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Rachael Ray was mugged — twice — by a teenage boy outside her Woodside, Queens, apartment.“He has literally a Glock in his hand and sticks it in my back, and I scream so loud. I think they heard it in Jersey … I freaked the flip out, and I think I scared him more than he scared me,” she dished to The Post after the premiere of her new A&E show, “Rachael Ray’s Meals in Minutes.”“I sprayed him in the face with Mace and he was not happy. I still feel really bad about it actually.

hosting a food series for the streamer in the forthcoming future. However, the show reportedly won’t be filmed at her $14 million Montecito, Calif., home.Filming reportedly starts on Tuesday, following her whirlwind trip to Florida for a Sentebale polo match with her husband, Prince Harry.The pair were in Palm Beach last week for the Royal Salute Polo Challenge, with proceeds going to the Duke of Sussex’s AIDS charity.“Netflix has rented a house in Montecito for filming,” a source told the Daily Mail on Monday regarding the cooking show.The series will “celebrate the joys of cooking and gardening, entertaining and friendship,” the network said in a release.

Valerie Bertinelli isn’t a foodie anymore.The 63-year-old “Hot in Cleveland” alum expressed her annoyance over Food Network’s recent slew of content, saying that the channel is no longer about cooking.She shared her thoughts on Threads Tuesday, blasting the network months after they fired her from hosting the series “Kids Baking Championship.”“I fell in love with Food Network two decades ago because of all the amazing ITK (in the kitchen) shows. 30-minute meals, Ina [Garten], Giada [De Laurentiis] … the list goes on,” Bertinelli penned. The “Touched By an Angel” star added: “I learned so much.

Valerie Bertinelli.The 63-year-old “Hot in Cleveland” alum’s final episode of “Kids Baking Championship” aired on Monday. Filmed in the summer of 2022 — which she would later call her “apex year of hell” — Bertinelli and co-host Duff Goldman, 49, dressed in outfits to match the finale episode’s themed spirit and science days.Goldman shared snaps of his co-host on Instagram, writing, “Watch as the kids make tie-dye doughnuts then prepare for a science fair!” he wrote on Instagram.

Valerie Bertinelli has left the kitchen. The actress was in talks to continue working on “Kids Baking Championship” before she was ultimately let go on Friday.Bertinelli, 63, cited “budget cuts” as the reason why she was axed from the program after 12 seasons.“I’ve been avoiding facing what I got confirmation last night and I didn’t want to talk about it last night [because] I wanted to sleep on it because it really hurt my feelings,” she said via Instagram Story on Saturday.

Karma.” Several die-hard Taylor Swift fans have been reportedly scammed out of hundreds of dollars after tricksters released advertisements employing AI-generated video of the Grammy winner peddling Le Creuset in an attempt to steal money and data from fans. The ads — which can be found across all social media platforms — show Swift, 34, standing next to the Le Creuset Dutch oven, which, according to the official website, runs anywhere from $180 to $750 depending on the size and style.

revealed her project on Instagram yesterday and unveiled the cover of her cookbook.The publication comes almost a year after she divorced ex-husband and football star Tom Brady.“I am so excited to announce my new cookbook, ‘Nourish!'” she scribed in her caption alongside the handbook.The book jacket featured Bündchen looking fresh-faced and rocking a cream-colored tank paired with jeans.An array of healthy dishes were pictured in front of her on a wood table.“People are always asking me what I eat and how I stay fit. Great food is something I am passionate about, and it is vital for living a healthy lifestyle,” the mother of two went on.She added: “In ‘Nourish,’ I share my family’s favorite simple, nutritious, and delicious recipes and some self-care rituals that help me so much in my life especially as a busy, working mom.”“I am happy that I get to share this cookbook with all of you! Hope you enjoy,” the Brazilian native concluded.

