Mario Batali

A reader tipped us off to the fact that Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali spoke at Seattle's Paramount Theatre this weekend.

  USA NYT] • The Mario Batali Foundation, a children's charity helmed by the be-Croc-ed chef, launches with a benefit this weekend. [Serious Eats NY] • The owner of new kosher tequila Agave 99 admits that the idea to make it kosher was really just a ...

  USA Any of Mario [Batali]'s restaurants.” Michael Schwartz of Miami's Michael's Genuine, nominated for Best Chef, South: “We're going to go eat in as many restaurants as we can. We have reservations at some restaurants: Corton, Esca, Prune, Minetta Tavern. ...

  USA Mario Batali got a free gym membership to Gwyneth Paltrow and her trainer's new gym in Tribeca, because "Mario is the only fat friend she has, and wants him to change." (Or maybe just because he's her friend and she's being nice. That, too. ...

  USA NYP] • Ouch: Gwyneth Paltrow has given Mario Batali a free membership at her friend's gym because "Mario is the only fat friend she has, and wants him to change." [NYP] • The conventional agribusiness industry is mad about the Obamas' all-organic ...

  USA Jay-Z (who, along with Mario Batali, is a co-owner of the Spotted Pig) was recently spotted waiting twenty minutes for a not very good table at Babbo. [NYP] • In an effort to get more consumers to make drinks at home, liquor companies are selling more ...

  USA Mario Batali, Dan Barber, Peter Hoffman, and Michael Romano, but not all that many other New York chefs so far (and no, not Alice Waters) are among the 300 industry types who’ve signed a letter encouraging President Obama to continue to promote ...