• Rachael Ray shares never-before-seen footage of New York house after fire

    Rachael Ray shares never-before-seen footage of New York house after fire

    Rachael Ray shared on Sunday never-before-seen footage of her Lake Luzerne home after it caught on fire last month. In the brief clip posted to social media, Ray, 52, revealed the remnants of what was once her bedroom and her library. It didn’t look like any of it was salvageable. Ray will be sharing a …
  • Spotted Pig chef pops up in historical Connecticut hotel

    Spotted Pig chef pops up in historical Connecticut hotel

    April Bloomfield is returning to her roots in the countryside. The acclaimed British chef is now chef-in-residence at the historical Mayflower Inn & Spa in Connecticut through this year’s holiday season. Bloomfield, who put places like the Spotted Pig, The Breslin, Tosca, and The John Dory on the map with her celebrated culinary creations, said:  …
  • Fire at Rachael Ray’s upstate mansion started in chimney: state officials

    Fire at Rachael Ray’s upstate mansion started in chimney: state officials

    A fire that raced through the upstate mansion of celebrity chef Rachael Ray started by accident in a chimney, state fire officials said. The Office of Fire Prevention and Control released the cause of the Aug. 9 blaze in Lake Luzerne on Friday, the Associated Press reported. Flames heavily damaged the roof and second floor …
  • Rachael Ray speaks out after Lake Luzerne house burns in fire

    Rachael Ray speaks out after Lake Luzerne house burns in fire

    Rachael Ray is “grateful” after her upstate New York house burned in a blaze Sunday night. “Thank you to our local first responders for being kind and gracious and saving what they could of our home,” Ray, 51, tweeted on Monday of her Lake Luzerne house. “Grateful that my mom, my husband, my dog… we’re …
  • Fire rips through Rachael Ray’s home in upstate New York

    Fire rips through Rachael Ray’s home in upstate New York

    A home belonging to celebrity cook Rachael Ray was reportedly on fire in upstate New York on Sunday night. Fire crews were battling flames at the home in Lake Luzerne, as the Warren County Sheriff’s Office told ABC10 the residence belonged to the television personality. Images showed the flames shooting through the roof of the …
  • Selena Gomez’s new kitchen to get airtime on HBO Max

    Selena Gomez’s new kitchen to get airtime on HBO Max

    Selena Gomez  is christening her kitchen — in her new $5 million mansion once owned by Tom Petty — by cooking with French chef Ludo Lefebvre on her upcoming HBO Max show, “Selena + Chef.” While she remotely cooks alongside a famous chef in each episode, she has admitted her culinary skills are nonexistent, so …
  • Harlem EatUp! virtual festival to raise funds for black-owned businesses

    Harlem EatUp! virtual festival to raise funds for black-owned businesses

    Wynton Marsalis, Mary Wilson and top chefs, including Melba Wilson, Carla Hall, José Andrés, Emeril Lagasse, and Bobby Flay, are among VIPs expected to appear at the Harlem EatUp! virtual festival Saturday. Tamron Hall and Sandra Bookman will host the one-hour special on Ch. 7. The fund-raiser will feature musical performances, plus cooking demos by …
  • Dining maskless at chef Alain Ducasse’s iconic Paris bistro Allard

    Dining maskless at chef Alain Ducasse’s iconic Paris bistro Allard

    Hinting at what fine dining might look like post-coronavirus lockdown, chef Alain Ducasse’s famed Paris bistro, Allard, has reportedly installed new state-of-the-art, $56,000, “anti-COVID décor.” According to Paris-based food writer Alexander Lobrano, the eatery that opened in 1932 has been outfitted with ducts, high-tech air filters and fans created to “ensure an air quality on …
  • Bill Buford retracts claim that Daniel Boulud uses food coloring for pasta

    Bill Buford retracts claim that Daniel Boulud uses food coloring for pasta

    An author appears to have egg on his face. After we reported that Bill Buford claims in his new book, “Dirt,” that famed chef Daniel Boulud uses food coloring to make his pasta look more yellow, Buford, er, scrambled to correct himself. “Thank you for the plug for the new book, but I need to …
  • Chef Daniel Boulud accused of putting food coloring in his pasta

    Chef Daniel Boulud accused of putting food coloring in his pasta

    Any good memoir contains some juicy secrets — but some are almost too sordid to repeat. Bill Buford makes the stunning claim in his new book “Dirt” that famed chef Daniel Boulud puts food coloring in his pasta to make it look more yellow. “When I later found myself in Boulud’s kitchen, and I was …