David Chang sits down with Bloomberg to talk about the rising prices of food and focuses in on pork and beef. [Bloomberg]

Tory Miller of L'Etoile, who won the James Beard Award for Best Chef: Midwest, talked to Eater about leaving the haute kitchens of New York for the Midwest. "The celebrity chef thing is strange for me, since all chefs work very hard. I had this sense, taking the subway from my house to these richer neighborhoods to prepare food, that the people that were eating it sort of didn't care. That's what made me want to get out," he says. [Eater]

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According to The New York Times, Guy Fieri will be opening a restaurant in Times Square. Fieri has seven restaurants already in California, but the New York concept will be completely different. It's slated to be called Guy's American Kitchen and Bar. [New York Times]

Le Bernardin will be hosting a comedy roast directed toward GQ's Alan Richman, a recent recipent of the James Beard Awards. According to Grub Street, the roasters will include Eric Ripert, Anthony Bourdain, and Dave Chang. [Grub Street]

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Wylie Dufresne at WD-50 is creating a completely different menu with brand-new dishes. [NYTimes]

Iron Man competitor Joe Bastianich talks about his new book and the dark secrets of restaurants. "The skills of a maître d' are the same skills a hooker has--to please the clients. . . . Make them feel like they're the only one," Bastianich writes. "Extract as much money as you can." [Today]

French chef Jacques Pepin gives a Google Talk and discusses the difficulty of getting certain cooking techniques across in a cookbook. [Eater National]

Eric Ripert, Masaharu Morimoto, Todd English, David Chang, and Ming Tsai talk about the Asian-food craze in America. [The Daily Beast]

Famed Korean-American barbecue chef Roy Choi of the Kogi Truck talks vegetarianism and thinks about quitting cooking. He writes: "I stopped eating meat this week. That's why I'm thinking about leaving cooking. How can I cook without using meat? I will taste, for now as that is my profession. But I will no longer eat meat for my own consumption." [Riding Shotgun]

Dale Schnell, formerly of Setai New York and Artisanal, will be the new executive chef of KTCHN, which will open in Hell's Kitchen in June. [Grub Street]

Zak Pelaccio is planning to open a restaurant in Old Chatham, New York, which will be independent of the Fatty chain. [Capital New York]

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Anthony Bourdain was fine form this week -- back to attacking his favorite target, Paula Deen. On Tuesday, he appeared on ABC's Good Morning America and went at Deen again, calling her decision to cook fattening food while hiding her diabetes "in excruciatingly bad taste, unconscionable, and cynical." That same day, Eater published an interview with the food personality, in which Bourdain said that he's "pissed" about Frank Bruni criticizing his comments about Deen in a Times op-ed piece. (Bruni called them "ill-timed elitism.") Well, Bourdain might be mad, but he's clearly not sorry.

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A new Top Chef spin-off, Life After Top Chef, will follow the lives of four former Top Chef contestants: Jen Carroll, Richard Blais, Fabio Viviani, and Spike Mendelsohn. [Zagat]

In case you're following the David Chang-Questlove fried-chicken battle: The Momofuku chef and Roots drummer have set a date for their fried-chicken face-off. It will take place on April 12 on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.

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Mario Batali and artist Jim Dine teamed up to make a super fancy, limited-edition cookbook up for auction on eBay with a minimum bid of $1,200 a copy. Proceeds from the sale will go to the Lunchbox Fund. [Eater]

For the annual conference of the International Academy of Culinary Professionals, chefs from Back Forty West, Kutsher's Tribeca, and Zuckers riffed on the classic bagel and lox dish. Check out the pictures of what they came up with at Food Republic.

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Gordon Ramsay is suing a Montreal restaurant, Laurier BBQ, for $2.7 million over his role in the restaurant's makeover. [CBC via Huff Po]

The winners of the European Bocuse d'Or this year were all Scandinavian chefs. See who took home the gold.

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​Simon Hulstone and Heston Blumenthal have teamed up to create the menus that will be served to British Airways customers during the Olympics. [Eat Out]

Chef shuffles at Jean Georges: Mark Lapico is now executive chef; the new chef de cuisine is Erik Battes; Joe Murphy is in charge of pastries. [Jean Georges via Grub Street]

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In case you haven't heard the news: The winner of F&W's "The People's Best New Chef" contest is not from New York. Tim Byres, who works at Smoke in Dallas, beat out the national competition for his ability to go "beyond just barbecue, with an in-kitchen wood grill and smoke pit for smoking or curing almost every dish on the menu." The contest included regional winners, though, and Eric Gabrynowicz, a Danny Meyer protégé and chef at Restaurant North in Armonk, New York, took the prize for best new chef in the New York area. Who was he up against?

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