Wolfgang Puck’s now-iconic Chinois on Main, which pioneered what came to be known as Asian fusion or Pacific Rim cuisine, has turned 40 this year. An entertainment industry haven since the day it opened in Santa Monica at the address of a former New Wave punk club, it’s since gone from radical to old guard. The restaurant’s starry clientele has ranged from Tom Selleck and Mike Ovitz to Gwyneth Paltrow and Frank Gehry (who is now designing Puck’s planned replacement of the oceanfront Gladstone’s restaurant along Pch).
Wolfgang Puck
Back in 1983, Angelenos first got a streetside sneak peek of Chinois in the months before its arrival, when the chef was buying a dozen ducks at a time from Chinatown wholesalers and blowing them up with a compressor at a gas station a few blocks down from Spago, the Sunset Strip restaurant that had earned him renegade...
Wolfgang Puck
Back in 1983, Angelenos first got a streetside sneak peek of Chinois in the months before its arrival, when the chef was buying a dozen ducks at a time from Chinatown wholesalers and blowing them up with a compressor at a gas station a few blocks down from Spago, the Sunset Strip restaurant that had earned him renegade...
- 12/2/2023
- by Gary Baum
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 2023 Nantucket Film Festival, running June 21-26, with kick off with four films on its opening day lineup. For the 12th consecutive year, a Disney and Pixar movie will open the festival with “Elemental,” which premieres in May at the Cannes International Film Festival.
Also on Day 1 are Sophie Barthes’ “The Pod Generation,” coming off stops at Sundance and Sarasota — Barthes will also receive the inaugural Maria Mitchell Visionary Award for the film; SXSW-premiere documentary “Joan Baez I am a Noise,” with Baez herself in attendance; and Austrian documentary “Patrick and the Whale,” which premiered at TIFF 2022.
Recent Bleecker Street acquisition “Jules,” starring Ben Kingsley, Harriet Sansom Harris, and Jane Curtin, will be the closing-night film.
Guests announced to be in attendance include Michaela Watkins (“You Hurt My Feelings”), Allison Williams (“M3GAN”), Lola Tung (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”), Graham Greene (“Dances with Wolves”), and Julio Torres (“Problemista”).
Other films...
Also on Day 1 are Sophie Barthes’ “The Pod Generation,” coming off stops at Sundance and Sarasota — Barthes will also receive the inaugural Maria Mitchell Visionary Award for the film; SXSW-premiere documentary “Joan Baez I am a Noise,” with Baez herself in attendance; and Austrian documentary “Patrick and the Whale,” which premiered at TIFF 2022.
Recent Bleecker Street acquisition “Jules,” starring Ben Kingsley, Harriet Sansom Harris, and Jane Curtin, will be the closing-night film.
Guests announced to be in attendance include Michaela Watkins (“You Hurt My Feelings”), Allison Williams (“M3GAN”), Lola Tung (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”), Graham Greene (“Dances with Wolves”), and Julio Torres (“Problemista”).
Other films...
- 4/26/2023
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
Julia Louis-Dreyfus has revealed she had a miscarriage in her 20s, an experience that was made more difficult after she developed an infection.
The Seinfeld and Veep star opens up about her pregnancy loss in the latest episode of her Lemonada podcast Wiser Than Me. The podcast, which focuses on conversations with older female creatives, has featured discussions with Jane Fonda, Isabel Allende and Fran Lebowitz.
The latest episode is a larger conversation with the 75-year-old food writer, magazine editor and author Ruth Reichl, behind the infamous New York Times review of Le Cirque and a controversial David Foster Wallace article in Gourmet. During their hour-long conversation, Reichl opens up about living with a mother who had bipolar disorder and how she processed grief through food.
Louis-Dreyfus opens the episode detailing her miscarriage and how her mother’s cooking ultimately helped heal her.
“When I was about 28, I got pregnant...
The Seinfeld and Veep star opens up about her pregnancy loss in the latest episode of her Lemonada podcast Wiser Than Me. The podcast, which focuses on conversations with older female creatives, has featured discussions with Jane Fonda, Isabel Allende and Fran Lebowitz.
The latest episode is a larger conversation with the 75-year-old food writer, magazine editor and author Ruth Reichl, behind the infamous New York Times review of Le Cirque and a controversial David Foster Wallace article in Gourmet. During their hour-long conversation, Reichl opens up about living with a mother who had bipolar disorder and how she processed grief through food.
Louis-Dreyfus opens the episode detailing her miscarriage and how her mother’s cooking ultimately helped heal her.
“When I was about 28, I got pregnant...
- 4/26/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Julia Louis-Dreyfus speaks candidly about suffering a miscarriage at age 28 in a new episode of her Lemonade Media podcast, “Wiser Than Me”.
The “Veep” actress explains how her mother Judith’s cooking and her husband Brad Hall — whom she married in 1987 — helped her cope at the time.
Read More: ‘You Hurt My Feelings’ Trailer: Julia Louis-Dreyfus Confronts A Big Little Lie
Louis-Dreyfus shares, “When I was about 28, I got pregnant for the first time and I was crazy happy. I got pregnant easily, I felt very fertile, very womanly. And then, quite late in the pregnancy, my husband Brad [Hall] and I discovered that this little fetus was not going to live.
“So, that was emotionally devastating, as you can imagine, but it got worse because I developed an infection that landed me in the hospital. I mean, this whole thing was just a complete nightmare.”
Read More: Julia Louis-Dreyfus On...
The “Veep” actress explains how her mother Judith’s cooking and her husband Brad Hall — whom she married in 1987 — helped her cope at the time.
Read More: ‘You Hurt My Feelings’ Trailer: Julia Louis-Dreyfus Confronts A Big Little Lie
Louis-Dreyfus shares, “When I was about 28, I got pregnant for the first time and I was crazy happy. I got pregnant easily, I felt very fertile, very womanly. And then, quite late in the pregnancy, my husband Brad [Hall] and I discovered that this little fetus was not going to live.
“So, that was emotionally devastating, as you can imagine, but it got worse because I developed an infection that landed me in the hospital. I mean, this whole thing was just a complete nightmare.”
Read More: Julia Louis-Dreyfus On...
- 4/25/2023
- by Becca Longmire
- ET Canada
The folk music documentaries Joan Baez I Am a Noise and Alexandria Bombach’s Indigo Girls documentary It’s Only Life After All are getting international premieres as part of the Hot Docs Festival, which unveiled its 2023 lineup on Tuesday.
Co-directors Miri Navasky, Karen O’Connor and Maeve O’Boyle’s portrait of Baez, the American folk singing legend and civil rights activist, bowed in Berlin. Bombach’s film about Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, who became folk-rock duo Indigo Girls and eventually environmental activists, premiered at Sundance.
The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival’s 30th edition will be filled with a host of films about activists, as the festival is set to open with a screening of Twice Colonized, Danish director Lin Alluna’s film about Greenlandic Inuit lawyer and protector of her ancestral lands, Aaju Peter.
The Danish film, which had a world premiere at Sundance, will also launch the Copenhagen documentary film festival Cph:dox.
Co-directors Miri Navasky, Karen O’Connor and Maeve O’Boyle’s portrait of Baez, the American folk singing legend and civil rights activist, bowed in Berlin. Bombach’s film about Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, who became folk-rock duo Indigo Girls and eventually environmental activists, premiered at Sundance.
The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival’s 30th edition will be filled with a host of films about activists, as the festival is set to open with a screening of Twice Colonized, Danish director Lin Alluna’s film about Greenlandic Inuit lawyer and protector of her ancestral lands, Aaju Peter.
The Danish film, which had a world premiere at Sundance, will also launch the Copenhagen documentary film festival Cph:dox.
- 3/28/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
by Abe Friedtanzer
There are many ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic has forever changed the world. Among the hardest-hit industries has been food, with in-person restaurants closed for an extended period of time and many typically available items scarcely found throughout the early months of the pandemic. The road to recovery has been a difficult one and has sadly forced many longtime establishments to shutter permanently. Festival Favorite documentary Food and Country, stopping at SXSW after its premiere at Sundance, looks at the deeper history of food in America and the tectonic shift that has recently happened.
Food writer Ruth Reichl is the guide for this educational journey, one that starts decades ago when quick cooking was advertised as the new hot thing...
There are many ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic has forever changed the world. Among the hardest-hit industries has been food, with in-person restaurants closed for an extended period of time and many typically available items scarcely found throughout the early months of the pandemic. The road to recovery has been a difficult one and has sadly forced many longtime establishments to shutter permanently. Festival Favorite documentary Food and Country, stopping at SXSW after its premiere at Sundance, looks at the deeper history of food in America and the tectonic shift that has recently happened.
Food writer Ruth Reichl is the guide for this educational journey, one that starts decades ago when quick cooking was advertised as the new hot thing...
- 3/17/2023
- by Abe Friedtanzer
- FilmExperience
Sundance 2023: ‘Food and Country’ Directed by Laura Gabbert
Premieres Section
During the lockdown time of Covid, trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl started to make a documentary to show Covid and the shutdown’s effect on the food system, from farmers to restaurants. But her worries over the fate of small farmers, ranchers, and chefs as they wrestled with both immediate and systemic challenges also exposed the broken food system as political and social, and ended with her forging true relationships on a personal level with the originators, suppliers and consumers in the food chain.
Starting in March 2020 Reichl reached out to those who were innovativing new ways of structuring their businesses. She speaks with Brandon Jew, a San Francisco restauranteer in Chinatown, who notes that people are scared to go to Chinatown because Covid has been politicized as Chinese. Reem Assil, a young Arab woman with a restaurant in Oakland, makes her staff co-owners as a way to share and get through this time. Reichl’s contemporary and close friend in the Bay Area, Alice Waters, the first to use local homegrown produce in her restaurant Chez Panisse discusses how much better it is to deal directly with the farmers rather than middlemen.
