Chef Horror Stories
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Exploding propane tanks! Coked-up celebrities! Oprah meltdowns! From Rachael Ray to Paula Deen, the world's most famous chefs reveal their most stomach-turning moments.
Chefs on Drugs
Jason Sheehan is a former dishwasher, fry-cook, grillardin and chef, and is currently a James Beard Award-winning food writer and restaurant critic for Westword newspaper in Denver, Colorado. His work has appeared in Best Food Writing for the past five years. His new book, Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen, is on shelves now.
What are the odds that your next restaurant meal will be prepared by someone on drugs? Very high. An ex-chef and former addict on why cooks and coke go together like salt and pepper.
It's a pretty safe bet that when Sam Talbot graced the kitchen of Top Chef, any audience mouth-watering had nothing to do with the food. Who cares ...
J.J. Abrams' reboot of Star Trek hits this weekend, and critics are almost universally enamored with the re-imagined early days of Spock and Kirk. ...
Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide by Thomas Keller and Harold McGee. I am beginning to formulate thoughts for my own next book and admire the creativity and knowledge that this book imparts. There is a fascination with the creative techn...
Daniel Boulud is chef-owner of DANIEL, Café Boulud, DB Bistro Moderne and Bar Boulud and author of numerous cookbooks. Boulud has earned numerous James Beard Foundation awards and a four-star rating for DANIEL from the New York Times.
A Superstar Chef Does the Unthinkable
Amelia Smith moved from San Francisco to Paris in 1997, all the better to write about travel, food and culture without borders.
A conversation with Olivier Roellinger, the famous French chef who is giving back his Michelin stars.
Foodies Give Me Indigestion
Jessi Klein is a writer and comedian who has frequently appeared on Comedy Central, CNN, VH1, and the Today show. She also likes to think she has value as a human being aside from her numerous credits in the entertainment industry.
Why fussy eaters for whom the opening of a new Mario Batali restaurant spurs the same excited panting as a dose of Viagra drive me nuts.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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