I'd like to announce the release of my new cookbook, "The Kitchen Dance." It's a project my wife and I collaborated on that includes detailed shopping lists, tips to help you stock the pantry and ideas about entertaining in tight quarters -- along with...

How is it that the best anybody can make for Natalie Portman on last night's "Top Chef" was some roasted kale and mushrooms (made by Kevin)? Is that really all people can make for vegetarians? Brian V. has a vegetarian version of his 21-course tasting...

Courtesy of John Kelly's column today, here's an early look at the cookbook being published by me and my wife: Fairfax's Rob Yunich wrote that he and his wife split the cooking duties -- he doing more of the cooking, she more of the baking -- but...

Last night's "Top Chef" brought about the annual restaurant wars -- and it was one of the better versions of recent memory. In fact, Chef Tom said it was the best  ever. Either way, the Voltaggio Brothers are still dominating while Mike I. and Kevin...

Last night's "Top Chef" episode included an elimination challenge "for the home cook." But what they did last night was not geared to you and me. What they did was take a bunch of professional chefs making restaurant-quality food in a "cramped" space....