NEW YORK (AP) — After earthquakes, as hurricanes blow and drench, when wildfires chew through neighborhoods and volcanoes spew deadly lava, look for a gregarious chef toting huge and mighty paella...
Here's a sentence that might come as a surprise: Cabbage is cool.
That taken-for-granted vegetable, that sturdy, dense staple of many a poor, ancestral homeland, is finally getting...
NEW YORK (AP) — Rice was a staple in JJ Johnson's home when he was growing up. It was also a food he despised.
"My mom made overcooked rice," Johnson, now a James Beard Foundation-nominated...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — When celebrity chef Lidia Bastianich decided to open a restaurant in Pittsburgh's Strip District in 2001, she arrived in a neighborhood filled with warehouses and...
NEW YORK (AP) — Memoirist no more? It's hard to believe, but "Save Me the Plums" just might be the last such narrative for Ruth Reichl.
Her latest, after "Tender at the Bone," ''Comfort Me...
ATLANTA (AP) — An award-winning barbecue restaurant in Atlanta has been destroyed in a fire.
News outlets said the fire in the pit area at B's Cracklin' Barbecue was reported shortly before...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ella Brennan, who couldn't cook but played a major role in putting New Orleans on the world's culinary map, died Thursday. She was 92.
"Tonight, the iconic Commander's Palace sign will not be lit," said a statement emailed from the Commander's Family of Restaurants. It said Brennan died with family and friends by her side, and services will be private.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Some top chefs from around the country are gathering to show that school lunches can be more than just chicken nuggets and tater tots.
NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Balducci, the New Yorker whose famed Greenwich Village gourmet food mecca attracted fans including Anna Wintour, Lou Reed and Lena Horne, has died. He was 92.
He and his wife, Nina Balducci, "really taught New York how to eat and cook genuine Italian food at a time when it was perceived as little more than pizza and pasta covered with red sauce and gooey cheese," wrote food critic Julia della Croce.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Robert Plant was famished after kicking off his U.S. tour with the Sensational Space Shifters in Raleigh, North Carolina, but the kitchen was closed when the Led Zeppelin frontman took his backing band to Garland, a top eatery in town.
The restaurant's owners showed them a whole lotta love anyway, feeding them free of charge.