In the latest episode of her video series Tasty Life, Top Chef Season 4 winner Stephanie Izard visits a pig farm in Wisconsin in an attempt to learn where her food comes from. After witnessing a pig being slaughtered, she cooks a dish with the pig's tongue. (Warning: If pig guts make you feel squeamish, you may not want to watch this video.) Watch the video after the jump....
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"My manager has me on Twitter now, which reminds me, I should go update that." Yesterday, we caught up with Stephanie Izard, last season's Top Chef winner. She's a busy woman, opening her new Chicago restaurant, The Drunken Goat, this fall, doing some spokeswoman work for Quaker Oats, and launching a podcast next week. We thought it was only appropriate to have goat with her. So over a plate of slow-roasted goat in Manhattan, we got to the bottom of this curiously named restaurant of hers, among other things. Why a goat? And why so drunken? So it turns out my last name, Izard, is a type of goat found in the Pyrenees. Since I'm not the type to call...
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A photo of Stephanie Izard, the winning Chicagoan of last season's Top Chef, appeared on the show "What's Cookin' with the Republicans!" without her consent, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. The show features a cooking segment inside a local Chicago restaurant, followed by a roundtable discussion led by Cook County Republican Tony Peraica, who is also running for Cook County State's Attorney. The logo features Izard next to Peraica, but Peraica had no clue who she was. The show's producer and fellow Republican Dan Schmitt said he picked her because she resembled one of his old girlfriends, and overall, "looked generic."...
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