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Last Minute Appetizers and Snacks

As we count down the days to Thanksgiving, we have one eye on the turkey and another eye on the upcoming holiday season.  If you’re like me, you are probably starting to feel stressed about all the obligations that come along with this time of the year, wondering when you’ll have time to make all [...]

Cuisine on the Underground

I don’t know about you, but the thought of eating anything on some of the gritty and grimy subway stations in the United States is extremely unappetizing, no matter which top chef might be doing the cooking.  The smell and stench of the underground trains, coupled with the noise and ambiance just does not appeal [...]

New Take on Traditional Green Beans

Traditional southern green beans are found on Thanksgiving buffets at every home throughout the southern states.  These beans are slow cooked with ham hock or bacon until they are tender and turn almost a grayish green in color.  Don’t get me wrong, these beans are delicious, but this year I want to try something new.  [...]

Cooking With Passion Makes a Difference

Chef Micheel, director of kitchens of the Radisson Blu hotel in Dubai and president of the Emirates Culinary Guild, manages nearly 140 chefs and 14 restaurants. Micheel believes a good chef must cook with passion. He claims that’s why most people say the best cook they know is their mother or grandmother. Mothers and grandmothers, [...]

Chocolate Pecan Pie (without corn syrup!)

Thanksgiving is just around the corner and what better way to count down the weeks than to start cooking.  Every family has traditional Thanksgiving dishes they enjoy each year.  While I look forward to these every fall, I also like to try new recipes just to spice things up and challenge myself in the kitchen.  [...]

Gena Knox Joins FriendsEat as a Guest Blogger during the month of November

FriendsEat.com is excited to welcome Gena Knox to its family of bloggers during the month of November.  Gena joins the team of Antonio Evans, Spence Cooper, and Susan Davis, lending her own special spin on foodie-related topics.  We’re looking forward to reading her contributions and becoming inspired by one of the modern gurus of new southern [...]

Joan of Arc Meets Haute Cuisine

In the refined culinary world of haute cuisine, it’s inspiring to see a woman excel in a prestigious field so dominated by men. Helene Darroze is the first French woman chef to win two Michelin stars at her Paris restaurant in the rue d’Assas, which she started 10 years ago; she’s a protégée of the [...]

Best Teen Chef Competition 2010

For all you high school seniors who dream of chef school and becoming the next celebrity chef and star of your own television show, the International Culinary Schools at The Art Institutes are accepting entries for the Best Teen Chef Competition 2010. The Best Teen Chef Competition awards more than $200,000 in tuition scholarships to [...]

Heresy in the Haute Cuisine Scene?

Last April, French chef Pierre Gagnaire claimed to have created the world’s first entirely synthetic gourmet dish with molecular cooking made from ascorbic acid, glucose, citric acid and a few grams of 4-O-a-glucopyranosyl-D-sorbitol, a sugar substitute known as maltitol. Gagnaire debuted his celluloid creation in Hong Kong with a starter of jelly balls in apple [...]

Celebrity Chef Mishap in The Hamptons

Star-studded celebrity chefs aren’t without their mishaps. Just ask Top Chef season two finalist Sam Talbot, who has since opened The Surf Lodge in east Hampton where he whips up dishes for the likes of Jerry Seinfeld, Molly Sims, Tyson Beckford, Rebecca Romijn, and Jerry O’Connell.
Last summer when he opened the Surf Lodge, Talbot discovered [...]

Japanese Gardener Supplies French Chefs with Specialty Produce

You’ve heard about celebrity chefs.  How about celebrity gardeners?
Sometimes the reason legendary chefs shine in the kitchen is because they have a silent partner working behind the scenes supplying them with the unique ingredients for their signature dishes.  That’s the case with Pierre Gagnaire and six other Parisian chefs who share the services of gardener Asafumi Yamashita, [...]

Top Ten Cookbooks

There are few greater joys than reading a good cookbook. Here’s ten selections we think are essential editions to anyone’s kitchen library. Please use the comment section below to include cookbook selections you may treasure. We’d love to hear from you.

1. Encyclopedia of Pasta (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Oretta Zanini
Spaghetti, [...]