The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

Larousse Gastronomique is a veritable dictionary of cooking terms for the French kitchen. If a chef were allowed only one book, this would have to be it.

In case you're wondering why Guy Fieri is here, he won a contest.

Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old.

The perfect recipe for a margarita is 2 ounces tequila, 2 ounces fresh lime juice, 1 ounce Cointreau, and a tiny splash of some kind of an agave or orange juice.

The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.