Bravo’s popular chef-shuffling culinary competition Top Chef is back for a 15th season, this time in Colorado, and with four Bay Area chefs: Tanya Holland, Tu David Phu, Melissa Perfit, and Rolegio Garcia, who join the ranks of past local competitors like Preeti Mistry, Casey Thompson, Elizabeth Binder, Louis Maldonado, and Jen Biesty. The “cheftestants” […]

The head of the Philadelphia Chewing Gum Company (who happens to be the makers of Swell Bubble Gum), Edward L. Fenimore, has been said to have blown a bubble within a bubble within a bubble, that is, a triple whammy. One of the most famous, but false facts, is that swallowed gum will remain in […]

HAM TRIVIA There are 13,564 people in the U.S. listed on whitepages.com with the last name ‘Ham’ Country Ham or Country-Style Ham – This is a dry-cured ham. The ham is hand rubbed with salt, sugar and nitrate; packed in the curing ingredients and usually smoked. A country ham is much drier than injected-cured hams […]

For years, Bob Gordon, the owner of Footprints Cafe in Brooklyn, handled the delivery of his restaurant’s meals, like his Caribbean-inspired “Rasta Pasta,” to customers. So when he decided to work for the first time with an outside delivery service — UberEats, the delivery arm of the ride-hailing giant Uber — he was nervous. Then, […]

Ana Roš is the most unlikely of chefs. She never wanted to be one and she never studied cooking. So how come she won the title of World’s Best Female Chef this year? It’s quite a story. “I come from a society that doesn’t have a tradition of gastronomy, where cooking is not a prestigious […]

Amazon.com Inc. spent its first day as the owner of a brick-and-mortar grocery chain cutting prices at Whole Foods Market as much as 43 percent. In a sign of how the retailer is changing, the Amazon Echo, a voice-activated electronic assistant, was also for sale, for $99.99 — a sharp pivot into electronics for a […]

A Massachusetts food manufacturer is recalling thousands of pounds of breakfast sausage sold at various Trader Joe’s locations in the Northeast. DiLuigi Foods Inc., a Danvers establishment, is recalling 3,448 pounds of chicken breakfast sausage containing soy lecithin because the known allergen was not declared on the product label. The recalled chicken breakfast sausages were […]

The four Teamsters accused of hurling racial epithets and sexist slurs at a “Top Chef” crew filming in Milton in 2014 were acquitted Tuesday in a high-profile case that tested the line between illegal strong-arm tactics and legitimate union advocacy. After nearly 20 hours of deliberations, the jury found the union members not guilty of […]

Earlier this year, chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten announced plans to open a restaurant at London’s Connaught Hotel, the luxury hotel in ritzy Mayfair. Today, those plans have been revealed — and they include takeout pizza. According to London restaurant blog Big Hospitality, Jean-Georges at the Connaught will offer a complete a la carte menu that includes […]

According to the (not so) official Freebie Calendar of made-up food holidays, the third Wednesday in July is always National Hot Dog Day.Here are all the chains offering giveaways, special deals, and free hot dogs on and around Wednesday, July 19:Burger King: Participating BK locations are selling classic grilled hot dogs for 79 cents each […]