Examiner.com - Hot off the grill - BBQ Pitmasters returns to TLC with new episodes on August 12, 2010. TLC premieres all-new season with BBQ's biggest prize ever: $100,000, according to a July 29, 2010 press release from TLC. BBQ Pitmasters features an all-star panel of judges: celebrity chef Art Smith, BBQ champion Myron Mixon, and Superbowl winner Warren Sapp, and is hosted by chef Kevin Roberts.

BBQ Pitmasters returns with six new episodes on August 12, 2010 The first five of the series' six episodes feature different competitions, each one selecting a winning team that moves to the grand finale. Those five

Jasper News - Jasper, FL, USA - In the space of just three short months, Addie Mae Smith has traveled around the world two times.

In early April she accompanied her son, Art Smith, to an international cookbook exhibition in Beijing, China, where he received his second Gourmand World Cookbook award for his third cookbook, Back to the Family. He had previously received this award for his first cookbook, Back to the Table.

Addie and Art stayed at a luxurious hotel outside Beijing for five days where the exhibition was held. “The entire hotel was given over to the exhibit,” she said. People from around the world attended the

Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu, HI, USA - CHEF ART SMITH has fried chicken for Julia Roberts, simmered oxtail curry for Nelson Mandela, grilled chicken burgers for Oprah Winfrey's entire audience.

He's now planning Winfrey's party for presidential candidate Barack Obama.

As Winfrey's chief party planner, a best-selling cookbook author, frequent guest on the "Today Show" and judge on "Iron Chef America," Smith cooks in rarified celebrity circles.

He's found, though, that everyone appreciates a good meal -- no matter how humble.

"People have all these things in their minds about the rich and the famous and how they live. The truth is they want the same things as other people want

WCBS-TV New York - NY, USA - The man who has personally pleased Oprah Winfrey's palate for years is now extending his culiary delights to the public.

WBBM in Chicago reports that Art Smith is opening a new restaurant in the Windy City.

When you pull up a chair at Table 52, you'll be surrounded by welcoming citrus and mossy colors and feel the warmth of the kitchen in an unexpected way.

"Food is love and one of the best ways to show people that you care is cook for them," Smith said.

As you bite into dishes liked grilled tenderloin with mama's squash casserole or bubbling three cheese macaroni, you'll

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA - Del Monte Foods (NYSE:DLM) is proud to announce its support of Common Threads Summer Camp 2007 -- a nonprofit organization founded in 2002 by Chef Art Smith that is committed to teaching underprivileged children about different cultures, as well as developing self-discipline and respect for others through classes on food and the arts. More than 100 Chicago-area children, between the ages of 8 and 12 years old, will be attending the Common Threads Summer Camp, which is in session from now through August 3 at St. Paul and the Redeemer in the Kenwood/Hyde Park neighborhood.

“Chef Art Smith is a friend

Joliet Herald News - Joliet, IL, USA - The food on the cutting board, crimson strawberries, cherry-red tomatoes and fern-green basil, was as brightly colored as the print on the chef hats falling down around their ears.

Over the next two hours about a dozen adolescents would learn the basics of slicing and dicing these farm-fresh ingredients into a sophisticated summer salad. In the end, their smiles of accomplishment are as delicious as the entree itself.

This culinary class is not just one more diversion for the children of privilege. In fact, most of the kids here are of modest means, learning for perhaps the first time that food does