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Link Time: From Anthony Bourdain to Grant Achatz

YumSugar — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:18:27 PDT

Anthony Bourdain has a new Travel Channel show, 24-Hour Layovers. - Eater
How long does baking soda really last? - KitchenDaily
Get acquainted with the kati roll, India's famous street wrap. - Food Republic
National restaurant performance has sunk for the first time in six months. - Wall Street Journal
Check out the dramatic trailer for upcoming restaurant reality drama Famous Food. - VH1
Zucchini recipes to help you get creative with Summer squash. - The Daily Meal
BBQ sauce 101: Find out the difference between South Carolina mustard and East Carolina mop. - TLC
Grant Achatz will release the first of Next restaurant's pay-what-you-want e-books. - Grub Street CHI

Yummy Links: From Canned PB&J to Rapture Food

YumSugar — Fri, 20 May 2011 11:11:28 PDT

Would you eat PB&J sandwiches from a can? - Bites on Today
Six things Anthony Bourdain vows he'll never do again. - Huffington Post Food
What candy mogul Dylan Lauren eats to balance out all those sweets. - Grub Street NY
Transform your wok into a popcorn popper. - Chow
How to make patty melts on the grill. - A Hamburger Today
On hating chocolate. - Gilt Taste
BlackBoard Eats is free again, but paid subscribers won't lose out. - Daily Dish
Tyler Florence now runs an estimated $50 million empire. - Eater
The Rapture's almost here! Stock up for the end. - ShortList

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Yummy Links: From Anthony Bourdain to Jamie Oliver

YumSugar — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:59:00 PDT

Anthony Bourdain admits he's a sellout and "part of the problem." - Eater
Just in time for 420: a nationwide Domino's Pizza deal. - Groupon
Beer laced with Viagra is coming to the UK. - Café Society
Inside the new Whole Foods Cooking launch, and its partnership with Food52. - Food52
Royal wedding guests won't be sitting down to a nice meal. - Grub Street NY
Why there weren't more Asian restaurants on the top 50 list. - Wall Street Journal
Scandal! Major olive oil brands fail quality tests. - Huffington Post Food
Jamie Oliver may get another chance with the LA school chief. - Daily Dish

Yummy Links: From Gwyneth Paltrow to Ina Garten

YumSugar — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:58:56 PDT

Gwyneth Paltrow is rumored to be starting up her own food magazine. - New York Post
A first look at Denny's seven-item Baconalia menu. - Serious Eats
Create a lavish royal wedding party with these 22 canapés. - Daily Dish
The Starbucks CEO's new memoir stinks with the "smell of self-congratulation." - Wall Street Journal
Nothing's certain, but Eataly could expand to Los Angeles. - Grub Street LA
Make your own strawberry milk. - The Kitchn
Bizarre food, indeed: Andrew Zimmern won't eat walnuts. - Eater
Ina Garten won't be visiting that child with cancer after all. - TMZ

Yummy Links: From Macarons to Kitchen Scissors

YumSugar — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:36:36 PDT

Macaron myths completely debunked. - The Kitchn
A look at Alice Waters's Twitter press conference. - Inside Scoop SF
What Food & Wine's Ray Isle eats over the course of one weekend. - Grub Street NY
Putting Anthony Bourdain in his place. - Eatocracy
The people behind the World's Best Restaurants list have named the best female chefs. - Eater
Why it might become hard to buy your favorite beer. - The Atlantic
25 new uses for kitchen scissors. - The Bitten Word
An in-depth profile of Sandra Lee. - New York Mag

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Enter to Win the Ultimate Foodie Giveaway!

YumSugar — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:38:31 PST

It's our favorite time of year: the holiday season! The festive six weeks are packed with food celebrations, crazy parties, and the annual unveiling of Simon Doonan's iconic and amazingly creative windows for Barneys! This November, Simon was inspired by the food industry to craft "A Foodie Holiday," a display that showcases how fashion and food collide. It features some of our favorite Food Network celebrity chefs - from Rachael Ray to Anthony Bourdain, no culinary personality was overlooked! Plus, we chatted with Jamie Oliver, Paula Deen, Emeril Lagasse and more at the unveiling.

