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Exclusive: Producer Paul Zaentz and director Devin Adair are working on a feature adaptation of Luke Barr’s nonfiction book Provence, 1970: M.F.K Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, And The Reinvention Of American Taste.

Adair is writing a script for the film. Set in Provence, France, during Christmas in 1970, the 2013 book follows a gathering between six acclaimed culinary figures, who cooked, ate, argued, and talked about the future of food in the US, the meaning of taste, and the limits of snobbery.

“It’ll be a small dinner movie like My Dinner With Andre or Babette’s Feast,” Zaentz told Screen...

Exclusive: Christine Baranski will be honored with the Achievement in Television eXcellence Award at this year’s Atx TV Festival in Austin.

As such, the festival will feature an award presentation and a conversation to celebrate her decades-long career across television, film and stage — which, of course, will include her Emmy-winning performance on Cybill, her 13-year run as high-powered attorney Diane Lockhart on The Good Wife and The Good Fight, and her current role as socialite Agnes Van Rhijn on HBO’s historical drama The Gilded Age.

Baranski follows in the footsteps of television legends who have received this honor over the years, including Norman Lear, Henry Winkler, James L. Brooks, Marcy Carsey, Phylicia Rashad, Michael J. Fox, Lesli Linka Glatter, and James Burrows.

“Whether her characters are delivering a quick-witted barb, a compelling legal argument, or a look worth 1,000 words – Christine’s presence and range as a performer is truly singular.

This week on “Tamron Hall,” host Tamron Hall kicks off Season 6 as she welcomes guests Erica Campbell, Kelly Bensimon, Lish Steiling, Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, Marvin Sapp and Fred Hammond, among others.

Guest Lineup Monday, September 2, 2024– You’re Invited to the Cookout!: Today, a daytime TV first! An epic performance as DJ Cassidy brings his “Pass the Mic Live!” Las Vegas residency to the Tam Fam cookout, with rap legends Ja Rule, Fat Joe and Doug E. Fresh! Plus, R&b queens 702, Kameelah Williams Lemisha Fields , get the cookout started with their mega-hit “Where My Girls At?” Then, renowned chef Joseph Burton from Baltimore’s Rooted Rotisserie takes over the grill to serve his incredible burgers and parmesan truffle fries. Plus, Tamron shows off delicious snacks from her forthcoming cookbook, “Confident Cook,” along with co-author and James Beard-winning culinary producer Lish Steiling Lish Steiling. And, the second annual Potato Salad Showdown!

Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s massively renovated and revitalized Casa Bonita is still in its soft opening phase, but Colorado’s food critics are already prepared to crown a top entrée to be ravenously devoured while the Lakewood police close in.

Back in March, the international South Park fandom learned that the waitlist to get a table at Casa Bonita during the pre-grand-opening stage of Parker and Stone’s eight-figure relaunch counted 600,000 potential patrons waiting eagerly for their turn to tour the towering pink temple of tacos and entertainment. Over the last five months, that number has certainly grown faster than Casa Bonita can seat its patient guests, so those of us who are champing at the bit to plan our pilgrimage to Lakewood, Colorado to experience a more luxurious, less felonious version of Eric Cartman’s dinner-and-a-show speed run in the iconic 2003 South Park episode “Casa Bonita” probably...

As a screenwriter, David E. Kelley is used to injecting social commentary into his material — not unlike the way the ancient Greeks entered the city of Troy. But when the creator of shows like The Practice, Big Little Lies and Ally McBeal made his foray into documentary filmmaking – with the ocean sustainability-themed Hope in the Water — the Trojan Horse method of educating was no longer applicable. “If you would leave me to my devices, I probably would’ve had a floating dead body, to talk about the biosecurity risk of people being beheaded in our oceans, but it was not going to be this kind of series,” jokes the prolific producer. “I didn’t proffer that idea. They didn’t ask for it – maybe because they were worried I might suggest something like that.”

Hope in the Water, a three-part series from PBS, takes a far less salacious approach to...

