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If you are interested in a career in the kitchen of a four-star restaurant, then it's off to culinary school. But in order to pay for an education in all things cooking, students should start looking into culinary scholarships. Money College wrote about culinary scholarships last month, but here...

The typical college scholarship has a few entry requirements -- an application, an essay, maybe even an interview. But to win one of the culinary scholarships to Le Cordon Bleu, one of the world's premiere cooking schools, you'll have to cook to earn your tuition. Le Cordon Bleu gives away more...

Job satisfaction may be at a record low, but you're probably not going to quit in this economy, right? Where would you go? What would you do? Denise Medved says figure it out. Tap into your passions. Find a way to make a living doing what you love to do. "If the recession's taught us anything,...

The crushing part in Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution comes half-way through the second episode, when the woman who administers the cafeterias for the Huntington, W.V. school district comes to Jamie to tell him that his first few delicious, fresh-cooked meals have cost twice the amount the processed,...

Whether it be a shelf, a cupboard or a complete closet or room, your pantry can be a scary place. It's that place in my life where $6.00 bottles of some celebrity Chef's spice blend gets eaten up like Pac-Man eats dots. It's the same place that swallows simple jars of paprika and garlic powder,...

"You're not eating right!" Your mother pictures the collegiate diet and living space as reflections of one another, like a Bud Light house made entirely of ramen noodles. Believe it or not, meals that are no less versatile or convenient than salt-soaked noodles are yours to be had on any budget or...

Anyone hoping for the foul-mouthed celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay to get what's coming to him will have their wildest dreams come true. Ramsay's restaurant empire is in tatters, done in by ill-advised overexpansion, just as the economy was tanking. The bellicose Brit's failure as a businessman is...

Need to stretch that dollar to the max when feeding your family? Elise Cooke, author of "Strategic Eating, the Econovore's Essential Guide," says cooking for four for less than $5 is a snap if you think crepes. Practically by definition, crepes are made with leftovers, because the food in them...

WalletPop's Aaron Crowe talks with frugal food expert Elise Cooke about how to cook frugal meals at home in today's podcast. Cooke's tips include planning meals ahead of time, buying at sales and cooking many meals at once.

In case you needed convincing that things have changed for good in the glossy magazine business, the best proof yet arrived Monday morning, when Condé Nast Publications -- the home of Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker -- said it was shutting down Gourmet, a widely respected magazine...