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Michelle Bernstein tries out new recipes at a culinary roundtable.

Here's the scenario: It's 8 p.m. and you're just leaving the office after a 12-hour marathon work session with the new boss. You're exhausted and hungry. In fact, the mere thought of even stopping to pick up a pizza is too taxing.

How does a salad prepared by Miami chef extraordinaire Michelle Bernstein sound? We may be exaggerating since Bernstein herself won't be showing up at your doorstep, but she is the face of Lean Cuisine's new Salad Additions line.

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Gordon Ramsay speaks with Amy and Samy before things get really bad.

Yesterday, the Internet completely blew up with the story of the war between Amy's Baking Company owners Amy and Samy and everyone on the planet earth (with the possible exception of some cats).

The Scottsdale, Arizona, restaurateurs have the dubious distinction of having Kitchen Nightmares host Gordon Ramsay walk out on them, before telling them they were "too far gone" (to which Amy replied, "Yala, yala... It's Christmas. Let's go home"). Of course, in the 40 minutes or so prior to that moment, we also watched Amy's husband Samy tell a customer to "get the f**k out of here," Amy fire an employee for asking a question, and the couple pocket the servers' tips.

After the show aired, Amy got busy on her business' Facebook page calling Yelpers "shit" and saying that God was on their side. The couple later claimed that their Facebook, Yelp, Twitter, and website had all been hacked.

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Travel Channel's George Motz eats a Latin Macho.

When burger aficionado George Motz ate at Miami's Latin Burger and Taco about three years ago, the owner of the popular pink-and-black food truck, Jim Heins immediately recognized him.

Motz, after all, is the man behind the documentary film Hamburger America and author of a book and blog of the same name. "Having George Motz try one of my burgers was an honor," Heins told Short Order, adding that after Motz finished chowing down on the truck's signature Latin Macho burger, made with caramelized onions and Oaxaca cheese, he asked if that burger was a "special," made to impress him. Heins recalls replying, "Nope. That's just what we make every day."

Motz must have really loved that sandwich because a few years later, Heins was asked to appear on the burger impresario's new Travel Channel show, Burger Land.

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Bourdain trying some curry chicken in Myanmar.

If one were to describe Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown, it would have to, quite simply, be "just like No Reservations -- with slow motion."

Bourdain has said that he left he Travel Channel and moved to CNN to gain access to places that he couldn't go to with No Reservations. There was never any expectation of something completely new -- he said many times that he would still "travel the world on his stomach" and his production crew remained the same.

So, the only marked difference we could see was the introduction of strange slow motion cutaways that suddenly speed up.

In the premiere episode, Bourdain travels to Myanmar. The country has just emerged from a 50 year information embargo and dictator regime and it's interesting and disturbing to see Bourdain question his hosts over dinner about prison sentences and their still-shaky futures.

When Tony meets journalist Thiha Saw for tea, he asks the newsman how he avoided jail. Turns out he didn't. It's after some uncomfortable silences, we realize that even though the country has been opened for Americans to come visit, not much has really changed for the people -- especially people who dare to talk back to the government.

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Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown premieres April 14.

Anthony Bourdain's CNN show, Parts Unknown, premieres this Sunday, April 14, at 9 p.m., and the cable network is all behind him.

Recently, the network placed a full-page ad in the New York Times "reintroducing" itself and featuring many of its headliners -- including Bourdain.

Bourdain has also been on many CNN shows in a cross-promotion campaign blitz. Most recently, he met with Wolf Blitzer to talk about Parts Unknown.

Bourdain said he would still "travel the world on my stomach," noting that food was usually his first introduction to a place.

But the chef/writer said that CNN is allowing him to travel to exotic locales such as Myanmar, Congo, Libya, and Grenada, Spain ("I'm not getting combat pay for that one," Bourdain quipped).

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Michael Reidt and Emeril find common ground in their birthplace and their cooking.

Sure, Emeril Lagasse is best known for his ties to New Orleans. But the chef, who was born in Massachusetts to a Canadian father and Portuguese mother, clearly loves Florida.

His Cooking Channel show Emeril's Florida has documented the celebrity chef's travels throughout the Sunshine State in search of the best culinary masterpieces and most authentic down-home spots.

This Sunday, Emeril heads to Miami, where he visits Vizcaya and the Miami Seaquarium before spending some time with three of our city's finest chefs.

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Rick Ross fist bumps Jeremiah Bullfrog in a new Reebok commercial.

Jeremiah Bullfrog has a lot on his plate, but that doesn't mean the chef and food truck owner has no time for old friends -- especially when that old friend happens to be Rick Ross.

The rapper recently filmed a Reebok commercial in which a chef plays a prominent role in the story line.

Who better to play your personal chef than your personal chef in real life?

Bullfrog, who owns the food truck GastroPod still cooks for the rapper "whenever he asks."

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Chef Cara Thompson is hosting a Chopped watch party at SushiSamba.

Another Miami chef is facing off on Food Network's Chopped.

SushiSamba sous-chef Cara Thompson will battle three other chefs in an episode titled "Redemption Intention." Each contestant has been a runnerup on the popular cooking competition, which features picnic baskets filled with freaky foods designed to trip up the chefs.

The episode -- which airs tonight, Wednesday, March 19, at 10 p.m. -- will feature a "precooked protein and a slimy sea creature" as the mystery items.

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Bourdain is a cartoon -- again.

Anthony Bourdain, author, chef, comic-book writer, and TV host is making a cartoon appearance tonight. Bourdain portrays celebrity chef Lance Casteau, owner of "Hellish Kitchen" on the FX animated show Archer.

In the episode, titled "Live and Let Dine," secret agents Archer, Lana, and Cyril go undercover in the nasty chef's kitchen, where a food fight of epic proportions goes down.

This is Bourdain's second cartoon cameo. Previously, he played himself on an episode of The Simpsons.

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Eddie Huang and Jada Stevens.

The first part of Eddie Huang's Fresh Off The Boat Miami episode airs today on YouTube and starts with the New York chef and author riding around on the Bang Bus with Jada Stevens, discussing how she's stays fit, what she eats before a shoots and cutting a scene with an average Joe.

When Vice magazine offered Huang the chance to go anywhere to film the show, he said Miami was one of the first cities he wanted to visit.

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