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☆ I am a 'Chopped' champion. Here are 10 things even superfans don't know about the show.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Brooke Siem | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

I'm a Food Network "Chopped" champion, and I was surprised by a few things when I was on the show. AdvertisementArguably one of the most successful cooking-competition shows of all time, Food Network's "Chopped" is a television phenomenon — which is why I'm still surprised I won. Here are 10 things that surprised me about the "Chopped" competition that even die-hard fans don't know. AdvertisementAs legend has it, there's one bowl in the "Chopped" kitchen that spells doom for the chef who uses it. Food NetworkWhether you get chopped after the appetizer round or win the whole thing, all the "talking-head" interviews on "Chopped" are filmed after your competition is over.

Persons: —, I'm, There's, Ted Allen, David Lang, there's, it's, Zac Young, Maneet Chauhan, Katrina Markoff, doesn't Organizations: Food, Service

This is a season of transition for two of New York’s most important arts institutions. And Jaap van Zweden, the New York Philharmonic’s music director since 2018, starts his final year in the position with help from Yo-Yo Ma, Steve Reich and Schubert. Grand orchestras like the Chicago Symphony and Staatskapelle Berlin at Carnegie Hall; the Emerson String Quartet’s farewell; and premieres by Kate Soper and Ted Hearne are among the other highlights coming this fall. And Matthew Ozawa’s staging for Detroit Opera aims to be a corrective to stereotypes about Japanese women and culture (Oct. 7-15). DEATH OF CLASSICAL The impresario Andrew Ousley’s bleakly winking concert series, performed in crypts and catacombs, includes the Calidore Quartet, which will present Beethoven’s Op.

Persons: Jake Heggie’s, Malcolm X ”, Florencia, Jaap van Zweden, Ma, Steve Reich, Schubert, Kate Soper, Ted Hearne, Phil Chan, Matthew Ozawa’s, PERELMAN, ”, Mahani Teave, Andrew Ousley’s bleakly, Lowell Liebermann’s, Maxim Lando, Bach’s “ Goldberg, Hanzhi Wang, David Lang’s Pulitzer, “ Organizations: Metropolitan Opera, York, Chicago Symphony, Berlin, Carnegie Hall, Emerson Colonial Theater, Detroit Opera, Trinity Church Wall, Easter Locations: el Amazonas, Boston, American

☆ KKR pours itself a thirst-quencher deal Down Under
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Trading information for KKR & Co is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., August 23, 2018. On Friday the U.S. asset manager said it had agreed to sell its 80% stake in Australian Venue to fellow private equity firm PAG six years after buying the pubs group. That means KKR has poured itself a tasty – and possibly frothy - internal rate of return. Assume KKR funded half the original acquisition with debt, and it increases to 32%. KKR’s local private equity boss David Lang and his team deserve a drink.

Persons: Brendan McDermid, that’s, That’s, David Lang, Antony Currie, Coinbase’s, Una Galani, Thomas Shum Organizations: KKR, New York Stock Exchange, REUTERS, Rights MELBOURNE, Reuters, X, Thomson Locations: New York, U.S, New Zealand

☆ J&J secures dismissal of whistleblower case over misuse of confidential info
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Brendan Pierson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

FILE PHOTO: The Johnson & Johnson logo is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., May 29, 2019. Montecalvo was joined by Chief Judge David Barron and Circuit Judge Kermit Lipez. The devices became the subject of more than 10,000 product liability lawsuits consolidated before a federal judge in Texas. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. For plaintiffs: Ross Morrison of YankwittFor J&J: Adam Tarosky of Nixon PeabodyRead more:J&J hip implant whistleblower case tossed over confidential info misuse

Persons: Johnson, Brendan McDermid, J, Judge Page Kelley, Antoni Nargol, David Langton, Lara Montecalvo, Montecalvo, David Barron, Kermit Lipez, Langton, DePuy, Nargol, Ross Morrison, Yankwitt, Adam Tarosky, Nixon Peabody Read Organizations: Reuters, Johnson, New York Stock Exchange, REUTERS, 1st U.S, Circuit, Appeals, Inc, U.S . Food, Drug Administration, & $ Locations: New York, U.S, Boston, Texas, Nargol, United States, 1st

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