FX has confirmed season two of the critically acclaimed drama The Bear will premiere in June on Hulu. The first short-but-sweet teaser reveals The Original Beef of Chicagoland is closing as Carmy prepares to launch a new restaurant.

In the teaser, Natalie and Marcus are packing up while Tina covers the equipment. We also get of glimpse of Ebraheim in a storage freezer and Sydney looking through a hole in the wall. A complete renovation is underway as The Beef is set to transform into The Bear.

The video ends with a sign that reads: “The Beef is closed. Thank you for your patronage.” And FX offers this tagline: “It’s not a reopening, it’s a rebirth.”

Jeremy Allen White (Shameless) leads the cast as James Beard Award–winning Chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto. Ebon Moss-Bachrach plays Richard ‘Richie’ Jerimovich, Ayo Edebiri is Sydney Adamu, Abby Elliott is Natalie ‘Sugar’ Berzatto,...

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Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a fancy dinner might have to take place in your kitchen this year: a study by Yelp found that mentions of inflated prices on menus in reviews for restaurants have raised 28 since 2021. Affordability is clearly a priority lately, with searches for budget dining and grocery options also going up by 11 since the beginning...

Bobby Flay and his daughter Sophie will be eating around L.A. and traveling across the California coastline in a new series for the Food Network.

The pair are fronting Bobby and Sophie on the Coast, which will launch on the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned network and streaming series Discovery+ on August 22.

It is the celebrity chef’s first series for the network since he reached a new three-year deal with the company, after it appeared that he was set to be leaving the station after 27 years.

The three-part series, which was teased with Flay’s new deal that was signed in November, sees the pair explore L.A. from glamorous Hollywood establishments to the urban revival of Downtown L.A.’s hot new eateries.

They go to Jitlada, where they make Thai green curry with Bobby’s friend and James Beard-nominated chef, Jazz Singsanong, bakery Tartine, a West Hollywood cat café,...

The second season of “The Amber Ruffin Show” will return with new episodes Feb. 25, Peacock announced Tuesday.

The critically acclaimed late-night variety series is hosted by comedian Amber Ruffin, who made history as the first Black woman to write for a late-night network TV show when she joined the writer’s room of “Late Night with Seth Meyers” in 2014. Ruffin’s own show premiered in 2020, as one of the first originals for the Peacock streaming platform. Over the course of the first and second seasons for the show, Ruffin has used the show to cover breaking topics in the news cycle, including police brutality, Meghan Markle, violence against Asian Americans and the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.

“The Amber Ruffin Show” received a nomination for outstanding variety series writing at the 2021 Emmy awards. The series is produced by Universal Television and Sethmaker Shoemeyers Productions, and Ruffin executive produces alongside Jenny Hagel, Seth Meyers and Mike Shoemaker.

Mark Peel, the influential longtime Los Angeles chef and restaurateur who founded Campanile with his ex-wife Nancy Silverton, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 66.

His daughter told the Los Angeles Times that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer just nine days ago.

Peel appeared twice on “Top Chef Masters” and was a “Top Chef” judge in 2009 and 2010. He also made appearances on shows such as “Hell’s Kitchen,” “Knife Fight” and “Kitchen Nightmares.”

For 23 years, James Beard-award winning Campanile was a favorite spot for Hollywood power lunches and celebratory dinners. Built on La Brea Avenue in a historic building that was built for Charlie Chaplin’s offices, Campanile closed in 2012 and the building now houses Republique.

When Campanile closed, Jonathan Gold, who was married at the restaurant and freely admitted he couldn’t possibly be unbiased when writing about it, wrote, “It is hard...

Bravo has set the premiere date for Season 18 of “Top Chef,” which was shot in Portland, Ore., amid the pandemic. The network also released a trailer featuring the crop of new contestants who packed their knives and headed off to cook for Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons in the Pacific Northwest. See that video above.

The new season of the culinary competition will premiere with a supersized episode airing Thursday, April 1 from 8-9:15 p.m. Et/Pt.

