Sniffing Out Oil-Tainted Seafood; Just Who Is Ruth Bourdain?
Ruth Bourdain, the tweeting persona who is half Ruth Reichl, half Anthony Bourdain wants to keep his/her identity a secret, even turning down the chance to appear on a panel with Bourdain and Reichl at the New York City Wine & Food Festival.
[Wall Street Journal]
Michelle Obama invited more than 500 chefs to the White House, including Rachael Ray, Tom Colicchio, and Jose Andres, to act as allies in the fight against childhood obesity.
[Reuters]
As demand for big-ticket items like luxury cars decreases, food marketers, like the makers of Sabra hummus, are increasing their ad spending.
[NY Times]
Some 40 inspectors have been trained at a federal fisheries lab in Pascagoula, Mississippi, to literally sniff out seafood tainted by oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
[AP]
The $1,000 meals at Masa have payed off for chef-owner Masa Takayama, who has just bought himself a $4.8 million townhouse on West 92nd Street.
[NY Times]
McDonald's is recalling 12 million Shrek Forever After glasses after it was discovered that the designs on the cups contained cadmium, a known carcinogen.
[Nation's Restaurant News]
In shows like Ultimate Cake Off, Ace of Cakes, and Cake Boss, competitors create architecturally impressive cakes, but with days of construction they're probably stale.
[Wall Street Journal]
A new book entitled One Man's Search for the World's Tastiest Piece of Beef asks just what makes a good piece of steak. The answer, if anything, is not raising it on corn.
[NY Times]
Anthony Bourdain says his new memoir, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, out Tuesday, was "cathartic to write."
[NY Post]
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