Meet The Team / Catherine Donaldson-Evans

Nintendo is going to try to convince you to throw out your cookbooks. The game company just cooked up "America's Test Kitchen: Let's Get Cooking," which offers electronic step-by-step instructions for hundreds of recipes from the how-to TV show America's Test Kitchen.

Compatible with the Nintendo DS, DSi and just-released DSi XL, the software has cooks-in-training use its touch-screen technology to choose dishes to prepare, then divvies up tasks among family members or friends. Cartoon chefs talk you through each step of every recipe, and the program includes instructional videos on kitchen basics like chopping an onion and mincing garlic.

McDonald's fans may be lovin' it even more this summer if the fast-food chain's plan to sell sodas for $1 goes through.

Executives from both McDonald's and the Coca-Cola Co. have been trying to get franchises sweet on the deal at recent regional meetings, according to the Wall Street Journal. Hoping to become the place where people flock to buy beverages, McDonald's wants to offer sodas of any size for only $1.

The low prices will slash soft-drink profits at Golden Arches restaurants, which rely on soda sales as among their biggest moneymakers.

Though McDonald's has tried summer dollar-drink promotions in the past, it's pushing harder for the idea to stick this time around, two franchises told the Journal.

The sons of celebrity chef Paula Deen hope their new magazine will inspire a lot of good old-fashioned home cooking.

The quarterly created by Jamie and Bobby Deen and published by Hoffman Media just launched its first issue -- which features almost 100 recipes. And while Deen Bros. Good Cooking aims to get men into the kitchen, it also wants to bring families together around the dinner table.

"The recession can have some positive effects," Jamie Deen, 42, told Slashfood. "It's going to force people to not go out and eat fast food. We think eating at home is one of the first changes. Get everybody's feet back under the same table."

In that vein, the magazine he co-founded with his brother Bobby, 39, offers a series of simple recipes made with affordable, easy-to-find ingredients – like cheese and beer dip, Creole shrimp, pesto sirloin steak, shrimp and mushroom pasta, tilapia piccata and a grilled banana dessert.

"We're just showing people easy ways to cook good food that's good for you," Deen said. "We keep it real simple."

Hey, y'all, listen up! There's a new food magazine just for you fellas, created by none other than Paula Deen's boys.

The frosted blond TV chef's two sons, Jamie and Bobby, have launched their own quarterly magazine called Deen Bros. Good Cooking. Target audience? Men.

Hoffman Media, which already puts out the bimonthly Cooking with Paula Deen, will be the publisher for the 63-year-old Food Network host's boys, too. President and CEO Phyllis Hoffman tells Slashfood that Deen Bros. will aim to attract a "dual audience" of male and female readers, but will offer "light, easy recipes" that will likely "have strong appeal with men."

Bobby and Jamie Deen, who are 39 and 42, have made appearances on their mother's various Food Network shows over the years and hosted one themselves in 2006 called Road Tasted. When they're not in the public eye, the Deen brothers are in Savannah, Ga., running their mom's now-famous restaurant, The Lady and Sons.

Celebrity chef Bobby Flay will throw down $800,000 to restaurant workers who claim they were swindled out of wages and tips.

The TV star denies any wrongdoing in the case but said in court documents that he would rather pay a settlement than go to trial.

The money will be served up to waitstaff, bartenders, bussers and runners who worked at three of Flay's New York City restaurants -- Mesa Grill, Bar Americain and the now-closed Bolo -- between January 2003 and September 2009.