Restaurants say no to cell use while dining

Tired of seeing diners playing video games or texting and ignoring their dining companions, some restaurants are banning cell phone use at the table. WCBS reporter Jessica Layton has the story.

• Aug 31, 2018
• 1:39

The Dish: Savannah's Mashama Bailey

Her Savannah restaurant, The Grey, was named one of the world's greatest places to eat and drink by Time magazine

• Aug 25, 2018

Inside Mario Carbone's kitchen at The Grill

Formed eight years ago, the Major Food Group now operates some of the most iconic restaurants in New York. Dana Jacobson joins chef Mario Carbone in the kitchen of The Grill to taste test his dishes.

• Aug 18, 2018
• 2:26

Bon Appétit reveals its list of the country's 10 best new restaurants

Sitting in the No.1 spot is a small, tasting-menu restaurant tucked away in Oklahoma City

• Aug 14, 2018

Impact of Bon Appétit Hot 10 on NC restaurant

Bon Appétit magazine is revealing its 2018 Hot 10, their annual list of the country's best new restaurants. It's a distinction that changes the lives of restaurant owners. Joe and Katy Kindred learned that first hand when their eatery was named No. seven on the list back in 2015. Bon Appétit called Kindred a "casual southern restaurant that studied abroad." The Hot 10 helped the restaurant thrive and enabled the couple to open a second restaurant nearby.

• Aug 14, 2018
• 2:09

Taste-testing Replica Wines: How do knockoffs stack up to the originals?

Science is helping to replicate popular vintages by closely studying their flavor profiles in the lab and then selling them at a reduced price

• Aug 11, 2018

U.S. vineyards need foreign workers

A longstanding federal program allows farms and vineyards to temporarily hire foreign workers when they can't find Americans. But the booming economy has some worried about a labor shortage. Rarione Maniece of CBS affiliate WCAV-TV reports.

• Aug 10, 2018
• 2:48

On the hunt with truffle-sniffing dogs

Forget pigs; canines are the latest animals to be trained to search for the fragrant fungus

• Aug 5, 2018

The Dish: Chef John Currence

If you're destined to become a chef, the food-centric city of New Orleans isn't a bad place to grow up. John Currence was born and raised there by a family that loved to cook and loved to travel. After cooking jobs around the South, Currence settled in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1992 and opened City Grocery. It won him the 1992 James Beard Award for Best Chef in the South. Now his City Grocery Restaurant Group includes Big Bad Breakfast with locations in four states. That's also the title of his second and most recent cookbook.

• Aug 4, 2018
• 4:57

"Big Bad Breakfast" with chef John Currence

The Southern food chef now has Big Bad Breakfast locations in four states

• Aug 4, 2018

The Dish: Seattle chef Edouardo Jordan

Chef Edouardo Jordan grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida, and was often pressed into kitchen duty by his mother and grandmother. But soon, he grew inspired and after college headed off to culinary school. After jobs at some of the nation's top restaurants, including The French Laundry and Per Se, he broke out on his own with Seattle's celebrated Salare. Last year he opened JuneBaby and featured foods of the South. In May, the James Beard Foundation named it the nation's Best New Restaurant and named Jordan Best Chef in the Northwest.

• Jul 28, 2018
• 4:42

Meet the couple behind Ample Hills Creamery

When a young couple opened a little ice cream shop in Brooklyn, New York seven years ago, it was an immediate hit with local residents. But that was just the beginning for Ample Hills Creamery. Their inventive flavors, each with a creative backstory, developed a cult following. “CBS This Morning: Saturday” co-host Michelle Miller sits down with the husband and wife duo behind it all.

