Kate Walsh attended a Golden Globes party last night at the Chateau Marmont, and don't you just kind of want to lick her dress?

New research suggests that food at so-called "sit down" restaurant chains are actually less healthy than food at their "eat out of lap in car" fast food counterparts, thanks to ungodly portions and rosters of fatty, salty ingredients that could choke a Paula Deen cookbook.

Today Michelle Obama unveiled MyPlate, a new symbol for what Americans should be eating. For the first time the government is presenting nutritional information in a shape that people can easily visualize, rather than an image of a rainbow emanating from a disco ball next to a dude with no extremities. That's what we…

"As it stands, Google's recipe search gives undue advantage to the "quick & easy" recipe sites, encourages dishonesty, and sets up people to be dissuaded from cooking, as they will soon learn that recipes always end up taking more time than they expected. Alas, the search algorithm fundamentally misunderstands what…

"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle" reads the motto helpfully left on the pillow of each penitent doing the Ranch at Live Oak cleanse. At $800 and 1500 calories a day, easy for them to say.

A study of 14,000 children found three-year-olds who eat lots of fat, sugar, and processed foods have lower IQs when they're eight. But if chicken nuggets and SpaghettiOs are staples of the American toddler's diet, that means ... damn.

Giada de Laurentiis tells Redbook that at home, she's all about "traditional roles." Is this her way of fighting back against those cheating rumors?

More, it would seem, than you think about sex.

Newishly-minted domestic goddess Sophie Dahl will be fronting a BBC documentary on Isabella Beeton, the author of Victorian Bible Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. Despite the authoritative title, the matron in question was 23.

April Bloomfield is a chef who's taken the New York restaurant scene by storm. But, she says, "I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men."

"Yes, it's feminism we have to thank for the spread of fast-food chains and an epidemic of childhood obesity." How, you ask? Why, the (supposed) death of home cooking!

We are slightly obsessed with Food52's new real-time groupthink resource, Foodpickle. Recent tweeted-from-the-grocery-aisle questions include recipes for black-eyed peas and "what is the minimum G-force necessary to clarify duck stock in a centrifuge within 5 minutes?"

As seen in Us this week: Liz Hurley has "mugs of hot water" for breakfast. Amanda Seyfried eats spinach and seeds and calls her diet "awful." Julianne Moore says : "I'm hungry all the time."

After revealing her controversial dietary supplement, the model has now apologized. Macpherson says she "never knowingly consumed or encouraged the use or consumption of any products which contain material derived from endangered species." See? She didn't know! Not her fault!

Every time I learn about one of PETA's "confrontational" new campaigns, I want to cram foie gras in my mouth, wear veal earrings and slip into a bikini made entirely of tuna.

Spencer Walker's new cookbook is "for any dude who's tired of dropping good money on dates that only get him a kiss on the cheek." From OMFG PB&J to Spank My Halibut, these are "recipes to get you laid." [SFWeekly]

"In effect Susan G. Komen for the Cure... is helping to fuel unhealthy diets and obesity across America, an odd plan given that diet and obesity certainly impact on both the incidence and recurrence of breast cancer." [Weighty Matters]