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Nicole Krasinski and Stuart Brioza, the wife and husband chef team behind the wildly popular State Bird Provisions in San Francisco, are featured guests.

The longtime Chopped host and maker of delicious Italian food Scott Conant is the latest chef to share his Strong Opinions in our video series.

Scott Conant's version of Caesar salad is much more complex than what you'd expect from this classic dish. Watch him go to the next level in this new video.

We've been waiting a long time to tackle the recipes from Scott Conant's Scarpetta Cookbook. But before we dive head-first into the pasta, let's check out a classic Italian duck recipe. We know there's so much more to Italian cuisine. "As much as I love spaghetti, I do more than just make pasta," he says.…

We've been waiting a long time to tackle the recipes from Scott Conant's Scarpetta Cookbook. But before we dive head-first into the pasta, let's start with a classic Italian-inspired salad of bitter radicchio in a creamy-savory pine nut dressing. We're not barbarians, after all. "As much as I love spaghetti, I do more than just…

You might know Scott Conant best as the "tough judge" on cooking competition show Chopped, or as the spaghetti savant at Scarpetta — a style-plus-substance Italian restaurant that in 2008 was given three stars in The New York Times by critic Frank Bruni, a former Rome bureau chief and great arbiter of the Boot. Conant…

Life is filled with wonderful things and terrible things. During interviews, however, we pretty much only get to hear about the wonderful things. Ten Things I Hate is a chance for people in the food world to get things off their chest. We ask them what they hate, they give us a list. First up:…

[caption id="attachment_63351" align="alignnone" width="700" ] Clockwise: Michael Chiarello, Ed Lee with fans, sea-urchin fennel toast and dungeness crab salad from ink, Guy being a good Guy, the red carpet on the plaza of LA Live. [/caption] This weekend we decamped to Los Angeles for the 2nd Annual Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival, an upstart…

Chablis: no longer the yellowish wine in the oversized jug at the supermarket. No, not at all. This misunderstood French varietal — that's right, as in "not Chablis unless that's where it's from" — is making its U.S. resurgance as the haute food-pairing wine it was always meant to be. I recently attended a dinner…

Scott Conant, standing under a tent Thursday night at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, credits his new beard to his music tastes. "I've been listening to a lot of 'outlaw country,'" he says. The exact inspiration for letting his red beard flower? "Kris Kristofferson. I'm just way too into him." Kristofferson wrote, among…