She speaks to farmer Bob Jones Jr. of the White Oak Pastures, fourth generation farmer who in the mid 90s gradually moved away from his father’s industrialized farming techniques as it produced waste and did not consider the welfare of its animals who need to express their instinctive behaviors. Over 20 years he changed the soil from a dead mineral medium to a live, organic medium teaming with life. Supplying the food conscious restaurant innovators directly also mandated starting his own meat processing. “Everything is tied to everything else,” he states.
Bob Jones Jr. of the White Oak Pastures
Rancher Steve Stratford discusses the cattle business as a US and international problem and points out there are only four big meat packers, so large that if two don’t operate because of a problem like swine fever, the nation suffers and lots of livestock goes unused. “It is all about how cheaply you can produce and it results in waste that could feed a small country. Other countries do not have the discretionary income of American because they spend on food.” Amercans buy food cheaply, but it is problematic (and inferior) because it is mass produced
Meat producers and consumers must rely on these four meat packing companies. Jbs is 100% Brazilian owned, National Beef is 51% Brazilian and Tyson and Cargill are in the hands of two giant American corporations. The Department of Justice Anti Trust Regulatory should take action and the government should encourage smaller meat plants every 3 to 400 miles supplying 2–3% of the daily slaughter and the meat producers should own the plants. Now, should one of the four go down, 15% of the food supply is impacted.
Since the time of this writing, the N.Y. Times has published an expose on meat packers and food processing plants in general which villainize them even more! Their knowing use of illegal immigrant child labor is chilling and will make readers of this and viewers of the film even more passionate about eating well and avoiding the evil of unhealthy processed and mass produced food. See FoodProcessing.com reflect the N.Y. Times article on Feb. 26's exhaustive investigation that went far beyond the early-February fine against Packers Sanitation Services Inc., which provides mostly nighttime/ third-shift sanitation services to many food & beverage plants. That investigation by the U.S. Dept. of Labor found at least 102 children 13 to 17 years old working for the contract sanitation company in 13 meat-processing facilities in eight states. The list specified underage immigrant workers at Jbs USA's Grand Island, Neb., plant, Cargill plant in Dodge City, Kan., a Jbs facility in Worthington, Minn., Buckhead Meat, George's Inc., Gibbon Packing, Greater Omaha Packing, Maple Leaf Farms, Turkey Valley Farms and Tyson. At least three of the minors reportedly suffered injuries while on the job with Pssi. Read the NY Times expose and weep. You will surely become more conscious of the issues raised in this documentary which never mention the abuse of child labor. Farmers (and ranchers) must take out huge bank loans every year at the beginning of planting, hope for good crops to pay off the loan and in the end, make very little profit whereas the suppliers and food processing firms make millions as they supply supermarkets and chain restaurants. America’s largest corporate restaurant food supplier Sysco has 32 states to supply and is supported by Usda. Even during Covid, Usda bailed them out and shut out the smaller suppliers who then must abide by Sysco’s system which in 2021 made $51 billion in sales.
In the early 1900s there were more Black farmers than White. In the 1920s 19% of farms were Black owned. Today it is 1%. Food Apartheid is explored in the course of Ruth’s discussions. Of the 57,000 farms in NY State, ony 139 are Black. 96% of the land owners of farms are white; government interventions help Whites, not Blacks, with subsidies. This makes the food system structurally racist.
As part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal, the minimum wage was established. But black workers, who had been hired as food service workers immediately after slavery, were not included. They were not paid wages at all. They were expected to live off of tips. Tips had just been introduced to the US from Europe. The Blacks, along with immigrants, other racial minorities, women, and the disabled were not included in Roosevelt’s New Deal minimum wages and in fact, only 80 years later did legistration finally grant them a miunum wage of $2.13 per hour. The lowest paid employee is the restaurant worker; next are the farmworkers.
This principal of cheap abundant food started after World War II hand in glove with the arms race when the huge stockpile of ammunition was turned into fertilizer and the government encouraged farms to replace animals with machines thus creating the factory model of food production along with a great debt taken on by the farmers. It was seen as a way to fight Communism to have the cheapest most abundant food on earth. The nutritive value of American food from 1940 to 2000 fell to 40%.
When President Nixon and Khrushchev held the “Kitchen Debates” a point of pride was fast food. The industrialization of food and food processing, and the rise of chain restaurant limited the number of processors and wholesalers to be used by farmers and ranchers. This drove farmers to marginal living as the middlemen’s high costs took most of the farmers’ and cattlemen’s profits.
As you can see, I learned a great deal from this film and found it fascinating as future viewers will as well. America’s decades-old policy of producing cheap food at all costs hobbles farmers and ranchers who are striving to stay independent. Ruth Reichl, a fascinating woman in her own right, coming of age on a commune founded by her then husband in Berkeley in the 60s and writing little vignettes about food for marginal publications, she became a renowned food writer for the New York and Los Angeles Times. As Reichl witnesses and follows intrepid characters puzzling through intractable circumstances, she takes stock of the path she hersef has traveled and the ideals she left behind. Through her eyes, we learn to understand the humanity and struggle behind the food we eat.
Food is elemental; without it we die, but with it, we can either become healthier or ill, depending upon its provenance and processing. Cheaper is not better. Food and Country, along Sundance’s other film Against the Tide, and the 2018 Telluride/ Toronto premiering film The Biggest Little Farmshould be seen in economic classes, culinary arts schools and ecological studies.
Filmmaker Laura Gabbert (City of Gold, 2015 Sundance Film Festival) with Reichl gives the expansive history behind an ever-more consolidating food industry. The film covers a rich cultural spectrum, from fine dining rooms to farmlands, discovering passionate, inspirational changemakers along the way. Laura Gabbert’s City of Gold (Sundance, SXSW 2015), was released theatrically in 50+ markets by IFC and included in Vogue magazine’s “78 best documentaries of all time.” Gabbert also directed the feature documentaries Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles (Tribeca 2020, IFC/Hulu), No Impact Man (Sundance 2009, Oscilloscope), and Sunset Story (Tribeca 2005, Independent Lens).
Producer Caroline Libresco was a programmer for Sundance for twenty years before leaving to produce. She is known for Disclosure (2020), American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (2013) and Sunset Story (2003).
Producer Paula P. Manzanedo is known for Memory, Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) and Dive (2022).
Directed and Produced By: Laura Gabbert (City of Gold)
Produced By: Ruth Reichl, Paula P. Manzanedo, Caroline Libresco
Executive Produced By: Jamie Wolf, Nathalie Seaver, Sigrid Dyekjær, Melony Lewis, Adam Lewis, Jana Edelbaum, Rachel Cohen, Janet Tittiger, Peter Tittiger, Jenn Lee Smith, Andrea van Beuren
Jessica Lacy and Oliver Wheeler of Range Media Partners, a subsidary of Anton Films is representing the film which to date seems to have no U.S. or international distribution set.
99 minutes
Sundance Film FestivalFilm FestivalsDocumentaryWomenFood...
Premieres Section
During the lockdown time of Covid, trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl started to make a documentary to show Covid and the shutdown’s effect on the food system, from farmers to restaurants. But her worries over the fate of small farmers, ranchers, and chefs as they wrestled with both immediate and systemic challenges also exposed the broken food system as political and social, and ended with her forging true relationships on a personal level with the originators, suppliers and consumers in the food chain.
Starting in March 2020 Reichl reached out to those who were innovativing new ways of structuring their businesses. She speaks with Brandon Jew, a San Francisco restauranteer in Chinatown, who notes that people are scared to go to Chinatown because Covid has been politicized as Chinese. Reem Assil, a young Arab woman with a restaurant in Oakland, makes her staff co-owners as a way to share and get through this time. Reichl’s contemporary and close friend in the Bay Area, Alice Waters, the first to use local homegrown produce in her restaurant Chez Panisse discusses how much better it is to deal directly with the farmers rather than middlemen.
She speaks to farmer Bob Jones Jr. of the White Oak Pastures, fourth generation farmer who in the mid 90s gradually moved away from his father’s industrialized farming techniques as it produced waste and did not consider the welfare of its animals who need to express their instinctive behaviors. Over 20 years he changed the soil from a dead mineral medium to a live, organic medium teaming with life. Supplying the food conscious restaurant innovators directly also mandated starting his own meat processing. “Everything is tied to everything else,” he states.
Bob Jones Jr. of the White Oak Pastures
Rancher Steve Stratford discusses the cattle business as a US and international problem and points out there are only four big meat packers, so large that if two don’t operate because of a problem like swine fever, the nation suffers and lots of livestock goes unused. “It is all about how cheaply you can produce and it results in waste that could feed a small country. Other countries do not have the discretionary income of American because they spend on food.” Amercans buy food cheaply, but it is problematic (and inferior) because it is mass produced
Meat producers and consumers must rely on these four meat packing companies. Jbs is 100% Brazilian owned, National Beef is 51% Brazilian and Tyson and Cargill are in the hands of two giant American corporations. The Department of Justice Anti Trust Regulatory should take action and the government should encourage smaller meat plants every 3 to 400 miles supplying 2–3% of the daily slaughter and the meat producers should own the plants. Now, should one of the four go down, 15% of the food supply is impacted.
