Every season, Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen” teases viewers by casting a kitchen full of people who could barely flip burgers at a bus station lunch counter, let alone run a fancy restaurant. This gives chef Gordon Ramsay a chance to yell…

My prize-winning Baked Alaska.

Chef Gordon Ramsay was here this afternoon to talk about “Cookalong Live,” a new show he’s doing for Fox (Dec. 15) that will encourage viewers to cook with him. Fox’s idea was to get us to cook,…

Yes, I am having a nice vacation; thanks. But I’ve popped back in to give you an abbreviated version of this week’s “7 shows” — and honestly, it’s such a thin week, some of these probably won’t show up on…

Fox has announced the 16 contestants for the new season of “Hell’s Kitchen,” premiering July 21.
The winner gets a job at Araxi Restaurant in Whistler, British Columbia. Whistler is the venue for the 2010 Olympics.

Here are the 16, again divided…

How does anybody on the West Coast ever avoid spoilers? I’m in Los Angeles, where the TV Critics Association’s summer press tour started today, and rushed back to the room at 9 p.m. Pacific time to watch the “Hell’s Kitchen” finale.…

Wow, they really had to pad this thing to manage a two-part season finale. All the recaps at the start, and again in the middle, plus the completely extraneous trip to New York. Can you imagine anything Christina and Petrozza…

What not to do in “Hell’s Kitchen” — burn chef Ramsey. Twice. And that’s what Christina did in tonight’s episode (although I exaggerated today in saying EMS was called. Turned out all he needed was some cold water, even though…

Our girl Christina had a very good night on what I’m forced to think of as a buxom-beauties edition of “Hell’s Kitchen.” She won the first challenge, successfully teaching a “housewife” (and I can’t imagine where they found all these…

And it’s not called Hell’s Kitchen. The grand opening of the London West Hollywood was Wednesday night, as reported below by the AP. (Pictured: Gordon and Tana Ramsay at the opening, from Getty Images.)

That’s the restaurant where the “Hell’s Kitchen”…

They are jackhammering on my block, and the whole house is shaking — much worse than the recent earthquakes. Ameren contractors are burying a power line  that serves the streetlights and has kept going out. (This is the same work that…