“This season, a new batch of 15 extremely talented executive chefs and restaurant owners, representing a cross section of kitchens and food around the country, vie for the coveted title bringing their unique skillsets, diversity of cuisines and gamut of flavors,” per Bravo. “With Portland as a picturesque backdrop and culinary inspiration, the chefs compete in a variety of challenges including celebrating Pdx’s Pan-African cuisine to feeding hundreds of frontline...

A Michelin star is nice. A James Beard, pretty great as well. But for some chefs nothing feels quite as sweet as besting Bobby Flay. Since 2013, the Iron Chef, a three-time James Beard honoree himself, has been taking on challengers with his Food Network series, Beating Bobby Flay, a natural extension of the head-to-head face-offs he engaged in on Iron Chef and Throwdown With Bobby Flay. The show's recipe is fairly easy. Each half-hour episode starts with two cooks battling it out to create a meal using a featured ingredient. Once a winner has been determined by the guest judges—everyone from Chrissy Teigen to Sophia...

At the beginning of each episode of Quibi’s wild “Dishmantled” food competition series, host Tituss Burgess punches a big red button to activate a cannon that splatters a pair of chefs from head-to-toe with a mysterious dish.

The chefs then have to re-create the meal that was blasted at them based on taste and touch, before presenting their effort to Burgess and a panel of guest judges. The series is a six-minute smash in the face of food, color and craziness.

Just as the dishes of pesto pasta and shepherd’s pie are de-constructed for the chefs to figure out, traditional unscripted programming has been taken apart and put back together in increasingly creative, but also off-kilter, ways.

And it’s not just competition programs such as “Dishmantled” getting this larger-than-life treatment in a quest to draw in viewers whose attention is constantly pulled in a million new directions.

Guess what’s cooking? A new season of “Top Chef,” that’s what. Sadly, our reality right now is that restaurants and bars are closing down because of our health crisis. But the Bravo reality show is here to serve you with a 17th season filled with All Stars that takes place in the City of Angels. The producers picked a good time to hand out their largest winning jackpot ever in the history of the show — $250,000. These finalists, fan-favorites and front-runners definitely want to win these hunger games this time around on a supersized season opener. Read on for our minute-by-minute takes on the season premiere episode, “It’s Like They Never Left.”

10:01 p.m. In the premiere episode’s first moments, we get to hear Season 6’s Bryan Voltaggio saying, “Up until now I’ve always been the runner-up. Now it’s time to be the winner.

Global Lyme Alliance (Gla), the leading 501c3 dedicated to conquering Lyme and other tick-borne diseases through research, education, awareness, and patient services today announced that its fifth annual New York City Gala raised over $2.5 million last night at Cipriani 42nd Street in Manhattan.

Yolanda Hadid attends Global Lyme Alliance New York Gala

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The money raised at the event will support Gla’s mission to advance scientific research leading to a reliable diagnostic test, improved treatment options, and ultimately, find a cure for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.

The gala experience was produced by sponsor and celebrated event planner Larry Scott of Lawrence Scott Events, who donated his event planning and design services towards the Global Lyme Alliance’s New York Gala for the fifth consecutive year. Showcasing his unique commitment to philanthropic causes, the spectacular and one-of-a-kind gala was an evening to remember for invited celebrities,...

Discovery, whose approach to streaming in the U.S. has favored participation in bundled offerings over direct-to-consumer fare, is taking a different tack with the launch of Food Network Kitchen in partnership with Amazon.

Billing it as a “first-of-its-kind” service to launch in late October, Discovery said it will offer 25 live, weekly, interactive cooking classes every week and five a day on weekends. Supplementing that will be 800 on-demand classes, 3,000 instructional videos and grocery and equipment delivery. The video programming will feature recognizable talent and a range of Michelin-star and James Beard Award-winning chefs, the company said.

Food Network Kitchen will be $7 a month or $60 a year, with a 90-day free trial and $48 annual subscription offered for a limited time after the launch. A limited selection of videos and recipes will be offered for free.

Amazon will offer Food Network Kitchen through its Alexa and Echo Show devices, as well as Fire tablets,...