Since the time of this writing, the N.Y. Times has published an expose on meat packers and food processing plants in general which villainize them even more! Their knowing use of illegal immigrant child labor is chilling and will make readers of this and viewers of the film even more passionate about eating well and avoiding the evil of unhealthy processed and mass produced food. See FoodProcessing.com reflect the N.Y. Times article on Feb. 26's exhaustive investigation that went far beyond the early-February fine against Packers Sanitation Services Inc., which provides mostly nighttime/ third-shift sanitation services to many food & beverage plants. That investigation by the U.S. Dept. of Labor found at least 102 children 13 to 17 years old working for the contract sanitation company in 13 meat-processing facilities in eight states. The list specified underage immigrant workers at Jbs USA's Grand Island, Neb., plant, Cargill plant in Dodge City, Kan., a Jbs facility in Worthington, Minn., Buckhead Meat, George's Inc., Gibbon Packing, Greater Omaha Packing, Maple Leaf Farms, Turkey Valley Farms and Tyson. At least three of the minors reportedly suffered injuries while on the job with Pssi. Read the NY Times expose and weep. You will surely become more conscious of the issues raised in this documentary which never mention the abuse of child labor. Farmers (and ranchers) must take out huge bank loans every year at the beginning of planting, hope for good crops to pay off the loan and in the end, make very little profit whereas the suppliers and food processing firms make millions as they supply supermarkets and chain restaurants. America’s largest corporate restaurant food supplier Sysco has 32 states to supply and is supported by Usda. Even during Covid, Usda bailed them out and shut out the smaller suppliers who then must abide by Sysco’s system which in 2021 made $51 billion in sales.
In the early 1900s there were more Black farmers than White. In the 1920s 19% of farms were Black owned. Today it is 1%. Food Apartheid is explored in the course of Ruth’s discussions. Of the 57,000 farms in NY State, ony 139 are Black. 96% of the land owners of farms are white; government interventions help Whites, not Blacks, with subsidies. This makes the food system structurally racist.
As part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal, the minimum wage was established. But black workers, who had been hired as food service workers immediately after slavery, were not included. They were not paid wages at all. They were expected to live off of tips. Tips had just been introduced to the US from Europe. The Blacks, along with immigrants, other racial minorities, women, and the disabled were not included in Roosevelt’s New Deal minimum wages and in fact, only 80 years later did legistration finally grant them a miunum wage of $2.13 per hour. The lowest paid employee is the restaurant worker; next are the farmworkers.
This principal of cheap abundant food started after World War II hand in glove with the arms race when the huge stockpile of ammunition was turned into fertilizer and the government encouraged farms to replace animals with machines thus creating the factory model of food production along with a great debt taken on by the farmers. It was seen as a way to fight Communism to have the cheapest most abundant food on earth. The nutritive value of American food from 1940 to 2000 fell to 40%.
When President Nixon and Khrushchev held the “Kitchen Debates” a point of pride was fast food. The industrialization of food and food processing, and the rise of chain restaurant limited the number of processors and wholesalers to be used by farmers and ranchers. This drove farmers to marginal living as the middlemen’s high costs took most of the farmers’ and cattlemen’s profits.
As you can see, I learned a great deal from this film and found it fascinating as future viewers will as well. America’s decades-old policy of producing cheap food at all costs hobbles farmers and ranchers who are striving to stay independent. Ruth Reichl, a fascinating woman in her own right, coming of age on a commune founded by her then husband in Berkeley in the 60s and writing little vignettes about food for marginal publications, she became a renowned food writer for the New York and Los Angeles Times. As Reichl witnesses and follows intrepid characters puzzling through intractable circumstances, she takes stock of the path she hersef has traveled and the ideals she left behind. Through her eyes, we learn to understand the humanity and struggle behind the food we eat.
Food is elemental; without it we die, but with it, we can either become healthier or ill, depending upon its provenance and processing. Cheaper is not better. Food and Country, along Sundance’s other film Against the Tide, and the 2018 Telluride/ Toronto premiering film The Biggest Little Farmshould be seen in economic classes, culinary arts schools and ecological studies.
Filmmaker Laura Gabbert (City of Gold, 2015 Sundance Film Festival) with Reichl gives the expansive history behind an ever-more consolidating food industry. The film covers a rich cultural spectrum, from fine dining rooms to farmlands, discovering passionate, inspirational changemakers along the way. Laura Gabbert’s City of Gold (Sundance, SXSW 2015), was released theatrically in 50+ markets by IFC and included in Vogue magazine’s “78 best documentaries of all time.” Gabbert also directed the feature documentaries Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles (Tribeca 2020, IFC/Hulu), No Impact Man (Sundance 2009, Oscilloscope), and Sunset Story (Tribeca 2005, Independent Lens).
Producer Caroline Libresco was a programmer for Sundance for twenty years before leaving to produce. She is known for Disclosure (2020), American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (2013) and Sunset Story (2003).
Producer Paula P. Manzanedo is known for Memory, Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) and Dive (2022).
Directed and Produced By: Laura Gabbert (City of Gold)
Produced By: Ruth Reichl, Paula P. Manzanedo, Caroline Libresco
Executive Produced By: Jamie Wolf, Nathalie Seaver, Sigrid Dyekjær, Melony Lewis, Adam Lewis, Jana Edelbaum, Rachel Cohen, Janet Tittiger, Peter Tittiger, Jenn Lee Smith, Andrea van Beuren
Jessica Lacy and Oliver Wheeler of Range Media Partners, a subsidary of Anton Films is representing the film which to date seems to have no U.S. or international distribution set.
99 minutes
Sundance Film FestivalFilm FestivalsDocumentaryWomenFood...
- 3/7/2023
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Sundance 2023: ‘The Disappearance of Shere Hite’ Directed by Nicole Newnham
U.S. Documentary Competition
The Hite Report, a groundbreaking study of female sexuality, remains one of the bestselling books of all time since its publication in 1976. The Hite Report brought the female orgasm out of unspoken shadows into the light of day by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous survey respondents. Shere Hite’s findings rocked the American establishment and presaged current conversations about gender and sex.
Drawn from anonymous survey responses, the book challenged restrictive conceptions of sex and opened a dialogue in popular culture around women’s pleasure. Its charismatic author, Shere Hite, a feminist sex researcher and former model, became the public messenger of women’s secret confessions. With each subsequent bestseller, she engaged television titans in unforgettably explicit debates about sexuality while suffering the backlash her controversial findings provoked. But who remembers Shere Hite today? What led to her erasure?
The takeaway of The Hite Report was that female expression of sexuality should not be defined by patriarchal power. This idea deeply offended the male establishment and consequently, the media made as much of their wounded ideas of themselves as of the book itself whose authentic and anonymous findings were treated with intense controversy.
The astonishing beauty of Shere Hite herself lies outside of the cliche perameters of the “scholarly” (i.e., “homely) woman. And so her methodical research was called “unscientific” and was called into question (and answered smartly by her). Her background as a working-class, bisexual, former nude model with photographs appearing in Playboy did not sit well with the offended and offensive men who interviewed her on top TV shows after the book became a runaway success. All of her many identities are displayed in the movie.
Digging into exclusive archives, as well as Hite’s personal journals and the original survey responses, filmmaker Nicole Newnham transports viewers back to the 70s, a time of great societal transformation around sexuality (See Fairyland, about queer life in San Francisco, also playing here in Sundance,for another take on the 70s and Food and Country about the coming of age of California cuisine in the 70s under the guiding hands of Ruth Reichl and Alice Waters of Chez Panisse). Newnham’s revelatory portrait brings us to reconsider a pioneer who broke the ground for our current conversations about gender, sexuality, and autonomy. Her story also is a timely, cautionary tale of what too often happens to women who dare speak out.
Nicole Newnham is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning documentary director and producer and four-time Sundance alum. She co-directed Crip Camp (2020) with Jim LeBrecht. Crip Camp was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Sundance U.S. Documentary Audience Award. Newnham’s other documentary directing credits include the Emmy-nominated films The Revolutionary Optimists, Sentenced Home, and The Rape of Europa.
U.S. Sales and Distribution: Josh Braun, Submarine Entertainment
There is no international sales agent. Maggie Pisacane at WME is the producers rep along with Josh Braun.
Directed and Produced By: Nicole Newnham (Crip Camp)
Produced By: Molly O’Brien, R.J. Cutler, Elise Pearlstein, Kimberley Ferdinando, Trevor Smith
Co-Produced By: Erica Fink, Eleanor West
Executive Produced By: Elizabeth Fischer, Liz Cole, Noah Oppenheim, Andy Berg, Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman
116 minutes
Film FestivalsWomenDocumentaryGenderSundance...
U.S. Documentary Competition
The Hite Report, a groundbreaking study of female sexuality, remains one of the bestselling books of all time since its publication in 1976. The Hite Report brought the female orgasm out of unspoken shadows into the light of day by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous survey respondents. Shere Hite’s findings rocked the American establishment and presaged current conversations about gender and sex.
Drawn from anonymous survey responses, the book challenged restrictive conceptions of sex and opened a dialogue in popular culture around women’s pleasure. Its charismatic author, Shere Hite, a feminist sex researcher and former model, became the public messenger of women’s secret confessions. With each subsequent bestseller, she engaged television titans in unforgettably explicit debates about sexuality while suffering the backlash her controversial findings provoked. But who remembers Shere Hite today? What led to her erasure?
The takeaway of The Hite Report was that female expression of sexuality should not be defined by patriarchal power. This idea deeply offended the male establishment and consequently, the media made as much of their wounded ideas of themselves as of the book itself whose authentic and anonymous findings were treated with intense controversy.
The astonishing beauty of Shere Hite herself lies outside of the cliche perameters of the “scholarly” (i.e., “homely) woman. And so her methodical research was called “unscientific” and was called into question (and answered smartly by her). Her background as a working-class, bisexual, former nude model with photographs appearing in Playboy did not sit well with the offended and offensive men who interviewed her on top TV shows after the book became a runaway success. All of her many identities are displayed in the movie.
Digging into exclusive archives, as well as Hite’s personal journals and the original survey responses, filmmaker Nicole Newnham transports viewers back to the 70s, a time of great societal transformation around sexuality (See Fairyland, about queer life in San Francisco, also playing here in Sundance,for another take on the 70s and Food and Country about the coming of age of California cuisine in the 70s under the guiding hands of Ruth Reichl and Alice Waters of Chez Panisse). Newnham’s revelatory portrait brings us to reconsider a pioneer who broke the ground for our current conversations about gender, sexuality, and autonomy. Her story also is a timely, cautionary tale of what too often happens to women who dare speak out.
