The New York Police Department revealed that a “suicidal note” was left in the primary bedroom of the Food Network star’s Brooklyn, N.Y., home, dated June 17, 2025 — the day she died — according to a ...

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Once Armandino Batali retired, he had time to go back to school, intern and start his business. Generations of his family members had been in the food industry. His grandfather Angelo Merlino founded ...

Melissa McCart is the lead editor of the Northeast region with more than 20 years of experience as a reporter, critic, editor, and cookbook author. Casa Azul, the Park Slope Mexican restaurant that’s ...

Babbo, the once-great flagship restaurant from once-great Mario Batali, is back with a new owner and a new chef — and, maybe hard to believe, it’s better than the fabled original. Babbo limped on ...

Effortless, speedy and creative, these pantry pastas turn weeknights into a party. By Melissa Clark Melissa Clark cooks midnight pasta about once a week — but never past 10 p.m. “Midnight pasta” has a ...

Before the age of social media, Giada De Laurentiis helped create the blueprint for modern culinary multi-hyphenate women as a Food Network host, cookbook author and chef. But she says her road to ...

Giada De Laurentiis is slamming disgraced chef Mario Batali. The former Food Network star appeared on Samah Dada's "On the Menu" YouTube show and detailed how she wanted the now-embattled Batali to ...

Sometimes the kitchen is too hot for more than one chef at a time, sparking feuds between Food Network mainstays. “He’s really the main guy I had worked with. He’s a legend in the Italian space,” De ...

Giada De Laurentiis recently explained why Mario Batali’s original foreword for her first cookbook made her cry. De Laurentiis opened up to food blogger and cookbook author Samah Dada in an episode of ...

“When I read it, I cried," the former Food Network star recalled during an interview on 'On the Menu' Ethan Miller/Getty; Eugene Gologursky/WireImage Giada De Laurentiis is speaking out about Mario ...