Taking a Culinary Journey with Joanne Weir

Joanne Weir has a career that most people can only dream of. On top of having her own cooking series on PBS, several published cookbooks, and a restaurant, she travels around the world to places like Tuscany and Seville, showing people where to dine and find unique cultural experiences.

It started about 15 years ago, when she was teaching cooking classes. A friend of a friend from Italy asked her to help teach her culinary classes in the United States. Then with an ‘aha!’ moment, this friend told Joanne she needed to teach the classes in Europe. Her program exploded, and Joanne’s European excursions were ... Read more >>

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Fabio Viviani on His Latest Ventures & His Favorite Brunch Spot

Chef Fabio Viviani is a busy man.

“I work 130 hours a week. I’m up at 6am each day and I’m never in bed until midnight. I work sixty hours just in the mornings.”

With three restaurants, a new cookbook, and all the television and in-person appearances, one would be surprised if he didn’t work all those hours. Because for Fabio, being awake means working, and he’s loving every minute of it.

We were first introduced to Fabio through season 5 of Bravo TV’s Top Chef, where his charming accent and larger than life personality won him “Fan Favorite.” Since then he’s opened Siena Tavern in Chicago, developed an award-winning Yahoo TV show “Chow Ciao,” and wrote a cookbook that sold 17 thousand copies in less than 10 ...

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Gordon Ramsay's Cookbook May Be Fatty, But Fatty Ain't Bad

Gordon Ramsay's “World Kitchen: Recipes from the F-Word” has topped 2010's unhealthiest cookbooks by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. And while this watchdog committee maybe down on Ramsay’s latest publication, one has to wonder why the media is echoing their review. If you take the time to look through the book, nowhere does it say “recipes for every day eating”, nor does it allude to healthy food. The book is actually described as a composition of Gordon Ramsay’s favorite recipes from around the world (hence the title).

Moreover, can you remember the last time you picked a cookbook based on a PCRM review? I know I can't. If you are going to ban Ramsay’s cookbook for its fatty contents, then you might as well rule out Julia Childs’ cookbooks as well, since most of her recipes are saturated in butter. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying a creamy buttery dish now and then, as long as it’s in moderation.

We know Gordon Ramsay hasn’t done much to earn our love, but in this case, it seems the media is just reaching.

It looks like Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares isn’t just about the restaurant anymore. According to The Daily Mirror, the Kitchen Nightmares’ star and executive producer has added a number of irrelevant questions to the Kitchen Nightmares contestant application. How much a contestant weighs, as well as their height, eye and hair color are just a few of the questions that have been added. But my favorites of all of them are these:

• Have you ever had a restraining order filed against you?
• Does your family have a history of depression?
• Are you easily upset?

Actually, the one regarding a history of depression seems to be fair.

A friend of mine had filled out an application for Chef Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen (as a joke) and told me that they had similar questions on the application he filled out, which he thought was strange. Considering that Kitchen Nightmare’s is supposed to be focused on the restaurants and not the contestants, asking such personal questions doesn’t seem right.

Moreover, Chef Gordon Ramsay should be focused more on cleaning up his muddied image instead of adding to his laundry list of drama and evil doings.

Are those questions even legal? But then again, does he really care?

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Gordon Ramsay: There’s Serious Hell in His Kitchen

Hell’s Kitchen: A Hell of an Embarrassment

Hell’s Kitchen: A Hell of a Let Down

A Real Kitchen Nightmare... For Gordon Ramsay

A Beautiful Kitchen Companion

"Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking" is a six-volume cookbook being developed that strives to intermingle beauty and simplicity. Science and learned techniques are shared to better understand the method behind the madness of meal preparation. It isn’t scheduled to come out until spring of next year, but the pictures I’ve seen are stunning. Instead of just satisfying the readers’ stomach, the authors are working to engage the readers and revolutionize cooking technique. This seems to be a cookbook set that has gathered the information of the ages and is sharing it gorgeously.


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