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Gossip Mom

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Kelly Senyei

The full-length feature version of Gossip Mom by Rachel Biermann appears in the current issue of Gourmet Live. Download the free Gourmet Live app for this story and more.

Kelly Rutherford may play a mean mom on the CW’s hit show Gossip Girl, but in real life the 42–year–old newly single mother of two is super sweet. Born in Kentucky and raised in Southern California, Rutherford claims her keen understanding of eating well was passed down the maternal line.

My mom was health conscious. I have always leaned toward the natural way. And it’s not that my mother cooked a lot—she just made sure we always had lots of healthy food around, like lots of fruits and vegetables. My grandmother did the same thing. I have this image of her standing in the kitchen constantly peeling fruit and cutting vegetables for crudités so we could all munch on it. I loved that.

Rutherford took time off the set to talk to Gourmet Live about acceptable Oreo use, turmeric as tonic and the special ingredient in baby guacamole.

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The Inside Dish with Chauncey Billups

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Kelly Senyei

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Gourmet Live caught up with NBA superstar Chauncey Billups of the New York Knicks to talk all things food. Get the inside scoop about Billups’ favorite meals, his guilty indulgences and what inspired him to get involved with Miami culinary hotspot Philippe Chow.

What role does food play in terms of your athletic performance?
Food plays a big role because I make sure my pre-game meal is full of foods that will help with my energy, like pasta, eggs and cereal.

What do your average pre- and post-game meals consist of?
Depending on what’s available, I try to eat light. Salad, a little pasta and a small chicken breast.

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Desperate to Cook?

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Kelly Senyei

The full-length feature version of Desperate to Cook? by Victoria Recaño appears in the current issue of Gourmet Live. Download the free Gourmet Live app for this story and more.


Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria has gone from the world of acting to the world of cooking with the publication of her first cookbook, Eva’s Kitchen: Cooking with Love for Family and Friends. From traditional tortilla soup to unbeatable banana bread, the Texas belle and successful restaurateur is sharing all of her favorite recipes while giving us a glimpse into what it was like to preserve her family’s legacy through food.

It was a lapse of craziness, because it was the hardest thing I have ever done. Actually, I have always wanted to get all of my recipes out of my head and onto paper. In my family, when somebody gets married, we do a wedding cookbook. Everybody in the family submits one recipe. We give the bride one book of all these recipes, and we do that every time somebody gets married. I love that tradition of keeping old recipes alive and passing on the legacy of cooking.

Longoria dishes to Gourmet Live guest columnist Victoria Recaño about the most underrated ingredient, the dinner party of her dreams and her predictions for the next big trend in the culinary scene.

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Scarlett Bakes!

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Kelly Senyei
The full-length feature version of Scarlett Bakes! by Adam Sachs appears in the current issue of Gourmet Live. Download the free Gourmet Live app for this story and more.

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Gourmet Live guest columnist Adam Sachs caught up with Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson to talk tea cakes, banana cream pie, bagels and more.
…Scarlett likes to cook and eat, and recently she’d been contemplating learning to make her own bagels because you can’t get a decent bagel in LA. And then we were talking about the little carrot cakes that she pulled from the oven just before leaving to meet me here at this greasy spoon coffee and pie shop in Los Feliz. And now we’d sort of shifted from the contemplative pleasures of baking for friends to gory medical TV shows. She’s a fan. Impact on her appetite? Negligible. “My sister’s the same way,” she says. “We’re watching these trauma shows and shoveling in a big lamb shank while someone is having their goiter removed.” To be honest, I’m not sure how we got to goiter removal. And to continue being honest: it hardly mattered. Talking with Scarlett Johannson, you do not think, I want answers. You think: Let’s keep talking.
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Rising Like a Stone

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Kelly Senyei
The full-length feature version of Rising Like a Stone by Victoria Recaño appears in the current issue of Gourmet Live. Download the free Gourmet Live app for this story and more.

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There aren’t many places these days that you won’t see Curtis Stone. The Australian-born chef, cookbook author and television personality is about to stir up a reality show storm as host of Top Chef Masters Season 3 and currently is a judge on NBC’s hot new reality show America’s Next Great Restaurant. When Stone isn’t manning the judging table, he’s busy developing and testing hundreds of recipes for everything from grocery store appearances to daytime talk shows.

