During truffle season, chef Daniel Boulud serves a $150 black truffle burger, stuffed with braised ribs and foie gras, at DB Bistro Moderne in the Big Apple. At Serendipity 3, also in New York, the Golden Opulence Tahitian vanilla ice cream sundae, garnished in a 23-carat edible gold leaf, sells…

The trailer for Jamie Oliver’s new television show, Food Revolution, has been released. According to ABC, Oliver will attempt to transform the eating habits of a bunch of rednecks in Huntington, West Virginia, and rumor has it that he bawls when he realizes what he’s gotten himself into. We don’t…

It was a highly anticipated episode: Mario, Bobby, Emeril, and the White House executive chef, Cristeta Cornerford would all be there. The secret ingredient? Any vegetable from the White House vegetable garden. And the 7.6 million viewers that tuned in to Iron Chef America on January 3 also got the…

If you’ve turned on the tube lately, you’re aware that some psychopath almost blew up Detroit with his underwear on Christmas, you’ve watched certain talking heads make complete idiots of themselves regarding the devastation in Haiti, and you’ve seen Kim Karsdashian’s new soft porn commercial for Carl’s Jr…

In this here ‘Merica, we can never just cherish a food. It has to become a preoccupation — an “anything-you-can-do-I-can-do-better” obsession. We always have to take it one step further, and we don’t give a damn about integrity or redneckery. Case in point: bacon. The Goddess of Pork. The sublime…

Michelle Obama appeared on Iron Chef America and challenged contestants to use ingredients from the White House vegetable garden. Mario Batali, known for his hideous orange Crocs, dubbed Michelle’s dress “Obamatali Orange.” Although we prefer him plump, George Costanza has agreed to be the new face of Jenny Craig. A…

Calling all young chefs: If you think you’ve got what it takes to be the next Best Teen Chef, then sharpen your knives and fill out the entry form here by February 5. The contest starts April 17 at the Art Institute of Colorado, 1200 Lincoln Street; at the cook-off,…

Chances are that if you read or watch anything (besides McCommercials) regarding the state of our food system in the United States, it will mention the staggering amount of processed crap we manufacture and the integrity of our diets versus the price — both financially and physically. Michael Pollan, professor…

Whole Foods CEO and chairman John Mackey stirred the pot in an August Wall Street Journal op-ed criticizing President Barack Obama’s health-care plan.”The problem with socialism,” he insisted, “is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” It was a bold — and some would say really stupid –…

‘Tis the season for foods rich and warming, foods that comfort the belly and make you dread the next time you must venture outside. The tasty bowl of soup above boasts bright flavors of zucchini and roasted poblano peppers, and it’s finished off with toasted chile-lime pumpkin seeds. If you…

If a day at the spa, followed by a meal prepared by French chefs that finishes with a dessert tasting of four flavors of crème brulee — Bailey’s, chocolate truffle, pumpkin, and Tahitian vanilla bean — sounds like something you might deserve after all of the holiday madness, then head…

Non-traditional weddings are the new black. The bride wears whatever she wants, the wedding party jams to Kanye as they bebop down the aisle and beaches, backyards, and city parks have replaced chapels and churches. But a couple in Japan recently took the cake (or the sashimi, more appropriately) for…

She is the culinary genius behind Chez Panisse in Berkeley. Along with friend and chef Jeremiah Tower, she pioneered California Cuisine and has had a heavy influence in promoting sustainable, locally grown food sources for restaurants. Her Chez Panisse Foundation introduced the Edible Schoolyard, a program that provides funding and…

Ah, the Christmas stocking. It’s an entirely essential object in the Christmas experience, yet its gift-bearing abilities are often misused and abused. Nothing is more annoying than the Santa whose stocking stuffer doesn’t even fit in the stocking. In the event that you’re one of these misfits, this final edition…

While having dinner recently, I overheard a woman trying to familiarize her dining companion with Jean-Georges Vongerichten. In an attempt to jog her memory, the friend asked, “What show is he on?” It’s an interesting state of affairs, more obviously a sign of the times. In a perfect world, we…

After I watched Food, Inc., I was too traumatized to eat beef without seeing its resume first. But this burger has made the cut for being one of the best in town — and rightfully so. The servers don’t ask what temperature you’d like it, not only because they don’t…

Pet peeve: You go over to someone’s house for a dinner party, and you go to the bathroom, and there’s a fancy pair of hand towels hanging there with ridiculous embroidered gold snowflakes or something, and you can just tell that even though they’re towels, and they’re hanging there in…

Where else, but in Colorado, does the temperature fluctuate seventy degrees in three weeks. WTF? When your new space heater craps out because it’s been running for four days without a break, it’s too cold. When your nose hairs freeze to the point of breakage upon stepping outside, it’s too…

We met five weeks ago. We’ve seen each other at least once a week since then, and it’s always been just as good as the first time. It’s a relationship of consistency, simplicity and warmth; I’m completely smitten. The creator is a goddess in my book, and she’s whipped up…