Kenneth Friedman, the well-known owner of The Spotted Pig restaurant in the West Village, has agreed to pay 11 former employees $240,000, plus a cut of profits, to settle charges he and other celebrity patrons sexually harassed numerous employees....
The Southampton Inn helped usher in the Hamptons summer season at its “Annual Memorial Day BBQ” in Southampton. It was a chance for the Inn to show off the newl...
Paula Deen expansive brand, which included the Food Network shows, restaurants, cookbooks, personal appearances and endorsements is crumbling faster than her sweet cornbread. The scandal may ultimately cost her more than $10 million, according to a new estimate....
Chocolate lovers will be delighted that the 15th annual New York Chocolate Show is in town with an exciting line-up of noted pastry chefs and chocolatiers on ta...
American artist Ray Villafane and his talented crew have transformed the New York Botanical Garden into an enchanted forest of ghoulish pumpkin creatures just in time for Halloween. Villafane, whom Martha Stewart called the “Michelangelo of pumpkin carving,” is a two-time winner of the Food Network’s “Outrageous Pumpkins” challenge. Villafane and his team (Andy Bergholtz, Trevor Grove, Alfred Paredes, and Chris Vierra) worked around the clock this weekend to complete their spooky haunted pumpkin garden....
Award-winning chef Dan Barber has a gripe with “self-righteous” vegetarians who look down their noses at meat-eaters. Barber, owner of the self-sustaining farm and restaurant Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., says both omnivores and vegetarians damage the environment with their eating choices....
McDonald's executive chef Dan Coudreaut is sick and tired of critics blaming fast-food chains for the nationwide obesity epidemic. If anything, he says, the responsibility falls squarely on each of our shoulders as consumers. ...
Just days after Blair River, the 575-pound rep for the Heart Attack Grill died at the age of 29, the restaurant's owner is lashing out at media by sending threa...