Discovery has whipped up its most ambitious U.S. subscription-streaming concoction to date — Food Network Kitchen, which the company promises will be as useful to home cooks as it is entertaining.

Set to launch in October, Food Network Kitchen will offer a lineup of 25 weekly live, interactive cooking shows — including some led by celeb chefs Bobby Flay, Rachael Ray, Giada De Laurentiis and Guy Fieri — as well as over 800 on-demand instructional videos, 80,000 recipes, culinary-related original programming and select shows from Food Network’s library.

The service, to be priced starting at $6.99 per month, is built for utility: It will let subscribers order ingredients for specific recipes from online-grocery services (and eventually cooking supplies) and in 2020 will add a 24-hour culinary helpline for subscribers to get tips and tricks from live experts.

In addition, Discovery inked a three-year pact to integrate Food Network Kitchen with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, to...

If you ask him, Antoni Porowski has great taste. But some chefs may soon disagree. During an appearance on Watch What Happens Live last night, the Queer Eye star was asked to critique celebrity food Instagrams. Piece of cake, right? Well, he wasn't told who actually cooked each dish. And things turned sour quickly. "Antoni," began host Andy Cohen, "Do you find this chicken couscous enticing?" He had this response ready instantly: "Too much broth. No." Bam, maybe not his best. As it turns out, the dish was made by known other than world-renowned chef and James Beard winner Emeril Lagasse. Cue the face palm.  "Does this...

In today’s TV news roundup, Netflix releases a trailer for the third season of “Dear White People,” and Disney casts Billy Campbell and Kathy Najimy in upcoming Disney Junior series, “The Rocketeer.”

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Billy Campbell and Kathy Najimy have joined the cast of forthcoming animated series “The Rocketeer.” The seasoned actors will voice character Kitana Secord’s (Kitana Turnbull) parents, Dave and Sareena Secord in the Disney Junior series that follows Kit’s journey as she protects her town of Hughesville from danger.

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Netflix released a trailer for the third season of “Dear White People,“ which will launch on the streamer on Aug. 2. This season sees college-radio host, Sam White (Logan Browning), quitting her show and leaving the broadcasting to her close friend Joelle Brooks (Ashley Blaine Featherson). Meanwhile, a secret society makes plans to shake things up on campus, and Yvette Nicole Brown, Blair Underwood and Laverne Cox guest star.

Quibi has placed an order for Shape of Pasta, a new series from Chef Evan Funke spotlighting his searches in Italy for the remaining masters of pasta. The series explores the culture, history and lore behind the unique shapes and textures of the staple food in an effort to save them forever.

Multiple James Beard Award nominee Chef Evan Funke is the architect behind La’s Felix Trattoria. He is also described as a “perpetual student” of handmade pasta, a dying art form as the top practitioners pass,

The eight-part documentary exploring the world of pasta is produced by Emmy Award-winning and James Beard Award-nominated Ugly Brother Studios. It follows Funke as he seeks to learn rare, forgotten and obscure pasta shapes from the pasta masters keeping these traditions alive.

Quibi is a mobile-first media technology platform merging the best of Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Quibi...

Quibi is cooking up another food-centric series, adding “Shape of Pasta” to its lineup of shows, which will be hosted by renowned chef Evan Funke, it announced Thursday morning.

The short-form series follows Funke, a James Beard Award nominee, as he searches for pasta experts living in Italy. Funke will use his time on the screen to introduce viewers to the culture, history and lore behind rare shapes and textures of pasta in an effort to keep them alive.

The eight-part series, which is produced by Emmy Award-winning and James Beard Award-nominated Ugly Brother Studios, follows the announcement of another food-oriented show ordered by Quibi, “Biggest Little Cooking Show.” The competition series will feature two chefs battling it out to see who can make the most mouth-watering, single-bite foods that can fit on a dime-sized plate or, in some cases, on a grain of rice.

