Spanish star is latest chef to chuck in apron

2010-02-22T14:18:49Z

<div><p>Wining and dining in internationally acclaimed restaurants may be the ultimate foodie experience for well-heeled gourmets. But running three-star eateries can be hell for the chefs toiling over the ovens.</p><p>Spain's Ferran Adria, the 47-year-old creator of much talked-about and often-criticised "molecular gastronomy", became Tuesday ...

Top French chefs take bluefin tuna off the menu

2010-02-24T00:07:51Z

<div><p>Top French chefs this week pledged to keep bluefin tuna and other threatened fish species off the menu, whatever the cost.</p><p>With half of the fish eaten in Europe dished up in restaurants, it was high time for the food-loving nation's leading chefs to take a stand, said one of the country's greatest chefs, Olivier Roellinger.</p><p>Roellinger, celebrated for...

World chefs: Gagnaire adds Twist at Las Vegas venue

2010-02-24T16:50:58Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Three-star Michelin chef Pierre Gagnaire, who has restaurants dotted around the globe, is about to make his first foray in the United States with a new one in Las Vegas.</p><p&...

Author says pillar of French culture a shambles

2010-02-24T22:08:33Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Signs of decay in French food and wine have been apparent for decades but there could be a saving grace, from of all things, the global economic crisis, according to wine critic and author Michael Steinberger.</p><p>It was bad economics, an overbearing state bureaucracy and the tyranny of a restaurant guide that contributed to driving

Frenchman in NY wins Michelin 'three star' rating

2010-02-24T22:41:21Z

<div><p>The fifth annual edition of the Michelin dining guide for New York has anointed a new three star restaurant, awarding its highest honor to French chef Daniel Boulud for his eatery Daniel.</p><p>Boulud joins two other Frenchman with three star-rated New York rest...

Frenchman wins fifth New York Michelin 'three star' rating

2010-02-24T22:44:24Z

Chef Joel Robuchon wins top marks in Asia dining list

2010-02-25T00:19:08Z

<div><p>SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Gourmands have chosen restaurants run by French chef Joel Robuchon as the best in Asia in the latest edition of a regional dining guide which showed the love of good food could triumph over the economic downturn.</p><p>Parisian Robuchon, whose ...

MONACO : French chief Alain Ducasse at the Hotel de Paris

2009-09-16T15:41:36Z

French chief Alain Ducasse poses in front the Hotel de Paris. Monaco, 16/09/2009/0909162026 Photo via Newscom...

French chef Alain Ducasse poses with Japanese chefs Yosuke Imada and Chishoji Yamaguchi in Monaco

2009-09-16T11:16:34Z

French chef Alain Ducasse (C) poses with Japanese chefs Yosuke Imada (R) and Chishoji Yamaguchi (L) in his restaurant le "Louis XV" in Monaco September 16, 2009. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (MONACO ENTERTAINMENT)...

French chef Alain Ducasse poses in Monte Carlo

2009-09-16T10:41:42Z

French chef Alain Ducasse poses in front of the hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo September 16, 2009. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (MONACO ENTERTAINMENT)...

French chef Alain Ducasse poses with Japan's Kabuki theatre actor Ichikawa Danjuro in Monaco

2009-09-16T09:46:08Z

French chef Alain Ducasse (R) poses with Japan's Kabuki theatre actor Ichikawa Danjuro in Monaco September 16, 2009. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (MONACO ENTERTAINMENT)...

French chef Alain Ducasse poses with japan's Kabuki theatre actor Ichikawa Danjuro in front of Monte Carlo casino

2009-09-16T09:21:04Z

French chef Alain Ducasse (R) poses with Japan's Kabuki theatre actor Ichikawa Danjuro in front of Monte Carlo casino in Monaco September 16, 2009. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (MONACO ENTERTAINMENT)...

US embraces butter-loving French cookbook, 48 years later

2010-02-25T16:26:44Z

<div><p>A cookbook extolling the virtues of butter-laden French cuisine has become a surprise US bestseller 48 years after being published.</p><p>Shedding their growing fear of obesity and heart disease, US cooking enthusiasts are snapping up Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking."</p><p>Th...

FILES-US-JULIA CHILD- SMITHSONIAN

2009-08-24T12:30:51Z

(FILES) This 19 August, 2002, file photo shows chef Julia Child sitting in her kitchen after being moved and rebuilt from her Cambridge, Massachusetts, home as part of an exhibit at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC - The Smithsonian National Museum of American History has a permanent exhibit meticulously recreating Julia Child's Cambridge, Mass. kitchen where Child filmed many of...

Bon Appetit Julia Child's Kitchen exhibit is seen at the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington

2009-08-17T15:46:03Z

A sign welcoming visitors to the "Bon Appetit Julia Child's Kitchen at the Smithsonian" is seen at the exhibit at the Smithsonian's Museum of American History, August 17, 2009. The exhibition features the actual kitchen from Child's Cambridge, Massachusetts home, including the cabinets...

Books Julie and Julia

2009-08-10T11:01:38Z

In this book cover image released by Knopf, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," by Julia Child, is shown. (AP Photo/Knopf)

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"Julia" cleans up "Julie" among readers

2010-02-25T22:11:17Z

<div id="subtitle">Clean sweep: Readers prefer "Julia" to "Julie"</div><div><p>On paper and on screen, "Julia" is stealing the show from "Julie."</p><p>Meryl Streep's performance as Julia Child in "Julie &amp; Julia," which opened last weekend, has helped return the late chef's "Mastering the Art ...

"Julie & Julia" blends the old with the new

2010-02-25T23:29:51Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Before reality television cooking shows, celebrity chefs, counting calories and the organic food movement, Julia Child revolutionized the way Americans thought about food in the 1960s.</p><p>Now the legendary American chef, author and television personality is immortalized on the big screen in ...

Julia Child's legacy, beyond tools and techniques

2010-02-26T03:39:29Z

<div id="subtitle">Beyond tools, techniques, Julia Child's legacy may be spirit, humor</div><div><p>From the timesaving tools and French techniques she loved to a famously dropped dinner, Julia Child left a lasting impression on a generation of cooks.</p><p>In the forthcoming biographical movie, "Julie &amp; Julia,"

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