Dan Barber Taught Michelle Obama What Really Good Vegetables Taste Like
What on earth does Dan Barber do to his vegetables? Because according to Michelle Obama, they were so mind-blowingly amazing the first time she ate them, that she immediately appointed him to the...
View ArticleBarack Obama: Alice Waters ‘Traumatized’ My Aide With Her Vegetable Menu
Once upon a time, Barack Obama held a fancy fundraising dinner at the Bay Area home of super bundlers Wayne Jordan and Quinn Delaney. The chef at the dinner was Alice Waters, whose adherence to the...
View ArticleDan Barber Teams Up With ICC To Create ‘Farm-Powered Kitchen’ Program
Did you go shopping for pens and pencils? Finish your summer reading? Get your chefs’ whites pressed? Good, because Dan Barber is about to take you to school! (Ahahaha, fake 90′s gangsta rap...
View ArticleWATCH: Dan Barber Cooks Vegetables Sous Compost
In this ad for BMW that looks like it’s a bootleg movie from China, Dan Barber talks about his “one thing”: sustainable hedonism. He then gives us, the audience, a tour around Stone Barns at Blue Hill,...
View ArticleWATCH: Dan Barber Tells Al Roker, ‘All You Talk About Is Bobby Flay’
Dan Barber needs to do more cooking demos. Not only were our minds blown by that time he roasted vegetables in a compost pile, but this morning on Today, he also schooled Al Roker on why he needs to...
View ArticleThe 11 Biggest Celebrity Chef Fundraising Bashes Of The 2012 Presidential...
The election is tomorrow and, believe it or not, celebrity chefs have played an enormous role in the campaign this year, with perhaps the most visibility the restaurant industry’s ever had in an...
View ArticleLast Call: This Candy-Crane Might Collapse And Kill Dozens Of Gingerbread Men
Architizer: What is the best way to memorialize incompetence, Scrooge-like parsimony, and reckless endangerment of others? This gingerbread model of the New York City crane notoriously destroyed by...
View ArticleHouse Porn: Michael White Imports His NYC Rooftop Garden Soil From Blue Hill
Do we love looking at the lavish homes of the rich and the famous from our Ikea desks? Of course we do. Do celebrity chefs fall into this category? Absolutely. Because besides the unthinkable luxury...
View ArticleDan Barber Breaks Twitter Silence With Parsnip Pic
Sexy vegetable Twitter porn all the time? Yes, please. Dan Barber of Blue Hill has officially joined Twitter (@DanBarber), and he’s not sucking at social media thus far. He started the day with...
View ArticleWATCH: Blue Hill Serves Both Compost-Baked Rutabagas And Authentic Mexican Tacos
In this episode of VICE.com’s Munchies series, sous chef Trevor Kunk reveals a different side to Blue Hill of New York — many sides, even. Let’s just say that everyone who works at Dan Barber’s...
View ArticleLast Call: Jason Segel Plus Maple Syrup Heist Equals Good Movie Idea
Deadline: Jason Segel is to star in an upcoming movie about a Canadian maple syrup heist. A comedy with dramatic overtones, the story is apparently based on real events as reported in the Montreal...
View ArticleDan Barber Pens NYT Op-Ed on the Failures of the Farm-to-Table Movement
Blue Hill chef/owner and farm-econ scholar Dan Barber penned an op-ed in the Sunday Times about how, in spite of our collective societal boner for farm-to-table eating, sustainability is still failing...
View ArticleSam Kass to Be Married At Stone Barns This Weekend, So Cry It Out Now
It’s official: our boyfriend Sam Kass, who we couldn’t even believe got engaged without telling us, is getting hitched this weekend, and of course it’s at Stone Barns and of course our hearts are...
View ArticleNetflix Greenlights Docu-Series Chef’s Table, Scheduled for 2015
The new series even has one of the stars from Mind of a Chef on board. Variety reports that the docu-series, A Chef’s Table (which confuses us with PBS’ A Chef’s Life and just about every other TV show...
View ArticleDan Barber Recruits Chefs to Cook With Food Waste at Blue Hill
It’s the first pop-up of its kind — not that we’re surprised by it at all. In fact, it seems perfectly natural that Dan Barber, of Blue Hill fame, would make his restaurant pop-up all about food waste....
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