooking is having a very good year. The cooking style was recently canonized in Nathan Myhrvold's lavishly photographed, six-volume tome Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. High priests of haute cooking, Ferran Adrià and Wylie Dufresne, best known for bringing laboratory techniques to the plate, traded in their whites for tweed and stepped into the classroom at Harvard. And on the Syfy channel, Top Chef alum Marcel Vigneron puts molecular gastronomy on display in Marcel's Quantum Kitchen.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Summer's Hottest New Restaurants
But there's another movement afoot in lay cooking circles, one that's looking backward rather than forward. Home cooks are finding inspiration in the past,...
Avant-garde cooking is having a very good year. The cooking style was recently canonized in Nathan Myhrvold's lavishly photographed, six-volume tome Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. High priests of haute cooking, Ferran Adrià and Wylie Dufresne, best known for bringing laboratory techniques to the plate, traded in their whites for tweed and stepped into the classroom at Harvard. And on the Syfy channel, Top Chef alum Marcel Vigneron puts molecular gastronomy on display in Marcel's Quantum Kitchen.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Summer's Hottest New Restaurants
But there's another movement afoot in lay cooking circles, one that's looking backward rather than forward. Home cooks are finding inspiration in the past,...
- 6/3/2011
- by Claire Saffitz
- The Daily Beast
Photo by NicoleWilder/Bravo
There havebeen some serious changes made to Top Chef Masters this season. First of all hostKelly Choi has been replaced by the omnipresent Ausie Curtis Stone. Legendaryfood critic Ruth Reichl will sidle up beside her comrade James Oseland at theJudges’ Table. And the format of the show has completely changed. In a recentconference call interview Stone, Reichl and Oseland talked about the newset-up, their celebrity guests and what they would be eating if they could eatanything in the world.
Stone openedup about the latest installment of TopChef Masters, saying, “This season we really mixed it up. We changed theformat and all the chefs were in the show together and in the previous seasonsthere was… tournament [style] and two of the chefs went through. But in thisone we followed the format of Top Chefwhere all the chefs begin and in each episode, one chef’s eliminated. So Ithink...
There havebeen some serious changes made to Top Chef Masters this season. First of all hostKelly Choi has been replaced by the omnipresent Ausie Curtis Stone. Legendaryfood critic Ruth Reichl will sidle up beside her comrade James Oseland at theJudges’ Table. And the format of the show has completely changed. In a recentconference call interview Stone, Reichl and Oseland talked about the newset-up, their celebrity guests and what they would be eating if they could eatanything in the world.
Stone openedup about the latest installment of TopChef Masters, saying, “This season we really mixed it up. We changed theformat and all the chefs were in the show together and in the previous seasonsthere was… tournament [style] and two of the chefs went through. But in thisone we followed the format of Top Chefwhere all the chefs begin and in each episode, one chef’s eliminated. So Ithink...
- 4/13/2011
- by Pop Culture Passionistas
- popculturepassionistas
Can a brilliant cook make even a bowl of worms appetizing? We’ll find out this season on Top Chef Masters, which premieres April 6 at 11 p.m. Et on Bravo. In one memorable quickfire, the stars of Discovery’s Man, Woman, Wild visit the Top Chef kitchen and challenge the competitors to make a winning dish out of night crawlers, beetles, and other creepy-crawlies. “And guess who got to eat it all?” laughed Curtis Stone, the Australian chef (and onetime wannabe Celebrity Apprentice) who’s taking over as host of Masters this year, during a conference call with reporters. “I...
- 3/29/2011
- by Hillary Busis
- EW - Inside TV
A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt may seem like it's riding on the coattails of foodie phenomenon of recent years. Nine years in the making, the documentary about a rising-star New York chef pre-dates Top Chef by some years.
Liebrandt made a splash on the New York City food scene as the epitome of enfant terrible chef, arrogant with the skill to back it up. But as A Matter of Taste reveals, all the skill in the world does not equate to success, especially when your art depends on location, reputation and finances. At 24, Liebrandt was the youngest chef to receive a three-star review from The New York Times, but outside of New York you may not have heard of him. Until now.
Sally Rowe's feature directorial debut focuses as much on the business side of restaurants as the man as Liebrandt matures as a chef and a person.
