Y&H is putting five front-of-the-line passes up for grabs to Saturday's casting call for the Fox series "MasterChef," starring silver-tongued Scottish chef Gordon Ramsay, who is expected to be in attendance. The event begins at 10 a.m. in the Trinity University gymnasium. Here's how you earn your shot at the spotlight: tell us which failing [...]
People, what are you doing reading this? It's Memorial Day. It's gorgeous outside. Get off the computer and fire up the grill. Or take a walk. Go to the park with your kids and your dog. Eat something good. Who cares what the top five items were last week on the Young & Hungry blog? [...]
By and large, the No Reservations gabfest on Friday at the Warner Theatre was what you'd expect: Anthony Bourdain railing against vegetarians and industrial ag, and Eric Ripert defending Wolfgang Puck and the future of fine dining. But the most unpredictable moment came when host, Tommy McFly from Mix 107.3 FM, asked the celebrity chefs/TV [...]
Kyle Bailey was shopping for wedding rings with his fiancee at a Jersey City mall last month when he got a call on his cell. He didn't recognize the number, but he decided to take the call anyway. On the other end of the line was Michael Babin, co-owner of Neighborhood Restaurant Group, who was [...]
The dude in the white t-shirt is Gordon Ramsay. Really. This may mean something. It may mean nothing. But one of Y&H's many foot soldiers — OK, he's actually a friend of Carol Blymire's, aka Alinea at Home — spotted British bad boy Gordon Ramsay roaming the streets of Georgetown on Saturday. Given that Ramsay's [...]
The newspaper business is totally in the crapper, to use an old expression that's not likely to jumpstart your appetite this morning. Y&H just read this piece in Time magazine. Pretty depressing stuff for ink-stained wretches like us. So let's get to the daily newspaper Food sections while they're still around. Green Inc. reports that [...]
Let's start the week with the online equivalent of wingsuit flying: Bloggers willing to tear down institutions and destroy old ideas. Hey, if we desk jockeys can't exercise anymore, then we might as well get our endorphin rush from little shots of e-schadenfreude. Less Is Enough chronicles Day 27 of a campaign to eat for a month [...]
