In the Kitchen with Giada

Her family may have been in pictures, but this home cook has taken over television with her unique charm and easy recipes.
Born in Rome, Giada De Laurentiis grew up in a large Italian family that was committed to their culture, which means they were really into food. Her grandfather is legendary film producer Dino De [...]

In the Kitchen: Food Network’s Sunny Anderson

She’s one of the Food Network’s most relatable, real stars and her show says so. Sunny Anderson is the star of “Cooking for Real” – a show that focuses on cooking down-to-earth, delicious meals for real people with real lives. While the path that brought her to food TV was a winding one with [...]

Girl Meets Grill

Women have been dominating the kitchen for years, but the grill has long been man’s territory. Inexperience shouldn’t be the reason you let the last days of summer go by without throwing a shrimp on the barbie, or cooking up some burgers for the kids.
Forget the usual visual at backyard BBQ: a handful of [...]

In the Kitchen: Cooking with Iron Chef Cat Cora

It is no surprise Cat Cora became a world-renowned chef. The first female Iron Chef is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in New York, a trip she made on the advice of her famous mentor, Julia Child.
“I’ve been cooking all my life. My mom has pictures of me hosting tea parties for [...]

In the Kitchen: The Ladies of ‘The Next Food Network Star’

This weekend a new cluster of cooks are going to strut their stuff on the fifth season of Food Network’s “The Next Food Network Star.” This time around, five of the finalists are women. Three are married and two are single, but they all have interesting backgrounds, culinary points of views, and style.
We have Melissa, [...]

A Spiced Life

Even though the old saying goes, “a woman’s place is in the kitchen”, in the restaurant world this couldn’t be more untrue. Actually, a woman in a restaurant kitchen is about as welcome as rain on a summer Saturday. But Dalia Jurgensen didn’t let that stop her.
The career-changer decided to ditch her humdrum office job [...]

In the Kitchen with Claire Robinson

Claire Robinson, whose daytime cooking series, 5 Ingredient Fix on the Food Network, doesn’t believe in fuss. Instead her culinary point of view focuses on simple, fresh ingredients that are just as simply prepared. In her show, she proves delicious dishes only need five ingredients or less making cooking easier, faster and just plain fun. Claire shows [...]

One-Woman (Food Network) Show: Anne Burrell

You probably recognize her as Food Network guru Mario Batali’s right hand woman on Iron Chef America – her spiky, blond hair and control in the kitchen make her a hard one to forget.
But these days, it’s Anne Burrell who could use Mario’s help. She most recently ran the show at hard-to-get-into Centro Vinoteca and [...]