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Anthony Bourdain Goes to Gaza

CNN didn’t want him to air this. He fought for it.

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The Chicken Salad War

Available Friday, June 13th!

Many years ago, I was hired to serve as the personal chef to the royal family of Askazer-Shivadlakia, a small nation I did not know well.

I had advertised my services as an elite personal chef, and had many offers, but the Shivadh king swayed me because of what he told me when we met: that he had only a passing interest in gourmet food, and that he was hiring the best chef he could find not as a status symbol or from personal desire, but as a gift for his wife on the occasion of their fifteenth wedding anniversary. I was charmed by such a gesture, explained in the king's excellent French, and pleased that he was interested to hire my brother Hugo as sommelier, a position which had been open for some time.

King Michaelis and his wife Queen Miranda had a little boy of four, and the family had suffered a tragedy which meant they sometimes cared for a young girl the same age, their son's cousin. I knew I had chosen my new job well when, arriving in the kitchen for the first time, two solemn little children were waiting to greet me in prattling French.

Coming next Friday, the newest Shivadh romance!

Simon LeFevre, chef to the royal family, has spent thirty years looking after the Palace children, and now their children's children. This year, in addition to his domestic duties, he's sitting on the planning committee for the Reclamation Day Festival, overseeing the food tents and cooking competition. Unfortunately he's been partnered up for the project with the city's newest chef, Mr. Ylias Lazaar, with whom he's already clashed over...ricotta.

Ylias, glad to be home where nobody blinks much at a woman who prefers male honorifics, is opening her own restaurant at last, and enjoys putting Simon on the back foot. When she claims she could improve on the curried chicken salad he served for Prince Noah's graduation party, they decide they'll both enter the yearly cooking competition -- and may the best man win.

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The Chicken Salad War will be posted to Archive Of Our Own, one chapter per day, beginning on June 13th; the entire text will also be made available in google docs. Both version will be linked here, day by day, starting on the 13th.

The author invites commentary and criticism so that he may edit the book appropriately ahead of publishing it as hardcopy, ebook, and PDF later this summer.

Stay tuned!

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Chefs

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Kelis enjoying some fresh made chapati in the kitchen of a Kenyan restaurant

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Chefs in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany

German vintage postcard

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Easy Spice Combos For Different Flavor Profiles

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This is when Gordon Ramsey *seriously* yells at you.

Ethnic Cleansing lifestyle cooking should not be a thing.

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I love the genuine joy on Kristen Kish's face as she announces that Tristen just became the newest Top Chef!! ❤️ I knew that he was going to win at the beginning of the season because he was so talented and passionate about his cooking!! During the season, his father passed away. His dad sent him to the competition on his death bed because he knew that his son would win. Tristen was so happy when he won because it made him feel that his dad was smiling down on him, and he was proud of him. I'm proud of him, too. He's a great chef and a very nice man. Congratulations 🎊 Tristen!!

Tristen comes from Trinidadian roots and he focuses on black ethnic cuisine. He feels that he has shown people how great that food is, and i think that he did just that!! He always put a part of himself into everything that he made. His love of food and his heritage are what made him stand out from the other chefs. I want to try some of the food that he made. It looked delicious 😋 😍

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Beautiful Kitchens. 💜🖤

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Virginie Basselot

Virginie Basselot was born in 1979 in Normandy, France. Basselot's culinary career began when she was fifteen years old, and she went on to work at Paris' finest restaurants. In 2014, while working at Saint James Paris, she earned her first Michelin star. In 2015, Basselot was named Meilleur Ouvrier de France, the second woman to receive this prestigious honor since it was created in 1924. In 2018, she became head chef at Le Negresco Hotel, where she oversees its Michelin-starred restaurant The Chantecler.

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