Julia Child

Searching for Guy Fieri At Guy's American Kitchen and Bar

I've been making fun of Guy Fieri for a pretty long time. I mean, look at him: If we ever get dragged into World War III, the Axis powers will put his chubby, bleached-blond head on propaganda posters to illustrate what us awful Americans are like. But I'm not alone, everyone makes fun of Guy Fieri. ... More >>

The Art of Cutting Food with Playing Cards

Ye Tongxin, a 48-year-old school-bus manager in Nanjing, has been training for 10 years to slice cucumbers with playing cards. His current best is to cut through 12 cucumbers in 42 seconds. If he can manage to cut through 18 in under 60 seconds, he will set a new Guinness World Record. Card throwing ... More >>

This Week's Specials: German Beer Halls, Mexican Delights

What we've been up to at Fork in the Road this week: We give you our picks for German beer halls in the city. Robert Sietsema checks out three types of guacamole and other Mexican offerings at Angelo Sosa's Anejo Tequileria. He also lists the 5 best things to eat at the Cal-Mex restaurant, Floren ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Afro-Brazilian Cooking, Julia Child's Birthday Celebration

Make Moqueca, Arroz à Brasileira, Dendê Farofa, and other Afro-Brazilian dishes at the Bowery Culinary Center on April 17 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tickets are $55. Don't let Thomas Keller's cooking intimidate you: learn how to prepare some of the chef's classic dishes and pair them with wine at The ... More >>

Lawrence Dai Watched Julie & Julia Every Day for a Year and Lived to Tell the Tale!

By now, most of America has seen Julie & Julia, the Nora Ephron film about blogger-turned-memoirist Julie Powell and culinary legend Julia Child. Lawrence Dai, however, has seen Julie & Julia a staggering 365 times and blogged about it at The Lawrence/Julie & Julia Project. Yes, he watched the rom-c ... More >>

Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher: The First Review

The Guardian has seen The Iron Lady, with the esteemed Meryl Streep as British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, and they're not afraid to tell us about it. The film, they say, is a "breezy, whistle-stop tour through the unstable nitroglycerin of Thatcher's life and times." They insist that it's l ... More >>

Carmen Quagliata of the Union Square Cafe on His Favorite Cookbooks and the Advice He Gives to His Chefs: Interview Part 2

Photo courtesy Carmen QuagliataCarmen Quagliata always checks the oven temperature now​Yesterday we spoke with the Union Square Cafe's chef, Carmen Quagliata, about his favorite and most hated foods, and learned all about his bean trellis hobby. Today we switch the focus to learn more about h ... More >>

IACP Cookbook and Media Award Finalists Announced

IACP​It's the foodie awards season, and IACP just announced the finalists for its prestigious annual cookbook and journalism awards. Over 500 entries were submitted for consideration in this year's cookbook awards categories, with 52 books in 17 categories selected as finalists via a rigorous ... More >>

National Chinese Restaurant Awards Ceremony Slights New York

​This obscure restaurant near the corner of 16th Street and Seventh Avenue -- which advertises a combination of Sichuan and Vietnamese food -- was declared one of the best Chinese restaurants in the country in the inscrutable "Top Chefs & Owners" category. This past Sunday, correspondent Bil ... More >>

Gael Greene Asks Us to Remember Craig Claiborne

​When the Barneys' holiday windows went up last November, Gael Greene took exception to the absence of Craig Claiborne from the display, which featured food innovators and "personalities" past and present. Today, she uses her Fork Play newsletter to elaborate upon her displeasure, and to make ... More >>

The Barneys Food (Network)-Themed Holiday Windows: Some Pictures

​Mario Batali's decapitated head is surrounded by a garnish of Crocs. On Tuesday, Barneys unveiled its much-anticipated food-themed holiday windows. Inscribed with the command "Have a Foodie Holiday," the three tableau offer an assemblage of 70 Food Network "personalities," chefs, and assort ... More >>

Barneys to Dedicate Its Windows to Food, or at Least the People Who Make It

illycaffeSimon Doonan caffeine = Barneys​Although Barneys' only nod to food comes from the $30 salads served upstairs at Fred's, the department store is taking a surprisingly caloric approach to its holiday windows this year.

Nikki Cascone On Selling 24 Prince, Pregnancy Cravings & Her Celebrity Chef Crush

Nikki Cascone​Yesterday, we talked to Nikki Cascone about her new "global Jewish" restaurant, Octavia's Porch, and what she was going to be breaking her Yom Kippur fast with this weekend. Today, she reveals who she dreams of cooking with, eating with, and what food shows she watches on TV thes ... More >>

R.I.P. Morrie Yohai, Inventor of the Cheez Doodle

Bill David/NewsdayMorrie Yohai​Morrie Yohai, the man responsible for the development of Cheez Doodles, died last week at his home in Kings Point, New York, at the age of 90. Per The New York Times, Yohai preferred to share the credit for inventing the bright orange snacks beloved not only by k ... More >>

Padma and Friends Declare Food Television Safe for Consumption

Keith WagstaffCulinary types discuss culinary television programming.​Michael Pollan's New York Times article "Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch" hung heavily over the "Food on the Tube: How TV Shapes the Way We Think About Food" talk Tuesday night at the 92nd Street Y. In attendance: Padma L ... More >>

The Culinary Historians of New York Show the Big Apple What It's Biting

Eighteenth-century fish, as portrayed by Luis Melendez.​Gourmands looking to bone up on their food history should check out the Culinary Historians of New York, a nonprofit organization founded in 1985 with the aim of furthering people's knowledge about the historical and sociological signific ... More >>

Thu Tran Gets Set to Bring Her Food Party Back to Your Television Set

Photo courtesy of IFCThu Tran, hostess with the mostess.​ On April 27, the IFC Channel will roll out the second season of Thu Tran's Food Party. Simply put, Food Party is a collection of 20 15-minute episodes dedicated to the cooking adventures of Tran and a cast of puppets. But beyond that de ... More >>

The Artisanal Deli Movement Has Begun; Are You Cilantrophobic?

