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Police are investigating a vicious attack on a Manhattan chef who was walking alone on Tuesday night when he was allegedly assaulted by a group of six to eight men, all between the ages of 16 and 21. ‘I'm not well, a lot of swelling and overall pain,’ said victim Diego Moya. ‘Should be four weeks until I lose the wires and can eat normally, which is devastating being a chef. Means I can't work.’(continued)

Trotter burst on the scene in 1987, when the self-taught chef opened Charlie Trotter’s restaurant on Armitage Avenue. In short order, the chef’s intense creativity and never-repeat-a-dish dictum made Trotter’s the most talked-about restaurant in Chicago, and his fame quickly spread throughout the country and beyond. Charlie Trotter, whose eponymous Chicago restaurant was considered one of the finest in the world, has died. The 54-year-old chef was found unconscious and not breathing in his Lincoln Park home this morning and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Trotter was found by his son Dylan at the...

Albert Buitenhuis was told he was too heavy to stay in New Zealand. Weighs 20 stone six pounds, five stone less than when he moved there. He and wife Marthie are facing deportation from their Christ Church home. Albert is five feet ten inches tall and has a Body Mass Index of 40. An obese chef has been told he is too fat to live in New Zealand, even though he has lost 66lb since moving there six years ago. Albert Buitenhuis, who weighs 20 stone six pounds, was told that it may place demands on the New Zealand health...

In a taped interviewed played in court Tuesday, a Southern California chef on trial for allegedly killing his wife told police he slow cooked her body then dumped it out as kitchen waste. Dawn Viens disappeared in 2009 and police identified her husband David – the chef at the former Thyme Café in Torrance – as a prime suspect. In 2011, investigators dug up the Thyme Café, which Dawn co-owned, searching for her body. But in a taped interview played Tuesday in court, David Viens seemed to tell police why her remains may never be found. "I took some, some...

OCALA - A former restaurant owner and chef was arrested Friday for refusal to pay or file tax return, theft of sales tax and failure to file six consecutive sales tax returns. Loring W. Felix, 52, was picked up by Sheriff's Deputy Brian Haworth at 2811 S.W. 19th Court at 7 a.m. He was taken to the Marion County Jail, where he was booked in. The warrant was signed by Judge Willard Pope on Monday. Bond for the charges was $7,500. Felix's Restaurant had been a fixture at 917 E. Silver Springs Blvd. for close to a decade before closing...

An illegal immigrant has described how she fought off a Chinese chef after spurning his sexual advances. The young woman told Cambridge Crown Court yesterday how she had rejected 23-year-old Shi Fu Ni because he was “too young”, but the chef forced himself upon her. The attack was eventually stopped by Ni’s colleague Le Lin, but Ni is accused of trying to throttle his workmate with an electric cable fearing he would go to the police. Ni ran off leaving his friend for dead, but was later arrested nearby. Ni, who was living at a restaurant near St Ives, has...

A Gainesville man who said he was a chef was among the 17 men arrested following a cyber sting in St. Johns County. The Gainesville Police Department and Alachua County Sheriff's Office were among the agencies participating in the five-day operation. According to the St. Johns County Sheriff's office, the investigation “involved undercover detectives posing as juveniles or parents online to arrange for unknown suspects to meet with them at an undercover house.” Investigators passed themselves off as children between the ages of 8 and 15 while the suspects were between the ages of 20 and 55. Between April 21...

A FORMER Warrnambool chef who torched his car four years ago in an attempt to claim insurance has effectively convicted himself by failing to pay compensation. Mark Musolino, 32, previously of Loch Ard Place, planned to burn his car and claim the insurance money but has instead finished about $18,000 out of pocket. He pleaded guilty in March 2009 to attempting to obtaining property by deception, making a false report to police and possessing prescribed weapons. He was fined $400 without conviction and placed on a two-year good behaviour bond, as well as being ordered to pay $500 to the...

Chefs from five-star hotels across China soon will descend upon the U.S. to learn more about western-style menus, management and products — and U.S. taxpayers will be footing most of the bill.

