VIEWPOINT: A Chat With Top Chef Master Rick Bayless

Top Chef Master Rick Bayless. We spent the weekend enjoying a Top Chef Masters marathon on the DVR. We were thrilled with every contestant; anyone who loves great food—and especially those of us who try to cook it—can’t help but give thanks daily for all of the people who expend so much passion, backbreaking labor…
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VIEWPOINT: The “Mayonnaise Myth”

Photo by Jasper Golangco | SXC. For years, mayonnaise-based foods like potato salad and macaroni salad have taken the rap for food poisoning at summer picnics. As the story went, unrefrigerated mayo-based dishes spoiled more easily in the heat than others…or the combination of mayo with other proteins plus heat caused Salmonella. Mayonnaise should never…
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VIEWPOINT: Clamato Tomato Cocktail, The Worst Product Of The Year?

A few weeks ago, we were at a food trade show in San Francisco, tasting away. Almost everything is good, if not electrifying (that is to say, not “Nibblelicious”). But at one booth, an attractive-looking white and dark chocolate pastry with coconut was so vile, we had to spit it out. (As one NIBBLE staffer…
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