Chef Eric Ripert’s PBS series Avec Eric won the 2011 Daytime Entertainment Emmy Award over the weekend in the “Outstanding Culinary Program” category. The show beat out Cook’s Country, America’s Test Kitchen, Lidia’s Italy, Paula’s Best Dishes, and Secrets of a Restaurant Chef. Incidentally, Avec Eric also won a Beard Award this year for “Television Program, On Location.”

 Olivier Desaintmartin of Caribou Cafe and Zinc, recently inducted into the Maitres Cuisiniers de France, gets an hour on the tee-vee, Tuesday, June 21 (10 p.m.) on the Food Network series Chopped.
In typical reality-show vagueness, the description goes like this: “In the appetizer round, one chef rushes with less than two minutes left on the clock to plate all of the ingredients. The competitors give their entree dishes a kick with tequila, but a surprising ingredient inks away the competition. Then, one finalist second-guesses what to do with simple ingredients …

by Sophie Gayot
I have had the pleasure of meeting French chef Bruno Lopez many times throughout his career.
I’ve tasted his dishes when he was working at different The Ritz-Carlton hotels, at the Regent Beverly Wilshire (now a Four Seasons), and the Hotel Bel-Air.
I was most impressed with his peach gazpacho with truffle oil, which he made when he was at the restaurant of the Raffles L’Ermitage hotel (now part of the Viceroy Hotel Group). I was sorry when he stopped serving the public when he became a private chef at the …

Photo by Ben Fant

“I am very honored,
 because the people who vote for me are also chefs,”
says chef Jose Gutierrez.

By Craig LaBan
Inquirer Restaurant Critic

Olivier Desaintmartin was but a wide-eyed country pup from Picardy when he saw his first gleaming “presse” at La Tour d’Argent in Paris. As a 16-year-old cooking-school grunt doing his weekend turn as a student-server in that luxurious bastion of old-school French gastronomy, it’s easy to see how this diabolical instrument of culinary pleasure would have caught his eye.
Posed tableside, with a silver-plated wheel screwing down like a vise into a canister and crushing everything inside to a bloody pulp, it looks more like a medieval …

Unique experiences await your favorite foodie at Action Against Hunger’s joint online auction with the Financial Times and Maitres Cuisiniers de France
Global humanitarian organization ACTION AGAINST HUNGER | ACF INTERNATIONAL is pleased to announce a joint initiative with the Financial Times: the FT Charity Auction, featuring one-of-a-kind experiences for food and wine aficionados. Featured among them is a unique fine dining Experience: 4 Maîtres Cuisiniers de France come to your home and prepare a meal for 10 guests. Invite us into your kitchen!

Bids begin November 30th and end December 21st; …

  French gastronomy is the subject of two promotions this fall—”Celebrate Fall the French Way” and “French Spice”—which are bringing France’s culinary panache to U.S. palates. “Celebrate Fall the French Way” was active across the country from October 18th through November 7th. Supported by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture & Fisheries and in partnership with chefs group Maîtres Cuisiniers de France, participating restaurants—including New York’s Madison Bistro and Cercle Rouge, Boston’s Petit Robert Bistro, and California’s Left Bank among many others—offered $35 Chef’s Selections complemented by Rhône Valley and Alsace …

Chef Olivier Desaintmartin appears on Tina Marie’s The Chef’s Kitchen to share his secrets in making pressed duck.

The Maitres Cuisiniers de France make their debut at “In French with English Subtitles,” an event to raise funds for families in need.