​McDonald's will likely reject a proposal put forth by the Humane Society to require that 5 percent of its eggs be cage-free. Burger King, Subway, and Wendy's have committed to buying at least some cage-free eggs. [NY Times] Alliance for a Healthier New York is organizing a soda buyback progr ... More >>

Who Is Jerry Thomas and Why Does He Have More Facebook Friends Than You?

Vidiot/FlickrWaxing poetic: Jerry Thomas at The Museum of the American Cocktail in New Orleans​Settle down, cocktailians. The question isn't, "who is Jerry Thomas?" as in the pioneering American bartender and New York (State) native deemed the father of modern mixology and worshiped by mustach ... More >>

Oscar Winner Turned Away From Gay Beer Hall!

Academy Awards heads-up: Basterds and biopsies.

All of the Apples Available at the Union Square Farmers' Market, 11/12/09

AMBROSIA (British Columbia, new cultivar, sweet, not bad for eating) ​ This picture file is the result of a visit to the Union Square Farmers' Market on Saturday, November 12, 2009, and represents an accurate record of every apple available for sale, 30 in total. The apples are presented in al ... More >>

Lesbian Star of Glee: I Identified as a Boy!

Chatting with perennial Guest star Jane Lynch.

Assorted Food Industry Folk Offer Their Thoughts on the Future of American Food and What Food TV Has Wrought

Mike Licht/NotionsCapitol.com/flickr​Yesterday, NYU held a panel discussion entitled "Food Show: When Performance Becomes Lunch and Why We Finally Have an Appetite for a New Sort of Cooking Show." Though the title could have used a bit of editing, the panelists were a well-curated bunch: Harol ... More >>

Our 10 Best: Cookbooks

​Above all, a cookbook should be useful and accurate, but that's not why we love them. A great cookbook isn't just a compendium of recipes; it takes you somewhere--into a cook's kitchen, to the South of France, or the South Pacific, or back in time. Following a 1961 recipe for Chateaubriand do ... More >>

RIP Keith Floyd

Yesterday's Times ran an obituary for Keith Floyd, the British chef, cookbook author, and cooking show host who died on Monday at the age of 65. Although his name is hardly as well-known as Julia Child's or even the Frugal Gourmet's, Floyd earned a devoted following here and in the U.K. for his show ... More >>

Daniel Craig at a Gay Club!

Fashion Week, Idol chatter, a gesture toward Liza. By Michael Musto

Dispatch From the Brooklyn Cheese Experiment

​ The Bell House yesterday played host to the Brooklyn Cheese Experiment, a polite maelstrom of dairy, beer, and DIY showmanship. Home cooks and home brewers competed for the hearts and stomach lining of the audiences and judges alike; inhuman quantities of curds and whey were consumed, and un ... More >>

Industria Argentina's Natalia Machado Working on a Cookbook

Chef Natalia Machado with owner Stefano Villa​Natalia Machado, the executive chef at Industria Argentina, Libertador, and Azul, who just shared her recipe for Rib Eye with Chimichurri and Criollo, is working on her first cookbook. Sort of. "The cookbook will feature dishes off the menu of Ind ... More >>

Recipe: Make Natalia Machado's Rib Eye Steak with Chimichurri and Criollo

​As a native Argentinean born in Patagonia and raised in Buenos Aires, Natalia Machado knows her meat. After training under Maricel Presilla (as some say, the Julia Child of Latin cuisine), Machado took over as executive chef of Industria Argentina, Libertador, and Azul. She shares her recipe ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Todd P Goes to Austin, John Forte, Abandon Ship, Lev Grossman's The Magicians, and More

Polaroids from another long, strange trip by Bridget Finn. Todd P, far right. In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla talks with the director and main subject of the new doc Todd P Goes to Austin: "A documentary or other such deification was inevitable, though Austin, directed by longtime Todd ... More >>

Bruni Picks His Top (New) Pizza Pies; Could An Aussie Be the One to Save Bluefin Tuna?

First Alan Richman listed his faves, then we did ours, and now Frank Bruni is getting in on the pizza judging action. Looking only at pizza places that have opened since 2004, he deems Motorino's Pugliese pie "a masterpiece," but "got almost no pleasure from the soggy pies at Keste." [NY Times] Mer ... More >>

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Sunday

Nina's Heavenly Delights

Last Meal: Kenny Lao Hearts Mutton Sticks

Kenny Lao's Last Meal

Bring on the spiced mutton meat sticks

Knife's Edge

Your next dinner party may depend on how (and whether) a chef tests his cookbook recipes

A Shore Thing

Mini guides to five waterfront neighborhoods worth your salt

The Main Course

Food studies is fast becoming a serious pursuit

Pigs, Horses, and Homeless Peeps!

Letters

Lyne Disease

Constance Craving

Pudenda Agenda

The Shaved-Vagina Monologues

Singing Seniors

NY Mirror

Westport's Dragon Lady

Martha Stewart Is One Burned-Up Cookie