When Can Chefs Sue Other Chefs?

Defining legitimate legal claims in the restaurant world.

10 Food Feuds

Is there nothing original in food anymore?

Automatic Hand Washers

High-tech gear from the 2007 National Restaurant Association Show.

Danger: Food Present

Food allergies are on the rise and on the mind.

Death by Dinner

Ten ways people died from food.

The Year in Food 2007

Vegansexuals, tainted dog food, greenwashing, and more.

The Year in Food 2006

From bad spinach to exploding lattes: The tastiest moments of 2006.

The controversy over puréed cauliflower continues!

the restaurant’s business was grossing $500,000 a year before he was on Top Chef and $4,000,000 after he was on Top Chef. http://www.tmz.com/2009/09/27/top-chef-fabio-viviani-lawsuit/

ingredients that developed out of discussion about The Water Grill. It seemed worthy of a larger conversation. The basic idea is that chefs routinely use added fats in composing dishes that are nowhere mentioned in the menu...

Thanks to a proliferation of restaurant gossip blogs, kitchen tyrants can no longer hide behind the swinging doors.

- not too reserved, not too arrogant, not too “sweet” (the women – and I’m female). I think with Besh and Symon they have both – the right personalities and the great chefs. They will keep them both...

into the kitchen and started cooking, which was probably the bravest thing I’d ever done.’ Admittedly, there were teething problems. The older, male chefs were unhappy with and resentful of her presence; one disgruntled...

A restaurateur accuses Gordon Ramsay of faking drama for the cameras.

Swine wranglers in Sonoma, California, get hit with an animal-rights lawsuit over use of cages that confine pregnant and nursing sows.