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)

Prose, essays, reviews, interviews & poetry with a focus on food:

1. Here’s the Cover For Lucky Peach #4: American Food (EATER)
2. When The Queso Dripped Like Honey (GILT TASTE)
3. Traci des Jardins on Her Two Cookbook Collections: The Antique & the Modern (EATER)
4. The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebees, Farm Fields & the Dinner Table (WASHINGTON POST)
5. Making Tortillas with the Garlic Cutters (GILT TASTE)
6. A New Era of Delicacies (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
7. I Was a Cookbook Ghostwriter (NEW YORK TIMES)
8. Frank Talk: Pairing Wine with Hot Dogs (CNN)
9. John T. Edge on His New Cookbook and Rediscovering American Cuisine (EATER)
10. My Life In Food: Wolfgang Puck (INDEPENDENT)
11. KFC Releases Free Col. Sanders Autobiography/Cookbook on Facebook (NEWS TRACK INDIA)
12. A Hands-On Approach to Summer Eating  (WALL STREET JOURNAL)

The chef recommends…

1. App Exclusive: Where the Chefs Shop (LIVE.GOURMET)
2. 2011 Chef Awards: Meet the Winners (COOKING LIGHT)
3. Top Chef Puck Keeps Cool, Hangs With Stars, Chooses London Over New York (BLOOMBERG)
4. TV chef’s KFC deal has feathers flying (DAILY TELEGRAPH)
5. French Chefs’ Distant Retreats (TIME)
6. Paula Dean Slices Beef Bourdain! (NATIONAL ENQUIRER)
7. Your 10 questions with Martin Yan (THE STAR)
8. Paratrooper Shuns Sausages to Turn Michelin-Star Chef in France (BLOOMBERG)
9. El Bulli master looks to ancient Chinese cuisine (CHINA DAILY)
10. Prepping food for the eye with Thomas Keller (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
11. Gordon Ramsay’s Pad Thai Criticized, But Monks Approve on ‘The F Word’ – VIDEO (AOL TV)
12. Now troubled Gordon Ramsay gets his fingers burnt: Chef forced to close down his Melbourne restaurant because its unsustainable (DAILY MAIL)

The Chef Recommends…

1. New Orleans Restaurants Raise Funds for Injured Chef (EATER)
2. French chef or American cook? The double life of Jacques Pépin (AUSTIN 360)
3. Chef Heston Blumenthal hopes his latest creation will be this summer’s hot new treat… mustard ice cream (THE DAILY MAIL)
4. Gordon Ramsay to sign exclusive one-year deal to stay at Channel 4 (GUARDIAN)
5. Todd English: The Chef in Motion (NY TIMES)
6. Chef Wolfgang Puck to oversee all dining operations at Hotel Bel-Air (IB TIMES)
7. Fergus Henderson Says Grey Salt is Like Magic (And He’s Right, Of Course) (BON APPETIT)
8. A Chef’s Process, Self Analysis and Daily Conquests (SF GATE)
9. Barbecuing the Perfect Steak: As Chef Fernando Trocca Prepares the Asado, He Explains Why Argentinian Beef Is the Best in the World (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
10. My New York: Sam Talbot (NY POST)

The Chef Recommends…

1. Platelist: Chef Tony Maws Pursues Love of Cooking from Grandma’s Kitchen to James Beard Awards – VIDEO (NIGHTLINE / ABC)
2. Food Revolution star Jamie Oliver joins Wolfgang Puck and Paula Deen among America’s top-earning chefs (DAILY MAIL)
3. The 10 Most Successful Chefs in America (THE KITCHEN DAILY)
4. The 15 Highest Paid Chefs In America (POWERWALL / MSN)
5. Eclipse of the Proprietor, Rise of the Chef (NY TIMES)
6. I’m a very lucky girl’: Lily Allen gets a cookery lesson from Gordon Ramsay on her hen do (DAILY MAIL)
7. Anti-San Francisco Chef David Chang Charges $5 for a Coke; Fury Ensues (SFIST)
8. Star Chef Thomas Keller Is Mulling Pop-Up Restaurant at London’s Harrods (BLOOMBERG)
9. Chez Panisse Chef to Open Artisan Butcher Shop in Berkeley (BERKELEY SIDE)
10. Chef Anne Gingrass Makes Spicy Pommes Frites – RECIPE (NRN)