To die for.
The finale of Top Chef Vegas was recently filmed in Napa Valley. — Eater The New Yorker get to know Los Angeles restaurant critic Jonathan Gold. — Grub Street NY Ubuntu, Napa's vegetarian darling of a restaurant, may start serving meat. — SF Foodie Thirteen individuals who are making waves in the food industry. — Chow One Houston restaurant critic has dropped his anonymity. — Eat Read more
Earlier this year, I made the trip up to Napa, CA, to visit Ubuntu, a restaurant that's garnered national acclaim for a new kind of vegetarian produce-driven cuisine. The food is radical for many reasons, like the fact that executive chef (and Food & Wine Best New Chef) Jeremy Fox grows much of the produce in a biodynamic garden near the restaurant. It's also that the focus of the menu is not Read more
Even pizza delivery chains are proclaiming this year to be the worst they've ever seen. — Wall Street Journal The rib-sticking recipe for this Latvian cabbage pie has traveled around the world. — Boston Globe Harold McGee answers the question: How much water do you need when cooking pasta? — New York Times Chef Jeremy Fox of Ubuntu in Napa, CA, is paving the way for vegetarian cuisine. Read more
Veronica Mars may be over and out, but my girl Kristen Bell keeps on geekin' on with "her" website on geeksugar fave Gossip Girl. And of course, in these days we have YouTube and DVD box sets, so when a show goes off the air, we can keep loving it over and over again, thank the gods. Anyway, watch as two of Veronica Mars' geeks debate the merits of Ubuntu vs. OS X. And you gotta love Veronica's Read more
We're one step closer to knowing who'll take home top honors in this year's James Beard Awards — the so-called "Oscars of the food world." Semifinalists were announced a month ago, and they included the likes of Stephanie Izard, Michael Symon, and Suzanne Goin. The awards, which will be newly sponsored by Groupon and hosted by Tom Colicchio, Ming Tsai, and Traci Des Jardins, won't happen until Read more
