Nov 22nd, 2004 · Eat out a lot? Award-winning restaurant critic Alan Richman offers his "Ten Commandments for Diners" -- a few things to remember the next time you let someone else do the cooking at your local restaurant.
Nov 2nd, 2004 · In the first of an ongoing series, filmmaker Nora Ephron says she wishes she'd written the soap opera scene in the movie, Tootsie, where Dustin Hoffman offers a revealing disclosure. Ephron also explains how she and others came up with the restaurant scene in the film, When Harry Met Sally. Hear Ephron and NPR's Susan Stamberg.
Oct 29th, 2004 · Hungary bans the sale of paprika after health officials find that products distributed by three of the country's leading paprika companies contained illegal amounts of the mold aflatoxin. Paprika is integral to traditional Hungarian cuisine, and difficult to substitute. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Kalman Kozma, director of Budapest's famous Gundel restaurant.
Oct 19th, 2004 · Expensive restaurants and specialty stores in the United States are now offering fine caviar from Idaho and California. Restrictions on caviar imports from Asia are creating an opening for domestic producers of the pricey fish eggs. Tom Banse reports.
Oct 11th, 2004 · A restaurant at Arizona State University specializes in breakfast cereals. The company hopes cereal will become the next fast food trend, so the restaurant can expand to a national chain. Rene Gutel of member station KJZZ in Phoenix reports.
Oct 5th, 2004 · Reichl edited The Gourmet Cookbook, which includes more than 1,200 recipes culled from 60 years of the magazine's back issues. Reichl is the author of two best-selling memoirs, Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me with Apples. Before becoming editor of Gourmet, she was restaurant critic of The New York Times, and before that food editor of the Los Angeles Times.
Sep 26th, 2004 · NPR's Liane Hansen interviews author and journalist Jay Rayner about his new book Eating Crow, a political satire about a restaurant critic whose review results in the suicide of a prominent British chef. When the critic is made to apologize to the chef's family, the world takes notice.
Sep 19th, 2004 · This fall, Serendipity 3, the quirky dessert restaurant and boutique on New York's Upper East Side, celebrates its 50th year in business. Co-founder Stephen Bruce has written a book. He speaks with NPR's Liane Hansen.