Because last weekend's Alec Baldwin-starring installment of Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa was such a hit around these parts—and because why the hell not—I decided to recap yesterday's all-new episode! Picture this: Ina and Jeffrey in a steak throwdown.

Are you a yuppie who cares about Mark Bittman ending his recipe column? You may enjoy his 25 favorite recipes

Chef Martin Yan is the host of the completely awesome favorite show of my childhood, Yan Can Cook. And boy can he! Here, watch as Yan teaches us how to "relax" (read: molest) a chicken before attempting to bone it.

Taiwanese restaurateur and chef Wang Cong-yuan sells what's generally agreed to be the world's most expensive bowl of noodles—a $324 beef dish that he says people order every day. What, exactly, goes into a $324 noodle bowl?

In the most aggressive season to date, Nona and Russell battled through sabotage, near fistfights, and incompetent teammates to make it this far. However, when the winner is finally announced, the second place chef doesn't take it gracefully at all.

One day after her Manhattan book signing (which I went to!), Ina Garten stopped by The Today Show this morning to prepare a delicious and easy meal—complete with jokes about breasts and nuts! How bad can that be?

Today on Martha, Andy Samberg dropped in to help Martha Stewart make a mean Baked Alaska. The two did it while wearing winter coats, discussing Andy's eating habits, and the amount of body hair he was rocking underneath the parka.

First of all, let the turkey rest for 45 minutes to keep the juices in. Also good - pouring hot chicken stock over the slices afterward. That will fool everyone. Turkeys don't always cut this neatly, but it's worth watching.

Tonight, Martha Stewart visited Stephen Colbert for quite the entertaining segment. Stewart talked about having her DNA taken/preserved and killing drunk turkeys with her bare hands—among other things—and also made gross hors d'oeuvres with Colbert. Video highlights inside.

This morning Ken Jeong, everyone's favorite Spanish teacher, stopped by the Rachael Ray Show to promote Community. In a delightful twist he decided to stick around a bit longer for the cooking segment. Watch and enjoy the awesomeness that followed.

Writer Monica Gaudio was surprised to see an old article of hers appear in Cooks Source, a "publication for food lovers in Western New England." So she wrote the magazine's editor to ask how they got it. The reply: insanity.

The single most popular class at Harvard this fall: "Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science." Basically a cooking class! I know, right? I would have guessed "How to Get Laid for Dorks," LOL. [Boston Globe]

Baking pot brownies is fun, but have you ever cooked up a batch with your parents? That's a little weird, right? Well, it's quite the opposite for one young man and his father: "We spend our bonding time making brownies."

On last night's premiere episode of TLC tailgate cooking show Kick Off Cook Off—inexplicably hosted by a food-refusing Erin Andrews—the judges invited a contestant to eat her own food. She choked and retched into a trash can.

After dropping some fish on the floor, Martha casually tosses it into the pot, as Todd reassures us that any dirt will be "cooked off," and Martha claims to have the "cleanest studio on Earth." The audience sounds skeptical.

Jacob Isom—the rattail-coiffed hero who swiped a Koran from right-wing fanatics and ran—has a dream. "I want to be in High Times," he told me by telephone. Then he showed me a t-shirt screenprinted with his face.

The southern Serbian town of Leskovac attempted to make the world's biggest hamburger: their burger weighed 112 pounds, with a 5.9-foot diameter. Unfortunately, that's nothing compared to the current world-record holder: a 178-pound Australian burger.

Here's a video for The William, an electric, touchscreen stovetop concept with 1,500 honeycombs that are individually activated when they come in contact with a pot or pan—and which can be controlled/customized meticulously. This. Is. Awesome.

Being the executive chef at Osama bin Laden's "Star of Jihad" base was once considered a stepping stone to bigger things, but Ibrahim al-Qosi got 14 years in Gitmo for running the kitchen there. He's expected to serve two years.

On the season finale, a winner was crowned and Gordon Ramsey got a head chef for his new restaurant. However, Holly and Jay, the top two chefs still haven't had enough private time all season to act on their hormones.