Second Careers in Food ... that Failed

Highway of sorrow paved with brioche.

Padma Lakshmi: Comedienne? Seriously?

Padma Lakshmi is going to be starring in a new NBC food-focused sitcom.

Much-lauded Internet cartoonist and amateur gourmet Chris Onstad writes a biting strip on working in a grind-it-out restaurant kitchen.

I recently picked up Kitchen Confidential (a good read by the way). The book advises people to look for restaurant closings to pick up professional-grade knifes and what not. Does anybody know where to look to find out when...

Thanks for letting me know, LW. I actually wasn’t crazy about a lot of Heat for various reasons, so that’s an interesting comparison. I really liked Kitchen Confidential (& all of Bourdain’s other books), all of...

The backlash against media portrayals of restaurants is in full effect this week.

For those that like Sawtell Kitchen, (Japanese home style cooking restaurant on Sawtell Blvd. just a quarter of a block south of La Grange on the east side of the street in West LA) please be aware that their free corkage is gone...

warns about in Kitchen Confidential. The shrimp tasted freezer-burned to me, moldy to my wife. Not a good experience. Makes me not want to go anywhere but Pho Van. But I’ll keep exploring. The things I do for chow and...

, tonight? Are all the people in LA who turn on Fox in the morning asked to sign waivers of confidentiality???? I had the same question when the final 3 or 2, I don’t remember now, went to Times Square in NYC – how do...

In "Kitchen Confidential," Bourdain says something like, "I don’t know what that stuff coming out of the garlic press is – but it’s not garlic!" I used to be a huge press devotee, squirting that stuff in to...

the scenes you read about in Kitchen Confidential Dishes. I’m sad to say that I cannot remember all of the dishes. Here are the highlights. Bruschetta: grilled bread with a touch of smoke. The eggplant appetizer: very...

A Food & Wine writer goes undercover at Dovetail … and we learn nothing.

A militant faction of meat-free warriors was spurred into action by a passage from Kitchen Confidential.

As much as I’d love to do a quick tour of any kitchen, I know I don’t belong there and won’t ask. For those that haven’t read Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, I highly recommend the book...

Second episode and it’s back to what it was all about. The kitchen, the cooking or lack thereof. And I am sooo impressed that Ramsay didn’t let it turn into Survivor – Corey made stupid choices and will now have...