New Girl” star has been interested for quite a while.“I’ve been working in this space of asking questions about food for six years,” Deschanel, 43, told The Post. “We did a short-form series [for Facebook] called ‘Your Food’s Roots.’ They were 10-minute episodes … so I’ve been on this journey for a while and I feel very prepared.“Then I started asking all kinds of questions because I had two kids back-to-back and I was like, ‘Where is this food from?’ Questions I’d never asked before all the sudden starting popping up in my brain.

some healthy competition for Selena Gomez. The model debuted a new cooking show “What’s in My Kitchen?” featuring recipes for her favorite dishes on Wednesday on YouTube. It’s a move that got some critics fired up, harking comparisons to Gomez’s HBO Max show “Selena + Chef” and calling Bieber a culinary copycat.“Hailey really needs to stop copying Selena and she should focus on herself,” one user posted on Twitter.

to Instagram on Wednesday to post a few close-up shots of herself all glammed up with a fresh blowout and sporting a neutral lip.In the first slide, she was seen pursing her lips into a kissy face and “smizing” into the camera, showing off her smoldering look while holding her iPhone for the selfie. The second pic featured her in the salon chair as her famous hairstylist, John Barrett, fluffed up her hair after styling and cutting it.

TikTok video, actor Stanley Tucci shared a recipe for a pasta casserole using leftovers, and didn’t hold back as he ate it for breakfast at a ripe 10 a.m.Tucci, 62, filmed the video from his eclectic kitchen, explaining that he had leftover Farfalle pasta and had decided to repurpose it. “I sautéed garlic, onion, panchetta, and some peas, and then put them into a little casserole dish, baking dish, with the pasta and then Besciamella – Besciamella sauce – and mixed it all up with little things of butter on top and parmigiano,” he said in the clip.Wearing his signature glasses and a sweater draped over his shoulders, the “Searching for Italy” star stood by his toaster oven and slid out the perfectly baked, delicious-looking pasta.

The Times he “thinks like a woman” when he’s whipping up a meal and said male-centered kitchens are “not a good place to work.”The “One” cookbook author explained how male chefs are too focused on perfecting recipes and women are more intuitive with their cooking skills.“As a young boy, getting a craft and this energy about Michelin stars and measurement and how you control nature as opposed to how you react to nature, which I think are more feminine traits like nourishment and more maternal feelings,” Oliver said. “If I’m ever good, I have to try and think like a woman.”The “Naked Chef” host added: “If you want to see what bad looks like you go to a kitchen full of just men.

The Guardian. “I can do everything! Pasta, sauce, vegan, salads and soups – I can do every kind of soup,” she added.The “Complicated” singer also has other items on her bucket list she wants to check off, including a Christmas album and launching her own makeup line.Lavigne has also found a director for a film adaptation of her 2002 song “Sk8er Boi.”“I can’t wait to learn this process of making a movie,” she told the outlet.

on Twitter, where more than 4.4 million people also watched.A Twitch streamer almost burnt down her kitchen in a cooking stream pic.twitter.com/a5OFh53ZYgWitnesses on social media grilled the amateur cook for failing to use basic fire safety — and doing so live on camera.“Don’t they cover this stuff in elementary school anymore?” one asked.“Why tf would you do a cooking stream if you don’t know the basics in safe cooking?” demanded another. According to the FireRescue1 community, an official partner of the International Fire Chiefs Association, small fires should be snuffed out by placing a fitted lid on the enflamed pan, or dousing with salt or baking soda, strictly.While water or fanning may seem like natural fire deterrents, both can actually augment the blaze in event of a grease fire.

after sharing a “horrifying” recipe for microwaved salmon that Twitter users have dubbed his “scariest work yet.” His tutorial on cooking the culinary horror show currently boasts thousands of views on Twitter. “Dinner: get a nice salmon filet at the supermarket, not too big,” the 74-year-old “The Shining” author wrote to his 6.6 million Twitter followers. “Put some olive oil and lemon juice on it.

shared the clip on Instagram last month, where she was showing fans how she cooks the poultry.In the tutorial, the “Four Kids and It” star made some cooking snafus when she added seasonings to her grease and didn’t wash her chicken long enough before cooking it.However, thanks to TikTok, the video has gone viral weeks later, with many users are throwing her into the fire and blasting her baking techniques on Twitter.The account that first shared the video simply tweeted on April 4, “Paula Patton just ruined my day.”More memes and reactions to the “Precious” actress quasi-cooking show started to trickle in, with another person adding: “Paula please go take a chicken frying class cos that’s just ridiculous.”Paula Patton just ruined my day. pic.twitter.com/TNXvB5VPIj“Paula Patton needs to start off with something easier like toasting bagels,” someone noted.Others came at the biracial actress for her recipe, stating that her frying process was indicative of which parent she took after, since Patton was raised by a white mother and an African-American father.“Dear Black People: Spend more time with your mixed children and teach them how to make Black and Southern food properly.

video clip on TikTok of a series of text messages with the actor, 67, where they shared recipes for peanut butter chip cookies.Travolta’s text read, “Tommy, can you send me that peanut butter [chocolate] chip cookie recipe you have?”Lee happily agreed and passed along a scrumdiddlyumptious recipe.

