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Day: March 21, 2011

Arizona shut out again as James Beard Award finalists announced

Finalists for the 2011 James Beard Awards, the culinary world’s equivalent to the Oscars, have just been announced, and Arizona laid a giant goose egg. Again. Kevin Binkley (left) of Binkley’s Restaurant in Cave Creek, Silvana Salcido Esparza (right) of

Soy sorry: Beau MacMillan gets ‘Chopped’

Elements chef Beau MacMillan survived just two rounds Sunday night on the Food Network’s “Chopped All-Stars,” bowing out with his entree course. The competition pitted MacMillan, an “Iron Chef America” victor and former co-host of the network’s “Worst Cooks in