We spend a lot of time in the test kitchen. We probably develop somewhere upwards of six or seven hundred recipes a year. And the outlets are everything from housewives to supermarkets to United Airlines to fancy dinners in San Francisco with some of the world’s nicest wines. So it goes from the really high end of food to a really approachable level for people to be cooking at home.

The talented chef and soon-to-be restaurateur took a time out with Gourmet Live to talk guilty food pleasures, the next big food trends and what life is really like when the cameras aren’t rolling.

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Alicia Silverstone: Kind, Not Clueless

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Kelly Senyei

The full-length feature version of Alicia Silverstone: Kind, Not Clueless by Victoria Recaño appears in the current issue of Gourmet Live. Download the free Gourmet Live app for this story and more.

Alicia Silverstone has made the jump from the big screen to the kitchen. The actress who delighted as Batgirl, won a Golden Globe nomination for TV’s “Miss Match,” ruled as Cher in the iconic 1995 Clueless, and has three new movies in the works, now has a second career as a New York Times best-selling cookbook author for The Kind Diet, a guide to eating and living vegan.

I wanted people to have an opportunity to really be kind to themselves—once and for all, have everything they ever dreamed of, like the strongest immune system, the most beautiful skin, increased energy so they are just so vital, and reduced risk of illness—from the really scary ones like cancer, heart disease, diabetes and arthritis to allergies and asthma. The great news is that in that process you are also being kind to the planet and also kind to other creatures and also kind to children and people of the world who have no food. So it really just sums up what is possible through our food choices.

The actress and author sat down with Gourmet Live to talk about her cooking-crazy friends, her penchant for peanut butter cups and how the whole world’s going a little veggie.

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Star Bytes: Ivanka Trump

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Kelly Senyei

Ivanka Trump is no mere Daughter-of-The-Donald. She has made a name for herself as a businesswoman, jewelry designer, socialite, author and as a judge on her father’s hit NBC show, The Celebrity Apprentice. Though she’s a world traveler with access to the top restaurants, the heiress confesses she still loves to shop for her own groceries and cook dinner at home.

My guilty pleasure has always been mozzarella sticks. I also love toasted salt bagels and cream cheese—double-toasted. And I love caviar. I’ve loved it since I was a little kid, and I like to treat myself to it once in a while.

Gourmet Live guest columnist Corynne Steindler caught up with Trump as she dished about her favorite chef, her guilty food pleasures and her favorite restaurants from coast to coast.

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Star Bytes: A Bite with Alex Guarnaschelli

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Kelly Senyei

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I think everybody has this fantasy that chefs are at home eating foie gras and caviar sandwiches all the time. And I’ve had my share, but I like junk food too. I really love texture and crunch. I’m pretty much obsessed with barbecue potato chips, salt and vinegar potato chips, and I love sour cream and onion chips, too. And I love Cool Ranch Doritos, and I’m not ashamed to admit it.

Alex Guarnaschelli is a chef, mother and Food Network personality who has appeared as either a host or judge on countless programs including, The Cooking Loft, Alex’s Day Off, Iron Chef America, The Best Thing I Ever Ate, Chopped, and most recently, Chopped All-Stars, which premiered last night. Guarnaschelli took time away from commanding the kitchens as executive chef at New York City’s Butter and The Darby restaurants to talk to Gourmet Live about her love of Doritos, her biggest kitchen mistake and the worst thing she ever ate.

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Star Bytes: A Bite with Zaza Pachulia

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Kelly Senyei

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NBA star center Zaur “Zaza” Pachulia, 27, is a force both on the court and at the table. Pachulia, who turned pro at age 16, currently plays for the Atlanta Hawks and has also made his mark on the city’s vibrant food scene, as owner of Atlanta hot spot Buckhead Bottle Bar.
Miami and New York are my favorite cities in the U.S. to go out in. And for me, the number one thing is the atmosphere of a place. My business partner, A.D. Allushi, and I started traveling together because he’s from Europe, as well. We realized we had the same taste and then had this same idea that we needed a lounge in Atlanta, because we didn’t have one. Of course, there are a bunch of restaurants and clubs, but there weren’t that many lounges that served food and were open late. Since our games finish at 10 p.m. or later, most of the restaurants in the area are closed. So A.D. and I decided to come up with the concept for the Bottle Bar.
Pachulia took time off the court to talk to Gourmet Live about his inspiration for owning a restaurant, his favorite post-game eats and his dream dinner date with Al Pacino.

