Molecular Gastronomy News

According to Mark Rosenstein, the man behind the food at The Market Place, Herve This's cooking resides somewhere between space food and avant-garde art.

Keanu Reeves wants to become a chef. The 'Private Lives of Pippa Lee' actor has been honing his skills in the kitchen and is considering taking a break from his movie career to focus on food.

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Chef Herve This' accent is as thick as bearnaise sauce, but I'm pretty sure I've heard him right.

Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves is eyeing a new career - he wants to train to be a chef.

A A Web only: Jermaine Jackson on Michael's music July 2: Jermaine Jackson, one of Michaela TMs older brothers, talks to TODAY's Matt Lauer about how the pop icon's lyrics affect him now.

Note: Our intern Chichi Wang loves offal so much, she pitched us this series called The Nasty Bits, where she'll explore recipes involving animal innards on a regular basis.

I ask this after watching a couple weeks of the new cooking competition series, "Top Chef Masters," on Bravo.

By the time the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen ended yesterday afternoon, I'd already seen a whole posse of amateurs puke; another man suffer a seizure just after chef Michael Symor ended a fantastic cooking demo devoted to pork belly; Top Chef winner Hosea Rosenberg locking arms with knifed Top Chef contestant, air-kisser, fan favorite, flirt and ...

The experimental chef Heston Blumenthal 's new venture promises to be less Fat Duck and more Lady Muck, with the opening of a new central London restaurant at a luxury hotel.

A new Californian style of the classic Japanese noodle dish is born. Shigetoshi Nakamura, one of Japan's most highly regarded ramen chefs, has opened up a new restaurant in Torrance, based on the principles of molecular cooking, says rameniac .

Find out more about Liza: Liza Zimmerman, "The Wine Chick," is the editor of Cheers magazine.

Those of you who didn't find Top Chef Masters too lacking in drama, tedious fighting, and character development may want to tune in tonight as wd~50's Wylie Dufresne brings his molecular gastronomy techniques to a Lost themed elimination challenge .

It is that time of year again Toronto gastrophiles - Summerlicious 2009 reservations start TODAY .

Fabio Vivani, the Fan Favorite for Bravo TV's "Top Chef" will host this year's Gilroy Garlic Festival Garlic Showdown July 26, officials said.

After owning a pet store for 10 years, Celia Sack opened Omnivore Books on Food in San Francisco last November.

Address: 508-2, Zhongxiao E Rd Sec 5, Taipei City Telephone: 2726-4902 Open: 12pm to 2pm and 6pm to 9pm Average meal: Most dishes range between NT$250 to NT$550 On the Net: Chinese and English menu; credit cards accepted El Toro, which opened near Yongchun MRT Station late last year, updates traditional Spanish cuisine with molecular gastronomy.

Children of the "Checkers & Pogo" kids'-show era will recall Professor Weirdo and Count Kook working in the professor's mad-science laboratory, singing the opening song for the "Milton the Monster" cartoon.

Seriou sly, just give me 15 minutes alone with that sandwich." You know you're in for it when the business card for a group of local food bloggers contains a double entendre that can be construed either as a commitment to serious eating or a potential sexual encounter with a sandwich.

As we began our descent into Tokyo Narita airport, the happy memory of my in- flight meal of grilled eel, steamed sea-urchin roe and simmered monkfish liver, courtesy of ANA, was only just fading.