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  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Point-Counterpoint: Alton Brown Is the Man and I Challenge You to Say Otherwise

    We had so much fun chucking Chow Bella contributors Ando Muneno and Lauren Saria into the ring over food trucks, we decided to do it again. This week's burning topic: Alton Brown. Ando: Alton Brown is the man and I challenge you to say otherwise. Lauren: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. Ando: Seriously, wha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    AndyTalk: Big Bang Theory in the Kitchen -- Hot-Doggity-Dog

    A food processor is essential to success here, but it's not nearly as pricey as a Hadron Collider and there are more practical applications.

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    Bourbon, Scotch, Rye and Duck Fat at Old Town Whiskey

    ​ Last month, Team Distrito, led by Jose Garces chef de cuisine Dave Conn, earned the title of grand champions at the 2nd annual Arizona Taco Festival -- whetting our appetite for their mahi-mahi, carnitas and chicken rapa vieja tacos and setting us up to eagerly await the Scottsdale opening of Di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Blueberry Pinot Noir, Green Apple Riesling, White Chocolate Ale and Other Sips of the Kokopelli Wine Festival

    "Going once....going twice...sold!" Kokopelli winemaker Dennis Minchella auctions off one of the 1,000,000th bottles.​We spent more time (okay, all of our time) sipping at grapes rather than crushing them over the weekend at the 10th Annual Kokopelli Krush, a wine festival put on by Kok ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Alice Cooper's Christmas Pudding Features Members of Cheap Trick and Brian "Head" Welch of Korn

    ​Talk about tying things together. We recently blogged about former-Korn guitarist Brian "Head" Welch dropping a new single and about Alice Cooper's twisted maze in Hollywood. But now we can blog about The Coop and Head at the same time. That's because Welch is scheduled to perform Saturday ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    Bobby Flay Signing New Cookbook at Sur La Table in Scottsdale's Kierland Commons

    ​Celebrity chef Bobby Flay, best known for his colorful personality, his interpretation of Southwestern food, his television shows, his two New York restaurants and, most famously, jumping up and down on a cutting table on Iron Chef, is coming to Scottsdale. Flay, who recently made a cameo on ... More >>

  • Dining

    August 18, 2011

    Curry Corner Spices Up Tempe with Indo-Pakistani Cuisine

    ​Celebrity chef Bobby Flay, best known for his colorful personality, his interpretation of Southwestern food, his television shows, his two New York restaurants and, most famously, jumping up and down on a cutting table on Iron Chef, is coming to Scottsdale. Flay, who recently made a cameo on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2011

    Mark Tarbell, the "Urban Cowboy," on Cooking Channel's Food(ography) Tonight

    Lori MidsonChef Mark Tarbell​From several small video appearances for his restaurant to Iron Chef America, Mark Tarbell, chef and owner of Tarbell's, the award-winning neighborhood restaurant in Central Phoenix, can hardly be called camera shy -- plus, c'mon, he's so damn engaging. Food(ograp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Toffee Banofi Sundae from Sweet Republic

    ​Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing our 100 Favorite Dishes with you. Now we're back - with the 2011 edition. Have a suggestion for a dish you'd like us to try? Leave it in the comments section or email laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. 40: Toffee Banofi ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 19, 2011

    How to Survive the Menu of the Apocalypse

    ​Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing our 100 Favorite Dishes with you. Now we're back - with the 2011 edition. Have a suggestion for a dish you'd like us to try? Leave it in the comments section or email laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. 40: Toffee Banofi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    Beau MacMillan Cooking at Monti's La Casa Vieja?

    Maria VassettChef Beau MacMillan.​When New Times received a press release from Mont's indicating celebrity chef Beau MacMillan would be participating in Monti's La Casa Vieja's "Culinary Masters" guest chef series we couldn't help wondering, What the hell? This is Beau MacMillan we're talking ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Chad Burnett of Parc Central, Part Two

    Keyon Fareghi​Yesterday we talked to Chad Burnett of Parc Central about breakfast at grandma's and a love of cereal. Today our conversation resumes. Not being a part of a corporation definitely has its perks. Burnett has license to be pretty much as creative as he wants to be with Parc Cent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2010

    Kings of Leon: Come Around Sundown

    ​Some Tennessee band named Kings of Leon releases their fifth album today. They were once edgy and full of youth, but all that has been replaced by a workmanlike stance on musical accomplishment and profit. Lead singer Caleb Followill is at the front of all this -- dismissing indie bands and hatin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Chef Kazuto "Kaz" Kishino of Hana Japanese Eatery, Kitchen

    Born, raised, educated and trained in Japan, Chef Kazuto "Kaz" Kishino, the man running the behind-the-scenes show in the kitchen of Hana Japanese Eatery, is about as old school as it gets in Japanese cooking. Kaz is a man of few words and little English, but Lori Hashimoto plays translator to unvei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    The Last Supper: Beau MacMillan Dishes Up Gluttony for XII at elements

    Chef Beau MacMillan laughs it up with guests at XII's raw bar. Forget the Biblical connotations of dinner for twelve hosted by a food guru -- XII, the private dining room at Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain's elements restaurant would be an amazing site ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    The Next Food Network Star: Let's Just Cut to The Finale, OK?

