MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Buddha Lo's pavlova will someday travel "miles and miles" on a NASA mission. Lo, a cheftestant on the Bravo competition "Top Chef: Houston," won the show's space food challenge.

Looking at the schmoozing guests at the Met Gala cocktail reception, TV host James Corden summed up the scene in a word: “Classy.”.

Keke Palmer, who co-hosted Vogue's official Met Gala livestream, didn't appear to be a fan of the plant-based menu served at the event.

There were enough tennis stars inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art at Monday's Met Gala, it seemed, to play a tournament.

This image shows the logo for Epicurious, a resource site for home cooks. Since July, Epicurious has been scouring 55 years' worth of recipes from a variety of Conde Nast magazines. (Epicurious via AP)NEW YORK – With a new Black editor in chief and ambitious promises to do better, a little corner of the Conde Nast universe is taking on racial and cultural injustice one recipe at a time. “It came after Black Lives Matter, after a lot of consciousness-raising among the editors and staff," said David Tamarkin, the white digital director for Epicurious. The bulk of Epicurious site traffic goes to the archive, mostly recipes but also articles and other editorial work, Tamarkin and Chopra said.

TRAVERSE CITY, MICH. -- Amical, the cozy restaurant that’s been a fixture of downtown Traverse City for more than two decades, has announced the return of its popular annual cookbook dinner series. The series features a week-long dinner menu consisting of recipes from one specially selected cookbook, with a different cookbook featured each month throughout the winter and early spring. “We just love being able to do this for people.”This year’s cookbook dinner series schedule is as follows. January 4-10: “Pok Pok” by Andy Ricker. From his flagship restaurant Pok Pok, in Portland, Chef Ricker shows us why he is considered one of the leading American voices on Thai cooking.

According to the University of California, 41% of Black-owned businesses have shuttered since February, compared to 17% of White-owned businesses. In fact, Black-owned businesses entered the lockdown in less secure shape than many other companies. Susan Watts | NY Daily News | Getty ImagesThat impact inspired the founders of Black Restaurant Week to bring their campaign to New York City for the first time in its five-year history. The goal of Black Restaurant Week is to create awareness and sustainability for Black-owned businesses. "This community was overlooked for far too long," said Falayn Ferrell, co-founder of the Black Restaurant Week initiative.

Samuelsson, co-founder of Red Rooster in New York City's Harlem neighborhood, specifically referenced the so-called RESTAURANTS Act from Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore. The legislation would provide $120 billion targeted toward independent restaurants in the U.S., offering grants to put toward payroll and other operating costs. The $120 billion relief bill passed the House last Thursday as part of the larger $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus legislation. However, a second round of the Paycheck Protection Program is believed to be a key pillar of any future coronavirus relief legislation. "It's not so much about getting this bill passed in terms of, 'we want another loan.'

Web extra: Marcus Samuelsson came to America as a young man with $300 in his pocket. The celebrity chef, cookbook author and owner of Red Rooster Harlem in New York City talks to Jane Pauley about how he worked to make his culinary dreams a reality.

In this web extra, the celebrity chef talks with Jane Pauley about how he was determined to open a restaurant that was "a little more democratic," and how the 9/11 attacks prompted that decision.

Award-winning chef Marcus Samuelsson is adventurous, creative and the author of five wide-ranging books on food and cooking. He's lived around the world and now lives in Harlem, where he'll be inviting top chefs for a unique food festival next month. He joins "CBS This Morning: Saturday" for The Dish.