links for 2006-08-31

Advertising Age - Dark Chocolate Sales Soar 40% [1]

Even Hershey's jumps into the dark chocolate fray.

(tags: chocolate [2] advertising [3] hersheys [4])
Beyonce's diet warning [5]

I am no Beyonce fan but I like that she issued this very clear statement about her wildly popular and rather bizarre diet.

(tags: diet [6] entertainment [7] beyonce [8])
Bravo announces Top Chef 2 cast [9]

More contestants(15), new location (L.A.) and new host (Padma Lakshmi, aka Mrs. Salman Rushdie).

(tags: topchef [10] tv [11] bravotv [12])
The one cook who spoils the broth for gourmets [13]

Gordon Ramsay totally dominates the London fine dining scene.

(tags: restaurants [14] london [15] uk [16] gordonramsay [17])
I made Ramsay weep, says top chef White [18]

Marco Pierre White was the chef who trained a young Gordon Ramsay. Coincidentally, White also worked for a while with Mario Batali (this is mentioned in the book Heat).

(tags: gordeonramsay [19] mariobatali [20] restaurants [14] chefs [21])
Getting the best out of your food [22]

A very good, concise article from the BBC about bioavailability, or combining foods to get the most nutrition out of them. Time to invent a spinach-orange salad..

(tags: spinach [23] health [24] bioavailability [25] nutrition [26])
Website for Harold Dieterle's restaurant Perilla [27]

The website for Top Chef season 1 winner Harold, 'coming soon'. It's supposed to open later this year. Perilla means shiso, a Japanese herb...methinks this means Perilla will be Fusionesque.

(tags: topchef [10] harold [28] shiso [29] perilla [30] restaurants [14] nyc [31])

Links:
[1] http://adage.com/article?article_id=111493
[2] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/chocolate
[3] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/advertising
[4] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/hersheys
[5] http://www.theage.com.au/news/people/beyonces-diet-warning/2006/08/17/1155407931658.html
[6] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/diet
[7] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/entertainment
[8] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/beyonce
[9] http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/top_chef_2/2006_Aug_30_cast
[10] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/topchef
[11] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/tv
[12] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/bravotv
[13] http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2332309,00.html
[14] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/restaurants
[15] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/london
[16] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/uk
[17] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/gordonramsay
[18] http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1106482006
[19] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/gordeonramsay
[20] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/mariobatali
[21] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/chefs
[22] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4777607.stm?ls
[23] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/spinach
[24] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/health
[25] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/bioavailability
[26] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/nutrition
[27] http://www.perillanyc.com/
[28] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/harold
[29] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/shiso
[30] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/perilla
[31] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/nyc