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The Epi-Log (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Gourmet Geometry: Do you cut your sandwiches into triangles or rectangles? NPR makes a surprisingly detailed argument for triangles. Who Has Better Chefs: the East Coast or the West? The debate continues (rather nastily) in the New York Times. Worst Drive-Thru Robbery Ever: A Michigan man goes to a Wendy's drive-thru with a sawed-off shotgun and demands the cash in the till. Guess who learns that you...
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Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Bobby Tudor & Art Smith to Open and Close Playmakers /EIN Presswire/ December 2, 2009 at Hilton Americas, Downtown Houston, TX. Don't miss special presentations by leading industry experts Bobby Tudor and Art Smith. * Conference sessions on Exploration, Capital, Technology, Services & Shales * Special networking opportunities and Prospect & Sponsor booths * Priced for the market- Energy...
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EINNews Press Releases (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Bobby Tudor & Art Smith to Open and Close Playmakers /EIN Presswire/ December 2, 2009 at Hilton Americas, Downtown Houston, TX. Don't miss special presentations by leading industry experts Bobby Tudor and Art Smith. * Conference sessions on Exploration, Capital, Technology, Services & Shales * Special networking opportunities and Prospect & Sponsor booths * Priced for the market- Energy...
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant... (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
from Grub Street Chicago As is easily deduced from the show's title, Art Smith's new series deals with comfort food. The foods on the docket include apple pie, donuts (which a Grub Street commenter noted includes a visit to New York's Donut Plant ), chocolate, burgers, fried chicken, mac 'n' cheese, and breakfast, a rep of the network told the Sun-Times . "To me, food without a story is not that...
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Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Hi, Art: Art Smith, chef at Chicago's Table Fifty-Two, has been tapped for a new TV show, "Craving Comfort," on TLC, the network announced Monday. Smith is the former personal chef of Oprah Winfrey.
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yumsugar (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
NBC and Fox aren't the only channels trying to nab a piece of the cooking show pie. So is cable channel TLC. Not only does the lifestyle network boast new programming like Cake Boss and the soon-to-air BBQ Pitmasters , but the channel has just ordered eight episodes of a new 30-minute series, Craving Comfort , starring celebrity chef Art Smith. Rather than demoing dishes in the traditional cooking...
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TV Squad (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Hmm... it seems like every network is expanding at the waistline. That is, a bunch of them are getting into food in a big way. Like Fine Living becoming the Cooking Channel . TLC is also adding more yum yum to the schedule. And the latest has an Oprah angle. Perhaps it's a coincidence, but just about everyone connected to Oprah Winfrey is getting a TV show these days... Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, Nate Berkus....
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Tuned In (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Art Smith may not have been the winning chef on Top Chef Masters, but he was the best at bringing the drama, associating food with emotions and generally oversharing. (As befits a guy who used to be Oprah's chef.) Also, he specialized in the kind of down-home food that people like to eat, and to ogle [...]
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant... (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
from Grub Street Chicago After his charming turn on Top Chef Masters (so cuddly! So Southern! So hilarious!), it was only a matter of time before Table 52 chef Art Smith got his own TV show. TLC has cast him to host Craving Comfort , a food-travel show focused on what the network describes as "the great personal stories behind America’s classic comfort foods," reports The Live Feed....
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Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Why Not Harvest Pianos Instead': The British TV series UFO will be turned into a movie starring Joshua Jackson . Jackson will play Paul Foster, a test pilot who works for a covert agency that defends earth against a race of organ-harvesting aliens. Matthew Gratzner , the visual effects supervisor on Iron Man , will be making his directing debut. He'll also be making explosions. [ Variety ] It's a...
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Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
I've mentioned The Film Noir Foundation before. The estimable Eddie Muller founded it and continues to present noir in all its aspects around the world--and present it in the most intelligent and compelling ways possible. By sending a contribution to the Foundation you'll receive The Noir City Sentinel when it appears. This magazine is the finest ongoing history of noir I've ever seen. Here's how to...
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Word on the Street (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE GALLERY OF PHOTOSWant to see something delicious? @redeyechicago attended last night's Wandering Goat dinner put on by Stephanie Izard - it was held at the home of Art Smith.The winner of our Virtual Kitchen Stadium...
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Obama Foodorama (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Stories vary about how busy the White House bees have been...& a random photo of Chef Art Smith In the photo above , White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford holds up a jar of White House Honey at First Lady Michelle Obama's Healthy Kids Fair on the South Lawn, which was held on Wednesday afternoon. The honey was used in a recipe for White House Baked Apples, a sweet but nutritious breakfast...
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I Hate The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
We've all just gotten a new issue of TNY and we're mulling things over. These things might be: Crain on the culture of the Great Depression, and Depression-era "holidays." This Dickstein book is something I'd like to read. I love 1930s realism. Denby on Campion's Bright Star. Campion makes only one serious mistake: when Whishaw recites the lines “Pillowed upon my fair love’s ripening...
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Reality TV Website (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" traveled to Champaign County, IL to meet Nathan Montgomery, who gave up a lucrative engineering career to start a charity that feeds ten thousand hungry families in his community
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