Hitting Below The Belt? Gym Chain Invites Diabetic Paula Deen To Exercise ‘Before Its Too Late’
Posted on Jan 27, 2012 @ 11:00AM - 6 comments
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Celebrity Chef Andrew Zimmern Slams Paula Deen For Keeping Diabetes Diagnosis A Secret
Posted on Jan 25, 2012 @ 08:00AM - 35 comments
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Celebrity Chef Paula Deen Has Diabetes - And A Drug Endorsement Deal
Posted on Jan 13, 2012 @ 10:00AM - 10 comments
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'Minute To Win It' Host, Guy Fieri, Loses Out After $200,000 Car Is Stolen
Posted on Mar 10, 2011 @ 10:15AM - 1 comment
It only took a minute to lose it for TV host Guy Fieri, who has had his $200,000 Lamborghini Gallardo stolen.
RadarOnline.com has learned that the popular game show host and celebrity chef is hoping to land the thief in hot water after his beloved convertible was stolen from a dealership in San Francisco.
PHOTOS: Bethenny Frankel Is A Hot Pink Bikini Girl
Posted on Feb 27, 2011 @ 01:38PM - 2 comments
Bethenny Frankel showed off her striking figure on a beach in Florida Sunday, and RadarOnline.com has all the pictures.
TV Chef Sentenced To State Prison For Soliciting Wife's Murder
Posted on Dec 13, 2010 @ 01:30PM - Add a comment
Juan Carlos Cruz, a former Food Network chef, appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom Monday morning where he was sentenced to state prison for attempting to solicit homeless men to kill his wife.
Airport Superior Court Judge H. Chester Horn sentenced Cruz to nine years in state prison - one count of attempted murder was dismissed at sentencing.
Meet The Stars Of The Cooking Channel - David Rocco
Posted on May 28, 2010 @ 12:28PM - Add a comment
David Rocco
Show: David Rocco’s Dolce Vita, Saturdays at 12:30PM ET
Backstory: "Dolce Vita means 'Sweet Life' and we shoot entirely in Italy. It's funny because when I was pitching the show, they would be like, 'Are you a chef?' and I’d be like, 'No – I’m Italian! It’s part of my DNA, our meals are gourmet every Sunday.' We filmed it Florence and we show how Italians incorporate food into their daily life. The simplicity of a capri salad... is it cooking? No but I call it food assembly. You have great ingredients, great mozzarella, beautiful tomatoes and olive oil and that’s it. Our show is really a hybrid of cooking, travel and lifestyle. What I’m showing is how accessible and how good Italian food is. People are really inspired when I say, 'I’m not a chef—I’m Italian.' I’ve often said that a bad cooking show can teach you how to cook but a good cooking show inspires you to want to cook. It’s that Italian philosophy of just being connected to the food, seasonal ingredients and that folklore wisdom of as much as you need or a little bit of this or that. For a foodie or food lover, Italy is one of the great culinary cultures of the world."
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David's Roots: "Growing up in the 70s, I was in a very Waspy, Anglo Saxon, non-Italian neighborhood in Toronto. I was embarrassed because my dad would take my old hockey sticks, cut them and use them to hold up our tomatoes in the garden. We’d be making our own wine, our own prosciutto. It was so embarrassing because I just wanted to go to school with peanut butter and jelly—not prosciutto focaccia sandwiches. And now with the Food Network and food culture—food is so in. And Italian food is so hip. As a kid I was so embarrassed. I learned to appreciate [Italian food] when I went to Italy for first time when I was seven years old. Coming back to Toronto, I almost used my culture to make friends because I would have kids over and my mom would make fresh pizza and it became like, 'Oh, the Roccos eat really well!' It was rough because my rabbit was a pet that we would eat three weeks later . . . and my friends would be like, 'Didn’t you have a bunny as a pet?' And I’d changed the subject and my mom would tell them it was chicken. It’s all what we’re used to and how we were brought up."
Food Equals Calm: "I cook all the time. I truly am passionate about food and it’s a way for me to get rid of the stresses of my day. Food is almost about connecting with G-d. I’m very artistic and it’s an outlet. I always use food to relax. If I come home after being stuck in traffic I’ll tell my wife, 'I have a headache, leave me alone—I’m going into the kitchen to cook a great meal' and she’s like, 'Okay! Go go go. Please come home with bigger headaches and more stress.'"
Family Matters: "The Sunday meal is something we grew up with. The Sunday meal was a time to eat with the grandparents. I have vivid memories of being on my grandpa’s lap and him giving me a little bit of wine with ginger ale. There's no abuse of alcohol in my family—wine is part of our culture. You don’t abuse it, you respect it. But even now—even if I don’t speak to my mom all week because I’m busy—that Sunday ritual of eating all together is about being human again and connecting with family. The TV has to be off. That one special meal a week is so important."
