Regina Varolli

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...

Love French macarons? Then you won't want to miss out on a day of free macarons in NYC! On March 20th, Macaron Day presents a veritable treasure hunt of these colorful little confections, where macaron enthusiasts can race around the city to participating bakeries and stores, and get a free...

On a recent trip to London, I had the great pleasure of dining at the exquisite Michelin two-star Hélène Darroze at The Connaught, one of London's most venerable hotels. At The Connaught, Darroze helms an ambitious endeavor. She not only runs the main dining room, but is in charge of...

Students from some of America's top law and graduate business schools gathered in New York City for some pretty stiff competition. It wasn't academic, though. They congregated at the French Consulate on New York's Upper East Side to participate in The Left Bank Bordeaux Cup U.S. selection, a wine challenge...

Chef Allegra McEvedy loves her knives, all 100 of them, each with a story to tell. Though it's hard to say what she likes more: her vast collection of knives or her world travels on which she collects these specimens of international chefdom.

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Silks Palace at The National Palace Museum is a tribute to both old and new. A modern masterpiece of architecture, the menu at Silks Palace is fashioned after the most famous works of art that you'll find in the museum itself. An expanse of bright space and deep flavor, Silks...

There's something magical about flying eighteen hours and crossing the International Date Line to travel to a far away land. It leaves you haggard and disoriented, but it also heightens your senses and opens your spirit. The new sights, sounds and scents come flooding in, and you feel more alive...

When you live in New York City, sometimes you've just got to escape. I'm not talking about the kind of escape where you hop a flight and ditch the noise, crowds, and chaos for a couple of weeks, although those are great. I'm talking about the quick getaway, the I've-slammed-into-too-many-people-and-need-some-freaking-space...

The Chocolate Show returned to NYC this year with more vendors than you can count, an extravagant Chocolate Fashion Show, and dessert demonstrations from some of the best pastry chefs in America. I was super happy to see that this year a dominating theme among the chocolate makers was an...

Before Susur Lee made it to the top of his field, and made it to the final battle on Top Chef Masters, he learned some hard lessons in life. He grew up the youngest of six kids in a working class Hong Kong family, and he suffered a terrible personal...

The sweet side of StarChefs.com International Chefs Congress brought the Second Annual International Pastry Competition, a pastry god, a cool new piece of kitchen equipment, and a dessert I shouldn't have liked but did.

Revered as "the god of pasty" and penned "the Picasso of pastry" by Jeffrey...

What do you get when you have Pierre Hermé, Massimo Bottura, Andoni Luis Aduriz, Grant Achatz, Jeffrey Steingarten, Elizabeth Falkner and Johnny Iuzzini all under the same roof? The StarChefs International Chefs Congress, one of the most intriguing culinary industry events around.

The theme of this year's ICC was "The...

I'm a night owl -- I work late and sleep late -- but when Emeril Lagasse invited me to a taping of his new show Emeril's Table, it was well worth getting up at the crack of dawn to head down to the Martha Stewart studio in Chelsea and grab...

In late 2005, before the first season of Top Chef aired, Johnny Iuzzini was contacted by Bravo TV to come to California for an interview. But Iuzzini, Executive Pastry Chef at the Michelin three-starred Jean Georges restaurant, was told by Jean-Georges himself that he'd have to leave his position to...

It's that time of year again, when StarChefs.com holds its International Chefs Congress, bringing some of the world's most formidable culinary minds to New York City (and helping yours truly get over the end of summer blues). It's also the time when they celebrate their picks...

A lot has changed for Duff Goldman over the past year. The Ace of Cakes has gone off on a motorcycle powered Sugar High, he's set up a new home in Los Angeles to open Charm City Cakes West, and he's become a bi-coastal frequent flyer who told...