Clear the Shelters, a nationwide pet adoption drive to help animals in need finding loving homes, will take place on Saturday, August 19. This year’s event hosts, celebrity chef Katie Lee and Beth Stern, stopped by the “Today Show” to talk about the initiative. They also brought along a few rescues from North Shore Animal League America in Port Washington,...

Former “Top Chef” Fatima Ali says she has a year to live. The 29-year-old underwent surgery to remove a tumor in January. However, Ali wrote Tuesday in an essay for Bon Appetit that the “cancer cells my doctors believed had vanished are back with a vengeance in my left hip and femur bone.” Ali says her oncologist told her she...

As firefighters in Northern California’s wine country race to contain the devastating Kincade Fire that has ripped through more than 76,000 acres and destroyed 86 homes, a group of well-known Bay Area chefs have come together to feed the thousands of displaced evacuees and first responders.

Chef Jamie Roraback makes a skillet of potato skins with turkey, sweet onions and cheddar cheese.

Chef Chris Prosperi makes a turkey-vegetable frittata.

Chef and Owner of Metro Bis Christopher Prosperi showed us how to make the healthy and satisfying salad.

Laura Grimmer, chef and owner at The Perfect Pear, showed us how to make this new take on party dip.

Laura Grimmer, chef and owner at The Perfect Pear, showed us how to make this new take on party dip.

The watch towers, double-locked doors and video surveillance in the Chinese camps are there “to prevent escapes.” Uighurs and other minorities held inside are scored on how well they speak the dominant Mandarin language and follow strict rules on everything down to bathing and using the toilet, scores that determine if they can leave. “Manner education” is mandatory, but “vocational...

The Que Whiskey Kitchen Turkey Drive is November 21 from 3 – 6pm at the restaurant in Southington.

Chef Jamie Roraback makes spicy roasted potato soup with cheddar cheese.

Chef Chris Prosperi makes butternut squash and quinoa salad.

ABC’s “Fresh Off the Boat” is coming to an end after six seasons. The network said Friday that the comedy about an Asian American family in the 1990s will wrap with an hour-long finale.

Warm up with this polenta recipe from Chef Chris Prosperi from Metro Bis.

Warm up with this polenta recipe from Chef Chris Prosperi from Metro Bis.

New Haven Restaurant Week runs through November 8th.

New Haven Restaurant Week runs through November 8th.

Paul Kelley, Bar Manager at Carbone’s Ristorante in Hartford, showed us how to make a Toasted Coconut Martini, and a Spiced Pumpkin Martini.

An outbreak of wildfires outside Los Angeles on Wednesday threatened thousands of structures, narrowly bypassing the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, while Northern California also continues battling resource-straining blazes. With California tinder dry and fires burning in both the north and south, the state was at the mercy of gusty winds, on high alert for any new flames that could run...

Firefighters are battling the Easy Fire in Simi Valley, California. The blaze began early Wednesday morning.