    Unlike reality show cooking competitions in which it's all about the food and one bad dish can send a front-runner packing, The Next Food Network Star is more about on-air personality -- and that ain't anything that's gettin' fixed overnight. That said, this season looks pretty clear cut, so let's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    Latitude Eight vs. Flo's Kitchen: Baby, Please Satay With Me!

    Satay is my go-to dish at any Thai or Pan-Asian restaurant. Made with chunks of chicken or beef broiled in spices and served with the crack of condiments -- peanut sauce -- it's a dish everyone from picky five-year-old Susie to granny will adore. Yes, I am a peanut sauce addict, but I've been g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    MasterChef With Gordon Ramsay, The American Idol of Cooking Shows, Coming to Fox in July

    With no restaurant experience, a passion for cooking, and a dream of one day working as a professional chef, 50 just-like-us contestants will test their skills and palate in hopes of becoming the winner of MasterChef, the cooking competition show coming to Fox on July 29. Gordon Ramsay, the show's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    Top Chef, Ye Olde Bravo Standby, Comes To Snoozeville (Washington D.C.)

    Hearts across America have barely started to beat regularly again after last week's amazing finale of Top Chef Masters (congrats, Marcus Samuellson!) and now comes Season 7 of Top Chef. The time-tested Bravo standby will premiere this week, take place in our nation's capital, and, once again, feat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    Cat Cora Contest Winners Announced

    ​More than 50 readers entered our Cat Cora contest, and we've held a drawing to choose three winners, who will each receive the following: *One Chow Bella apron. *Two front-row spots for Cora's reading/cooking demonstration June 23 at Changing Hands. *Two spots in the "A" group to get Cora's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    Cat Cora is Coming! And You Can Win Prizes.

      ​Here at Chow Bella, we're weak in the knees at the thought of Cat Cora's upcoming book signing at Changing Hands Bookstore, June 23. And we've got a friendly competiton to get you fired up. (Learn all about the contest after the jump.)

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern in Arizona Is Made Even More Bizarre, Thanks to Confusing and Creepy Play-Date With Chris Bianco

    ​So last week, Andrew Zimmern goes on a quest for real Sonoran cuisine in Arizona on Bizarre Foods and hooks up with Chris Bianco, the wait-in-line-for-two-hours pizza guy of Pizzeria Bianco. Huh? What? Why? Were all the Mexican foodies in the Valley busy? Did Silvana Salcido Esparza, owner of Bar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    Hell's Kitchen Season 7: Meet the Cast, and What Andrew Zimmern's Doing in Arizona

    Cast of Hell's Kitchen, Season 7 ​"Don't act like a cry baby!" "You (bleep) donkey!" "Get out!" Uplifting comments like these from Chef Gordon Ramsay are just a taste of what the 16 culinary contestants competing on Hell's Kitchen's seventh season, premiering Tuesday, June 1, at 8 p.m. ET/PT, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    Ask the Cook: Where Can I Buy Black Garlic?

    This week's question: Where can I find Black Garlic? Black garlic has been touted as a top food trend and a super health food, and it's been featured on Top Chef and Iron Chef episodes. Yet it remains an obscure ingredient, not easily sourced even at specialty food stores or Asian markets in Ph ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    Mark Tarbell Dishes on Jamie Oliver and His Addiction to Opening New Restaurants

    Lori Midson Mark Tarbell   ​Our sister paper, Westword, has a tasty interview today with Mark Tarbell. His Phoenix restaurant, Tarbell's, has long been a Valley favorite, and he also runs two organic pizza joints in the Denver area. The always-entertaining Tarbell  -- one of hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Finale: Fizz-Out, Fat Rascal Flatts, and Weird-ass Montage

    There, there, Jamie, at least you tried. You came up $20,000 short of your financial goal to keep fresh food on the plastic cafeteria trays of Huntington School's youth, some of the parents called bullshit on your healthy school lunches by sending more of their kids to school with bags of jelly be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2010

    Challenge to the Chefs at the Scottsdale Culinary Fest is Bleeping Bawdy

    Think you can whip this up in an hour? Good luck.​"You're going to hear a lot of interesting language today," announced Chef James Porter, host of today's Challenge to the Chefs at the Scottsdale Culinary Festival and owner of Petite Maison. The question is, was he referring to th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Thin Mint Showdown: Thin Mint Mojito Madness

    One can never have enough Thin Mints. At least that's what we thought until Managing Editor Amy Silverman brought in a dozen unsold boxes to a recent Chow Bella meeting. If one must make lemonade when life hands one lemons, we theorized one must make dessert when life hands one unwanted Girl Scout c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2010

    Battle of the Gumbo: Hey, Waiter, There's an Embryo in My Soup

    A decade ago, just before I moved to Phoenix, I considered heading to New Orleans instead. My then-boyfriend and I called around checking on graduate schools and apartments but practically needed a Creole-to-English translator to figure out what the heck everyone was saying. Needless ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    Newsflash: You Have to Be Bitchy to Make it in Beverly Hills, in this week's "TV Dinner"

