TasteTV News: Chocolate addiction leads to sweet discovery

Here’s something we already knew at TasteTV, with our Chocolate Television program, and while writing our book, Chocolate French. Per a new study (whic we also endorse), since we eat dark chocolate every day around here:

“They were so addicted, they just could not give up their favorite daily snack — not even in the interest of science.

But chocolate lovers who flunked out of a Johns Hopkins University study on aspirin and heart disease helped researchers stumble on an explanation of why a little chocolate a day can cut the risk of heart attack.

It turns out chocolate, like aspirin, affects the platelets that cause blood to clot, Diane Becker of the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Medicine and her colleagues discovered.

‘What these chocolate offenders taught us is that the chemical in cocoa beans has a biochemical effect similar to aspirin in reducing platelet clumping, which can be fatal if a clot forms and blocks a blood vessel, causing a heart attack,’ Becker said in a telephone interview.” Read more

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TasteTV News : World’s Largest Candied Apple (made of Splenda)

TasteTV News : Celebrity Chef Bill Yosses and SPLENDA® Sweeteners unveiled the world¿s largest candied apple in New York City’s Bryant Park. The giant confection measured 15 feet tall with a diameter of 12 feet.. Watch the Video

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TasteTV Blogger Roundup: Celebrity Chefs

TasteTV rounds up the latest news on today’s celebrity chefs from some of the hottest blogger online. Enjoy!

Priscilla Presley’s King-Size Rock Goes On Display

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… hit the celebrity hotspot, Social House at the TI. They took over a 20-seat, private dining room so other guests wouldn’t even know they were in the Asian themed restaurant. Chef Joseph Elevado prepared a supper of Kobe burgers, …
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The nonsense of Del Posto
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Del Posto , the new celebrity chef’s Mario Batali venture that was rewarded with two Michelin stars as soon as it opened it doors, is simply.. absurd. The sloppy, badly trained service(one guy …Read more…

Food From Cloned Animals Could Hit Supermarket Shelves
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British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver wants the United States to take up his campaign against fatty snacks and school lunches to combat the country’s burgeoning child obesity problem. …
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Rachel Ray Show

Via OkraMary

But everything else she makes is gross and drenched in chicken broth or bacon. I do like how quickly she makes everything. I’d love it if she was vegan. What celebrity chef would you love to see go vegan?
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Baby David’s Diary
Via The Letter D

Many people think that she is using me for publicity and that adopting children from third world countries is a celebrity fad. … I had a temper tantrum today because Chef Pierre improperly carmelized my crème brulee. …
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Iron Chef. Top Canadian Chef Heading To NYC Four Seasons

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On Saturday, November 11th, Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, the East Coast’s leading hotel-casino and dining destination, was the setting for the second annual Women in Wine, a charity tasting event, celebrity chef cook-off and wine …
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Sam Stern’s Cooking Up A Storm

Via Juliette Rossant (Superchefblog)


Cool and cute, 14-year old (at the time) Sam is a celebrity chef in the making, getting his gang to cook, eat, and hang out with him as he shows teens (or anyone who doesn’t know their way around a kitchen) how to whip up some tasty …
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Jamie Oliver serves a show-stopping pasta dish MSNBC- Nov 7, 2006
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Jamie Oliver serves a show-stopping pasta dishMSNBC- Nov 7, 2006On this segment of our special series this week, �Jamie�s Italian Cooking School,� Britain�s celebrity chef and school lunch crusader, Jamie Oliver . …
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Farepak
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It seems a safe bet, they’d been trading since 1969 so were obviously not some fly-by-night company, they had celebrity endorsements such as the chef Antony Worrall Thompson back in 2005, and after all they were simply collecting the …
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Top Chef. Basic Delight

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top chef, and sponsor Calphalon tags along with clips of its own. Thousands of kids are snubbing healthy new school dinners inspired by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. Three teenage Good Samaritans have hit out at the people who walked …
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Caught in the “Almost Sexual” TV Culinary Act

TV Chefs Caught in the Act

TMZ has a funny posting about chefs looking like what they’re doing is better than sex.

Or as Details’ magazine puts it, not with a great deal of subtleness: “ORGASM OR EXCELLENT MARINARA?“

What do you think?

Ever have a meal so good that you thought it was better than sex?
Well, the August issue of Details on newsstands now features a hysterical quiz which asks to see if you can tell which picture depicts a Food Network chef in a state of culinary ecstasy and which is a porn star in the middle of, er, a different type of ecstasy.

Is that Rachael Ray having a marinara meltdown or just a triple X starlet in the midst of paying her rent?

TasteTV chefs never act this way (in public, and I guess we can say, “so far”)

Apparently it was a pretty hot culinary topic, as bloggers Gawker, Slashfood, Metafilter, Instapundit, and Blogometer all picked it up.

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Art of the Drink: Rick Lyke Interview

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In this episode of our AOTD On The Road in November series, Anthony interviews beverage writer Rick Lyke.

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Dressed to Kilt : Celebrity Fashion Show – TasteTV Video

Dressed to Kilt : Celebrity Fashion Show

TasteTV visits the annual Fashion Week event in Los Angeles, Johnnie Walker Dressed to Kilt, with men and women in Scottish Kilts. This episode takes a look at celebrity models styling in kilts (like Eric Dickerson, Alexis Fenton, Linda Hamilton, Natasha Henstridge, Patricia Kara, Rex Lee, Patricia Arquette, Sharlette Hambrick, Paul Rodriguez, Aly Scott , and Michael Michele) . It’s mens fashion, womens fashion, everyone’s personal style. Taste It!

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