Coffee Bean Necklaces - A luxury reminder of the islands...or your favorite beverage

With the team at TasteTV, food that you can wear always catches our eyes, especially when it looks good on you. Such is the case with the Kona Lei coffee bean necklaces from Hawaii.

The necklaces and bracelets are made from premium organic beans, which are hand-selected, roasted and specially treated to make them waterproof.

We're wondering if they could handle a celebrity endorsement from maybe the new James Bond, Scarlett Johannsen, Susan Jones (of TasteTV) or Rachel Ray, or would that end up emptying the island of these rare beans.

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Heart Attack Grill Restaurant

In case you ate a bit too much for Thanksgiving, here's a new restaurant that may give you second thoughts about a second helping:

"A restaurant in the southwestern US state of Arizona that proudly admits to trying to finish off its customers has introduced a new item on its menu -- the "quadruple bypass burger".

The burger at the "Heart Attack Grill" restaurant is stacked with four beef patties, cheese, onions, tomatoes and fried bacon, and weighs in at only 8,000 calories, more than three times what the human body needs in one day.

Patrons who have no appetite for the "quadruple bypass burger" can opt for the "triple" or "double-bypass".

"It's not good for one's health but it's only a joke," John Basso, who opened the restaurant 10 months ago, told AFP.

Customers who have room for more can also order French fries "fried in pure lard" and can purchase cigarettes off the menu. As a courtesy, the restaurant offers its "best customers" a wheelchair service to their cars by waitresses dressed in slinky nurses' outfits."

Via the AFP

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Thanksgiving Hot Buttered Cider

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In this special Thanksgiving episode of Art of the Drink, Anthony breaks out his famous Bourbon-based Hot Buttered Cider!



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Crab Season Rocks! Use these Great TasteTV Recipe Videos

Crab Season Rocks!

With Crab Season going into full swing, we thought we'd pull out a few of our favorite crab recipe and seafood recipe TasteTV videos to give you a good idea of how to rock and roll with this delightful dish!

Dungeness Crab Salad with Roasted Beets

Chef Moises of the Park Chalet restaurant demonsrates how to make his signature Dungeness Crab Salad with Roasted Beets and Avocado Mousse. Hosted by Sandy Rouge of TasteTV.
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Crab & Avocado Salad: Chef Fabrice Roux

French-born Chef Fabrice Roux demonstrates how to use vanilla dressings to make a fresh crab and avocado salad
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Softshell Crab Recipe

Chef Ross Browne comes from Down Under to show how to make his specialty of batter dipped soft shell crabs.
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AND NOW, TIME FOR A FEW GOOD BLOGS about CRAB SEASON

crab season starting next week?

11 Nov 2006
i really hope so. i'm so excited for it. this is my first full crab season in
san francisco. moved here early this year when it was already in swing, so didn't
get to take full advantage. i've decided we're going to cook up some crabs ...
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Dungeness crab season starts this week

15 Nov 2006 by blogdig.net
Oh yum, it's Dungeness crab season. The fisherman went out yesterday with the ...
Today's San Francisco Chronicle has an interesting front page, top-of-the-fold
article "Crab season gets crackin' : Boats due back today more[...] ...
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Crab Season Starts Today

15 Nov 2006 by molly@mollybloom.com
If you don't like shellfish, or if you are (gasp!) allergic or otherwise unable
to eat the insects of the ocean, I feel sorry for you. I do. There is something
primal about cracking crabs and digging in, making a mess and dripping ...
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What to Wear: Crab Season

14 Nov 2006 by MissEm
Crab season opens on Wednesday! I am so excited to get my hands on some big papa
dungeness crabs in the next few weeks. Last year, Rob and I drove down to Half
Moon Bay to buy a couple giants straight off the boat. ...
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Dungeness crab season starts this week

Oh yum, it's Dungeness crab season. The fisherman went out yesterday with the expectation that the harvest this year will be bountiful.

Today's San Francisco Chronicle has an interesting front page, top-of-the-fold article "Crab season gets crackin' : Boats due back today loaded with that delectable San Francisco treat". The on-line version is actually better because it includes a very nice photo gallery.

There are few things that are as good as simply prepared fresh crab, hot melted butter, sourdough bread and wine so I really look forward to this time of year. Be on the lookout for restaurants and grocery stores having crab specials.

Food Notebook post by Carter Lusher.
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Dungeness Crab at Fisherman's Wharf NOW!

It was a colorful picture. More than 150 tiny crab boats set out through the Golden Gate yesterday to begin the 2006 crab season.

