Gourmet Magazine's own food maven, Ruth Reichl, had little to say of Condé Nast's decision to close down Gourmet. Thank God for Twitter. Without Reichl's Tweets, we wouldn't see her personal side the last few days.

As the culinary world deals with the distasteful news of Gourmet Magazine's demise, Cookie, Condé Nast's parenting magazine is also taking a major hit.

Food Porn worshipers worldwide are shocked. At almost 70 years old, Gourmet Magazine, reported to be the nation's oldest food magazine, is
sadly closing its glossy magazine. Also shutting down are Modern Bride, Elegant Bride and Cookie.

Harris Teeter offers to enter for a chance to win $2,500 cash or a $500 Harris Teeter gift card by submitting an online video recipes.

A nice bottle of wine, flowers, candlelight dinner and some sweets is a great way to set the mood for a wonderful evening with someone special. But with careful thought what you serve for dinner can make the night a little bit more special. There is a possibility that certain foods increase your sex drive and some that may actually hurt it.

The Roof Terrace Restaurant at the Kennedy Center joins forces with Maryland’s own Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard to welcome fall with a celebration of local wines and the season’s freshest bounties. On Wednesday, October 7th at 7:00 p.m., the restaurant alongside the local vineyard will host a delectable four-course wine dinner featuring specially crafted fare by Chef de Cuisine Vatche Benguian paired with Sugarloaf’s finest local wines.

Italian researchers report that the Mediterranean diet may help people with type 2 diabetes stay off blood sugar-lowering medications.

Man vs Food host Adam Richman continues today his journey across America testing food from around the nation. Currently Man vs Food is running on Travel Channel across America. He will tell us more about food in America on August 5. In the meanwhile, let's see what has been on today in Richman's gourmet travels hour by hour.

Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, shows that exposing rats to a context associated with eating chocolate activates a part of the brain’s reward system known as the orexin system.

New research led by the University of Cincinnati (UC) suggests that the hunger hormone ghrelin is activated by fats from the foods we eat—not those made in the body—in order to optimize nutrient metabolism and promote the storage of body fat.

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