With Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, British culinary celebrity Jamie Oliver has made a name for himself as an advocate for healthier American eating. The show's first season, shot in obesity-stricken Huntington, WV, received critical acclaim and garnered a Primetime Emmy in 2010. Food Revolution's second season returns to ABC April 12 at 8 p.m. The comeback takes place in Los Angeles and faces Read more

At Fabio Viviani's demo in South Beach, I learned a genius new method for cutting green onions. Here's what what you do: Instead of removing both rubber bands, take off the one that holds together the stems of the scallion. Slice off the stems and throw them away. Cut the onions up until the dark green part, which should still be held together by the second rubber band. Most recipes have you Read more

It's been raining incessantly in San Francisco, quite the departure from our stay in Florida, where we were in town for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. As a San Franciscan who'd never seen the staggering good looks of Miami Beach, I was more than happy to head back home to Fog City and be in my element. However, now more than a week later, I'm longing to be back there. The image that Read more

For her cooking demonstration at South Beach, Secrets of a Restaurant Chef's Anne Burrell made pasta. Unfortunately, her demo was scheduled bright and early on Sunday morning and the hysterically inappropriate chef was nursing a headache with her ultimate hangover cure: Prosecco on ice. She managed to lead the crowd through the steps to making ravioli and shared some helpful pasta pointers along Read more

Top Chef Italian stallion Fabio Viviani was out and about at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival. But he wasn't drinking too much wine or flirting with scantily clad females. Instead he was hard at working promoting a cause he stands fully behind: Bertolli olive oil. The chef has worked with the brand to create a product that is traditionally Italian, complete with three different cooking oils Read more

On the final day of the South Beach Food & Wine Festival, wine expert Joshua Wesson and Nobu Miami executive chef Thomas Buckley held a seminar of pairing wine with sushi, a fairly apropros way to end the celebration after four long days of indulging in burgers and grilled cheese. There, I sampled pairings like sashimi tacos with Alsatian Crémant, vegetable rolls with Greece's Moschofilero, Read more

We've learned a lot over the years from Laura Werlin, one of the country's foremost cheese experts. In fact, we can't get enough of her new grilled cheese book, which is packed with recipes like this one filled with mozzarella, crispy prosciutto, and broccoli rabe. So it's no surprise that during her seminar in South Beach, we had a front-row seat. Werlin's class was all about pairing grilled Read more