Meet The Stars Of The Cooking Channel
Posted on May 27, 2010 @ 05:47PM - Add a comment
The creators of the Food Network are taking a hip, cool, cutting edge approach to food and food culture when they launch the Cooking Channel on May 31st. Taking a unique and edgy approach to the food programming America craves, they’ll be airing programming “for food people by food people” that will peel back the curtain and really go behind the scenes of the culinary world. The network rolled into New York City last week to kick things off with a chic party at the Empire Hotel that was nothing short of a culinary wonderland with tastes of some of the best food around. RadarOnline.com, however, was also lucky enough to dine with three of the network’s break out stars and get a taste of the good life from each of them to share with you!
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Chuck Hughes
Show: Chuck's Day Off, Saturdays at 2PM ET
Backstory: "Chuck's Day Off is set in my restaurant, Garde Manger, in Montreal and what happens on my day off. I realized that I saw my bread guy every day—more than I saw my family but I had no idea what his name was. Most cooking shows are about the chef but the chef is a small portion. I have my waitress episode, fish monger, dishwasher . . . It’s all about paying respect to everyone that is there with a little wink wink to making it all happen. My show really shows cooking in a restaurant. People have a romanticized view that you’re smelling wine and doing all these tastings but the reality of it is that it’s a sh** job with long hours and no respect and you have to really love it. I’m super passionate about it and what I really love—I’m a kitchen rat."
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Chuck's Roots: "My first cooking classes were in grade five. I was the only guy in a class of like six chicks and I was hooked. My mom was an airplane stewardess when I was a kid and she did the Montreal east coast so she used to bring back cases of lobsters, cases of shrimp, oysters . . . so we ate. I do have a passion for food and the restaurant business in itself . . . I was a busboy, I was a bartender. Opening my own restaurant was a good fit but in my mind I needed to make this legit so I went to cooking school—and failed that because I stayed at my internship instead of taking my final exam. In cooking school you learn a certain way of doing things that I think is super important but you’re not going to learn necessarily how to put good flavors together if you don’t travel, if you don’t read books, if you don’t stay open minded – you’re never going to leave that cooking school mold. If you want to learn to chop an onion it’s a great place to learn. And it’s definitely useful and there are still handful of techniques that I learned from cooking school that I still use everyday."
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Tattoo You: "I have tattoos of lobster, shrimp, arugula, lemon meringue pies . . . I’ve always been fascinated by tattoos. They’re not just for sailors and prostitutes anymore. I got my first when I was 18 or 19 and it was an addiction. For me, if I was going to put something on my body permanently – it had to be something I really loved. It’s all about food and seafood and things I like."
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Celebrity Clientele: "Jake Gyllenhaal and Kirsten Dunst come into Garde Manger all the time. Jake is a late night eater and Kirsten is more of an early bird eater, nibbler, have a few drinks kind of girl.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Family Members Rallying Around Wife Of TV Chef Juan-Carlos Cruz
Posted on May 18, 2010 @ 07:34AM - Add a comment
While former Food Network star Juan-Carlos Cruz is being held on $2 million bail after pleading not guilty Monday to the attempted murder of his wife Jennifer Campbell by way of solicitation of murder, RadarOnline.com has learned that his wife's family is rallying around her during this time of shock and confusion.
VIDEO: Food Network Host Clowns With Wife Jennifer -- His Alleged Murder Target
"Jenny and her mother and father were over at her sister's house yesterday afternoon," a close family member of Campbell's who wishes to remain anonymous exclusively told RadarOnline.com. "I had no reason in the world to believe this would ever happen."
Former Food Network Chef Pleads Not Guilty To Attempted Murder Charges
Posted on May 17, 2010 @ 05:13PM - 4 comments
A former Food Network chef was in court on Monday and pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and solicitation of murder charges, RadarOnline.com has confirmed.
Food Network Host Juan-Carlos Cruz Busted Murder For Hire Sting
48-year-old Juan-Carlos Cruz, who hosted Calorie Commando and Weighing In, is being held on a $2 million bail.
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Cruz was arrested Thursday by Santa Monica police after he allegedly hired two homeless men to kill his wife, Jennifer Campbell.
VIDEO: Juan-Carlos Cruz Clowns With Wife Jennifer About Alleged Murder Target
He is represented by high-powered attorney Shawn Chapman Holley, who also represents Lindsay Lohan in her probation case and Nicole Richie in a DUI case in 2007.
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He’s due in court for a preliminary hearing on June 23 at 8 a.m. If convicted, he could face life in prison.
