BooksMeet the chefs who fed some of the world’s most notorious dictatorsA new book features interviews with chefs who served Idi Amin, Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussein on how—and why—they cooked meals for a dictator
Society620 animals were killed in the making of this celebrity cookbookMario Batali, Susur Lee and Gordon Ramsay top a new report that ranks celebrity chefs based on the number of "sentient animal deaths" in their cookbooks
CultureJulia Child’s life in AmericaA follow-up from Alex Prud’homme on his aunt Julia Child, the original celebrity chef
LifeWhat Emeril needs is a good scandalAmerica’s least notorious chef is primed for a comeback—if he wants one
WorldNigella Lawson: Out in the openWhat happens when the dark side of an enviable marriage is made public, for all the world to see?
CultureWhat the pluck????How Gordon Ramsay’s embattled empire came to include a down-at-the-heels Montreal chicken joint