To celebrate, we've teamed up with Barneys and our sister site, ShopStyle, to bring you an awesome giveaway worth $5,000 in prizes! We are giving away the following must haves: a Fornasetti Box of Chocolates Plates, an Editions de Parfums Coffee Society candle, a Jonathan Adler Fondue Set, an Armand Diradourian Out to Lunch Pillow, and an Illy Francis Francis X1 Iper Espresso Machine! That's not all - we're also giving away a grand prize to one very lucky winner: a gorgeous and extravagant Valextra travel bag, handpicked by Simon Doonan himself!

Entering is easy - all you have to do is click through the slideshow, add your email at the end, and you'll be entered to win. Check out the official rules here. Good luck!

So You Want to Go to Culinary School

Emily Co — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 08:00:00 PDT

Graduate schools are a great way to switch careers or advance the one you have. I talked about the most common reasons to get a grad degree, and my new school series will give you a quick glimpse of what options are out there.

Think you have what it takes to be the next Anthony Bourdain? Well, why not start off where he did, at the Culinary Institute of America, a cooking school that's based in New York. As a graduate, you'll be part of the school's elite alumni network, which boasts of Alinea's Grant Achatz, Chipotle CEO Steven Ells, Iron Chef's Cat Cora, and the list goes on. Jennifer Purcell, one of the associate deans at the CIA, told me more about the famous culinary school.

SavvySugar: What can a typical student expect to experience at the CIA?

Jennifer Purcell: A class day may start at 7 a.m. and end around 1:30 p.m., and that’s for a kitchen course. [Expect to] stand on your feet and cook, and kitchens are warm! They can be long days, but we also have sit-down lectures, courses and classes, but the bulk of our coursework is culinary. You’re in the kitchens, and repetition is key, because it’s how you build your skills. The classes are sequential so your building blocks of starting with basics and you build on those throughout the program until you end up in the CIA's four public restaurants. The whole experience is to synthesize all of your training and put it into action in a live restaurant.

To find out about the common misconceptions people have of cooking schools, read on!

Get Excited For Top Chef All-Stars!

partysugar — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:20:57 PDT

What began a couple of weeks ago as a rumor has now been confirmed: Top Chef All-Stars will premiere on Bravo on Dec. 1. According to TV Guide, 18 of the previous cheftestants will compete in the ultimate Top Chef showdown. To make the series even more exciting, everyone's favorite bad boy foodie, Anthony Bourdain, has joined Tom Colicchio, Padma Lakshmi, and Gail Simmons as a regular judge.

Although the participating chefs have yet to be announced - they will be revealed tonight on the Top Chef: DC reunion show - the wonderful folks at Eater have a good idea of who is set to appear. For the past couple of weeks, filming has taken place in New York City, and they've spotted everyone from Carla Hall to Stephen Asprinio to Marcel Vigneron.

After a somewhat boring seventh season, I'm excited to see some of my favorite chefs return for another chance at the title. How about you? Will you watch?

Parisian Eats More Affordable, Better For Travel Budget

SavvySugar — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:00:07 PDT

Yesterday, I watched the 100th episode of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations Travel Channel show and was delighted to learn about a movement in Paris that's gravitating towards affordable bistros serving fine-dining food. Even Bourdain's simple meal at the butcher's, which he describes as Disneyland, seems to be more satisfying than fancy restaurants with Michelin stars. This trending change will make a trip to Paris easier on the wallet, because oftentimes a huge part of our travel expenses generally goes to food. Food is a more intangible factor in our travel budget because unlike plane tickets and hotel rooms, we're not paying for it before we set out on our trip.

Personally, I believe that this is partly driven by the flagging economy - many countries have risen to meet the local demand for more affordable food during this economic downturn.

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Buzz In: What's Your Favorite Travel Show?

BuzzSugar — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:00:00 PDT

One of my favorite travel shows, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, marks its 100th episode on the Travel Channel tonight as its irreverent host heads to Paris for the perfect meal. For me, the exotic locations are what make No Reservations stand out amongst other food shows. (Well that, and Bourdain being the charming curmudgeon that he is).

On that note, as a TV fanatic, I often feed my travel urges by turning on the TV (it's much cheaper than a plane ticket). Sometimes I'm in the mood for the less-controversial Samantha Brown, other times I want the heartier fare of Man v. Food (to see the places host Adam Richman goes more so than watching him shovel food in his face). Do you have a favorite travel show?

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