It’s no real secret about how most of Hollywood gets themselves into shape when they have an important movie role coming up that requires them to shed the excess weight off their body. According to Jim actress Courtney Thorne-Smith revealed in a September 2009 interview that low-carb is how people in the [...]

Filed under: Drinks Photo: divya_, Flickr Long before we gulped down something called sangria, sangaree was a favorite tipple -- made with wine, spirit, or beer diluted with water, sweetened with sugar, and spiced with nutmeg. Sangria could have easily evolved from sangaree. The English loved their Bordeaux, which they often referred to as claret, and a claret cup punch (red wine, lemon, sugar, and sparkling water) traveled with them as they influenced the world. This punch someti...

Filed under: Chefs, Events Photo: Crash Bang Boome Productions, LLC Chef Danny Boome -- host of Food Network's Rescue Chef -- has found a way to combine America's passion for food with the dating scene (and it goes beyond the traditional dinner and a movie): a concept called " Speed Plating," bringing together good food and four dates in one night. "As a young bachelor, I've had a lot of experiences in the dating world," Boome tells Slashfood. "But speed dating events can get a ...

Filed under: Celebrities Photo: YouTube For those who like their kitsch with a bit of a crunch, we give you: Rachael Ray in Cheetos. In case you missed it, Wednesday's episode of Ray's show marked the unveiling of a larger-than-life-size portrait of the Emmy-winning celebrity chef made entirely from the trademarked cheese puffs. The picture was the handiwork of Colorado Springs-based artist Jason Baalman, whose artistic oeuvre also includes velvet portraits of Elvis done in cheese...

Filed under: Gadgets Photo: Kevin Dooley, Flickr In many corners of the country it's fair-going time, and you know what that means: whiplash-inducing rides, cheap stuffed animal prizes, and oh yeah, food. Lots of food, mostly the kind you rarely let yourself indulge in -- cotton candy, for example, or (kill me now) fried dough. If you're going to schlep your way to the fairgrounds and bump elbows with everyone else in the county, you're going to want your yearly fix of the bad (but...

          Click on the images for all the details on this week's new restaurant arrivals, which include authentic Neapolitan pizzeria at OLiO in the Village, Eddie Huang's Xiao Ye on the Lower East Side, BLT Bar and Grill down by the World Trade Center site, the raved-about Mexicue food truck, and the Limelight Grill inside the Limelight Marketplace. ...

Above are bonus shots from the session that show Pizzeria Picco executive chef Bruce Hill making the pizza in question. Below are the ingredients and guidelines you'll need to make this pie. [Photographs: Stephanie Im] I wanted to get some regional variety into the Top This series, so I roped Stephanie Im of Lick My Spoon into the madness here. Stephanie visited Bruce Hill at Pizzeria Picco to bring us all topping inspiration. —The Mgmt. What would you get if you took all the th...

A perusal of the menu at Weary Traveler does not inspire confidence in the place's ability to make a burger. Options like Tom Ka Tofu, Hungarian goulash, and vegan chili are not ones I have typically found in my favorite burger joints. But one step inside and it's clear the place offers the kind of comfort that would make anyone welcome and inspires confidence in the burger.

(Brownstoner) Part of living in a city with a respectable number of tolerant, non-discriminating establishments is learning how to say goodbye to them. The Starlite Lounge, a somewhat incongruously-located gay bar, has been a fixture in Crown Heights since the 1960s. After months of rumors, its closure was confirmed by Brownstoner, with the bar's last day set at July 31st. After the building came under new ownership at the end of last year, many feared the lo...

Zoe Schlanger/Gothamist After seizing strategically vital territory in the theater district earlier this month, Danny Meyer's Shake Shack army continues to gobble up their portion under the sun. The restaurateur's insatiable lust for Shake Shack ??ber alles is surpassed only by New Yorkers' lust for Shake Shack, and sources inside the Meyer camp have revealed that Meyer is now greedily eying Battery Park City, where he could plant the Shake Shack flag as earl...

An alias given when ordering coffee when one's real name has proven too difficult for the barista to pronounce.

According to a new Harris Poll of television cooking show viewers, Rachael Ray's 30 Minute Meals is the most popular program. Tied for second are Paula's Home Cooking and Emeril Live.

Rustic, the new restaurant from winemaker and filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola opens today in Geyserville in Napa Sonoma Valley. It will feature "Italian country cooking," an Argentinean parrilla grill, and Martin Scorsese's mom's lemon chicken.

Photograph by Ozzdo on Flickr As we learned late last year, coffee can make a person less suicidal, so perhaps it's not surprising that the rainy Pacific Northwest drinks so much of it. Seattle and Portland rank #1 and #2, respectively, on a list of the most caffeinated cities recently put together by the Daily Beast. The site compared stats from urban centers across the country to create their list, and considered three things: "the availability of coffee, t...

Randy Duchaine We've been big fans of the brick oven pizza at Williamsburg's Fornino for years, having co-hosted a series of wild pizza parties at the establishment. So it was with great enthusiasm that we welcomed chef/owner Michael Ayoub back to Park Slope, where he recently opened another Fornino in the exact same space where operated one of his first restaurants back in the '90s. But this is not your grandhipster's Fornino: The menu is expansive, boasting a ...