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Accommodating the dietary needs of diners has long been one of the aims of most restaurants. Offering various options or possible substitutions for diners with vegetarian or vegan preferences has been a long standing accommodation. More recently, as more and more people discover that they have an allergy to gluten, or are just adjusting their diets to be gluten free,...

This is the era of the television culinary icon. Professional chefs like Bobby Flay, Guy Fierri, and Giada De Laurentiis have become household names. Almost all of them have opened at least one restaurant of their own. With the busy schedule of most celebrity chefs, the amount of time actually spent in the restaurant and in the kitchen of his...

Are Cooking Shows Helping or Hurting the Home Cook?   The popularity of cooking shows on television, whether it’s straight forward cooking shows like Secrets of a Restaurant Chef with Anne Burrell or more kitschy “edutainment” like Alton Brown’s Good Eats, has sky rocketed.  Even those television viewers who don’t consider themselves cooks or foodies have their favorites or regularly...