The Chef Recommends…

1. “2012 American Chef of the Year:” Jose Andres – VIDEO (CBS NEWS)
2. Q&A with Chef Mourad Lahlou (WILLIAMS SONOMA)
3. Wolfgang Puck Sued: Your Waitress Smashed My Skull … Now Pay Up! (TMZ)
4. Top Chefs Forecast Food Trends (FORBES)
5. Chef Ducasse Serves Camel, No Wine, in Qatar Islam Center (BLOOMBERG)
6. How chefs get lucky (CNN)
7. Chef Tanya Holland: Soul Food Connoisseur (PBS)
8. Anthony Bourdain: Human race is ‘essentially good’ (CNN)
9. Marcus Samuelsson Expands Food Empire to JFK Airport (BLOOMBERG)
10. Greens chef Annie Somerville on mantras, seasons and success (SF GATE)

The Chef Recommends…

1. Chef Rick Bayless: On theater, TV and eating insects (WINDY CITY MEDIA GROUP)
2. Cat Cora, Curtis Stone and ambitious contenders go ‘Around the World in 80 Plates’ (NY DAILY NEWS)
3. The 100 Most Influencial People in the World: José Andrés (TIME)
4. Julia Child, a legacy of teaching the joy of food (FOX NEWS)
5. Heston’s got nothing on this: Video of Japanese ‘culinary experiment’ with ELECTRIFIED food - VIDEO (DAILY MAIL)
6. Kellogg’s Recipe Scandal: Company Credits Grant Achatz, Chef’s Partner Calls Foul (HUFFINGTON POST)

Learn more about the food you eat with these tasty links…

1. Let’s can the food drive (LA TIMES)
2. National Turkey Day (GASTRONOMICA)
3. The unknown history of the red velvet cake (GILT TASTE)
4. How the Potato Changed the World (SMITHSONIAN MAG)
5. Cheese helped Romans win war while bacon defeated Nazis (DNA INDIA)
6. José Andrés teaches history with food (NRN)
7. Ancestors began cooking 1.9 million years ago (MSNBC)
8. The truth about Mexican food (EATOCRACY)
9. Foodstory Brings Japanese Culinary History to Life for American Foodies (PR NEWSWIRE)
10. Grenades & Gravy: Cooking in the Korean War (EATOCRACY)

A baker’s dozen…

1. TV chef defends eating puppy meat (BELFAST TELEGRAPH)
2. Ex-’Top Chef: Just Desserts’ contestant indicted for child porn (MSNBC)
3. Trade, Jody Adams’s Globally Inspired Venture, Soft Opens (GRUB STREET)
4. Ferran Adria: Don’t Overlook High End Cuisine (LATINO FOX NEWS)
5. Five Things We Learned From Ferran Adrià’s Castro Theatre Talk (GRUB STREET)
6. Chef Bulli-ish on biz school: Harvard adding to recipe for culinary think tank (BOSTON HERALD)
7. Prominent chef declares bankruptcy (CRAIN’S)
8. Trash Talk with Sean Brock (TASTING TABLE)
9. American Airlines Collaborates With Chef Richard Sandoval and Chef Marcus Samuelsson to Enhance Inflight Dining Program (PR NEWSWIRE)
10. José Andrés to Open Resort Restaurant in Puerto Rico (EATER)
11. Raymond Blanc interview: ‘I want to show that France is still a country of innovation’ (TELEGRAPH)
12. Laurent Gras on Confidence, Discipline, and New York (EATER)
13. Chef Paul Bocuse Harks Back to His Youth (WALL STREET JOURNAL)

res·tau·rant [res-ter-uhnt, -tuh-rahnt, -trahnt] – noun an establishment where meals are served to customers…

1. The World’s 50 Best Restaurants? Says Who? (NEW YORK TIMES)
2. Charlie Sheen enjoys Southern Hospitality (IOL)
3. Top Chefs Name Their Favorite New Restaurants (EPICURIOUS)
4. Review: Next (CHICAGOIST)
5. Applebee’s, Olive Garden face PR problem serving alcohol to kids (USA TODAY)
6. Bourdain and Andrés Enjoy 52 Courses at El Bulli, Cry a Little, and Tweet About It (GRUB STREET)
7. The Soup Nazi is opening a restaurant on Fisherman’s Wharf: The Original Soupman (SF GATE)
8. Unwanted New Item on Menu: Higher Prices (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
9. Restaurants say consumers are finally ordering healthier meals (USA TODAY)
10. David Bouley’s Brushstroke Uses Books For Walls (GOTHAMIST)