The latest and greatest news about celebrity chefs, served up buffet style.
– Wait…if Gordon Ramsay gets a facelift, does that make him more or less scary than before? (Note: The above photo is not an artist’s rendering of the surgery.)
– Suffering from Julia Child overload yet? Never fear — there’s a new book coming out.
After the jump…a chef you’ve never heard of on a show you’ll never see, a food show that you can watch between episodes of Stargate and showings of Blade Runner and we get to see what Adam Gertler is willing to eat in exchange for having his own show.
As you surely know by now, I’m a sucker for cheese. And despite my typical blogger shit talk, I also happen to be a sucker for dead tree media. So on a recent Barnes & Noble trip I really had no choice when confronted with Culture: the word on cheese. That’s right, an entire magazine completely about cheese. Cheese making, cheese tasting, cheese travel — if it doesn’t have curds, Culture doesn’t cover it.
Despite the rather preposterous $9.95 cover price, clearly I had to pick up a copy of the winter issue. And I’m glad I did, because inside it gets even better:
The latest and greatest news about celebrity chefs, served up buffet style.
– Sorry, ladies (and gents of that persuasion)! Looks like Chef Talbot is off the market.
– Sweet God in heaven, why would you put Paula Deen on American Idol? It’s like two crappy tastes that taste crappy together.
After the jump…an updated Delicious Dish, alternative medicine and the culinary world collide and one of The New York Times’ recent cutbacks must have been in their linguistics department.
The latest and greatest news about celebrity chefs, served up buffet style.
– The crew for the second season of Top Chef Masterswas announced and includes Wylie Dufresne. I’m installing him as an early 4-to-1 favorite and placing the over/under for foams at 7.5. I suggest you take the over.
As you may have guessed, the above ad is not selling potato chips.
But given the food-centric nature of Super Bowl advertising, and that fact that this particular ad has CBS execs waffling back and worth, we’ve deemed it worthy of coverage on ES. The ad, for gay dating site ManCrunch, has been submitted for one of the Super Bowl’s $2.8 million, 30-second time slots, but CBS has not yet officially approved or rejected it. According to So Good, ManCrunch believes CBS is purposely putting off a decision until the last minute, unsure whether they’d rather piss off gay rights groups or my-family-is-more-valuable-than-yours types.
Stirring the controversy further, Fox News reports that CBS is trying to dodge the issue altogether by telling ManCrunch that all Super Bowl ads are already sold out. But wait — at the same time, CBS has reportedly told Pop Tarts (the breakfast pastry, not another gay dating site) that Super Bowl slots are still available! And all this after CBS has already approved an anti-abortion ad, preemptively negating their own “we just don’t want to get too political” defense. It’s all a little surprising given the Super Bowl’s long, successful history of selling food and beer products via (fake) lesbian action.
The latest and greatest news about celebrity chefs, served up buffet style.
– Slightly hoppy with a strong finish of meathead: Iron Hill, a brewpub in Maple Shade, New Jersey, is celebrating everyone’s favorite Jersey Shore guido with a namesake beer.
– Ferran Adria, the chef that other chefs want to be when they grow up, is shutting his world-renowned El Bulli down for two years. Funny…if a genius closes his business for two years, he’s regarded as quirky or enigmatic. If you or I did it, people would think we’re bat-shit crazy.
After the jump…we learn that it’s important to sound out possible restaurant names before committing to one, that former competitors can pull together for a good cause and that all food writers will be the subject of a movie at some point.