Nicole Newnham is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning documentary director and producer and four-time Sundance alum. She co-directed Crip Camp (2020) with Jim LeBrecht. Crip Camp was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Sundance U.S. Documentary Audience Award. Newnham’s other documentary directing credits include the Emmy-nominated films The Revolutionary Optimists, Sentenced Home, and The Rape of Europa.
U.S. Sales and Distribution: Josh Braun, Submarine Entertainment
There is no international sales agent. Maggie Pisacane at WME is the producers rep along with Josh Braun.
Directed and Produced By: Nicole Newnham (Crip Camp)
Produced By: Molly O’Brien, R.J. Cutler, Elise Pearlstein, Kimberley Ferdinando, Trevor Smith
Co-Produced By: Erica Fink, Eleanor West
Executive Produced By: Elizabeth Fischer, Liz Cole, Noah Oppenheim, Andy Berg, Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman
116 minutes
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- 2/11/2023
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
For their documentary “Food and Country,” director Laura Gabbert and renowned food writer Ruth Reichl gathered a thoughtful and strikingly personable cast of characters from across the U.S. to tell their stories in the shadow of the pandemic. Some are chefs, bakers, restaurateurs. Others are independent farmers, ranchers, even a kelp harvester. Some work in big cities, like Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and New York. Others make their increasingly fragile living working fields or rearing herds in Kansas, Nebraska, Georgia and Ohio. Their collective insights tell us a great deal about our food system and serve as a warning. Yet their devotion to the work — and often their employees — is heartening, even humbling.
Before joining forces, the director and her chief protagonist had each embarked on separate projects about the duress those in the independent food industry were experiencing because of the 2020 pandemic lockdown. Gabbert, whose 2015 film “City of Gold...
Before joining forces, the director and her chief protagonist had each embarked on separate projects about the duress those in the independent food industry were experiencing because of the 2020 pandemic lockdown. Gabbert, whose 2015 film “City of Gold...
- 2/8/2023
- by Lisa Kennedy
- Variety Film + TV
Every production faces unexpected obstructions that require creative solutions and conceptual rethinking. What was an unforeseen obstacle, crisis, or simply unpredictable event you had to respond to, and how did this event impact or cause you to rethink your film? As Covid took hold in March 2020, we knew we had to capture Ruth Reichl’s journey chronicling the food security story unfolding in real time. But, unable to travel, how would we solve the problem of distance: the miles and miles lying between her and her subjects, and the continent between her, in upstate New York, and our crew, in […]
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- 1/25/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Every production faces unexpected obstructions that require creative solutions and conceptual rethinking. What was an unforeseen obstacle, crisis, or simply unpredictable event you had to respond to, and how did this event impact or cause you to rethink your film? As Covid took hold in March 2020, we knew we had to capture Ruth Reichl’s journey chronicling the food security story unfolding in real time. But, unable to travel, how would we solve the problem of distance: the miles and miles lying between her and her subjects, and the continent between her, in upstate New York, and our crew, in […]
The post “We Began To See the Zoom Calls as a Kind of ‘Virtual Vérité'” | Laura Gabbert, Food and Country first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “We Began To See the Zoom Calls as a Kind of ‘Virtual Vérité'” | Laura Gabbert, Food and Country first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/25/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Leveraging a modest start as a restaurant reviewer for New West magazine in the 1970s, renowned food writer and chef Ruth Reichl rose to the pinnacle of professional achievement as the restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times and New York Times. She then moved on to become Gourmet magazine’s editor-in-chief for a decade, prior to the venerable publication’s unfortunate demise. Along the way there have been high-profile stints in broadcasting and no fewer than six James Beard Foundation awards.
So when the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic shuts down thousands of restaurants nationwide, what’s a food reporter to write about? Fortunately, Reichl’s interests have always been much broader than just fine dining, touching also on history, sustainability and social justice. Laura Gabbert, director of 2015 culinary adventure City of Gold and eco-doc No Impact Man (2009), catches up with Reichl in early 2020 as they begin a collaboration...
So when the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic shuts down thousands of restaurants nationwide, what’s a food reporter to write about? Fortunately, Reichl’s interests have always been much broader than just fine dining, touching also on history, sustainability and social justice. Laura Gabbert, director of 2015 culinary adventure City of Gold and eco-doc No Impact Man (2009), catches up with Reichl in early 2020 as they begin a collaboration...
- 1/24/2023
- by Justin Lowe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ruth Reichl has so much to tell us about food. She’s been a chef, a restaurant owner, and a critic. She’s edited Gourmet magazine, written bestselling memoirs and cookbooks, and hosted a show on gastronomy. And now, she wants to teach us about the failings of the American food system itself.
“Food and Country” begins in March 2020; Reichl’s impetus is the pandemic onset that ruthlessly exposes the shaky foundations beneath most restaurants. Serving as producer behind the scenes and on-camera interviewer, Reichl Zooms with chefs, restaurateurs, farmers and ranchers across the country, beginning with her longtime friend and farm-to-table pioneer Alice Waters.
But her ambitions are far greater, which is both the movie’s boldest asset and eventual undoing. Director Laura Gabbert (“City of Gold”) tries to cover all of Reichl’s interests, which leaves her with (at least) five movies’ worth of material. We touch on,...
“Food and Country” begins in March 2020; Reichl’s impetus is the pandemic onset that ruthlessly exposes the shaky foundations beneath most restaurants. Serving as producer behind the scenes and on-camera interviewer, Reichl Zooms with chefs, restaurateurs, farmers and ranchers across the country, beginning with her longtime friend and farm-to-table pioneer Alice Waters.
But her ambitions are far greater, which is both the movie’s boldest asset and eventual undoing. Director Laura Gabbert (“City of Gold”) tries to cover all of Reichl’s interests, which leaves her with (at least) five movies’ worth of material. We touch on,...
- 1/24/2023
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
The Sundance Institute on Friday announced the lineup for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Beyond Film conversations, all of which are open to the public.
Made up of three series called Power of Story, Cinema Café, and The Big Conversation, Beyond Film rounds out the Festival experience, providing a place for the community to engage through artist conversations, filmmaker panels, and audience discourse. Beyond Film will take place in-person from January 19–23, 2023, with the Beyond Film offerings becoming available to audiences across the country on the online Festival Platform starting January 24, 2023. The Festival also shared details about additional free conversations and events from Sundance Collab and our Festival partners available in person and online.
Beyond Film speakers will include talent from Festival films, such as Barry Jenkins, Dakota Johnson, Jonathan Majors (“Magazine Dreams”), Randall Park (“Shortcomings”), Ruth Reichl (“Food and Country”), and Adrian Tomine (“Shortcomings”), as well as compelling speakers including Dr.
Made up of three series called Power of Story, Cinema Café, and The Big Conversation, Beyond Film rounds out the Festival experience, providing a place for the community to engage through artist conversations, filmmaker panels, and audience discourse. Beyond Film will take place in-person from January 19–23, 2023, with the Beyond Film offerings becoming available to audiences across the country on the online Festival Platform starting January 24, 2023. The Festival also shared details about additional free conversations and events from Sundance Collab and our Festival partners available in person and online.
Beyond Film speakers will include talent from Festival films, such as Barry Jenkins, Dakota Johnson, Jonathan Majors (“Magazine Dreams”), Randall Park (“Shortcomings”), Ruth Reichl (“Food and Country”), and Adrian Tomine (“Shortcomings”), as well as compelling speakers including Dr.
- 1/6/2023
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
The Sundance Institute has announced the lineup for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Beyond Film conversations, all of which are open to the public. Made up of three series called Power of Story, Cinema Café, and The Big Conversation, Beyond Film rounds out the festival experience, providing a place for the community to engage through artist conversations, filmmaker panels, and audience discourse. Beyond Film will take place in-person from January 19–23, with the Beyond Film offerings becoming available to audiences across the country on the online festival platform starting January 24.
Beyond Film speakers will include talent from festival films, such as Barry Jenkins, Dakota Johnson, Jonathan Majors (“Magazine Dreams”), Randall Park (“Shortcomings”), Ruth Reichl (“Food and Country”), and Adrian Tomine (“Shortcomings”), as well as compelling speakers including Dr. Orna Guralnik, Marlee Matlin, and Lisa Taddeo.
More details about the lineup are below, with language courtesy of the festival.
Power Of Story
Power of Story: On Intimacy
Sunday,...
Beyond Film speakers will include talent from festival films, such as Barry Jenkins, Dakota Johnson, Jonathan Majors (“Magazine Dreams”), Randall Park (“Shortcomings”), Ruth Reichl (“Food and Country”), and Adrian Tomine (“Shortcomings”), as well as compelling speakers including Dr. Orna Guralnik, Marlee Matlin, and Lisa Taddeo.
More details about the lineup are below, with language courtesy of the festival.
Power Of Story
Power of Story: On Intimacy
Sunday,...
- 1/6/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
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If there’s a show of the summer, it’s FX dramedy The Bear.
Joanna Calo, whose credits include BoJack Horseman, The Baby-Sitter’s Club and Hacks, recently joined TV’s Top 5 podcast hosts Lesley Goldberg and Daniel Fienberg to discuss FX/Hulu’s culinary dark comedy The Bear. The series, created by co-showrunner Christopher Storer (Ramy), was developed as a film before being adapted for television. In the interview, Calo opens up about the challenges of bringing the food and restaurant world to scripted television, avoiding tropes and staffing a writers room with food service backgrounds in mind.
Daniel Fienberg Let’s start at the beginning. There are so many interesting creative pieces to The Bear. The series was created by Christopher Storer. You came on, you’re showrunner and director and producer; it features Atlanta veteran Hiro Murai among the executive producers.
If there’s a show of the summer, it’s FX dramedy The Bear.
