Chef's Blade

I was so impressed (and grossed out) by the dishwasher lasagna recipe, that I looked up an old Pacific Northwest oddity for your entertainment

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 ...

Before everyone jumps off the cliff on who sponsored this Event, take a read as to who participated in the Event and tell me she has no pull in the industry, regardless of her "chef" or "overly cutsie" status. This article features a South Beach Burger contest from the Top Chef's in the country and reaffirms that the number one trend ...

There is a lot of whimsy here.....

 In Georgia trouble is brewing over the state bird. Flip the Birds Campaign has started a movement to change the state bird from the brown thrasher to the chicken. The group claims the chicken is more worthy of the title for its tasty meat and the millions of dollars it contributes to Georgia's economy.  Pierre Howard, president of the Georgia Conservancy, ...

 Stock and broth are NOT the same thing. Find out why...

Jean-Georges promotes his local Shanghai chefs and provides a recipe for Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp with Avocado and Passion Fruit-Honey Mustard.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cook up something extra special this V-Day! Yup. That’s right. That holiday is just around the corner: V-Day, otherwise known as Valentine’s Day. And with V-Day comes aphrodisiacs. Some of these we all know – like oysters – but there are others, like animal horns and exotic bugs, that you likely don’t. Next Page: The Traditional→ [page] Oysters Since we ...