What the heck is quinoa, anyway? — Kitchen Daily The winner of America's Next Great Restaurant has shuttered two locations. — Eater 10 international dishes to go with June's climbing temperatures. — TLC New food columnist David Tanis talks cooking with cannellinis. — New York Times Why America's food is much safer than you might think. — Grub Street NY Father's Day must make: New York Read more

If you watch any amount of food television, there's a good chance you've heard of Curtis Stone. From Take Home Chef to The Biggest Loser, there's nowhere this attractive Aussie hasn't been. Currently, he's busy being host of Top Chef Masters and a judge on America's Next Great Restaurant. We took time to get to know the chef, who's busy as the new face of Great Grains. Over the phone, Stone — Read more

Last night saw the debut of two much-hyped-about food television shows: Bobby Flay's America's Next Great Restaurant on NBC and Chopped All-Stars on Food Network. I watched both and found them to be overall entertaining. At a time when the fast-food industry has been under scrutiny, it's interesting that mega chefs Flay and Curtis Stone are investing in a chain eatery. Over on Chopped, it was Read more

Think you've seen a lot of celeb chef Curtis Stone on Celebrity Apprentice and The Biggest Loser? Well, America's about to see a lot more of him. This year, he'll replace Kelly Choi as the host of Top Chef Masters and serve as a panelist alongside Bobby Flay in America's Next Great Restaurant. The dashing Aussie chef caught up with Slashfood and talked frankly about everything from the "freaks" Read more

NBC's America's Next Great Restaurant was among many midseason TV shows at the Winter TCA, and the competition reality series is about to make someone's dream come true in the grandest way possible. Celebrity chefs Bobby Flay and Curtis Stone are judging the hopefuls who want to open the next big restaurant chain, so the show will be equally as focused on food as it is on business, sort of like Read more

Today there's more intel on NBC's restaurateur reality TV show, formerly titled United Plates of America. Variety reports that the competition, which will air next season, has a new name, America's Next Great Restaurant, that's perhaps more fitting of the show's premise than its old title. In addition, Bobby Flay has signed on to be one of the five restaurant and business leaders who will be a Read more

From Magical Elves, the producers of Bravo's Top Chef, Top Chef Masters, and the soon-to-air Top Chef: Just Desserts, comes yet another reality TV show, tentatively titled United Plates of America. Unlike its sister productions, United Plates will air on NBC. The premise: aspiring restaurateurs compete in a number of challenges involving the restaurant's concept, cuisine, management, and Read more

The time has finally arrived: the James Beard Awards, or the Oscars of the food world, have just been announced. After months of suspense following the announcement of this year's semifinalists and subsequent finalists, the results were announced at a star-studded gala in New York's Lincoln Center, where a smattering of top talent from Grant Achatz to Top Chef winner Paul Qui walked home with Read more

Although staying in to eat is a lot cheaper than going out, foodies can't help but indulge in their favorite restaurants once in a while. Food is one of the biggest joys in life, and nothing is better than sharing a good meal and conversation with the ones you love. In fact, the restaurant industry in America makes about $1.7 billion on a typical day, according to the Restaurant Association. Read more

Those of you who've tuned into the Food Network at all in recent days might have heard that the last season of The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs has just wrapped, and a new champion has emerged victorious out of the star-studded (and highly competitive) lineup. That would be Geoffrey Zakarian, guest judge of Food Network's Chopped and chef and owner of The National and The Lambs Club in New York Read more