Gabrielle Hamilton knows a thing or two about hard work. The chef-owner of New York’s wildly popular New American bistro Prune—now in its 13th year—has been working in kitchens since the age of 13. This past March, the restaurateur, who incidentally has

Vegetarians are out of luck again ... In his 2000 bestseller Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain swatted down vegetarians on behalf of the foodie elite: Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to a

To tell you the truth I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked up Maureen Stanton's book ($26.95) for the first time. The title is certainly intriguing, and as vintage enthusiasts at Pure Green I'm always looking to know more on the subject. But Mauree

Bradley Cooper seems to making all the right moves of late. He wasn't an instant A-lister; his career saw him working away on TV shows like "Alias" and "Kitchen Confidential" before a supporting performance in "Wedding Crashers" put him on track to bigge

Wahoo prepared by Eric Ripert at Blue at the Ritz-Carlton. (Courtesy of Dan Riddle) It’s easy to make the connection between the well-known books titled “Where’s Waldo” and the Cayman Islands, because once you are there, chances are you’ll be on the hunt

It is not a secret that Anthony Bourdain, author of “Kitchen Confidential” is no fan of the artery-clogging food queen, Paula Deen. On the heels of her announcement that she has diabetes and is now, according to TMZ, “a paid spokesperson for a diabetes m