New York Daily News - New York, NY, USA - Television chef and cookbook author Daisy Martinez is famous for whipping up Latin dishes and showing others how to make them.

But when she visits the Prospect Park Picnic House Thursday evening, Martinez isn't going to prepare a thing.

Instead, during a fund-raiser for the American Cancer Society in Brooklyn, the star of PBS' "Daisy Cooks!" will be urging people, especially other Latinos, to educate themselves about cancer and to get regular checkups.

"People with no history of the disease are coming up with it," said the author of "Daisy Cooks! Latin Flavors that Will Rock Your World." Martinez lives in Prospect Park

Reality TV World - Mansfield, MA, USA - Food Network has decided to kick Robert Irvine out of the kitchen after the Dinner: Impossible star cooked-up several lies about everything from his culinary education and experience to the identities of some of his more famous clientele.

"We will continue airing both old shows and the new season currently in production. We have not renewed Robert's contract for future seasons but will fulfill our contractual obligations," Food Network president Brooke Johnson said in a Friday statement obtained by the St. Petersburg Times.

"We appreciate Robert's remorse about his actions, and we can revisit this decision at the end of the production

Village Voice - New York, NY, USA - Hung Huynh, perhaps our favorite Top Chef contestant ever, and, in case you're living under a rock or something, last season's winner, will be cooking Kosher food for the month of March. Solo, a fancy Kosher spot in the Sony Building on Madison Avenue, has enlisted Hung's services as a guest chef. The full press release is available, after the jump. Jump!

SOLO ENLISTS BRAVO TV’S REIGNING “TOP CHEF” WINNER, HUNG HUYNH

Guest Executive Chef Hung Huynh To Add More Asian Flare To Solo’s Fare

(February 2008) – Upscale restaurant Solo has appointed Hung Huynh, the recent winner of Bravo TV’s hit show

MLive.com - MI, USA - A culinary battle called the "Dorm Room Challenge" on Sunday in Ann Arbor had all the ingredients for great fun, if not high cuisine.

It pitted an outspoken and nationally known television chef against a local favorite from Hillel at the University of Michigan.

Ilan Hall, winner of last season's "Top Chef" TV show on Bravo, and Hillel's so-called "Kosher King" Emil Boch had a short list of both food and kitchenware with which to perform their culinary magic.

They were given identical amounts of 22 kosher foods - things that might be found in a student's dorm room, such as peanut butter,

Monterey County Herald - Monterey, CA, USA - The culinary buzz around these parts surrounds the headline: "Chef Richard opens restaurant in Carmel."

The "Chef Richard" in question is internationally famous French master, Michel Richard, who this month will unveil his signature Citronelle restaurant at Carmel Valley Ranch. But that celebrated opening comes a year after a much-less-famous Chef Richard already hung his humble shingle in Carmel.

With little fanfare and no stable of investors behind him, Chef Francis Richard opened Chez Christine — named after his wife and restaurant partner — on Junipero Avenue in Carmel at the site of former coffeehouse Buon Giorno.

The longtime couple hail from Normandy,

PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA - The Los Angeles Regional Foodbank, which distributes millions of pounds of food to the hungry in Los Angeles County every year, today received more than 30,000 pounds of meat to help feed local families, thanks to Smithfield Foods' 10-city Helping Hungry Homes(TM) Across America tour, an initiative led by celebrity cook Paula Deen.

The tour's goal is to provide one million servings of meat to the nation's hungry families, including those in Los Angeles and surrounding communities. Nearly one in 10 people in the county are at risk of hunger, with children and seniors being disproportionately affected, according to Los Angeles

Core Media Group - CA, USA - Super chef Emeril Lagasse will be the first culinary celebrity to lead the Tournament of Roses when it rolls down Colorado Boulevard next Jan. 1,

The New Orleans born Legassi operates nine restaurants, is a TV celebrity on the Food Network, and has authored a dozen books.

Lagasse will ride in the 119th Rose Parade in front of a worldwide television audience, and toss the coin before the 94th Rose Bowl Game on January 1, 2008.

TOR President C.L. Keady said, Emeril Lagasse is the very best ambassador for our theme, Passport to the World's Celebrations. Food is an integral part of celebrations

Los Angeles Times - CA, USA - Sin City is proud of their celebrity chefs. As many know, fine dining has become a big and obvious draw for Las Vegas. Now, celebrated chefs Tom Colicchio, Michael Mina, Bradley Ogden, Wolfgang Puck and Carla Pellegrino are opening up their dining rooms to show off their talent in the kitchen. You can try them out for a fraction of what a regular night out would cost at their restaurants.

Deal: Get a three-course meal for only $50.07 at acclaimed restaurants such as Aureole and Fleur de Lys, SEABLUE, Bradley Ogden, Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill, Nine Steakhouse, Social House and more.