Julia Child — or even Giada De Laurentiis — she ain’t. On Paris Hilton’s new Netflix show, “Cooking with Paris” (premiering Aug. 4), the heiress whips up meals with various celeb friends — Kim Kardashian, Demi Lovato, Saweetie — and reveals that the kitchen, unlike an Ibiza foam party, is not her natural environment. “I love cooking, I’m not a trained chef and I don’t want to be,” Hilton says in the show’s opening. Turns out, Hilton doesn’t even want to wear an apron.

TMZ reported.The two 1950s hardbacks — “The New Fanny Farmer Boston Cooking-School Cook Book” and “The New Joy of Cooking” — are the only cookbooks confirmed to have been owned by the archetypical blonde bombshell.The books offer a glimpse into her culinary life, and include handwritten notes with a grocery list, a deli business card with a Beverly Hills-area address written in her handwriting on the back, and a diet schedule.The 20th-century grocery list includes eggs, milk, cornflakes, jello,

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and “Domestic Goddess” is seen preparing a dish that she proclaims needs “a bit of milk, full fat, which I’ve warmed in the microwave.” But in the video, posted on Twitter, she weirdly pronounces the kitchen appliance as “meek-ro-wah-vay,” seemingly rhyming it with the title of one-hit-wonder Gerardo’s 1990 dance song “Rico Suave.”“Eternally grateful to Nigella Lawson for letting us know we’ve all been mispronouncing microwave for the last 50 (or so) years,” wrote one tweeter of her playful

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Tasting History,” his popular YouTube channel that explores international cuisine — and the history behind it.Miller, 37, answered some questions about “Tasting History” and about turning his idea into a full-blown enterprise.Relatively recently, actually. Until six years ago, I’d never even boiled an egg.

dine-asty.His son, Hunter Fieri — the self-proclaimed “Prince of Flavortown” — is ready to rock the frosted-tipped crown and take his place as a veritable Food Network star.“I work side by side with my dad. We’re best friends, we do everything together at this point,” the 24-year-old told The Post.

succo (sauce to Sicilians) at 10 AM, so that the could marinate for six full hours, resulting in a deliciously moist side dish (but that recipe is for another time). My grandma would always bring—and burn—the garlic , and my growing family of 15 would sit around the dinner table with a and good conversation for hours. I have continued this family tradition even after moving to New York, but sometimes a classic red sauce just isn't what you're craving every Sunday.

Taste the Nation, couldn’t come at a better time.

The Office, it’s probably the thing I do best.Baking became a reliable stress reliever, and in the week between May 25 and June 1, I made three loaves of cornbread as I turned to the kitchen to deal with the absolute onslaught of news, and the subsequent protests and actions that ignited around the world in a global call for justice in the face of institutional racism.

Rachael Ray says that producing live cooking segments for her daytime talk show during the pandemic, from her home in upstate New York, has worked better than she expected.

If you listen to anyone talk about , it should obviously be cook, talk show host, mogul, and EVOO term-coiner Rachael Ray.

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Kamala Harris cleans up messes—in the Senate, when some misguided person crosses her, and in the kitchen, where she's found comfort and solace since childhood. Now, with a pandemic raging, Harris is sharing her love of food on Instagram and perfecting the art of the tuna melt in the process.By can’t solve all her co-workers’ problems.

For a long time, I felt that pancakes were a dish best left to professionals.Certainly, a pancake recipe from a pre-made mix has a place of honor in the culinary world, like PopTarts or instant ramen. But at brunch in actual restaurants, the pancakes are so unforgettably good—so thick, cake-like, but dreamily light.

Have you ever looked at a foil-wrapped burrito and thought, “This is good, but what I’d really like is a cheesy pasta burger, covered in breakfast cereal?”Robert Pattinson, mega-star, is right there with you.The man who contains multitudes—Cedric Diggory, , and Batman, all in one bleach-colored body—contains yet one more: pasta innovator.