• Jul 28, 2018
• 4:39

The Dish: Chef Edouardo Jordan brings the South to Seattle

In May, the James Beard Foundation named Jordan Best Chef in the Northwest

• Jul 28, 2018

The Dish: Boston chef Kevin O'Donnell

Rhode Island native Kevin O'Donnell attended the famed Johnson and Wales Culinary Institute before heading off to Italy for a cooking internship. While there, he met fellow chef Michael Lombardi and the two became fast friends as well as cooking collaborators. The pair went on to work at the same restaurant kitchens in Italy, France and New York, before heading back to their native New England. Last year in Boston's South End, they opened their dream restaurant, SRV, specializing in the regional food of the city of Venice.

• Jul 21, 2018
• 5:06

The Dish: Boston chef Kevin O'Donnell

O'Donnell and his partner opened his dream restaurant specializing in the regional food of Venice last year in Boston's South End

• Jul 21, 2018

A Taste of Summer: Shanghai's soup dumplings

A must-try food on any tour of Shanghai is the city's heralded "xialongbao" - pork dumplings injected with soup

• Jul 15, 2018

The Dish: Janine Booth

Australian chef Janine Booth was born into a family of restaurant owners. Inspired by the food of her country's many cultures, she decided to become a chef and started her career in Miami. Eventually, she took her love of southern cuisine north to New York City and in 2014, she and partner Jeff McInnis opened Root and Bone celebrating Southern fare and country comforts. They followed up with a second branch in Miami Beach and last year added Stiltsville Fish Bar offering locally-sourced seafood in Miami's Sunset Harbor neighborhood.

• Jul 14, 2018
• 5:13

Janine Booth's recipes for Southern comfort

The Australian-born chef is behind New York City restaurant Root and Bone

• Jul 14, 2018

The Dish: Israeli chef Alon Shaya

Born in Israel and raised in Philadelphia, Alon Shaya loved helping his mother cook but it was a high school home economics teacher who spotted his talent and encouraged him to make cooking a career. After training as a chef and working around the country, he opened his namesake Shaya in New Orleans. The restaurant was an instant hit and won him James Beard Awards for Best New Restaurant and Best Chef in the South. Now, he's opened Saba in New Orleans and this summer opens Safta in Denver. He also has a new cookbook called “Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Journey Back to Israel.”

• Jul 7, 2018
• 4:51

The Dish: Israeli chef Alon Shaya

It was a high school home economics teacher who spotted his talent and encouraged him to make cooking a career

• Jul 7, 2018

Samuelsson showcases kitchens of immigrants

Award-winning chef Marcus Samuelsson immigrated to the United States and opened a successful restaurant, Red Rooster. Now he hosts "No Passport Required," a new show on PBS that showcases the kitchens of America's immigrants. Samuelsson joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss humanizing the conversation around immigrants in America.

• Jul 6, 2018
• 4:15

The Inn at Little Washington's recipe for success

Over 40 years, chef Patrick O'Connell's vision, persistence, and humor have built a two-star Michelin restaurant and five-star hotel in rural Virginia

• Jul 2, 2018

Inn at Little Washington's 40th anniversary

Before it was a world-famous restaurant, the Inn at Little Washington was just a rundown gas station in a town with fewer than 200 people. Now the rural Virginia eatery is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Jan Crawford sat down with the chef and founder, Patrick O'Connell.

• Jul 2, 2018
• 5:24

Ketchup, a sweet and sour love story

But not everyone loves the ubiquitous condiment that seems to go with everything

• Jul 1, 2018

The Dish: Chef Todd Richards

Born in Chicago, chef Todd Richards loved the traditional dishes his parents and grandmother cooked. After a move to Atlanta, he worked at top venues around the South including the Four Seasons and Ritz-Carlton hotels before opening Atlanta's Richards' Southern Fried. Now, he's out with a brand new cookbook, "Soul: A Chef's Culinary Evolution in 150 Recipes." The prestigious Michelin guide says it "expands the definition of soul food" and "gives a glimpse of what it will be in the future." Richards joins "CBS This Morning: Saturday" to discuss his culinary journey.

• Jun 30, 2018
• 5:01

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