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)

Bottoms Up…

1. Secret’s Out: Chateau Marmont Reveals Its Classified Cocktail Menu (LA MAG)
2. She Can Still Pour A Pint! Amazing Story Of The World’s Oldest Barmaid, Going Strong At 98! (RADAR ONLINE)
3. Rick Bayless Is Developing a Beer For Crown Imports (EATER)
4. Martini Madness: The origins of the martini aren’t particularly interesting, but they’re very sweet (SLATE)
5. Vineyard Creates Pen Filled with Wine Instead of Ink – VIDEO (PSFK)
6. Billionaire Bill Koch dukes it out with Internet tycoon Eric Greenberg over $300G in wine (NY DAILY NEWS)

Bottoms Up!

1. Celebrity Chef Guy Fieri Is Entering the Wine Game (NY DAILY NEWS)
2. The Grape Whisperer: How Prudy Foxx helps clients make great wines (SLATE)
3. Three Female Sommeliers on What it’s Like to Be In the Business (GUILD PODCAST)
4. Welcome to the house of booze! Building is made of 500,000 recycled BEER BOTTLES discarded from casinos in Las Vegas (DAILY MAIL)
5. Coming to a Cocktail Bar Near You: Mexican Fernet (CHOW)
6. An Authentic English Public House in America – VIDEO (COOKING UP A STORY)

The Chef Recommends…

1. Chefs to pay tribute to New Orleans’ queen of Creole cuisine (THE STAR PHOENIX)
2. Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Cuisine Plus The First Wine From Inglenook In 50 Years Equals A Foodie Paradise (FORBES)
3. Legendary Chef Morimoto Shares His Four Laws For Eating Sushi (BUSINESS INSIDER)
4. Gordon Ramsay Is Mad That People Are Mad at Him (EATER)
5. Exclusive extract: Where chefs eat (FINANCIAL TIMES)
6. The Death of Star Chef Bernard Loiseau (CBS NEWS)

A roundup of new products:

1. Guy Fieri’s S’mores Indoors Pizza Is an Abomination (SERIOUS EATS)
2. Haggis Potato Chips are ‘Distinctively Scottish’ (FOOD BEAST)
3. Stacked Wine Saves Precious Drinking Time (INCREDIBLE THINGS)
4. Collapsible Funnel (GINSEY)
5. This Gadget Sucks Food Out of Your Stomach (MASHABLE)
6. Spill Wine On Your Tablecloth: Go Ahead, You’re Supposed To (HUFFINGTON POST)