Kicking off on April 29 with a Dumpling Party where guests learn to make dumplings as they sip cocktails, the week-long LUCKYRICE Festival returns to NYC. Hailed by thousands of attendees as one of the best food festivals in NYC, LUCKYRICE is also bringing its special spin on Asian culture...

Careers Through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP), a pioneering organization that has awarded $37 million in scholarships for students attending culinary/hospitality programs across the U.S., will be holding its annual Gala Benefit on Monday, March 4, at Pier Sixty/Chelsea Piers in NYC. Open to the general public, every year...

Anti-fracking letters from more than 150 prominent New York chefs -- including Mario Batali -- were delivered to the office of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. The chefs and other food professionals, in collaboration with Chefs for The Marcellus, have come out in opposition to Cuomo's consideration to open lands...

Four years ago, Bobby Flay was dressing for a dinner out with his wife when he had an epiphany, "I just looked in the mirror and thought: "Man, I don't like that. I don't like the way that looks." Thus began his journey to a fit lifestyle, providing the impetus...

The cooking of Food Network's Melissa d'Arabian is about more than Ten Dollar Dinners that are both easy and delicious; her brand of cooking is an extension of her life experiences and her philosophy about living well.

The World Wine Guys, Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, have done something nobody has ever done before: They've written a book dedicated 100 percent to "Wines of the Southern Hemisphere." Earning them the Gourmand World Cookbook Award "Best Wine Book, USA" in 2012, Wines of the Southern Hemisphere is both...

At long last, New York's Upper East Side welcomes back Pâtisserie François Payard. After losing a lease on his old location, then finding a new location that ended up not working out, Payard is now happily settled into a beautiful new space on 3rd Avenue at 74th Street. The shop...

Pastry buff that I am, I was well pleased with what the peeps at StarChefs.com had in store at The International Chefs Congress. From the International Pastry Competition, pastry pop-up restaurants by Michael Laiskonis and Dominique Ansel, and sweet food carts from Damien Herrgott and Katzie Guy-Hamilton, to a heated...

The StarChefs.com International Chefs Congress wrapped up with a panel discussion that headlined with Mario Batali. Probably the best quote of the high-energy, three-day Congress was when Batali said, "The first day that a chef thinks he knows everything is the first day he becomes an asshole for the rest...

The always innovative StarChefs.com International Chefs Congress (ICC) is returning to New York City for the seventh year on September 30 until October 2, bringing with it some of the most talented chefs, coolest kitchen equipment and tastiest products from across the globe. Running concurrently with the ICC is the...

Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP) marked a record year in 2012, handing out over $3 million in scholarships to disadvantaged high schools kids. C-CAP, whose mission is breaking the cycle of poverty through the culinary arts, runs programs in high schools throughout America, donating supplies, offering...

The August issue of Dessert Professional features the magazine's picks for the Top Ten Pastry Chefs in America. The prestigious list, now in its 19th year, has named such pastry luminaries as Johnny Iuzzini, Michael Laiskonis, Dominique Ansel and Ron Paprocki. In this year's Top Ten are pastry chefs Damien...

Governor Andrew Cuomo has a decision to make, whether to open New York State to the process of fracking, and chefs in New York are uniting in opposition. It's not often that chefs get political, but the issue of fracking has caused such luminaries as Mario Batali, Elizabeth Falkner, Chris...

When Curtis Stone, host of Bravo's Around the World in 80 Plates and Top Chef Masters, realized he wanted to be a chef, he left Australia and headed for Europe. After traveling around a few months, he landed in London, at the doorstep of Marco Pierre White, then the youngest...

When Chef Alex Palumbo invited me to head to the Fulton Fish Market at Hunts Point with him, I jumped at the opportunity. I had been eating fish at his restaurant, Osteria il Paiolo, and it was so fresh that I asked where he got it. When he...

With a week of back-to-back Asian food and culture events all over New York City, The LUCKYRICE Festival brought together some of the best chefs and mixologists from across the city, and the world, and left the sold-out crowds with heavy bellies and light heads. Again proving itself...

Among top chefs, Thomas Schauer is widely known as one of the best food photographers in the world. Over the years he's worked with many notable chefs, among them José Andrés, Daniel Boulud, Dan Barber and Mario Lohninger. And this year, two of the cookbooks he photographed won the prestigious...

A new cookbook by Wine Enthusiast Entertaining & Lifestyle editors Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, also known as the World Wine Guys, really gets the way we all cook at home, especially the way we want to cook in the hot summer months. The Fire Island Cookbook, with...

Sitting down to dessert with David Burke is quite an experience. With a boisterous personality and bellowing voice that fill the room, Burke is clearly a larger-than-life guy who knows how to have a good time. What isn't clear about David on first glance are the aspects of his work...

Mark your calendars for the first week of May, because the LUCKYRICE Festival is back in town, bringing with it top chefs from Asia, Hawai'i and across the United States, for a week of Asian food and culture events that take the concept of food festivals to a...