Rachel Ray gets Feisty (uhh …Feistier)


In People Magazine, Rachel Ray defends some of her recession proof recipes and apparently some photos that some people felt were kind of … tantalizing.

RRrrr says her whole thing is really perfect for people living in a recession:

Per People Mag:

“The magazine, the daytime show, we’ve always tried to write affordable, accessible [recipes],” Ray, 40, tells ABC’s Nightline for a profile to air Monday. “Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less. So I think this is really a time for all of our team to shine … You know, food is such – it’s a hug for people.”

Ahh, to be worth $18 million….

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Sexy Dishes is Published!


Hooray! Our book SEXY DISHES: A Guide to Who’s Hot in the Kitchen (San Francisco Bay Area Edition) is on its way to bookstores, Amazon.com, and more.

The final list of chefs, chocolatiers and wine experts featured in SEXY DISHES is listed below. (Yes, that is TOP CHEF Jamie Lauren on the cover)

You can see a new sample PDF of the first 21 pages of the FINAL Edition by going here.

FINAL LIST (name, profession, and page number)


Sky Wegman
Mixologist / Bartender 16

Adam Jones
Chef 22

Jamie Lauren
Chef 28

Lewis Rossman
Chef 36

Steve Adler
Chocolatier 42

Jill Ann Cosentino
Caterer 46

Alex Molitz
Chef 50

Lara Graham Truppelli
Restaurateur 54

Amy Heater
Pastry Chef 60

Taylor Boudreaux
Chef 68

Stephanie Marcon
Chocolatier 74

Iris Eisenlohr
Wine Director 78

Justine Miner
Chef / Restaurateur 84

Cynthia Wong-Chen
Chef / Restaurateur 88

Mindy Fong
Chocolatier 94

Tony Diiorio
Mixologist / Bartender 98

Devon Boisen
Chef 102

Dominik Schieweck
Chocolatier 106

Ben Paula
Chef 112

David Lawrence
Chef / Restaurateur 116

Rachel Bassignani
Sommelier 122

Alex Marsh
Chef 126

David Borges
Mixologist / Bartender 130

Dominique Crenn
Chef 134

Eric Joppie
Chef 140

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Vegan all Day, Carnivore all Night

The New York Times reports that someone has come up with the half-in, half-out plan for better eating and health:

Many people struggle to improve their eating habits. The Times food writer Mark Bittman, appearing this week on WNYC radio, told listeners about an unusual strategy that has worked for him.

All day long, he eats a vegan diet. But after about 6 p.m., anything goes.

This is from his newest book, “Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating With More Than 75 Recipes:” Considering that we at TasteTV eat dark chocolate all day, then other food all night, this means we’re 100% committed to the Bittman diet plan.

We’re sooo cutting edge.

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Photo from last year’s Chocolate Salon



Originally uploaded by Marco Sanchez

Someone looks a little happy about their chocolate!

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Daisy Whitney of TV Week: Local Advertising Survival Guide

TV Week’s popular journalist on New Media, Daisy Whitney, has created a nice primer on how to survive the upcoming slump in local online advertising:

VC’s Will Save the Day (or Not)

According to a lot of fairly smart people, the current funding model for new media startups may not be in synch with the times.

Is everyone in agreement with that?
Venturebeat says the VC model is broken:

Adeo Ressi, founder of TheFunded, the site that lets people rate venture capitalists, is the latest to try to articulate the changes with a dour set of slides…One of the shortcomings with the VC model, Ressi argues, is that venture capitalists rely on their network of friends. Of all networks, HBS is one of the tighter ones. Needless to say, Ressi’s message wasn’t very warmly received. In fact, while blasting the old boys network is a popular thing to do, I’d actually disagree with Ressi on this point. Increasingly, you’re seeing diversity within the VC community, and they’re pushing themselves hard to find great entrepreneurs of any kind. I disagree that the Google founders were outsiders. They were part of the Stanford engineering student machine, a source of Silicon Valley magic for years.

Where I do agree with Ressi is in the ugly economics overall. Most daunting is that there’s more money being invested into venture firms than those same VC firms are generating from their investments in start-ups — in other words, Ressi argues, they’re now having a net negative affect on the economy. You’d expect this lopsided dynamic to exist temporarily in a downturn. But the worrying thing is that this state of affairs may last for quite some time.

The Comments from this post are as informative as the actual post.
In another take, the downsized Valleywag.com says “Why Venture Capital won’t save your job“. Interestingly, the post refers to Ressi again (who’s getting a lot of coverage right now), as wel as to his famous slide deck:

TheFunded – Canarie

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