Joanna Calo, whose credits include BoJack Horseman, The Baby-Sitter’s Club and Hacks, recently joined TV’s Top 5 podcast hosts Lesley Goldberg and Daniel Fienberg to discuss FX/Hulu’s culinary dark comedy The Bear. The series, created by co-showrunner Christopher Storer (Ramy), was developed as a film before being adapted for television. In the interview, Calo opens up about the challenges of bringing the food and restaurant world to scripted television, avoiding tropes and staffing a writers room with food service backgrounds in mind.
Daniel Fienberg Let’s start at the beginning. There are so many interesting creative pieces to The Bear. The series was created by Christopher Storer. You came on, you’re showrunner and director and producer; it features Atlanta veteran Hiro Murai among the executive producers.
- 7/26/2022
- by Lesley Goldberg and Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Julia Review — Julia (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Julie Cohen and Betsy West and starring Julia Child, Jose Andres, Andre Cointreau, Susy Davidson, Ina Garten, Charles Gibson, Ruth Reichl, Cecile Richards, Marcus Samuelsson, Jane Friedman and Francois Simon. Julia is a remarkable documentary about the life of Julia Child. A woman of [...]
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- 11/15/2021
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Julia Child saved America from the Jell-o salad, yes, but the documentary “Julia” reminds us that that’s but one of her many accomplishments. From “Rbg” directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West, it’s a film that falls squarely into what we might start calling the CNN Films house style — a portrait of a beloved figure that reminds you why that figure is beloved.
Still, as personality-based docs go, it’s one that offers both a comprehensive examination of one person’s accomplishments and importance as well as some moments of reflection about its subjects human frailties and shortcomings.
Cohen and West unpack the legend :Julia McWilliams was born to a wealthy family in Pasadena, Calif., and she escaped her father’s efforts to marry her off by enlisting during WWII, where she did office work for the Oss. Assignments to Sri Lanka and China brought her close to cartographer Paul Child,...
Still, as personality-based docs go, it’s one that offers both a comprehensive examination of one person’s accomplishments and importance as well as some moments of reflection about its subjects human frailties and shortcomings.
Cohen and West unpack the legend :Julia McWilliams was born to a wealthy family in Pasadena, Calif., and she escaped her father’s efforts to marry her off by enlisting during WWII, where she did office work for the Oss. Assignments to Sri Lanka and China brought her close to cartographer Paul Child,...
- 9/3/2021
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
There’s a good story in “Wolfgang” that captures how a chef goes with the flow. It was a bustling night at Spago (the only kind of night Spago had in the ’80s), and in walked Joan Collins, at the apex of her “Dynasty” fame. She always ordered one of Wolfgang Puck’s most popular dishes: smoked salmon on a brioche. But all the brioche was gone, and Puck didn’t want to face the wrath of Alexis. So he improvised. He cooked a pizza without tomato sauce and spread dill cream on it, covering it with smoked salmon and topping it with dollops of caviar. Voilà! A Spago classic was born.
That’s an anecdote to make you hungry, which happens a lot in “Wolfgang,” a Disney Plus documentary that tells Wolfgang Puck’s story, and does it justice, in a crisp light 78 minutes. As it happens, the Pizza...
That’s an anecdote to make you hungry, which happens a lot in “Wolfgang,” a Disney Plus documentary that tells Wolfgang Puck’s story, and does it justice, in a crisp light 78 minutes. As it happens, the Pizza...
- 6/23/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Most people know Wolfgang Puck as the ebullient proprietor of celebrity-saturated Spago, purveyor of frozen pizzas to the masses and ubiquitous presence on TV magazine shows. But before all he blazed the trail as one of the first true celebrity chefs, there was an uncertain boy who grew up in a poor Austrian family with a difficult stepfather, who left to work in France at just 14 years old before coming to Hollywood.
That’s the story David Gelb, director of “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” and “Chef’s Table” creator, tells in “Wolfgang,” the new documentary about the man who not only invented the smoked salmon and goat cheese pizza but mentored a generation of chefs while building a restaurant empire. “Wolfgang” premieres Saturday at the Tribeca Festival and begins streaming on Disney Plus on June 25.
Puck has been driven by his early need for his stepfather’s approval his whole life,...
That’s the story David Gelb, director of “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” and “Chef’s Table” creator, tells in “Wolfgang,” the new documentary about the man who not only invented the smoked salmon and goat cheese pizza but mentored a generation of chefs while building a restaurant empire. “Wolfgang” premieres Saturday at the Tribeca Festival and begins streaming on Disney Plus on June 25.
Puck has been driven by his early need for his stepfather’s approval his whole life,...
- 6/12/2021
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
With three more episodes, five remaining competitors and one more chef who will have to pack their knives and go this week, Season 17 of Bravo’s reality staple “Top Chef” has gotten a lot of bang out of its All-Star lineup of former finalists, front-runners and fan favorites assembled in Los Angeles. There have been revered culinary greats as judges such as Nancy Silverton, Jonathan Waxman, Ruth Reichl and Michael McCarty, visits to such local landmarks as the Getty Center, the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the L.A. Coliseum. And given the locale, such stars as Kelly Clarkson, Ali Wong, Danny Trejo and Jon Favreau stopped by as well.
This week, however,”Top Chef” bids farewell to Tinseltown and ventures to Europe for the first time ever for a three-part finale set in Italy. According to the previews, the chefs head to the city of Lucca in Tuscany where...
This week, however,”Top Chef” bids farewell to Tinseltown and ventures to Europe for the first time ever for a three-part finale set in Italy. According to the previews, the chefs head to the city of Lucca in Tuscany where...
- 6/3/2020
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
On the second episode of the All-Star edition of “Top Chef,” three All-Stars committed culinary sins of varying degrees that landed them on the bottom of the 14 remaining contestants.
For a challenge in honor of the late Los Angeles food critic Jonathan Gold, Stephanie Cmar made what host Padma Lakshmi called an “Indian taco,” which she claimed “didn’t taste like anything” and later said the dish was missing “tart flavors.” Guest judge Ruth Reichl offers that the addition of chutney would’ve “woken it up.” Eric Adjepong, who missed out on buying the last duck after Lisa Fernandes grabbed it at Whole Foods, instead paired his scallops with forlorn-looking and soggy red cabbage. Judge Gail Simmons said Eric’s plate wasn’t cohesive.
See‘Top Chef’ preview: Laughter and fine art are on the menu along with ‘a Michelin star dish’ [Watch Video]
Meanwhile, Angelo Sosa couldn’t find annatto seed to make his Thai curry,...
For a challenge in honor of the late Los Angeles food critic Jonathan Gold, Stephanie Cmar made what host Padma Lakshmi called an “Indian taco,” which she claimed “didn’t taste like anything” and later said the dish was missing “tart flavors.” Guest judge Ruth Reichl offers that the addition of chutney would’ve “woken it up.” Eric Adjepong, who missed out on buying the last duck after Lisa Fernandes grabbed it at Whole Foods, instead paired his scallops with forlorn-looking and soggy red cabbage. Judge Gail Simmons said Eric’s plate wasn’t cohesive.
See‘Top Chef’ preview: Laughter and fine art are on the menu along with ‘a Michelin star dish’ [Watch Video]
Meanwhile, Angelo Sosa couldn’t find annatto seed to make his Thai curry,...
- 4/1/2020
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
When Atlanta-based restaurateur Kevin Gillespie, 37, competed on the sixth season of Bravo’s “Top Chef,” he ended up in third place. But he came in first in the hearts of viewers when he earned the title of Fan Favorite. No less than Wolfgang Puck declared him his favorite of all the “Top Chef” alums.
This time Kevin is even more determined to win. As he said in the second episode of season 17, which pits a line-up of returning All-Stars against one another, he has a very good reason why he was psyched for another chance to show off his culinary stuff. “It’s to prove to myself that I am not dying.” Kevin had surgery to remove a tumor from his kidney and spent a year fighting to recover. After overcoming such a serious health issue, this guy with a dry sense of humor clearly has a fire in his belly to succeed.
This time Kevin is even more determined to win. As he said in the second episode of season 17, which pits a line-up of returning All-Stars against one another, he has a very good reason why he was psyched for another chance to show off his culinary stuff. “It’s to prove to myself that I am not dying.” Kevin had surgery to remove a tumor from his kidney and spent a year fighting to recover. After overcoming such a serious health issue, this guy with a dry sense of humor clearly has a fire in his belly to succeed.
- 3/29/2020
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
Last week on the premiere of the 17th season of “Top Chef,” Joe Sasto was sent packing for his soggy open-fire flatbread. However, he will get a chance to get back into the game by competing with the next eliminated player in the web-only show “Last Chance Kitchen.”
This week, the Los Angeles-based edition of the Bravo reality series is inspired by beloved Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan Gold, who died in 2018. The first food critic to ever win a Pulitzer was fond of small traditional immigrant eateries. Read on for our minute-by-minute takes on the second episode of the season, “The Jonathan Gold Standard.”
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10:01 p.m. Host Padma Lakshmi tells the chefs, who are still on the same beach from the previous episode, that there will be no quickfire challenge this week. Why you ask? “You...
This week, the Los Angeles-based edition of the Bravo reality series is inspired by beloved Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan Gold, who died in 2018. The first food critic to ever win a Pulitzer was fond of small traditional immigrant eateries. Read on for our minute-by-minute takes on the second episode of the season, “The Jonathan Gold Standard.”
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10:01 p.m. Host Padma Lakshmi tells the chefs, who are still on the same beach from the previous episode, that there will be no quickfire challenge this week. Why you ask? “You...
- 3/27/2020
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
Chef and restaurateur David Chang has a way with words. His Momofuku culinary brand was named after the Japanese words for “lucky peach” with a nod to ramen inventor Momofuku Ando. But Chang has also acknowledged that it’s no accident that Momofuku sounds very similar to “motherfucker.”