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Star Bytes: A Bite With Trisha Yearwood

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Kelly Senyei

Country music star Trisha Yearwood isn’t only famous for her huge hits like She’s In Love with the Boy and How Do I Live, Yearwood has also found renown as the author of cookbooks — best selling ones. Gourmet Live guest columnist Corynne Steindler caught up with Yearwood about her country living cookbook inspiration, her favorite meals and what dining is like when she’s on tour.

It’s more of an “eat to live” mentality on the road. We eat a lot of catering backstage at shows, and mostly it’s good, but not life changing! Occasionally you’ll have one of those venues that prides themselves on their catering and it’s just amazing. Those are rare treats.
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Star Bytes: A Bite with Todd English

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Kelly Senyei

The best memorable meal was with my family in Sicily on the waterfront at my great grandmother’s house. It was filled with local delicacies. She made homemade macaroni with a ragu, a lamb tomato sauce. We were around a big table out on the lawn, big oak trees, beautiful breeze. And we ate octopus, braised with tomatoes, pepperoncini and wild fennel. We had grilled spleen on crostini. We had roasted lamb, beautiful prawns, grilled, simple, with lemon and olive oil.

The only chef to have been named both a James Beard Best Chef (Northeast, 1994) and one of People Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People”, 50-year-old Todd English has been packing them in ever since he opened his first Olives in Charlestown Mass in April 1989. Now operating over a score of restaurants, English always has a new project on the boil, whether in restaurants, books or TV. Gourmet Live guest columnist Victoria Recaño got the latest dish about English’s love for peanut butter, his plans for 2011 and which vegetable he prefers to keep off the Olives menu.

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Star Bytes: A Bite with Ted Allen

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Kelly Senyei

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Ted Allen is best known as the host of Food Network’s wildly popular show, Chopped. A cookbook author, former critic and lover of all things gastronomical, Allen took time away from the set to speak to Gourmet Live about writing his next cookbook, his beef with food trucks and the craziest food combinations he’s encountered as the host of a competitive cooking show.
There are too many to count. But I remember someone making a savory dish that had something juicy in it, like stock, and putting bran flakes in a bowl with the stock and not even thinking about how nasty that was going to be and how soggy that was going to get. Also, any time we’ve had Gummi Bears or gummy worms or any kind of gummy candy, it’s always funny to watch the chefs try to melt it down into something. It’s always crazy. Usually we’ll have baskets of ingredients that are pretty straightforward, but sometimes we have baskets that range from “difficult” to “sadistic.”
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Star Bytes: A Bite with Katie Lee

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Kelly Senyei

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Gourmet Live guest columnist Corynne Steindler caught up with cookbook author and celebrity chef Katie Lee, who is currently serving as the entertaining ambassador to champagne legend Moët & Chandon.

I think as far as champagne goes, I think it’s a misconception that it has to be for a fancy dinner. I love to do a fried chicken and champagne dinner — it’s totally unexpected and puts your guests in a festive mood. But also think about using it in cocktails. I make a champagne punch, which can stretch an expensive luxury versus serving straight up.

While Lee is busy curating the cocktail menu for the Governor’s Ball at the Academy Awards, she took time to talk to Gourmet Live about her foodie passions, favorite meals and tips for hosting your own Oscar party on February 27.

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Star Bytes: A Bite with David Myers

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Kelly Senyei

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Owner and executive chef of California-based restaurants Pizzeria Ortica, Michelin-starred Sona and Comme Ça, David Myers recently made his mark with a second Comme Ça opening in Las Vegas’ Cosmopolitan hotel. The James Beard-nominated chef spoke to Gourmet Live about the future of food, what defines him as a chef and just what exactly is left to conquer in the world of fine dining.
I think food is going to be much more global, and I don’t mean fusion by any means. But there will be no boundaries when it comes to cooking, and more importantly it’s going to be really centered around a focus back on the ingredients and the simplicity around those ingredients. Taking away all the unnecessary so you’re just left with the pure and exceptional. And then from there, finding the most creative, edgy and exciting ways to present it.
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Star Bytes: A Bite with Selita Ebanks

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Kelly Senyei

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Victoria’s Secret supermodel Selita Ebanks has made a living flaunting her fabulous figure, but that doesn’t mean she shies away from food.

I love to cook green curry swordfish paired with coconut basmati rice. It’s a somewhat traditional Cayman Island meal. [Selita makes hers by rubbing oil, curry, salt and pepper on fresh swordfish and cooking the flanks on a griddle pan.]

