Martha Stewart shocked a lunch crowd last week in New York City when she was dishing out dumplings in Chelsea during taping of the series “Martha.”
During a four-hour taping at Rickshaw Dumpling Bar on West 23rd Street, Stewart donned a white chef’s hat. She steamed and fried three styles of the Chinese treats, wiped counters and suggested chef Anita Lo add a spicier hot sauce to the menu, the New York Daily News reported. Stewart’s new series debuts Sept. 12.
Nigella Lawson can cook, but to spice up her new British talk/culinary show, celebrity guests are being offered an unprecedented appearance fee of almost $4,000 to appear.
The London Evening-Standard reported other culinary shows have refused to pay guests.
But producers of the show, which debuted Monday, in an e-mail offered to pay for a 75-minute appearance and were told guests would be “spoilt rotten” with “full VIP treatment.”
Bob Dylan rose to prominence playing coffeehouses in New York’s Greenwich Village. Soon he will be pitching a new CD at Starbucks, MTV.com reports.
Dylan and the coffee juggernaut agreed to an exclusive distribution of his bootleg CD, “Bob Dylan: Live at the Gaslight 1962.”
– Compiled by Greg Henry from wire and Internet reports