Contained in that auspicious, delicious, and mischievous moniker are clues of what to expect in his Netflix food series with its own colorful name, “Ugly Delicious.” While each of the eight episodes focuses on one specific comfort food such as pizza or fried chicken, the series examines far more than just plating and recipes. The spotlight dish also serves as a tasty vehicle by which to examine historical and social issues, and hopefully build bridges across politics and continents.
Read More:Netflix’s ‘Ugly Delicious’: Ali Wong and David Chang Diss Untrustworthy Yelp Reviews and Wack Pho – Watch
Through the episode “Pizza,...
Contained in that auspicious, delicious, and mischievous moniker are clues of what to expect in his Netflix food series with its own colorful name, “Ugly Delicious.” While each of the eight episodes focuses on one specific comfort food such as pizza or fried chicken, the series examines far more than just plating and recipes. The spotlight dish also serves as a tasty vehicle by which to examine historical and social issues, and hopefully build bridges across politics and continents.
Read More:Netflix’s ‘Ugly Delicious’: Ali Wong and David Chang Diss Untrustworthy Yelp Reviews and Wack Pho – Watch
Through the episode “Pizza,...
- 2/23/2018
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Netflix has released the trailer for “Ugly Delicious,” a new docuseries starring famed restaurateur David Chang (Momofuku) as he and Oscar-winning producer Morgan Neville set out to prove that food needn’t be aesthetically pleasing in order to taste good. Watch below.
Read More:Netflix’s ‘Ugly Delicious’: Ali Wong and David Chang Diss Untrustworthy Yelp Reviews and Wack Pho – Watch
Here be the synopsis: “Chang, along with other renowned chefs, industry leaders and celebrity guests, including Jimmy Kimmel, Chef René Redzepi and legendary writer Ruth Reichl, come together to debate and define comfort food as a vehicle to discuss cultural and political issues around the world and explore the cultural traditions, flavors, and shared experiences that unite us all. Throughout the docu-series, food is ultimately used as a bridge between different cultures, providing a way for others to relate to one another through shared life experiences through one important ingredient: food.
Read More:Netflix’s ‘Ugly Delicious’: Ali Wong and David Chang Diss Untrustworthy Yelp Reviews and Wack Pho – Watch
Here be the synopsis: “Chang, along with other renowned chefs, industry leaders and celebrity guests, including Jimmy Kimmel, Chef René Redzepi and legendary writer Ruth Reichl, come together to debate and define comfort food as a vehicle to discuss cultural and political issues around the world and explore the cultural traditions, flavors, and shared experiences that unite us all. Throughout the docu-series, food is ultimately used as a bridge between different cultures, providing a way for others to relate to one another through shared life experiences through one important ingredient: food.
- 2/6/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Move over, “Chef’s Table.” Netflix will soon serve up a more accessible food series.
The streaming giant on Thursday announced the pickup of “Ugly Delicious,” a new food docu-series by Momofuku restaurateur/chef David Chang and Academy Award-winning director Morgan Neville (“20 Feet From Stardom”). In contrast to the “Jiro Dreams of Sushi”/David Gelb-inspired food porn of Netflix’s “Chef’s Table,” the new series will turn its lens to food that is less camera-ready and more consumption-ready.
Read More:‘Chef’s Table’: How One Chef’s Ruined Palate Inspired Duncan Thum’s Luscious Score
“Ugly Delicious” is a term that’s been used to describe the everyday food that is damn tasty but might not be Instagram-friendly. As a result, these comfort foods may not get the spotlight they deserve. Here’s Netflix’s description of the series:
Chang, along with other renowned chefs, industry leaders and celebrity guests,...
The streaming giant on Thursday announced the pickup of “Ugly Delicious,” a new food docu-series by Momofuku restaurateur/chef David Chang and Academy Award-winning director Morgan Neville (“20 Feet From Stardom”). In contrast to the “Jiro Dreams of Sushi”/David Gelb-inspired food porn of Netflix’s “Chef’s Table,” the new series will turn its lens to food that is less camera-ready and more consumption-ready.
Read More:‘Chef’s Table’: How One Chef’s Ruined Palate Inspired Duncan Thum’s Luscious Score
“Ugly Delicious” is a term that’s been used to describe the everyday food that is damn tasty but might not be Instagram-friendly. As a result, these comfort foods may not get the spotlight they deserve. Here’s Netflix’s description of the series:
Chang, along with other renowned chefs, industry leaders and celebrity guests,...
- 1/18/2018
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Doubtless you’ve been breathlessly keeping up with every update to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s relationship this week. But one thing you might have missed in the lightning-quick developments in the pair’s romance is that Markle is something of a royal in her own right. A food royal, anyway. Or perhaps an impresario, at the very least.
See, the Suits star has this website, The Tig (named for the Americanized shorthand of the Italian wine Tignanello), and a rather sizable chunk of the site is devoted to conversations with chefs, recipes and food pictures. It’s quite lovely,...
See, the Suits star has this website, The Tig (named for the Americanized shorthand of the Italian wine Tignanello), and a rather sizable chunk of the site is devoted to conversations with chefs, recipes and food pictures. It’s quite lovely,...
- 11/1/2016
- by alexheigl
- PEOPLE.com
It's our favorite time of year again: list-making season! To celebrate, this week's Entertainment Weekly dives deep into 2014 to give you our rundown of the year's best and worst in pop culture. Movie critic Chris Nashawaty ranks the year's top films (we see you, Boyhood and Guardians of the Galaxy) and calls out some bad ones (two too many volumes, Nymphomaniac!); TV critics Jeff Jensen and Melissa Maerz rave about Transparent and Fargo but refuse to Wanna Marry Harry; the music team reps Lana Del Rey and St. Vincent while rejecting Robin Thicke; and the books staff relishes Emily St.
- 12/3/2014
- by EW staff
- EW.com - PopWatch
Warning: Don’t watch this if you’re hungry and food is not immediately available. Wayne Wang directs this documentary about Cecilia Chiang, the patron saint of Chinese cooking in America. Originally intended as a memento of Chiang preparing a banquet in her apartment, it grew into a feature on the life of the woman who opened San Francisco’s famed restaurant the Mandarin in 1961. Her students over the years have included such renowned chefs as Julia Child, James Beard and Alice Waters. Soul Of A Banquet includes interviews with Chiang, now 95, along with Waters and food writer Ruth Reichl. Oscilloscope Laboratories plans a slow rollout starting this month. Seconds will be available.
- 10/8/2014
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline
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If you haven’t heard about “Dumb Starbucks” it was a California “art gallery” that completely duplicated the look of a Starbucks, except it added “Dumb” to the Starbucks logo. It turns out the shop was a stunt by Comedy Central show Nathan for You, which parodies business improvement reality shows. I laughed when I saw it on the news, I can’t wait to see the episode.
Tom Cavanagh has joined the cast of the CW’s Flash pilot. He’ll play a physicist at S.T.A.R. labs named Harrison Wells. As far as I can find, there isn’t a DC Comics character with that name to hint as his future.
Just a mention of Tom Cavanagh has me looking for that Breakfast with Scot DVD.
How is AMC celebrating African-American history month? By developing a Civil Rights drama. Bombingham is set in Birmingham, Alabama...
If you haven’t heard about “Dumb Starbucks” it was a California “art gallery” that completely duplicated the look of a Starbucks, except it added “Dumb” to the Starbucks logo. It turns out the shop was a stunt by Comedy Central show Nathan for You, which parodies business improvement reality shows. I laughed when I saw it on the news, I can’t wait to see the episode.
Tom Cavanagh has joined the cast of the CW’s Flash pilot. He’ll play a physicist at S.T.A.R. labs named Harrison Wells. As far as I can find, there isn’t a DC Comics character with that name to hint as his future.
Just a mention of Tom Cavanagh has me looking for that Breakfast with Scot DVD.
How is AMC celebrating African-American history month? By developing a Civil Rights drama. Bombingham is set in Birmingham, Alabama...
- 2/11/2014
- by Lyle Masaki
- The Backlot
A fifth season of Top Chef Masters, a spinoff of Bravo's Top Chef featuring seasoned culinary all-stars, has been announced by the cable network. Set to debut July 24, the returning series will again be hosted by Curtis Stone and feature the new addition of Gail Simmons as head critic, who'll lead the judging panel featuring returning critics James Oseland, Ruth Reichl and Francis Lam. Also joining the series this season as judge is Lesley Suter, food editor at Los Angeles magazine. Q&A: 'Top Chef: Seattle's' Hugh Acheson on Belgian Knights, Being a 'Jackass' and the Food Fad He
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- 6/6/2013
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It's been a strong season of "Top Chef Masters," but it all comes down to one winner. Ultimately it was all about the chef who took the bigger risks. And the distinguished chef-testant who can now call himself the Top Chef Master is: Chris Cosentino.
Cosentino wins a season full of fierce competition and big personalities. Lorena Garcia, Patricia Yeo, Takashi Yagihasi, Art Smith and Thierry Rautureau all left their unique marks in the kitchen even though they didn't make it to the finals. The season also benefited from a cleverly selected mix of guest stars -- including the hilariously idiosyncratic food musings from the likes of Holly Madison, the B-52s and Dita von Teese -- and challenges -- cooking at the Grand Canyon, a cook-off in a boxing ring -- that took full advantage of the Las Vegas locale.
Smart, straight-talking judges James Oseland and Ruth Reichl and...
Cosentino wins a season full of fierce competition and big personalities. Lorena Garcia, Patricia Yeo, Takashi Yagihasi, Art Smith and Thierry Rautureau all left their unique marks in the kitchen even though they didn't make it to the finals. The season also benefited from a cleverly selected mix of guest stars -- including the hilariously idiosyncratic food musings from the likes of Holly Madison, the B-52s and Dita von Teese -- and challenges -- cooking at the Grand Canyon, a cook-off in a boxing ring -- that took full advantage of the Las Vegas locale.