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These days, legal weed is the new fall foliage: a rare and special plant that requires a few hours journey to experience. But not every Apple Store-inspired dispensary or overdesigned pre-roll pack is worth the trip. Laws are so strict in most places that cannabis social spaces — like a bar but for pot — are few and far between. Still, some innovative entrepreneurs are conceiving of a future where marijuana integrates into our weekend fun as seamlessly as alcohol does now. Here are the ultimate destinations for the cannabis tourist.

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The specific ingredients of Jacques Pépin’s Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech at this year’s Daytime Emmys are unknown, but count on a dash or two of modesty.

The world-famous chef says he was deeply touched when he was told the honor — the first to go to someone in the cooking genre — was being bestowed upon him.

“It’s amazing because the food world has not been recognized much at this level,” Pépin says. “When I spoke to David Michaels [the senior vice president of daytime at the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences], I told him I’d like to thank whoever nominated me. I was flabbergasted.”

Born in Bourg-en-Bresse, France, in 1935, Pépin developed a passion and respect for cooking after his mother, Jeannette, opened a restaurant, Le Pélican. As a young man, he worked at Le Plaza Athénée in Paris where a chef pal regaled Pépin with stories of life in Washington, D.C.

In 1959, his dream of visiting America came true.

Amy Schumer is sharing some personal information about her husband Chris Fischer.

In her upcoming Netflix special, Amy Schumer: Growing — which begins streaming on Netflix this week — the 37-year-old comedian reveals that her husband, 39, is on the Autism spectrum.

“I knew from the beginning that my husband’s brain was a little different than mine,” she says during the hour-long special, according to Entertainment Tonight.

“My husband was diagnosed with what used to be called Asperger’s. He has autism spectrum disorder. He’s on the spectrum. And there were some signs early on,” she says.

Schumer goes on to...

Chef Jacques Pepin will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 46th Annual Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, NATAS announced Wednesday.

“The Daytime Emmy Awards recognize both the excellence and vibrant diversity of daytime television programming,” said NATAS president & CEO Adam Sharp. “Chef Jacques Pepin epitomizes both, uniquely shaping the culinary genre which has grown to become one of the mainstays of our medium.”

The culinary professional is the first in his genre to be recognized with this award.

“Daytime television has been forever changed by the culinary efforts of Jacques Pepin,” said David Michaels, senior vice president and executive producer of the Daytime Emmy Awards. “Pepin’s body of work helped inspire not just millions of cooks at home, but also the myriad staples of culinary television we now see.”

Pepin serves as dean of special programs at The International Culinary Center, founded as the French Culinary Institute, in New York City.

Kate Beckinsale was the official host of the La Art Show 2019 Opening Night Premiere Gala held at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Wednesday, January 23, 2019.

Scott Diament, Gavin Rossdale, Kate Beckinsale, Kim Martindale

Gavin Rossdale was the evening’s Art Ambassador. Proceeds from the event benefited St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for the fifth year in the row. Thanks to generous donors, families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.

The Patron Reception featured a special presentation by St. Jude with address by Beckinsale. Attendees enjoyed cuisine by James Beard Award-Nominated Chef Jeffrey Nimer of Haute Chefs La, and Executive Chef Nick Shipp of The Upper West, desserts from celebrated local chefs Valerie Gordon and Shannon Swindle, Nespresso, Cavit Prosecco and delicious hors d’oeuvres from over 20 select La restaurants.

In addition to food,...

As the 2019 Sundance Film Festival rolls into Park City, Utah, for its 34th iteration from January 24 to February 3, there’s a pitched battle among the 241 filmmakers to win one of the fest’s 12 coveted prizes. That’s the main event, but the fight to snag those elusive invites to the best parties popping up all over town is equally combative, which is why we’ve curated the top tickets/lists here — plus-ones included, of course.

Big-name actors expected to be making the rounds at Sundance this year range from Duane Johnson to Zac Efron, Jake Gyllenhaal and Adam Driver on the male side and Hilary Swank, Lupita Nyong’o, Naomi Watts, Rosamund Pike and Viola Davis representing the women, with founder Robert Redford circulating despite his reported retirement from acting.

Also in the shivering mix on Main Street: independent directors, producers, newbie actors, sponsors and the now ever-present “influencers,” armed with hashtags and selfie sticks.

