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#food-network

Take a memorably mouth-watering and captivating cultural tour of the south of France with four-time James Beard Foundation award-winning cookbook author Cheryl Alters Jamison.The tour will take place in gorgeous Occitanie, formerly known as Languedoc-Roussillon, one of the most beautiful areas of France, as well as the largest wine-producing.

Hash House A Go Go is gearing up to celebrate National Pancake Day on Tuesday, February 21 and teaming up once again with Brett Hundley and The Hundley Foundation.Hundley was just named the Vegas Vipers' quarterback.With a heart as big as their pancakes, Hash House A Go Go extends the special Pancake Day celebration into Pancake Week from February 20 - 26.

In this era of wall-to-wall branding, a number of high-profile chefs and food TV personalities have chosen to keep their names part of the cultural conversation by opening their own stores.These chefs are curating a selection of goods - from books to balsamic vinegar - that are extensions of their carefully built brands, giving them an opportunity to worm their way into your pantry, not just your living room.

Don Christopher, a California farmer who turned the humble, much-maligned bulb of garlic into a staple in millions of American homes and elevated the sleepy town of Gilroy into the garlic capital of the world, died on Dec. 12 in Gilroy.He was 88.His grandson Ken Christopher, the executive vice president of Christopher Ranch, the family business, confirmed the death, at a hospital.

After the flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina destroyed Willie Mae's Scotch House, waves of volunteers showed up to help rebuild the New Orleans institution founded by Willie Mae Seaton."They said they were 'saving fried chicken,'" says her great-granddaughter Kerry Seaton-Stewart.Three months earlier, in May of 2005, the James Beard Foundation had awarded Willie Mae's with the title America's Classic Restaurant for the Southern Region.

The Gay Gourmet, David Landis, has served as a judge for the prestigious Taste Awards for the past two years.The awards honor the year's best in the following categories: Food, Fashion, Health, Travel, and Lifestyle programs on Television, in Film, Streaming and Online, on Radio, in Podcasts, and Photography.

Jean Anderson, the indefatigable and exacting Southern-born food writer and author of nearly 20 cookbooks, including The Doubleday Cookbook a kitchen bible that rivaled The Joy of Cooking and The Food of Portugal, which introduced American cooks to the lore, culture and food ways of her favorite country, died last month at her home in Chapel Hill, N.C.

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.When Amy Thielen was a child, she was a gabber: someone who needed to verbalize the thoughts out of her head before they overwhelmed her.To pour the foam off, as she put it.While her mother cooked at the stovetop, the young Thielen sat on a yellow vinyl-padded swivel stool at the kitchen island, twirling and talking her mother's ear off about seventh grade.

When most high school freshmen were playing Fortnite with their friends, Hayward native and Mexican-American baker Max Soto was running a thriving custom cake business.His first creation: A square red velvet cake with pink and purple buttercream for a couple's 10th anniversary.The 14-year-old got to know them and modeled the dessert after their wedding cake.

When producers were casting Season 25 of "Worst Cooks in America," they weren't just looking for culinary failures.They were looking for social media success."They didn't know anything about my cooking skills," said Tina Kim of Koreantown in Los Angeles."They just contacted me and, lo and behold, they were lucky.

When producers were casting Season 25 of Worst Cooks in America, they weren't just looking for culinary failures.They were looking for social media success.They didn't know anything about my cooking skills, said Tina Kim of Koreantown in Los Angeles.They just contacted me and, lo and behold, they were lucky.

Celebrity chef Ming Tsai is facing public backlash after comments that he made during an on-stage interview at public radio company WBUR's CitySpace stirred up controversy online.Tsai sat for an interview with restaurateur Irene Li of Mei Mei Dumpling Factory on February 6 as part of WBUR's "Curated Cuisine," a monthly event in which the media company invites chefs, cookbook authors, and other people from the food world to do on-stage interviews and talk about their work.

For football fans, the countdown to Sunday, February 12th - otherwise known as Super Bowl LVII - where the dominant Kansas City Chiefs will face off against the powerhouse Philadelphia Eagles - is completely on.For football super-fans, or those who are serious about their fantasy teams, this match-up is sure to be a knuckle-biter, with family legacy on the line.

Chef Kimberly Gamble of Livermore's Lanna Thai and Oakland's Daughter Thai always wanted to put her skills to the test.But after competing on Beat Bobby Flay at the age of 26 and losing in the first round, she paused briefly on applying for other cooking competition shows.Then, two years later, a casting director remembered Gamble from her audition for another show and reached out; she thought Gamble would be perfect for a spicy episode of Chopped dubbed "Flamin' Hot." "Southern Thailand is different to other cuisines because of the spiciness of the food itself," Gamble says.

Eli Betchik has always had a stomach of steel, but it wasn't until they went to art school that they realized it could make them famous."I was perfectly willing to eat random things for the entertainment of my friends.I would take a ketchup packet from the diner and suck it up or eat an entire block of Parmesan cheese," remembers Betchik, now 23, who makes and sells jewelry from their basement in Ohio.