Smart, straight-talking judges James Oseland and Ruth Reichl and...
- 9/27/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Maybe Twitter should add a spoiler alert to Tom Colicchio's account. The "Top Chef" judge tweeted the results of last night's penultimate episode of "Top Chef Masters" immediately as the episode ended on the East Coast.
If you're planning to catch up on "Top Chef Masters" later, you'll probably want to stop reading now.
Colicchio tweeted "Congratulations to my friends Kerry Heffernan and Chris Cosentino for making it to the finale of Top Chef Masters" at 10:59 p.m. Et.
To which Bravo executive and "Watch What Happens" host Andy Cohen immediately replied: "Pst brother!"
Most entertainment sites, including Zap2it, try to be sensitive about spoiling reality show results on social media. In the age of timeshifting and DVRs, not everyone watches live. But Colicchio clearly was excited about the outcome. "Top Chef Masters" viewers know from an episode that aired earlier this season that Colicchio and Heffernan...
If you're planning to catch up on "Top Chef Masters" later, you'll probably want to stop reading now.
Colicchio tweeted "Congratulations to my friends Kerry Heffernan and Chris Cosentino for making it to the finale of Top Chef Masters" at 10:59 p.m. Et.
To which Bravo executive and "Watch What Happens" host Andy Cohen immediately replied: "Pst brother!"
Most entertainment sites, including Zap2it, try to be sensitive about spoiling reality show results on social media. In the age of timeshifting and DVRs, not everyone watches live. But Colicchio clearly was excited about the outcome. "Top Chef Masters" viewers know from an episode that aired earlier this season that Colicchio and Heffernan...
- 9/20/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
I am so excited to have celebrity chef, Rocco Dispirito, joining me soon on Mondays with Marlo! Now's your chance to ask the celebrated chef anything you'd like to know about:
Tips on eating healthierHealthy ways to cook your favorite mealsHealthy snacks for kidsHis work with New York City childrenHis latest TV show, "Now Eat This with Rocco Dispirito"Quick and easy recipesHis favorite mealsHis recent book, "Now Eat This! Italian" Food trucksHow to curb your appetiteAnything else he wants to talk about!
Be sure to leave your questions in the comment section below!
Rocco Dispirito is a chef and the author of nine award winning books including the # 1 New York Times bestsellers "Now Eat This!" And "Now Eat This! Diet". Rocco’s "Now Eat This!" series features healthy makeovers of America’s favorite comfort foods, from fried chicken to apple pie, all with zero bad carbs, zero bad fats,...
Tips on eating healthierHealthy ways to cook your favorite mealsHealthy snacks for kidsHis work with New York City childrenHis latest TV show, "Now Eat This with Rocco Dispirito"Quick and easy recipesHis favorite mealsHis recent book, "Now Eat This! Italian" Food trucksHow to curb your appetiteAnything else he wants to talk about!
Be sure to leave your questions in the comment section below!
Rocco Dispirito is a chef and the author of nine award winning books including the # 1 New York Times bestsellers "Now Eat This!" And "Now Eat This! Diet". Rocco’s "Now Eat This!" series features healthy makeovers of America’s favorite comfort foods, from fried chicken to apple pie, all with zero bad carbs, zero bad fats,...
- 9/20/2012
- by Jessy Whitehead
- Huffington Post
Ruth Reichl has spent most of her adult life -- and all of her career -- putting her experiences with food into words. As a former food guru for the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, the celebrated editor-in-chief of Gourmet Magazine until its confounding demise in 2009, and now editorial advisor for the Web's Gilt Taste, Reichl's writings have advised and tantalized international foodies for decades.
When Bravo offered her a judging stint on Season 3 of Top Chef Masters, Reichl signed on as a lark and enjoyed it so much that she's back for the series' fourth session now airing on Wednesdays. And thanks to her decades-long reign at the epicenter of food culture, she's found plenty of familiar faces in the new crop of contestants.
"A lot of these chefs are people whose careers I know well," Reichl tells Zap2it, "so for me, it's an interesting group.
When Bravo offered her a judging stint on Season 3 of Top Chef Masters, Reichl signed on as a lark and enjoyed it so much that she's back for the series' fourth session now airing on Wednesdays. And thanks to her decades-long reign at the epicenter of food culture, she's found plenty of familiar faces in the new crop of contestants.
"A lot of these chefs are people whose careers I know well," Reichl tells Zap2it, "so for me, it's an interesting group.
- 8/1/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
On TV this Wednesday: England’s lead-up to the Olympics is Absolutely Fabulous, Jimmy Fallon and friends hold a hootenanny, The Exes goes Dancing with a star and a new crop of Top Chef Masters gather to beat the crème fraiche out of each other. Here are 10 programs to keep on your radar tonight.
8 pm So You Think You Can Dance (Fox) | Up All Night’s Christina Applegate returns to help judge the Top 16’s routines, and members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater perform.
8:30 Baby Daddy (ABC Family) | A potential new boss thinks Ben and Riley are married.
8 pm So You Think You Can Dance (Fox) | Up All Night’s Christina Applegate returns to help judge the Top 16’s routines, and members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater perform.
8:30 Baby Daddy (ABC Family) | A potential new boss thinks Ben and Riley are married.
- 7/25/2012
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Garlic and Sapphires
"Lost" and "Alcatrax" E.P. Elizabeth Sarnoff is set to re-write the film adaptation of Ruth Reichl’s book "Garlic And Sapphires" at Fox 2000. Paul Feig ("Bridesmaids") is attached to direct.
The story follows an NY Times’ restaurant critic goes undercover to the world’s finest culinary establishments. To go unrecognized, she assumes the persona of a nouveau riche widow. Sarnoff will re-write the script from an earlier version. [Source: Deadline]
Quarantine
Black Forest Film Group has acquired feature rights to Lex Hrabe and Thomas Voorhies' young adult action-thriller novel "Quarantine: The Loners". he story concerns the outbreak of a virus that is deadly to anyone after puberty.
A typical American high school becomes a battleground after the military quarantines more than a thousand teens, who subsequently form violent gangs based on previously established social cliques and now battling for survival. Mark Morgan, Kami Garcia, E. Thompson, Brett Hudson,...
"Lost" and "Alcatrax" E.P. Elizabeth Sarnoff is set to re-write the film adaptation of Ruth Reichl’s book "Garlic And Sapphires" at Fox 2000. Paul Feig ("Bridesmaids") is attached to direct.
The story follows an NY Times’ restaurant critic goes undercover to the world’s finest culinary establishments. To go unrecognized, she assumes the persona of a nouveau riche widow. Sarnoff will re-write the script from an earlier version. [Source: Deadline]
Quarantine
Black Forest Film Group has acquired feature rights to Lex Hrabe and Thomas Voorhies' young adult action-thriller novel "Quarantine: The Loners". he story concerns the outbreak of a virus that is deadly to anyone after puberty.
A typical American high school becomes a battleground after the military quarantines more than a thousand teens, who subsequently form violent gangs based on previously established social cliques and now battling for survival. Mark Morgan, Kami Garcia, E. Thompson, Brett Hudson,...
- 3/27/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Paul Feig has been winning nerd hearts for years now by directing episodes of beloved TV shows like Freaks and Geeks, The Office, and Arrested Development, but last year he won the hearts of the whole world when he directed the lady-centric comedy Bridesmaids, and sold about a gabillion movie tickets in the process. Seeing as he’s now such a well-regarded figure, it would stand to reason that everyone is eagerly anticipating whatever he’s going to do next. Well, lucky us, Deadline Royal Oaks has some news about one of his upcoming projects. Feig is attached to direct a film called Garlic and Sapphires, which is an adaptation of the memoirs of “New York Times” food critic Ruth Reichl. The source material details the lengths she used to go to in order to disguise herself and dine in top restaurants semi-anonymously (apparently it involved wearing a lot of sapphires). Before Feig gets to work on...
- 3/26/2012
- by Nathan Adams
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
This slideshow of Anthony Bourdain feuds focuses on some of the sharp-tongued "No Reservations" host's most famous adversaries. From Paula Deen to Rachael Ray, no chef or food personality seems to be safe from Bourdain's sarcastic humor and quick wit. Click through the pages below to see them all.
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Sandra Lee
The Attack: "This frightening hell-spawn of Kathie Lee and Betty Crocker seems on a mission to kill her fans, one meal at a time," Bourdain said in a 2007 guest blog post for Michael Ruhlman.
The Response: In 2009, Bourdain encountered Lee at a premiere for "Julie & Julia." He describes the encounter thusly: "Sandra is talking. I know this cause her lips are moving and she's saying -- overtly anyway, nice things. Like 'You're a very naughty man,' and she's chatting amiably with my wife... [I'm] frozen by the bizarreness of the moment which seems to go on forever as Sandra's hand wanders upward,...
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Sandra Lee
The Attack: "This frightening hell-spawn of Kathie Lee and Betty Crocker seems on a mission to kill her fans, one meal at a time," Bourdain said in a 2007 guest blog post for Michael Ruhlman.
The Response: In 2009, Bourdain encountered Lee at a premiere for "Julie & Julia." He describes the encounter thusly: "Sandra is talking. I know this cause her lips are moving and she's saying -- overtly anyway, nice things. Like 'You're a very naughty man,' and she's chatting amiably with my wife... [I'm] frozen by the bizarreness of the moment which seems to go on forever as Sandra's hand wanders upward,...
- 2/29/2012
- by mbrassfield
- Foodista
Randy jests but never about wine.
Danny Kaye was one of my family’s favorite entertainers when I was a kid. His movie career was (mostly) before my time, although I relished seeing his films on television. His variety show in the mid-’60s we never missed. It was a bittersweet joy when he skipped that giant circle around the soundstage. It was great fun, but it also signaled the end of that week’s fun.