Today Fisherman's Wharf is bustling with activity as thousands of pounds of fresh Dungeness crab are unloaded from the colorful boats. Some find their way quickly into the sidewalk pots of boiling water that made Fisherman's Wharf one the the world's most popular tourist destinations. Most of the fresh Dungeness crab, however, will go to one of the major fish processors and then be airlifted to markets around the world.

Want to know more about this most magical time of the year in San Francisco? Explore the following links. Bon apetit!
http://samspadesf.blogspot.com/2006/11/dungeness-crab-at-fishermans-wharf-now.html

Crab Lasagna Roll-Ups

• Nov. 14th, 2006 at 12:18 PM

farawaypoints

I love crab, even if it is fake crab. This recipe is low-fat!

INGREDIENTS:

1 carton (16 ounces) 1% cottage cheese
1/2 cup egg substitute
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons Italian seasoning
2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1 package (8 ounces) imitation crabmeat, flaked
12 lasagna noodles, cooked and drained
2 cans (8 ounces each) no-salt-added tomato sauce

For more of the recipe, go here:
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Restaurantgirl

"As the waiter began to ratlle off his favorite dishes (per my request), my friend, spotting a fresh dungeness crab entree, interrupted, exclaiming, "Dungeness crab! You never see that on a menu." How could I argue for the steamed barramundi when her words rang so true? Sure, there were shellfish platters scattered about the city at various steakhouses and seafood spots, but rare was the occassion when crab was celebrated as an entree.

While my friend would've happily bypassed the appetizers to get to the bottom of the crab, I argued to dine according to custom, and begin with the hot mushroom spring rolls. These fried nibbles were presented with a side of lettuce and pickled carrot and daikon, which our waiter explained was to be wrapped around the fried rice paper rolls. We happily obliged and were handsomely rewarded. These were no ordinary spring rolls: filled with rich chanterelle, porcini and shitake mushrooms, the assemblage was a delicate, yet crunchy interplay of textures and sweet & sour flavors. "
http://www.restaurantgirl.com/restaurantgirl/2006/11/mai_house.html

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TasteTV News: Chocolate addiction leads to sweet discovery

Here's something we already knew at TasteTV, with our Chocolate Television program, and while writing our book, Chocolate French. Per a new study (whic we also endorse), since we eat dark chocolate every day around here:

"They were so addicted, they just could not give up their favorite daily snack -- not even in the interest of science.

But chocolate lovers who flunked out of a Johns Hopkins University study on aspirin and heart disease helped researchers stumble on an explanation of why a little chocolate a day can cut the risk of heart attack.

It turns out chocolate, like aspirin, affects the platelets that cause blood to clot, Diane Becker of the Johns Hopkins University's School of Medicine and her colleagues discovered.

'What these chocolate offenders taught us is that the chemical in cocoa beans has a biochemical effect similar to aspirin in reducing platelet clumping, which can be fatal if a clot forms and blocks a blood vessel, causing a heart attack,' Becker said in a telephone interview." Read more

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TasteTV News : World's Largest Candied Apple (made of Splenda)

World's Largest Candied Apple (made of Splenda)

TasteTV News : Celebrity Chef Bill Yosses and SPLENDA® Sweeteners unveiled the world¿s largest candied apple in New York City's Bryant Park. The giant confection measured 15 feet tall with a diameter of 12 feet.. Watch the Video

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TasteTV Blogger Roundup: Celebrity Chefs

TasteTV rounds up the latest news on today's celebrity chefs from some of the hottest blogger online. Enjoy!

Priscilla Presley's King-Size Rock Goes On Display

Via unknown

... hit the celebrity hotspot, Social House at the TI. They took over a 20-seat, private dining room so other guests wouldn't even know they were in the Asian themed restaurant. Chef Joseph Elevado prepared a supper of Kobe burgers, ...
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The nonsense of Del Posto

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Del Posto , the new celebrity chef's Mario Batali venture that was rewarded with two Michelin stars as soon as it opened it doors, is simply.. absurd. The sloppy, badly trained service(one guy ...Read more…

Food From Cloned Animals Could Hit Supermarket Shelves

Via admin

British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver wants the United States to take up his campaign against fatty snacks and school lunches to combat the country’s burgeoning child obesity problem. ...
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Rachel Ray Show

Via OkraMary

But everything else she makes is gross and drenched in chicken broth or bacon. I do like how quickly she makes everything. I'd love it if she was vegan. What celebrity chef would you love to see go vegan?
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Baby David's Diary

