Back to Mobile View

Mario Batali

Is the cost of your cookware leaving you with no funds for food? Celebrity chefs endorse expensive lines of kitchen tools, but you don't need to spend hundreds of dollars on equipment to create a delicious meal. We asked the experts which items warrant a splurge, and which are simply overpriced.
Amid all the chain-store carnage, some smaller merchants are trying to attract shoppers with new concepts, from textbook rentals to made-to-order pants. And many are finding success in a bruising economic environment.
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...
Over the past few years, as upscale cuisine has increasingly divorced itself from anything resembling what the average person consumes, an interesting trend has emerged: modest, mainstream foods have often been co-opted by the culinary elites. This has led to a strange reversal, wherein peasant...
Would you like to have lunch with Cameron Diaz? How would you like a meal that was prepared by chef Mario Batali? Does a balogna sandwich with Gwyneth Paltrow interest you? Well, I can't help you get any of those great privileges, but I can set you on track to what just might be the next best...

Market Movers

SymbolLastChange / %Volume

Most Actives

BAC
Bank of America Corp
8.07-0.11
-1.34%
254.23M
ALU
Alcatel-Lucent (ADR)
2.19+0.25
+12.89%
122.18M
GE
General Electric Company
18.88-0.26
-1.33%
109.55M
F
Ford
12.44-0.25
-1.97%
52.49M

% Gainers

CIE
Cobalt International Energy
31.68 +7.78
+32.55%
18.42M
LNKD
LinkedIn Corp.
89.96 +13.57
+17.76%
13.27M
ALU
Alcatel-Lucent (ADR)
2.19 +0.25
+12.89%
122.18M
WNS
WNS (Holdings) Limited (ADR)
10.50 +1.10
+11.70%
3.07M

% Losers

NBG-A
National Bank of Greece SA (ADR)
5.72-1.03
-15.26%
188,505
OSG
Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc.
10.18-1.65
-13.95%
1.88M
AB
AllianceBernstein Holding LP
14.35-2.16
-13.08%
1.30M
OC-B
Owens Corning (Warrant) 'B'
2.31-0.34
-12.83%
26,436
Newswire

Follow Us

Headlines From DailyFinance Partners

CNN Money
CNBC
Smart Money
Consumer Reports
Huffington Post
AOL Energy
AOL Jobs
Business News Personal Finance Investing Our Partners

DailyFinance Sitemap | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Trademarks | HELP | Advertise With Us

© Copyright 2012 AOL Inc. All Rights Reserved