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More Shameless Self Promotion: I'll Give You a Cookie if You Buy My Book

Emily Farris — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:03:00 GMT

This is just a friendly reminder that I wrote a cookbook about casseroles. This is also a friendly reminder that soon we're all going to be poor and we'll only be able to afford to eat casseroles so you might as well buy the book while you can still afford to at least buy books, right? Plus, people love it so far.

[Casserole Crazy: Hot Stuff for Your Oven]

Image by Emily Wilson

Sex and the James Beard Awards

Emily Farris — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:16:00 GMT

Sex and the City is taking over the world, at least the culinary world. The film's star Kim Cattrall co-hosted the James Beard Awards with Chef Bobby Flay in New York City last night, appropriate, considering at one point in the movie, Cattrall looked a lot like this:

(Yes, we finally saw the Sex and the City movie.)

Anyway, Cattrall hosting anything wouldn't be complete without some sexual innuendo.

Cattrall opened the ceremony talking about her own love of cooking, then asked co-host and celebrity chef Bobby Flay what has more sex appeal than food. A breath later, she offered her own answer.

"Maybe what's sexier is the chefs who are always cooking up something new and exciting," she cooed.

Cattrall then quickly challenged Flay to a "throwdown" in the kitchen, to which Flay said: "Don't worry. I'll be gentle."

Oh, you two! Now make me a god-damned hamburger. Hold the mayo.

[Yahoo!: Kim Cattrall puts sex on the menu at food awards]

[Image of Cattrall with her chef boyfriend via Yahoo!, Image 2]

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Who Would You Rather, Celebrity Chef Edition Part II: Bourdain vs. Colicchio

Emily Farris — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:35:00 GMT

Last week, we asked which celebrity chef you'd rather: Bobby Flay or Gordon Ramsay. While Flay won by a small margin, many of you voted, resoundingly, for neither. So, we present Round II of Who Would You Rather, Celebrity Chef Edition: Anthony Bourdain vs. Tom Colicchio.

We love Top Chef, craft and Colicchio, but it's Bourdain that does it for us. And here's why:

"Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, and an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold. Oh, I'll accommodate them, I'll rummage around for something to feed them, for a 'vegetarian plate', if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine."—Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential

He can put his teeth in our meat any day. But, really, it's up to you. So, who would you rather: Anthony Bourdain or Tom Colicchio?

UPDATE: To our friends visitng from Grub Street, yes, we originally spelled Tom Colicchio's name wrong. Laugh and point. Then vote.

Who Would You Rather, Celebrity Chef Edition: Gordon Ramsay vs. Bobby Flay?

Emily Farris — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:51:00 GMT

Hell's Kitchen with Ramsay or a Throwdown with Flay?

As far as we here at Scanner are concerned (and by "we" I mean me, Scanner Emily), there is nothing sexier than a man who knows his way around the kitchen. The only thing that could possibly be sexier is if said man also knows his way around the female body, is brilliant, and has a beard. While neither of this week's Who Would You Rather? contestants regularly sport facial hair (probably more hygienic that way), both have complete control of their kitchens and are brilliant at what they do. We can only hope they know how to handle a female body as well as they can handle a lamb shank, you know, minus the cutting.

So, which celebrity chef would you rather have cook you dinner and then help you burn off the calories in bed: Gordon Ramsay or Bobby Flay?

Scanner Emily's full disclosure: I'm a Flay girl, all the way, and not only because he contributed an Eggplant Parmesan recipe to my upcoming cookbook. He's just so damn cute. And "Boy Meets Grill?" Come on!