And when Selita isn’t busy preparing her favorite meals in her kitchen, she can be found dining out at New York City eateries like Da Silvano and Via de Mille. Download the free Gourmet Live app to learn more about what the supermodel snacks on and who her dream dinner guests are.

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Star Bytes: A Bite with Amanda Hesser

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Kelly Senyei

Amanda Hesser is a food writer, former restaurant critic, co-founder of Food52 and more recently, author of The Essential New York Times Cookbook, which contains more than 1,400 recipes. Hesser spoke to Gourmet Live about her various projects, the most underrated ingredient and the best meal she’s ever had.
… As part of my job, I’d been to plenty of 3-star restaurants in France, and 4-star restaurants in NYC and elsewhere, but at el Bulli, they understand that dining should be fun. The service was flawless but not at all uptight. They wanted you to have a great time. It was lunchtime so the windows were flung open, the banquettes had loose pillows on them so you could recline however you wanted, and the waiters spent time describing the avant garde food, but in a casual unselfconscious way, so you didn’t feel like you had to listen as if you were in Catholic school.
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Star Bytes: A Bite with Wolfgang Puck

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Kelly Senyei

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Chef and storied restaurateur Wolfgang Puck has the culinary map covered with more than twenty-five restaurants spanning sixteen cities, as well as a catering service and his own line of cookware. Puck spoke to Gourmet Live about how he got his start as a chef, his five-year-old’s taste for truffles and what ingredients he keeps on hand in his home kitchen.

The most important ingredient in my kitchen is coffee. I use it every day to make espressos or cappuccinos, so that’s the number one ingredient. We go to the farmer’s market every Sunday and buy vegetables and fruits. I have a five-year-old and a four-year-old, so when we go to the farmer’s market we come home and peel carrots together, or peel asparagus. So they play around, and then I steam them with some really good olive oil and sea salt, like Fleur de Sel. The kids love it. I love it. Gelila [my wife] loves it.

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Star Bytes: A Bite with Denise Richards

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Kelly Senyei

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Denise Richards, 39, the former James Bond siren, is better known for heating up the screen than the oven. But ex-wife of Charlie Sheen and mother to two young girls, Richards knows her way around a kitchen as well as a movie set.
I started taking cooking lessons when I was pregnant with (my daughter) Sam, because at the time I was getting meals delivered, but I couldn’t live on plastic meals anymore. My mom was a great cook and she taught me a lot of things as well. So I cook different things for the family — and for myself — and I like to keep it pretty healthy.

Gourmet Live guest columnist Paula Froelich spoke to Richards about her culinary acumen, frog legs and why Madonna would be her dream dinner guest.

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Star Bytes: A Bite with Graham Elliot Bowles

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Kelly Senyei

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Graham Elliot Bowles is a culinary force to reckon with. Chef, restaurateur and Top Chef Masters contestant, Bowles is readying for the opening of his much-anticipated Grahamwich sandwich shop in Chicago’s River North neighborhood. Gourmet Live spoke to Bowles about his approach to contemporary cuisine, why Cheez-Its are a go-to ingredient in the world of fine dining, and how social media is shaping the relationship between chef and consumer.

Every single person that comes and eats [at a restaurant] writes on Yelp or their blog. So I think it’s great because there’s so much information. I don’t have to save up all of my money to fly to Paris and eat at Ducasse’s restaurant when I can get on 20 different sites and see every different dish reviewed a hundred different ways. I can mentally go there. I think that’s great. And my ability to post the new menu and talk about what we’re doing is great as well because you cut out the middle person and I’m able to directly communicate with fans of the restaurant.

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Star Bytes: A Bite with Frank Bruni

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Kelly Senyei

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I think in the food world, whether it’s what people are buying and cooking at home or in restaurants, people are getting more and more painstaking about the production and use and showcasing of quality ingredients. Increasingly the food world is about producing and consuming the very, very finest example of each thing you can get. The most beautiful tomatoes produced in the perfect circumstances, or the best chicken that has been raised and nurtured. I think this kind of exaltation of ingredients and focus on how to ring the maximum majesty out of a given vegetable, a given animal, a given grain, I think that is an ongoing preoccupation that is going to intensify.

In 2004 Frank Bruni stepped into one of the most powerful positions in the culinary world — restaurant critic for the New York Times. He then went on to write his best-selling memoir, Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater. Gourmet Live spoke to the acclaimed author and critic about his single most memorable food moment, his go-to meal for entertaining and what he foresees as the future of food.

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