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    June 17, 2011

    A Very Tasty Documentary: A Matter of Taste -- Serving Up Paul Liebrandt

    HBO probes a food genius in A Matter of Taste -- Serving Up Paul Liebrandt.​Chef Paul Liebrandt is one of those maverick foodies who elicits equal parts admiration and dissent, love, fear and loathing in his equally distributed coterie of fans and detractors. To his adherents, he is that proto ... More >>

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    April 22, 2011

    The Bestest of The Best Thing I Ever Ate

    ​One of my pet peeves about most cooking shows is how often a program's uber-foodies -- from the four-star guys in the starchy aprons to the home cooks who've lucked into a spot on television -- are reluctant to express any real emotion about how much they love the actual taste of good food. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    Food Writers: Enough With the Fripperific Cliches

    Just in case you don't know what frippery means...​As a writer, I always keep one Internet tab tuned to Merriam-Webster's website, which is the best source I've found for the precise meanings of words (and the correct spelling of "simultaneously," which I regularly butcher so badly that Micros ... More >>

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    August 12, 2010

    Chef Tell: Restaurant Wars, WTF?

    ​Ah, yes. The Top Chef fan's most beloved and anticipated episode: restaurant wars.But first, there was the tag team cook-off -- which, personally, I adore without restraint. It's stressful, it's frantic and it's a guaranteed opportunity for me to shout near simultaneous cheers and jeers at t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    Watch, Read, Cook: What's New On The Tube And In Print

    As the food media world warms up for its busiest time of year, a trickle of new releases in television and print are whetting our appetites for the deluge to come. Here are a few of our favorite picks: Apparently, Brian Boitano will show us how to make Froot Loops.​WWBBD? The Food Network's new ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    Chewing the Fat: Tipping Point

    Ian BrittonOf all the socially reinforced standards of behavior to which we must adhere, tipping must be the most, well, quietly awkward. There's often an internal debate: was the service that good? Hell, not really. But I don't want to look cheap. Then again, I gotta pay the cell phone bill...On ... More >>

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    November 19, 2008

    Zagat's Great News for Fearing

    Dean Fearing, who clearly needs to work on his knife skills Dean Fearing's eatery in the Ritz-Carlton has been the recipient of myriad kudos from the likes of Frank Bruni in The New York Times (who called it "overwhelming," but in a good way) to Esquire, which, couple years back, hailed it as its ... More >>

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    March 12, 2008

    Fearing's Gets a High Five. Also: The Famous "Dallas-Houston Area" to Get a "Tropical Hotel."

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2008

    Dean Fearing, You Oughta Know Better

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    May 24, 2006

    Junk Food City

  • News

    November 30, 2000

    Cookie Monster

    Raisin stems and weary reporters

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