Tuned In+Television | February 22, 2012

Top Chef Vs. Chopped: Who Rules the Food TV Kitchen?

By James Poniewozik

Unlike the stunt-heavy Top Chef, which seems to have grown bored with cooking, Chopped is reliable, workmanlike and procedural, the Law & Order of cable food-competition shows.

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | November 24, 2010

Holiday Watch: Deconstruct That Turkey!

By James Poniewozik

Soon it will be time for Tuned In to step away from the laptop and DVD player and step into the kitchen. This Thanksgiving I’m cooking a much smaller holiday dinner than usual, so I’m going with a turkey breast. But rather than buy one separately, we got a whole turkey, which, to take out [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | October 7, 2009

Gourmet: A Magazine TV Show Sans Magazine

By James Poniewozik

File this under Department of Unfortunate Timing: last week I got a screener in the mail for the public-TV show Gourmet’s Adventures with Ruth, a food series with Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl. On Monday, publisher Conde Nast announced that Reichl would have no magazine to edit, as it was closing the venerable food bible. The [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | August 7, 2009

What to Do This Weekend

By James Poniewozik

You could watch Julie & Julia at the movie theater. Or you could go straight to the source. PBS has put an archive of classic Julia Child episodes and clips online, in time for the Meryl Streep movie’s release. Bon appetit. [Update: Deleted embedded video, which wasn't behaving. Julia taught us to roll with it [...]

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Tuned In+August 7, 2009

Dead Tree Alert: Top Tips for Top Chefs

By James Poniewozik

It’s a list! It’s an article! It’s a listicle! Today in the print TIME, in anticipation of the new season of Top Chef beginning later this month, I have a list of dos and don’ts for Top Chef contestants. (Also, I want to swear here and now that I came up with my theory that [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | August 5, 2009

What's Eating Michael Pollan?

By James Poniewozik

Reading Michael Pollan can be as intimidating as it is informative. He’d like you to stop eating so much meat and corn and eat more fruits and vegetables. No, not processed ones, fresh ones. No, not those fresh ones, the locally grown ones, over there. You know, actually, it’d be even better if you grew [...]