- 3/24/2011
- by Jenn Brown
- Slackerwood
Thomas Keller, Grant Achatz, and other celebrated chefs are getting into the quick-and-dirty game of pop-up restaurants. Tien Nguyen plans your four-star meals before it's too late.
Getting a seat at a pop-up restaurant-one of the biggest food trends of 2011-might not be as difficult as scoring a seat at Rao's, but it's close. Nationwide, chefs are using temporary restaurant spaces to experiment and create entirely new dining experiences, only to shut down or change menus after only a few days or months. Because what pops up must pop down, access to these unique dining experiences will be highly limited, and only those in the know will be able to snag a table. Here are some of the country's most anticipated pop-ups to come. Plan your meals accordingly.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Fall's Hottest New Restaurants
Ending February 26: Dan Moody's Relate in San Diego
San Diego's first pop-up restaurant,...
Getting a seat at a pop-up restaurant-one of the biggest food trends of 2011-might not be as difficult as scoring a seat at Rao's, but it's close. Nationwide, chefs are using temporary restaurant spaces to experiment and create entirely new dining experiences, only to shut down or change menus after only a few days or months. Because what pops up must pop down, access to these unique dining experiences will be highly limited, and only those in the know will be able to snag a table. Here are some of the country's most anticipated pop-ups to come. Plan your meals accordingly.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Fall's Hottest New Restaurants
Ending February 26: Dan Moody's Relate in San Diego
San Diego's first pop-up restaurant,...
- 2/17/2011
- by Tien Nguyen
- The Daily Beast
Prince Robert of Luxembourg, Chairman of Domain Clarence Dillon wines, treated 75 guests to a formal dinner, including the lovely Jennifer Aniston.
Flip through the photos!
The seven-course dinner, prepared by Chef Thomas Keller, celebrated the 75th anniversary of the acquisition of L.A.'s Chateau Haut-Brion at the Vibiana Hotel. Others in attendance Wednesday included Sacha Baron Cohen, Quincy Jones, Adrien Brody, Tracee Ross and Debi Mazar among others.
In honor of this anniversary milestone,...
Flip through the photos!
The seven-course dinner, prepared by Chef Thomas Keller, celebrated the 75th anniversary of the acquisition of L.A.'s Chateau Haut-Brion at the Vibiana Hotel. Others in attendance Wednesday included Sacha Baron Cohen, Quincy Jones, Adrien Brody, Tracee Ross and Debi Mazar among others.
In honor of this anniversary milestone,...
- 12/10/2010
- Extra
Hi everybody. Michael C from Serious Film back again with another unsung contribution to cinematic brilliance. This week it's an achievement I'm sure most of you will recognize -- just don't read it on an empty stomach.
I have always been a little taken aback by the depth of Brad Bird and Jim Capobianco's screenplay for Ratatouille. I mean, here is a big-budget family film starring a talking rat and it is about nothing less than what it means to be an artist. I was reading W. Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence, the story of a man who drops out of society in order to follow his passion to paint, and I couldn't help but think, "This reminds me of Remy." It should come as no surprise that the filmmakers behind such an ambitious project went the extra mile and sought out the help of real master...
I have always been a little taken aback by the depth of Brad Bird and Jim Capobianco's screenplay for Ratatouille. I mean, here is a big-budget family film starring a talking rat and it is about nothing less than what it means to be an artist. I was reading W. Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence, the story of a man who drops out of society in order to follow his passion to paint, and I couldn't help but think, "This reminds me of Remy." It should come as no surprise that the filmmakers behind such an ambitious project went the extra mile and sought out the help of real master...
- 10/7/2010
- by Michael C.
- FilmExperience
In September 2008, Chef Thomas Keller addressed a roomful of culinary notables at Epcot Center before the American qualifier for the world’s premier culinary competition. The Bocuse d’Or, held every two years in Lyon, France, gives 24 chefs from around the world five hours to produce the most beautiful, tasty platters of food from provided main proteins. And the United States entrant has never stood on the awards podium. But in January 2008, Jérôme Bocuse, son of competition founder and president Paul Bocuse, approached Daniel Boulud of New York’s Daniel restaurant with the request to ...
- 12/17/2009
- avclub.com
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