The benefits of cooking with your children are many, including honing a solid understanding of good nutrition and fostering self-sufficiency. Dad and executive chef Jeremy Rock Smith knows this all too well. Co-author of “The Kripalu Kitchen: Nourishing Food for Body and Soul,” he now finds himself in the role of culinary camp director at…

Crowning the open kitchen of Callie, in San Diego’s East Village, is a sheet of glowing, rust-colored steel that comes to a point in the center—like the bow of a ship, said chef-owner Travis Swikard. Working each evening service, “I stand right there, and it’s me at the helm of my ship coming home, bringing…

Behind every confident child are parents who believed in them first. (Video courtesy of Chef Abdullah Apuhan) …

Chris Hastings is comfortable in his own skin. Trim with short hair and glasses, he tucks his shirt in and speaks with the authority of someone on a mission—one of providing mouth-watering cuisine to his customers and fans. Hastings has been around the culinary block a few times. In 2012, he beat Food Network star-chef…

A cook sliced into an heirloom tomato and threw half of it in the trash. It was a thoughtless act committed routinely in kitchens around the country—but chef Niven Patel saw it as an opportunity to teach his team about the effort required to grow and harvest ingredients. “Do you know how long it took…

While the economic outlook in Hong Kong is not too bright right now, loads of job opportunities with good work-life balance can be found in Britain, according to a chef who moved there from Hong Kong.    Habibie Wong has opened a restaurant “Pan.dora Meal Box” which has started to make its name in Manchester….

Five-time James Beard Foundation Award finalist Steve McHugh is nothing short of an acclaimed chef. The owner of the highly respected, game-changing restaurant Cured and the restaurant Landrace, which opened last year, says he really “stumbled right into” becoming a chef. Though McHugh’s introduction to food may have been a happy accident, over the course…

After spending more than five years in Paris, Julia Child went to the south of France in 1953, where her husband, Paul, was assigned duty as a cultural officer at the sleepy American consulate in Marseille. The port city was a “labyrinth,” a city of “hot noise,” Child reflected years later. A short, hard-to-endure interval…

In an unlikely alliance, a pastry chef and a flutist have combined their skills for an incredible feat of engineering, and a tasty treat, to boot: a playable chocolate flute. Indian chef Vinesh Johny called his friend Los Angeles-born flutist Parth Chandiramani when inspiration struck him ahead of World Chocolate Day. “He called me and…

An Australian chef who became blind from cancer has made his dream a reality by opening a cafe that is accessible to everyone including individuals with a disability, proving that there is nothing one cannot achieve when one sets their mind to it. Craig Shanahan, 29, from Sydney, took a year to finally open the…