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...kind of--Do I look reporterly? Is that olive oil on my sleeve?--but DiSpirito, 36, is the kind of star chef who is as accustomed to the heat of floodlights as to that of a 30,000-BTU burner. Bedroom-eyed and sporting a dusting of stubble, DiSpirito runs Union Pacific, a paragon of gilded, inventive Manhattan dining. He is a regular on the Food Network and the Today show. Now he's hoping his two vocations will meld like orecchiette and broccoli rabe at his new restaurant, Rocco's, which doubles as the set of a reality...
...dream--not to mention his 78-year-old mother, who makes meatballs in the kitchen--to the all-seeing cameras of Mark Burnett, producer of Survivor? "I may be naive to say this," he says, "but I knew my second restaurant would be a highly scrutinized affair anyway--young chef, three-star restaurant down the block. The fact that cameras are running around doesn't make you feel any more scrutinized." Not if you're one of PEOPLE magazine's Sexiest Men Alive. The previous generation of celebrity chefs--Paul Prudhomme, Emeril Lagasse--became famous more on personality than looks...
DIED. TONY ROMA, 78, restaurant magnate, who opened his first barbecue shop with his partner, chef David Smith, in North Miami, Fla., in the 1970s and expanded it into an international empire; of cancer; in Hemet, Calif. His enterprise went global after a Texas financier, on a jaunt to the Super Bowl, dropped by Roma's eatery for a meal and wound up buying into the business. Today there are more than 225 Famous for Ribs restaurants scattered over five continents...
...Herbfarm in Woodinville, Wash., each day's menu is set only hours before the meal in order to take advantage of the day's harvest from the restaurant's 6,000-sq.-ft. garden. Chef Benjamin Ford maintains an organic garden in his backyard for his Beverly Hills, Calif., restaurant Chadwick, which is named for legendary gardener Alan Chadwick, the man who is credited with bringing biodynamic organic gardening...
...raft of grand juries declined to indict her for anything: not Whitewater, not Castle Grande, not missing billing records, not cattle futures. She occasionally leavened her approach with, well, a touch of Martha, giving a tour of the mansion at Christmas showcasing homemade ornaments, gushing over the pastry chef as he prepared a State Dinner, going on a heritage tour with Ralph Lauren, publishing a book on entertaining at the White House. But none of that rehabilitated her public image. It took her husband's humiliating, reckless affair to turn the tide. Even then, Hillary at first instinctively resisted...