James Beard News

Dos Caminos, the popular Mexican eatery is now open in Times Square at Broadway and 47th Street. This flagship location will focus on healthy fare and an expanded cocktail program.

Chef Works, a leading provider of culinary apparel to professional chefs and home cooks alike, announces its participation in the fifth annual Hawai'i Food & Wine Festival (HFWF), to be held August 29 - September 13. A partner of the event since its inaugural year, Chef Works celebrates this year's event with custom-designed chef coats featuring local fabrics from the originator of Hawaiian aloha print shirts, Reyn Spooner, in the cuffs and sleeves. As HFWF's official culinary apparel sponsor, the company will be outfitting the event's 100+ participating chefs for a week's worth of cooking demos, private dining experiences, culinary tours and more spanning across the Big Island, Maui, Honolulu and Oahu. 'The brainchild of two of Hawaii's most esteemed chefs, Roy Yamaguchi and Alan Wong, the Hawai'I Food & Wine Festival is the ultimate showcase of the state's top culinary talent and local foods. Chef Works is proud to have been a part of this expansive event since the beginning and have created exclusive chef coats in partnership with Reyn Spooner as a special thank you to the local chefs who have shown our brand so much Hawaiian hospitality over the past five years,' stated Amanda Stuckey, Marketing Director of Chef Works. About Chef Works Chef Works, Inc. is a worldwide culinary apparel manufacturing and distribution solution for the culinary, hotel, restaurant and food service industries. Offering cost-effective and efficient alternatives for companies of all sizes, Chef Works is the leader in uniform supply management, brand continuity, online ordering, on-site embroidery, personalized reporting, budget coordination and uniform design and distribution. Chef Works successfully manufactures and distributes culinary apparel in over 60 countries. They remain resolute in their mission to provide the best-quality products at the most competitive prices, focusing all of their efforts to ensure complete satisfaction and meet, or exceed, expectations for high-quality, well-designed, comfortable uniforms alongside superior customer service. For more information, visit ChefWorks.com About the Hawai'i Food & Wine Festival The Hawai'i Food & Wine Festival is the premier epicurean destination event in the Pacific. Set in the lush island paradise of Hawai'i, the Festival will take place over two weeks on multiple islands, featuring a roster of over 100 internationally-renowned master chefs, culinary personalities, and wine and spirit producers. Co-founded by two of Hawai'i's own James Beard Award-winning chefs, Roy Yamaguchi and Alan Wong, the Festival in Hawai'i Island, Maui, Honolulu, and Ko Olina Resort will showcase wine tastings, cooking demonstrations, one-of-a-kind excursions, and exclusive dining opportunities with dishes highlighting the state's bounty of local produce, seafood, beef and poultry.

The adventurous food series, The Mind of a Chef, returns to public television this fall with two new chefs, Gabrielle Hamilton and David Kinch.

The Daytime Emmy and Peabody Award-Winning PBS series A Chef's Life returns for a third season tonight, September 3, 2015

MINNEAPOLIS, MN - EVINE Live Inc. (NASDAQ: EVLV), a digital commerce company (evine.com), today announced that Andrew Zimmern, star and host of Travel Channel's 'Bizarre Foods,' will premiere Andrew Zimmern: World's Best Meats, an exclusive line of fresh, never frozen meats and sausages on September 8th at 11am and 4pm ET on TV and online. A three-time James Beard Award-winning TV personality, chef, writer and teacher, Andrew Zimmern is universally regarded as one of the most versatile and knowledgeable personalities in the food world. Bringing his zest for food to EVINE Live, Andrew will tantalize viewers with his unique selection of food and high-quality cuts of meat from one of the country's finest meat purveyors, Pat LaFrieda.

Tonight, August 28 at 7pm, FLY's Jake Siegfried & UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT's Robyn Kimmel present the 1st Benefit Concert 'Sweeten the Future' for Kidscook4acause at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, 402 W 42nd Street, NYC. Featuring teen stage, TV and film performers with special guest THE NEXT BIG THING's Trapper Felides.

BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ Renaissance Hotels (www.renhotels.com) is known around the world for helping next generation business travelers discover unexpected cultural experiences. Renaissance Hotels today announces a new partnership with Food & Wine and Andrew Zimmern to create a series of unusual tastings around The Navigators Table and exclusive behind-the-scenes access to today's most coveted chefs and foodie insiders.

This Friday, August 28 at 7pm, FLY's Jake Siegfried & UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT's Robyn Kimmel present the 1st Benefit Concert 'Sweeten the Future' for Kidscook4acause at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, 402 W 42nd Street, NYC. Featuring teen stage, TV and film performers with special guest THE NEXT BIG THING's Trapper Felides.

'50/50' is an action-packed, 50-hour getaway worth $50,000 that starts when two Travel Channel hosts find unsuspecting people on the street and ask a simple question -- can you leave right now?

MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ From August 1-September 30 each year, Miami Spice turns Miami Beach into a city of epicurean experiences and experiments with chefs showcasing a wealth of new dishes, cocktails and desserts to foodies and travelers during the annual Miami Spice event. Miami Beach's culinary scene has evolved into a sophisticated and daring mashup of four and five star eateries helmed by celebrity chefs including Michael Schwartz, Tom Colicchio, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Scott Conant and Jose Andres among others. The weeks that span Miami Spice are a great time for foodies toindulge in new cuisines andexplore the ambiance of a restaurant, sample a range of cocktails or even talk table-side with a chef.

Composer Paola Prestini, the Creative and Executive Director of National Sawdust (NS), today announced programming for the non-profit's inaugural fall season in its new home-a $16 million, 13,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art chamber hall in the heart of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The performance and recording venue, designed by Brooklyn-based architecture firm Bureau V in the shell of century-old former sawdust factory, will provide composers and musicians a setting in which they can flourish, and a place where they are given commissioning support, mentoring and other critical resources essential to create, and then share, their work. For audiences-serious fans and casual listeners alike-the venue will be a place to discover genre-spanning music at accessible ticket prices.

The adventurous food series, The Mind of a Chef, returns to public television this fall with two new chefs, Gabrielle Hamilton and David Kinch.

The Daytime Emmy® and Peabody Award-Winning PBS series A Chef's Life returns for a third season on Thursday, September 3, 2015

Champagne Taittinger was the exclusive champagne poured at the 25th anniversary of the James Beard Chefs & Champagne event.

Executive Chef Julian Alonzo of Starr Events and the New York Botanical Garden is in our 'Chef Spotlight.'

Fourteen-year-old home chef Troy Glass will put his signature dishes to the test against five pro chefs, including Rocco DiSpirito, in the first “kid edition” of NBC's culinary cooking competition series “Food Fighters” airing tonight, July 16 (8-9 p.m. ET).

Fourteen-year-old home chef Troy Glass will put his signature dishes to the test against five pro chefs, including Rocco DiSpirito, in the first “kid edition” of NBC's culinary cooking competition series “Food Fighters” airing Thursday, July 16 (8-9 p.m. ET).

Theater has never tasted so good. THE THEATRICAL CULINARY PROJECT jumps into the immersive performance arena with a new project in development that fuses the in-the-moment magic of the theater with a sublime dining experience. Emmy Winning Co-Host of THE CHEW and TOP CHEF finalist Carla Hall, serves as the Executive Chef, serving a four course tasting menu to an audience that is enveloped in a multi-layered play, written by award winning playwrights Courtney Baron (Humana's Eat Your Heart Out), Hilary Bettis (The Kilroy's Top 7% List, Ghosts of Lote Bravo), and Daniel Pearle (LCT3's A Kid Like Jake), and directed by Marlo Hunter (Prospect Theater Company's Unlock'd). Co-Created by actor & producer Sasha Eden (WET Productions'BFF) and director & choreographer Marlo Hunter.

Taste Asia 2015, the extraordinary food festival, took over Times Square on Friday, June 26th and Saturday, June 27th to the delight of over 100,000 guests.

Chef Galen Zamarra is in our 'Chef Spotlight' talking about EXKi NYC, his career and the emphasis he has on healthy eating.