Chef's Blade

 Santa Monica, Ca.- Federal prosecutors have filed charges against a soushi chef and a Santa Monica  restaurant accused of serving illegal and endangered whale meat. Typhoon Restaurant Inc., which owns The Hump restaurant, and 45-year-old Kiyoshiro Yamamoto of Culver City, were charged Wednesday with illegally selling an endangered species product, a misdemeanor. Two undercover diners requested whale as part of a ...

This is a great concept Article and Photo Gallery. This article features a new career path in the Foodservice Industry: The Forager. In sports terms their kind of an Agent for the ultra specialist performer. In the Food & Beverage industry, they seek out unique ingredients for Elite Cuisine Beverage Recipes and then pair Growers and Ranchers with Chefs & Restaurants. ...

John Pilkington's boss wouldn't take no for an answer. During more than two years as a food runner at an upscale steakhouse in Scottsdale, Arizona, Pilkington says his male supervisor groped, fondled and otherwise sexually harassed him more than a dozen times. "It was very embarrassing," Pilkington said. "I felt like I had to do something because the situation was just ...

I started writing about food because I was tired of vegetarians and vegans telling me I should stop eating meat all together as my carnivorous consumption was inhumane and contrary to humanities’ evolution as a species. I eat meat. I will continue to eat meat. And I think you should too. One of my quickest responses to the vegetarian/vegan anti-meat rhetoric ...

A kitchen is a spiritual place for Laura Martinez, a space that arouses her senses, excites her imagination. It's not where she imagined herself finding such satisfaction. When she was too young to understand that she was blind, she dreamed of being a surgeon. She grew up and out of such fantasies and studied briefly to be a psychologist. But the ...

This time of year, not many fresh fruits and vegetables can be found at the market. But the bright orange carrot can be found in abundance. Luckily there is more you can do than just dipping them in ranch dressing. Beekeeper Virginia Webb says her specialty is a dish of cooked carrots with local honey. "It's only carrots, honey, and butter," ...

NEW YORK--A judge says New York City can keep the "Tavern on the Green" name for the famed restaurant building in Central Park that's been forced to close because of financial problems. U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum on Wednesday settled the biggest question in a legal dispute between the city and the longtime operators of the landmark eatery. The restaurant ...

Jesus impressed his disciples by turning water into wine. Water sommelier Michael Mascha thinks water is miraculous enough. Supermarket shelves are stacked floor to ceiling with bottles of water, most of which comes from a tap, just like the one you have at your kitchen sink. So why are we paying for it? Because, at least according to Michael Mascha, the ...

No wonder their population is so small......

CHICAGO--When 4-year-old Eric Stavros Adler choked to death on a piece of hot dog, his anguished mother never dreamed that the popular kids' food could be so dangerous. Some food makers including Oscar Mayer have warning labels about choking, but not nearly enough, says Joan Stavros Adler, Eric's mom. The American Academy of Pediatrics agrees. The nation's largest pediatricians group is ...

Sure to be entertaining and guaranteed to leave your guests speechless, no one will believe it until they see it, when you pull a perfectly cooked lasagna from between your freshly washed dinner plates and silverware. This unique recipe is easy to create and doesn't require much more time than cooking lasagna the old fashioned way.

Chefs shouldn't always be behind the scenes... There’s nothing sexier than a man (or woman for that matter) who knows how to cook. Fortunately, my future husband is an amazing chef. In fact, he wooed me with a four-course meal the night he proposed. These five sexy chefs could serve me cold slugs and I’d still be beggin’ for more. ...

So the secret to a good cat stew is to immerse the corpse in a running stream of water for 3 days?  How far out in the woods do you have to go to find a stream with water clean enough for that?  I knew cat and rat were eaten in Europe during times of war, siege and plague, but who ...

At a time when the sluggish economy has nearly brought Dallas restaurant openings to a halt, plugged-in food lovers looking for kicks have their sights set on Oak Cliff. There, in a former taqueria on Sylvan Avenue, served on plates donated by the Salvation Army, they're starting to find what promises to be some of the most exciting cooking in the ...

Earlier that day, we had nearly died together in a highway tunnel on the Ligurian coast. The car ahead of us began spewing opaque smoke from its exhaust and soon the entire tunnel was black – there was no way to gauge our car’s distance from the one in front, and no way for the car behind us to see if ...

Salt has been an extremely valuable commodity throughout the ages. Roman soldiers were often paid in salt, salerium alerium, giving us the word "salary". In fact, salt was so valued that theft was punishable by death....

This is where the magic happens. Dan Coudreaut, the man behind the menu at McDonald's, is whipping up a Parmesan cheese artichoke dip in the spotless kitchen at the fast food giant's Oak Brook, Ill., headquarters. But this is no ordinary kitchen; it's the test kitchen at the Golden Arches' massive corporate campus. As director of culinary innovation for nearly six ...

Kitchen worker Carlos Garcia envies the waiters who make more money and suffer fewer aches than those like him in the "back of the house." The very term, common in restaurants, speaks to a divide that is conspicuous yet often overlooked by diners. The division of labor plays out in Loop steakhouses and Wrigleyville sports pubs: Taking the order or seating ...

BUCHAREST, Romania--For post-communist Romanians a Big Mac and soda meant much more than a meal: It was a culinary signpost from the free and capitalist west _ a sign they too, at last, had arrived. But modernity requires something different today: the Balkan country is moving to join the health conscious 21st century by proposing taxes on burgers, french fries, soda ...

Wouldn't it be lovely to have fresh eggs for your restaurant? Chickens come in more shapes and sizes than you've ever imagined. They can have beautiful head plumes, sport mottled feathers, and vary greatly in size depending on the breed. Not only are these heritage breeds beautiful but they also lays delicious eggs. Isn't it time you had your own ...