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Known as the signature grape of Chile, Carmenere has had a fascinating history in this viticulturally diverse country. Rich flavors of ripe fruits and spice balance smooth and well-rounded tannins; Carmenere pairs with red meats and complex spicy dishes.

Nestled in the heart of West Hollywood, Fruute is destined to be the next dessert shop craze selling deliciously inventive mini-tarts that are both tasty and little works of art.

The result is the 2,438-page, six-volume, 46-pound, $625 "Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking." Astonishing in its scope, audacious in its ambition and breathtaking in its photography, the work traces the development of cooking.

The OutGourmet, New York City’s first official gay cooking class, is serving up a puu-puu platter of top-notch evenings of culinary wisdom and social networking. EDGE guest correspondent Matthew Wexler recently attended a class to learn how to handle his meat- among other things.

Two stars of the reality TV show "I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here" have been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly killing and cooking a rat to eat during filming.

Is cooking really like religion, as the old saying goes? Or is it even better? Can a blueberry pie, like the animal sex celebrated in the Nine Inch Nails song, "get [us] closer to God?"