There’s something deeply satisfying about getting high and drooling over images of a gorgeous, marijuana-infused dinner — and a new crop of shows offer a look into how these intoxicating feasts are made.

Take Viceland’s Bong Appétit, by far the biggest hit of the genre. Last year, it was nominated for a James Beard award, a top honor in the cooking world. The first two seasons featured dreamy sequences about sourcing local ingredients, bite-sized lessons in how to infuse various fats and oils with marijuana and, at the end of each episode,...

Authentic Talent & Literary Management and Propagate Content have entered into a new development and producing partnership and named Galt Niederhoffer head of production.

The two companies will work together to focus on scripted dramas for network, premium cable and streaming, as well as non-scripted television. Propagate is financing the development slate, and writer/producer Niederhoffer will oversee the new division.

“Over the past three years, Propagate has formed development partnerships with leading production and broadcast companies and executives around the world with an eye to developing world-class content,” Ben Silverman, Propagate’s chairman and co-ceo, and Howard T. Owens, Propagate’s co-ceo, said in a joint statement.

The Propagate duo has worked closely with Authentic’s CEO Jon Rubinstein for the past decade, and they expressed excitement about the new venture by adding that they “have admired Galt’s vision and sensibility, and believe she is the perfect choice to lead this new enterprise.

When “Avengers” and “Community” director Joe Russo throws a party for the opening of his new restaurant Simone in the arts district of downtown Los Angeles, his people turn out for him. So “Avengers” stars Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Don Cheadle, Karen Gillan, Marisa Tomei and Pom Klementieff as well as Marvel honcho Kevin Feige were among those toasting the debut of the stylish bar and restaurant along with chef Jessica Largey.

“Joe is an epicurean, so it’s not surprising,” said Johansson of Russo’s first restaurant venture. The Black Widow star said she loves the downtown L.A. scene — the restaurants and especially the art galleries.

Russo’s director pals Jon Favreau, Taika Waititi and Feng Xiaogang were also there to celebrate. There was a mini-“Community” reunion, too, with Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs and Yvette Nicole Brown meeting up with Russo, who directed 21 episodes of the series.

Kings of Leon will pay tribute to the disco hits of the Seventies and Eighties when they headline the 2018 Harvest Night at Music City Food + Wine Festival in Nashville, which will also feature performances by Sheryl Crow and Little Big Town.

Set for September 15th, Harvest Night promises to be every bit as diverse as the crowd that once frequented the hedonistic Studio 54. The musical lineup for the evening includes Elle King, Phillip Phillips, Moon Taxi, the Struts, War & Treaty, Lilly Hiatt, Idea Mae, Parker Gispert, Ruby Amanfu, Robert Randolph,...

Here’s your chance to win dinner with Joe Walsh and VIP tickets to An Evening With The Eagles in Detroit – and all you have to do is donate to charity though prizeo.com.

For donating as little as $10 to Facing Addiction With Ncadd, you could win this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as well as a Detroit Rock City Experience.

“I will be performing in Detroit on October 14th, and I want you to be there for an exciting Rock City weekend!” said Joe Walsh. "I’ll fly you and a guest to Detroit and put you up in a hotel and then you’ll get an amazing weekend experience exploring the city! You’ll have an amazing dinner cooked by a fantastic James Beard Award-nominated chef, James Rigato at his newest restaurant, Mabel Gray. Then I’ll send you out to explore Rock City with some of our legendary music spots.

David Chang, chef of New York City’s famed Momofuku, toured the globe for his upcoming Netflix series Ugly Delicious to give viewers a new perspective on global cuisines. Joining him were guests like Gillian Jacobs, Nick Kroll, Wolfgang Puck and Aziz Ansari (who lived out a real-life version of the fictionalized food travel show his character pitched on Master of None).

But it’s late-night host Jimmy Kimmel who Chang thinks will truly surprise people with his culinary appreciation. “I don’t think people realize that Jimmy is like a really amazing amateur home cook,” the James Beard award winner,...