CookShelfYou can find plenty of lists of "best restaurants" across the globe, but perhaps none are as comprehensive as a new guide put out by the French Foreign Ministry. Dubbed "La Liste", it's billed as a ranking of the "1,000…
Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of your favorite food television program? If you are a fan of Michael Symon's Burgers, Brew & 'Cue, read on. A participant on the show, Tyson Ho of Arrogant Swine…
Click on almost any kitchen design website, and you'll probably see large, open kitchens that flow seamlessly into surrounding living spaces. While this concept has seen steadily increasing popularity in the past decade…
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If you're like most people, your email inbox is brimming with advertisements for every website you've even thought about visiting in the last year. As tempting as those products may be, we have a listing of sites…
It seems that every appliance in our homes is going digital - our smart phones perform a variety of tasks, washer and dryers have sensors to determine how dirty or dry the clothes are, even our refrigerators are…
Food plays a starring role in many movies and books; too many to begin to count. Choosing the best meals from literary works would be a daunting task, yet that is exactly what Diana Secker Tesdell has done. She has…
We'd like to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to our Members in the US, where the turkey is ready for the the oven, the potatoes are on the stove, and the pies are cooling on the rack. After the meal is over and everyone has…
The forecast for next year's foods trends has begun in earnest. But it's not just food predictions being made; cocktail trends are also being watched. According to the Kimpton Hotel group's bar gurus, gin is the spirit…
On Friday, Danny Meyer's restaurant The Modern in NYC began a new, "no-tipping" policy. It's part of a plan to make all of his Union Square Hospitality-run restaurants tip-free by the end of 2016. Meyer implemented the…
It's no secret that many foodies post pictures of their meals to various social media accounts including Instagram. You may not realize, however, that more and more of these people are profiting from the habit, reports…
Those of us who love to cook (some might even say are obsessed with cooking) have probably dreamt of being a chef of one sort or another. Becoming a private chef has a lot of appeal for people who don't want the…
The trend in cookbooks to be part travelogue, part memoir, and part instruction follows from the increased interest in leisure reading about food. While not a new trend - people have been writing about food and cooking…
