Filed under: Lunch , Dinner , Barbecuing , Food Oddities , The History of... , America , Slow cooking , Meat

Filed under: Trends , How To , Light Food It's a constant battle for celebrities to stay fit and look good on camera, and in Hollywood, even non-celebrities feel pressured to slim down. Some celebrities take their dieting too far, but others, like Janet Jackson , have lost weight and stayed healthy with the help of Fresh Dining .

Filed under: On the Blogs , America , Europe , Italy , France We're a blog, and you're a blog reader, so no one ever has to say their names out loud: Daniel Boulud, Ruth Reichl , and the one that I call "that French guy Zhon-Zhorzh," Jean-Georges Vongerichten.

Filed under: Snacks , Dairy , Culinary Kids , America , Sugar , Health & Medical Oops, she did it again.

Filed under: Far East , Television , Slashfood Ate , America Some of us love the Food Network . Some of us want to hate it, but can't. I am of the latter group. I want to ban the channel from my television for some of the things they have done to my viewing pleasure ( Iron Chef! Bring back Iron Chef! ), but I can't. I just can't do it because there are a few things that still capture my attention:

Filed under: Candy , Food Oddities , America , North America You might spit your old, chewed, tasteless, hard gum out onto the sidewalk, but artist Jason Kronenwald uses that gum as his medium. Jason applies chewed gum to a plywood backing to create his Gum Blonde masterpieces - portraits of blondes made with chewed up gum. According to his bio, Jason doesn't chew gum himself, but has a team who chews the gum for him, with his favorite texture coming from Trident. He does not use paint or dyes, relying on the "inherent" color of the gum, and mixing colors by chewing them.

Filed under: West Coast , Television , America We've been following Top Chef pretty closely here at Slashfood, and tonight, it was the second to last episode, with the Vegas finale in the next few weeks. The show has been successful, and is planning Season 2.

Filed under: Television , Food Oddities , America Tuesday night on The Late Show with David Letterman , Dave had Tom Cruise and Jamie Oliver as guests. All three set about to cooking Thai Laksa (recipe after the jump) and Tom did a very respectable job tossing the scallops while Dave stood about complaining that he wasn't getting to cook. He must have been pretty bored because the next thing you knew, he had taken up a bottle of olive oil and chugged some! He then passed the bottle off to Tom Cruise and Jamie, who also drank. Jamie even drizzled the oil into his mouth to show the audience he was actually downing the oil (At this point I took a moment to remember the time that Paula Deen drank butter ). Then, the cooking continued for another few seconds.

Filed under: Lunch , East Coast , Restaurants , Beef , Comfort Food New York City's Carnegie Deli will honor talk show host Jerry Springer by naming a sandwich after him. The deli, which is equally famous for its corned beef as well its  gruff waiters, will christen the sandwich tomorrow at 2:00PM. Customers may even have a chance to be served by the man himself.

Filed under: Raves & Reviews , America Time Magazine has named their Top 100 Most Influential People . There are scientists, academics, leaders, and revolutionaries like Steven Levitt (economist) , Oprah Winfrey , and Bill & Melinda Gates. And there among the group of Artists & Entertainers, which also includes Ang Lee, Howard Stern and Meryl Streep is...