    If TV has taught us anything about Beverly Hills, it's that it's full of super-rich, catty a-holes who are beautiful, own Chihuahuas, and are anti-Clampett. For once, can't somebody tell these folks where they can stick their Chanel? Hey, maybe someone on Food Network's new scripted reality show, P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Battle of the Dishes: Caramelpalooza Edition

    Photo by Jonathan McNamara​ ​Last Friday, locals descended on the parking lot behind Smeeks to snag free caramels at our first-ever Chow Bella event, Caramelpalooza. Meanwhile over at Frances, a handful of judges including Chow Bella reader and haiku poet Jackie Porter, New Tim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    Huntington, West Virginia, Needs More Than Jamie Oliver, in This Week's "TV Dinner"

    Ding! Ding! Ding! America, thanks to Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution (the best reality show on TV right now) we now have a winner for the Glad-I-Don't-Live-in-This Hellhole award: Huntington, West Virginia! Great job, Huntington! What's your secret? Children who don't know how to cut food with a knif ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    WestSide Throwdown Draws Big Names, Small Crowd

    Host Beau MacMillan was in fine spirits -- or shall we say, in the fine spirits -- last night at the inaugural WestSide Throwdown culinary challenge at Arizona Broadway Theatre in Peoria. The event was bizarre. Attendance was spotty, and everyone (even the host) seemed to have tapped into the f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    Anthony Bourdain's Spring Break Plans, Food Wars Flops, and This Week's Must-See Shows, in "TV Dinner"

    OMG! Spring breaaaaaaaaak! Quick, pull out anything Abercrombie, Hollister, or Forever 21 and get your ass down to Dos Gringos Tempe Trailer Park for Jägerbombs, now. And don't worry about Anthony Bourdain. He'll just be in China for the fourth time, eating, suffering through cold temperatures, eat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2010

    A Sweet Ending for the Devoured Culinary Festival

    FnB's butterscotch pudding. ​Maybe it was the calming influence of arts maven turned Devour Phoenix spokesperson Kimber Lanning, or some new Zen-like mojo brought on by the event's name change, but today's installment of the Devoured Culinary Classic went on without a hitch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2010

    Chef Talk: Christopher Mayo of Metro Brasserie

    ​​Christopher Mayo may be a fresh face at Metro Brasserie (he was named executive chef when Matt Taylor left in November), but he's certainly no food-scene virgin.  At the tender age of 20, Mayo opened Grilled Expedition at Desert Ridge. Later he split for culinar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Worst Cooks in America Contestant Kelly (Johnson) LoCascio on Chef Beau, the Show

    For the past two Sundays, we've been hooked on Food Network's new show, Worst Cooks in America. Maybe it's because this gem stars local celeb-chef Beau MacMillan. Or the fact there's a contestant from Scottsdale. Or maybe it's just that we all had an Aunt Mildred or Grandpa Joe or hec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 1, 2010

    Chef Beau MacMillan Dishes on 'Worst Cooks in America' Show

    ​ ​Local chef Beau MacMillan has had a six-month reprieve from some of his usual duties as executive chef of elements at Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain as the resort's signature restaurant gets a multimillion-dollar overhaul.  During that time, he filmed the Food Network tel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Chef Beau MacMillan Takes On Worst Cooks in America

    ​Executive Chef Beau MacMillan of elements at Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain is somewhat of a local legend. He's been on NBC's The Today Show three times. He cooked at The James Beard House. He even beat Chef Bobby Flay with his delicious Kobe beef dishes on a 2006 episode of Iro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Reading: Feasting in Phoenix

    Blog name: www.feastinginphoenix.com Who writes it: The author of the blog is named Seth Chadwick, a 40-something with a passion for food. The blog's been around since 2005 and contains hundreds of reviews from eateries around the Valley and, occasionally, the country. Most reviews are of American o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2009

    Scottsdale Culinary Fest Comprises 12 Events This Week

    The Scottsdale Culinary Festival sounds monolithic, but the granddaddy among the Valley's culinary festivals is surprisingly multifaceted -- a dozen different events at 16 different restaurants and venues around town, ranging from casual tastings to semi-formal sit-down occasions.

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2008

    Brew Review: Dead Guy Ale

    The Scottsdale Culinary Festival sounds monolithic, but the granddaddy among the Valley's culinary festivals is surprisingly multifaceted -- a dozen different events at 16 different restaurants and venues around town, ranging from casual tastings to semi-formal sit-down occasions.

  • Dining

    July 3, 2008

    Eliot Wexler is banking the success of Noca on his food knowledge and local connections

    The Scottsdale Culinary Festival sounds monolithic, but the granddaddy among the Valley's culinary festivals is surprisingly multifaceted -- a dozen different events at 16 different restaurants and venues around town, ranging from casual tastings to semi-formal sit-down occasions.

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2007

    So, who won the Food Fight?

    The Scottsdale Culinary Festival sounds monolithic, but the granddaddy among the Valley's culinary festivals is surprisingly multifaceted -- a dozen different events at 16 different restaurants and venues around town, ranging from casual tastings to semi-formal sit-down occasions.

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    March 16, 2006

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