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 ...

You’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. It’s nearly impossible to eat a meal at Babbo, the recently revived ...

Mark Ladner, a master of Italian cooking and a Batali protégé, is reinventing the Manhattan restaurant under the same famous (and infamous) name. “There is a lot to celebrate” in Babbo’s legacy, said ...

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 ...

The chef made the accusation in an interview on the YouTube show "On the Menu." Before the age of social media, Giada De Laurentiis helped create the blueprint for modern culinary multi-hyphenate ...

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 ...

Food Network star Giada De Laurentiis has recalled chef Mario Batali making inappropriate comments about her appearance in the foreword to her cookbook. “He’s really the main guy I’d worked with, and ...

Giada De Laurentiis opened up about some of the adversity she faced as a woman trying to make it in the food space early in her career -- accusing Mario Batali of focusing more on her body than her ...

Giada De Laurentiis had a bad experience with Mario Batali. The Food Network star, 54, recently appeared on Samah Dada’s YouTube show, “On the Menu,” and recalled asking now-disgraced chef Mario ...