Food Network
We've been buying cheap food off carts since the beginning of civilization, but over the past few years, there's been a quantum leap in the quality of the fare on the streets of many American cities. San Francisco, a city known for sophisticated palates and rigorous ethical standards, is home to...
Chicago's Lutz Bakery takes the cake after Food Network episode
12:20PM 7/13/2010
On a typical day, the family-owned Lutz Cafe and Pastry Shop in Chicago's North Center neighborhood might get 200 visitors to its website--people looking for all manner of confections based on authentic German recipes.
But when the Food Network featured Lutz on its show "Kid in a Candy Store"...
Stocks in the News: NVS, ACL, CHK, TOT, TWC
7:30AM 1/04/2010
Company News, Investing, Earnings, Time Warner Cable, News Corp, General Motors, Novartis
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Novartis (NVS) has raised its stake in eye-care company Alcon (ACL) to 77% by buying Nestlé's majority stake for $28.1 billion, the Swiss drug giant said Monday, and has set its sights on acquiring the rest. Novartis...
When chefs become rock stars, they take their pots and pans on tour
11:00AM 11/21/2009
Guy Fieri looks like a rock star and talks like one. Now, the chef is touring like one too.
The Food Network star, who burst on the scene in 2006 when he won the Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. (SNI) cable channel's competition for new culinary talent, is taking his pots and pans on the road. He...
A few weekends ago, I was too ill to spend my weekend running to the farmer's market, tending my "victory" vegetable garden, canning jam, and baking bread, my typical weekend fare. Instead I went on a marathon of old episodes of The Next Food Network Star, culminating in a challenge, during which...
Media World: Yummo! Food Network soars as restaurants flounder
5:15PM 7/28/2009
The next Food Network Challenge may be this: getting the home of Rachael Ray (right), Bobby Flay, and Mario Batali to top its recent success.
Over the past few months, the 16-year-old channel has been on a tear -- "Yummo!" as Ray might say -- with cash-strapped consumers turning to the Food...
Too many celebrity chefs can spoil your soup
5:30PM 5/13/2009
Being a celebrity chef is as much about celebrity -- and good marketing -- as it is about cooking. Sounds like an obvious statement, but a recent SmartMoney article takes the celebrity-chef craze to task for what it considers some sleights of hand that can ruin your appetite as well as your dinner...
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