'Food on Film'

The organization Take Back the Tap is holding a contest for students who compete to win $1,500 for making a  YouTube video about why you are kicking the bottled water habit and taking back the tap water.
Some of the judges include the actor Alec Baldwin (no joke!), two award-winning documentary filmmakers, an Emmy Award-nominated producer for [more...]

The suspense is over. The writers are back at work writing and so let the 80th anniversary of the Oscars brighten up the land, Hollywood Boulevard, and fashions forever.  Lots of people will be having friends over to cheer their favorites and boo their boredom. Here are some Oscar party potluck ideas.
You can have a potluck asking guests [more...]

My belief system that life is short — eat chocolate — still exists.
One of my friends who lives in another state and is trying to eat more healthy received a box of chocolates today. These were not mere chocolates but rather Chocolats Meurens, handmade in New York but in the classic Belgian style.
Let’s face it [more...]

Tucson, AZ—Slow Food Tucson announces its third annual food and film festival to be held January 10-13, 2008. 
Classic food films, meals at premier restaurants, guest speakers/entertainers and international new food film screenings will be featured.
This year’s program includes three classic food films:
●  “Like Water for Chocolate” (Mexican)—the magical realism saga of Tita, a young girl [more...]

On Sunday, November 4, Chris Cosentino (Executive Chef and Owner, Incanto, San Francisco) was the sixth chef to be eliminated from The Next Iron Chef – leaving Cleveland’s own Michael Symon and boy-of-the-bayou John Besh from New Orleans left to battle it out in kitchen stadium for the title of Iron Chef, in the sizzling [more...]