Kaye was known as much for his physical comedy as for his verbal jesting. Both are on display in The Court Jester. In fact, our wine pairing for “The Court Jester” will be served this time in some very special glassware. Just keep in mind that a witch dropped a poison pellet into one of the vessels.
“The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace...
Danny Kaye was one of my family’s favorite entertainers when I was a kid. His movie career was (mostly) before my time, although I relished seeing his films on television. His variety show in the mid-’60s we never missed. It was a bittersweet joy when he skipped that giant circle around the soundstage. It was great fun, but it also signaled the end of that week’s fun.
Kaye was known as much for his physical comedy as for his verbal jesting. Both are on display in The Court Jester. In fact, our wine pairing for “The Court Jester” will be served this time in some very special glassware. Just keep in mind that a witch dropped a poison pellet into one of the vessels.
“The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace...
- 2/16/2012
- by admin
- Trailers from Hell
I was going through all my bookmarks and I came along this one that I have not shared with you all yet! Shame on me! Courtesy of GeekDad.
Whether you’ve been using Twitter since 2006, are determined never to use it unless dragged kicking and screaming, or are somewhere in between, you probably know that it’s wildly popular with all sorts of people. In addition to the celebrities who make a big deal about Twitter (e.g., Ashton Kutcher), there are tons of people, both famous and not, who tweet about lots of interesting things.
Here's a updated list of people to follow on Twitter.
Name Twitter ID Why They’re Listed Here Phil Plait BadAstronomer The Bad Astronomer himself; a source for great space-related info and a dose of healthy skepticism. James Urbaniak JamesUrbaniak The voice of Dr. Venture on The Venture Brothers, and a very funny tweeter.
Whether you’ve been using Twitter since 2006, are determined never to use it unless dragged kicking and screaming, or are somewhere in between, you probably know that it’s wildly popular with all sorts of people. In addition to the celebrities who make a big deal about Twitter (e.g., Ashton Kutcher), there are tons of people, both famous and not, who tweet about lots of interesting things.
Here's a updated list of people to follow on Twitter.
Name Twitter ID Why They’re Listed Here Phil Plait BadAstronomer The Bad Astronomer himself; a source for great space-related info and a dose of healthy skepticism. James Urbaniak JamesUrbaniak The voice of Dr. Venture on The Venture Brothers, and a very funny tweeter.
- 8/23/2011
- by Mars
- GeekTyrant
The ‘About Us’ section on the website for the new Gilt Taste (which is the latest offshoot of Gilt.com, which is an online provider of insider access to top deals on designer consumer products) begins with 3 simple words, “We love food.” Everything about the Gilt Taste site supports that mantra, from the tangible passion for artisanal foods to chef-quality equipment. With the expertise of Ruth Reichl, Francis Lam, Melissa Clark and Barry Estabrook, this interactive online food magazine offers top of the line products and inspirational photos, features, and videos to help dedicated foodies bring their culinary dreams to life. Gilt Taste has quickly become the online shopping haven for food adventurers, from the the scotch and stout truffles made by Valerie Confections to La Quericia’s Porkucopia assortment, and everything in between. And (like Gilt proper) there’s video... With the content ranging from Chef Daniel Boulud sharing...
- 8/9/2011
- by Julie Wolfson
- Tubefilter.com
During the finale of Top Chef Masters 3 last night, Floyd Cardoz beat Traci Des Jardins and Mary Sue Milliken to claim the $100,000 prize for his charity, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine's Young Scientist Cancer Research Fund. But he told one of the show's new judges, Ruth Reichl, that early in the competition, he wanted to leave because it wasn't fun thanks to the fighting between the chefs. In other words, the show's...
- 6/16/2011
- by Andy Dehnart
- Reality Blurred
Bravo Host Curtis Stone
What’s the secret to success for a Top Chef Master? Apparently, it all comes down to Kiss. As in Keep It Simple, Stupid.
On Wednesday night, Floyd Cardoz, the New York chef behind the contemporary Indian restaurant, Tabla, took home the top prize of $100,000 in the third season of Bravo’s “Top Chef Masters.” And his winning meal included an utterly simple dish that divided the prestigious panel of judges – namely, upma, a breakfast and...
What’s the secret to success for a Top Chef Master? Apparently, it all comes down to Kiss. As in Keep It Simple, Stupid.
On Wednesday night, Floyd Cardoz, the New York chef behind the contemporary Indian restaurant, Tabla, took home the top prize of $100,000 in the third season of Bravo’s “Top Chef Masters.” And his winning meal included an utterly simple dish that divided the prestigious panel of judges – namely, upma, a breakfast and...
- 6/16/2011
- by Charles Passy
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Photo by NicoleWilder/Bravo
There havebeen some serious changes made to Top Chef Masters this season. First of all hostKelly Choi has been replaced by the omnipresent Ausie Curtis Stone. Legendaryfood critic Ruth Reichl will sidle up beside her comrade James Oseland at theJudges’ Table. And the format of the show has completely changed. In a recentconference call interview Stone, Reichl and Oseland talked about the newset-up, their celebrity guests and what they would be eating if they could eatanything in the world.
Stone openedup about the latest installment of TopChef Masters, saying, “This season we really mixed it up. We changed theformat and all the chefs were in the show together and in the previous seasonsthere was… tournament [style] and two of the chefs went through. But in thisone we followed the format of Top Chefwhere all the chefs begin and in each episode, one chef’s eliminated. So Ithink...
There havebeen some serious changes made to Top Chef Masters this season. First of all hostKelly Choi has been replaced by the omnipresent Ausie Curtis Stone. Legendaryfood critic Ruth Reichl will sidle up beside her comrade James Oseland at theJudges’ Table. And the format of the show has completely changed. In a recentconference call interview Stone, Reichl and Oseland talked about the newset-up, their celebrity guests and what they would be eating if they could eatanything in the world.
Stone openedup about the latest installment of TopChef Masters, saying, “This season we really mixed it up. We changed theformat and all the chefs were in the show together and in the previous seasonsthere was… tournament [style] and two of the chefs went through. But in thisone we followed the format of Top Chefwhere all the chefs begin and in each episode, one chef’s eliminated. So Ithink...
- 4/13/2011
- by Pop Culture Passionistas
- popculturepassionistas
Top Chef Masters is serving up something new this season — actually, several new things. In last night’s premiere, we learned that Australian chef and Celebrity Apprentice contestant Curtis Stone has replaced pretty charisma vacuum Kelly Choi as the show’s host, while judges Gael Greene and Jay Raynor have been succeeded by former Gourmet editrix Ruth Reichl. Perhaps most importantly, the series has also traded its old, tournament-style format for a more conventional reality show scheme — all of the contestants started competing at the same time, and one of them will be eliminated each episode. That’s a lot of change to stomach,...
- 4/7/2011
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
Los Angeles, CA, United States (Ahn Entertainment) - Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the kitchen following that awesome, nail-biting season of "Top Chef All-Stars," there's already a brand new "Top Chef" season premiering this week: "Top Chef Masters."
This time, "Top Chef Masters" is being changed up for the better: gone are the Tournament-style first rounds which saw four or five chefs pitted up against another until the finalists competed for the title. Instead, like "Top Chef," all the cheftestants are starting out together from the start and battling it out for the title each week.
Also in as host this time is unnecessarily good looking chef and restaurateur Curtis Stone, who's can also be currently seen on NBC's "America's Next Great Restaurant." If you know anything about Curtis Stone, he's likable, affable, but judges as hard as the best of them. Longtime food...
This time, "Top Chef Masters" is being changed up for the better: gone are the Tournament-style first rounds which saw four or five chefs pitted up against another until the finalists competed for the title. Instead, like "Top Chef," all the cheftestants are starting out together from the start and battling it out for the title each week.
Also in as host this time is unnecessarily good looking chef and restaurateur Curtis Stone, who's can also be currently seen on NBC's "America's Next Great Restaurant." If you know anything about Curtis Stone, he's likable, affable, but judges as hard as the best of them. Longtime food...
- 4/6/2011
- icelebz.com
Los Angeles, CA, United States (Ahn Entertainment) - Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the kitchen following that awesome, nail-biting season of "Top Chef All-Stars," there's already a brand new "Top Chef" season premiering this week: "Top Chef Masters."
This time, "Top Chef Masters" is being changed up for the better: gone are the Tournament-style first rounds which saw four or five chefs pitted up against another until the finalists competed for the title. Instead, like "Top Chef," all the cheftestants are starting out together from the start and battling it out for the title each week.
Also in as host this time is unnecessarily good looking chef and restaurateur Curtis Stone, who's can also be currently seen on NBC's "America's Next Great Restaurant." If you know anything about Curtis Stone, he's likable, affable, but judges as hard as the best of them. Longtime food...
This time, "Top Chef Masters" is being changed up for the better: gone are the Tournament-style first rounds which saw four or five chefs pitted up against another until the finalists competed for the title. Instead, like "Top Chef," all the cheftestants are starting out together from the start and battling it out for the title each week.
Also in as host this time is unnecessarily good looking chef and restaurateur Curtis Stone, who's can also be currently seen on NBC's "America's Next Great Restaurant." If you know anything about Curtis Stone, he's likable, affable, but judges as hard as the best of them. Longtime food...
- 4/6/2011
- icelebz.com
Can a brilliant cook make even a bowl of worms appetizing? We’ll find out this season on Top Chef Masters, which premieres April 6 at 11 p.m. Et on Bravo. In one memorable quickfire, the stars of Discovery’s Man, Woman, Wild visit the Top Chef kitchen and challenge the competitors to make a winning dish out of night crawlers, beetles, and other creepy-crawlies. “And guess who got to eat it all?” laughed Curtis Stone, the Australian chef (and onetime wannabe Celebrity Apprentice) who’s taking over as host of Masters this year, during a conference call with reporters. “I...
- 3/29/2011
- by Hillary Busis
- EW - Inside TV
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