Los Angeles (CNN) -- The former host of the Food Network's "Calorie Commando" was sentenced Monday to nine years in a California prison after pleading no contest to soliciting two homeless men to kill his wife, Los Angeles Superior Court spokeswoman Elizabeth Martinez said. Juan-Carlos Cruz's wife was also in court during the sentencing, Martinez said.

Jean-François Poinard’s exacting nature and passion for food helped make him one France’s great chefs in the 1970s and 1980s. Now, years after his retirement, he is in the news again, this time as the murder victim in a macabre domestic assault. French police found Mr. Poinard’s body in a chest freezer in his home in the French gastronomic capital Lyon. They say his battered corpse had been there for two years and that his girlfriend, Guylene Collober, 51, has admitted she beat him to death in November, 2008. “It was an altercation gone wrong,” prosecutor Marc Desert said. “It...

<p>JUNE 7--While on a business trip last month to Washington, D.C., a married Michigan man was awoken one morning when an unidentified caller dialed his hotel room. The caller announced that he was in possession of photos showing the businessman "participating in homosexual acts from the evening before," and demanded $25,000 in hush money, or the images would be forwarded to the man's wife and business associates.</p>

"Yes we can" has been changed to "No you can't" when it comes to Chicago superstar chef Rick Bayless twittering from the White House kitchen. Bayless, who specializes in Mexican cuisine, was chosen to cook for the second White House state dinner honoring Mexican President Felipe Calderón. However, until Bayless returns to the Frontera Grill, his Twitter account, if inside the White House, has officially turned black as mole sauce . . . Apparently the Chicago chef has been bubbling over with excitement sending Tweets out to friends and fans, like a pot of appropriately diverse 28-ingredient, Oaxacan mole negro....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Will it be his pork with green tomatillo-avocado salsa, or the duck breast in red chile-apricot mole? Perhaps the bacon-flavored corn masa cakes stuffed with black beans.

April 1, 2010 Kitchens stand empty as young French lose their appetite for la cuisine La Grange aux Fleurs, a rural restaurant in a 100-year-old converted barn that serves such dishes as stuffed pigs’ trotters, is the embodiment of the Gallic gastronomic tradition. But when Denis Dufosset, the owner, put it up for sale to take a break from his duties in the kitchen, he had a nasty surprise: no one made an offer. The reason, he says, is that young French people are turning their backs on la cuisine in favour of easier trades with shorter hours. /snip In...

Anyone else see Food Network Iron Chef? There was a promo commercial touting a 2 hour episode with a "very special guest" while showing the Washington Monument.

With many top notch pizza restaurants in the Washington DC area, people have been questioning the propriety of flying a chef all the way from St. Louis to bake 20 pizzas for a bash thrown at the White House by President Barack Obama. The added expense during these times of financial crisis strikes observers as unnecessarily ostentatious. “Well, you know that the President is the ruler of all the United States,” Press Secretary Robert Gibbs reminded critics. “It is his prerogative to exploit all of the resources of the realm. It just so happens that he took a fancy to...

BARACK Obama liked a restaurant’s pizzas so much he has flown the chef 850 miles to make some at the White House. The US President got a taste for Chris Sommers’ pizza while campaigning in St Louis, Missouri, last year. After Mr Obama’s election win, Chris offered to deliver frozen pizzas to the White House but was told he couldn’t because of security concerns. So he took 20lb of dough and three gallons of sauce to Washington. Chris was due to cook lunch at the White House yesterday, reported People.com. He said: “It’s surreal. It’s a huge honour.”

Dear President and Mrs. Obama, We, the undersigned chefs and food professionals of Chefs Collaborative, thank you for beginning the critical work of steering our country onto a more sustainable course. We have read with great pleasure and pride that you are giving much-needed attention to sustainable food issues; we write now with a renewed sense of hope that together we can change the way we think about food in this country. Indeed, through the example set by the White House kitchen, you have the ability to continue to show the country that your staff prepares and serves food...