Via The Letter D

Many people think that she is using me for publicity and that adopting children from third world countries is a celebrity fad. ... I had a temper tantrum today because Chef Pierre improperly carmelized my crème brulee. ...
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Iron Chef. Top Canadian Chef Heading To NYC Four Seasons

Via topchef

On Saturday, November 11th, Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, the East Coast’s leading hotel-casino and dining destination, was the setting for the second annual Women in Wine, a charity tasting event, celebrity chef cook-off and wine ...
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Sam Stern's Cooking Up A Storm

Via Juliette Rossant (Superchefblog)

Cool and cute, 14-year old (at the time) Sam is a celebrity chef in the making, getting his gang to cook, eat, and hang out with him as he shows teens (or anyone who doesn't know their way around a kitchen) how to whip up some tasty ...
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Jamie Oliver serves a show-stopping pasta dish MSNBC- Nov 7, 2006

Via jamie_331881

Jamie Oliver serves a show-stopping pasta dishMSNBC- Nov 7, 2006On this segment of our special series this week, �Jamie�s Italian Cooking School,� Britain�s celebrity chef and school lunch crusader, Jamie Oliver . ...
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Farepak

Via FlipC

It seems a safe bet, they'd been trading since 1969 so were obviously not some fly-by-night company, they had celebrity endorsements such as the chef Antony Worrall Thompson back in 2005, and after all they were simply collecting the ...
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Top Chef. Basic Delight

Via topchef

top chef, and sponsor Calphalon tags along with clips of its own. Thousands of kids are snubbing healthy new school dinners inspired by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. Three teenage Good Samaritans have hit out at the people who walked ...
Read more…


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Caught in the "Almost Sexual" TV Culinary Act

TV Chefs Caught in the Act

TMZ has a funny posting about chefs looking like what they're doing is better than sex.

Or as Details' magazine puts it, not with a great deal of subtleness: "ORGASM OR EXCELLENT MARINARA?"

What do you think?

Ever have a meal so good that you thought it was better than sex?
Well, the August issue of Details on newsstands now features a hysterical quiz which asks to see if you can tell which picture depicts a Food Network chef in a state of culinary ecstasy and which is a porn star in the middle of, er, a different type of ecstasy.

Is that Rachael Ray having a marinara meltdown or just a triple X starlet in the midst of paying her rent?

TasteTV chefs never act this way (in public, and I guess we can say, "so far")

Apparently it was a pretty hot culinary topic, as bloggers Gawker, Slashfood, Metafilter, Instapundit, and Blogometer all picked it up.


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Art of the Drink: Rick Lyke Interview

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In this episode of our AOTD On The Road in November series, Anthony interviews beverage writer Rick Lyke.



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Dressed to Kilt : Celebrity Fashion Show - TasteTV Video

Dressed to Kilt : Celebrity Fashion Show

TasteTV visits the annual Fashion Week event in Los Angeles, Johnnie Walker Dressed to Kilt, with men and women in Scottish Kilts. This episode takes a look at celebrity models styling in kilts (like Eric Dickerson, Alexis Fenton, Linda Hamilton, Natasha Henstridge, Patricia Kara, Rex Lee, Patricia Arquette, Sharlette Hambrick, Paul Rodriguez, Aly Scott , and Michael Michele) . It's mens fashion, womens fashion, everyone's personal style. Taste It!

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2006 Wine Press Event : Harvest on Hudson

2006 Wine Press Event

We return to Harvest on Hudson resturant . Its been two weeks since the grapes were crushed, Owner Bruce Bernacchia explains the nexts steps involved in pressing the grapes. Watch the Video on TasteTV

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French Cuistot : Artichokes Recipe on TasteTV

French Cuistot : Artichokes

Barigoule style artichoke (French cuisine) recipe. Watch the video on TasteTV

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Sexy Dishes #2: Chef Justine Miner

Sexy Dishes #2: Chef Justine Miner

Chef Justine Miner tells TasteTV about what she thinks a Sexy Dish is, and makes some recomendations about preparing a sexy meal. Watch the Video

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Dressed to Kilt : Women's Fashion

Dressed to Kilt : Women's Fashion

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Dressed to Kilt: Men's Fashion

Dressed to Kilt: Men's Fashion

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Vegetarian Tex-Mex - 2 for 10 (with Melissa)

Vegetarian Tex-Mex - 2 for 10 (with Melissa)

Try this recipe for vegetarian chili on a portabella mushroom cap! Groovy Chef Melissa tells all on TasteTV.Watch the Video

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