"pop candy" news and stories

I'm not sure how many of you Slashfoodies are fans of ABC's Lost (new episode tonight at 9pm), but there are some pretty devoted fans out there. As the photo on the right will prove.

It's a cake for the show made by USA Today reader "amypro." Pretty impressive. Not sure if the Oceanic plane is edible or not.

It's not the only Lost-related food items at the link above. Fans of the show made other food products for various Lost parties around the country. Check out the Dharma goods!

In an interview with Pop Candy this week, Paula revealed a few secrets about her life as a celebrity chef, now that she is the most watched personality on the Food Network. For example, with two restaurants to run in addition to her busy TV, book-writing, magazine-editing schedule, she and her family rarely eat at home, preferring to eat at one of her restaurants. She says she spends approximately $100,000 on food for both restaurants, one of which seats over 300 diners at a time. That is not stopping her from cooking Christmas dinner, though. Her table will be spread with a standing rib roast, green bean bundles, shrimp-stuffed twice-baked potatoes, salad and “everything that goes along with [those]”. The best meal she ate this year was not one of her own, but a romantic dinner with her husband in Paris’ George V at the Four Seasons.  Paula also has a new line of cookware in the works for 2006, along with a new biographical book.