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+Books | May 7, 2012

Meet the World's Best Chefs, Including 2012 Winner Daniel Humm

By Alice Park

Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park joins the prestigious list of Outstanding Chef honorees

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Tuned In+Review | November 3, 2011

Top Chef Returns: You’re Texas Toast

By James Poniewozik
BRAVO

Last night saw the debut of Top Chef Texas, and true to the popular cliché about the nation’s largest state (until Alaska ruined everything), it was bigger. I have long since learned that it is pointless to really judge a Top Chef season until it has a few episodes under its belt and the contestants [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | April 25, 2011

Ron Swanson's Turkey Burger Made Flesh

By James Poniewozik

Parks and Recreation has for some time been the best and most hilarious comedy on TV. It is now also the most tasty. In last week’s “Soulmates,” Ron Swanson, asked by Chris if he had ever had a turkey burger, replied: “Is that a fried turkey leg inside a grilled hamburger? If so, yes. Delicious.” [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | March 4, 2011

Dead Tree Alert: Anthony Bourdain's Guilty Pleasure

By James Poniewozik

Surprise: My column in the redesigned culture section of TIME this week is not about Charlie Sheen! The other day I posted briefly about the season-debut Haiti episode of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations. For the column I screened more of the upcoming episodes and spoke to Bourdain about how his show uses food as a [...]

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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+Uncategorized | March 4, 2010

Jamie Oliver vs. the School Lunch

By James Poniewozik

Speaking of ABC reality shows, I’ve just watched the first episode of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, which I recommend checking out when it debuts later this month. The series follows the British chef, who’s done anti-obesity work for years, as he goes to a West Virginia town which has been rated the unhealthiest region in [...]

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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 | May 27, 2008

The Best Damn Food Show Period

By James Poniewozik

TRAVEL CHANNEL The other day while writing up last week’s Top Chef, I lamented that the show hadn’t found a way to get Anthony Bourdain on every week. It later occurred to me that I should have mentioned, for those of you who didn’t know, that you can get a more regular fix of Bourdain, [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | May 6, 2008

My Paradise Is a Cow's Hell

By James Poniewozik

My grand tour of the new channels in my expanded HD lineup continued last night with the Travel Channel HD, which was airing something called Steak Paradise. (If there were a religion that named its afterlife Steak Paradise, I would join that religion.) You wouldn’t think that meat is something that benefits from high definition, [...]