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In chef Gabrielle Hamilton's best-selling memoir Blood, Bones & Butter , she tells of running into a colleague on the street, where he introduced her to his mother as "one of the two best female chefs in New York City." Hamilton, owner of beloved East Village restaurant Prune and newly minted James Beard Award winner, then turned to the mother and cracked, "You know what would be great next? If we could just take the word 'female' out of the sentence." Yes, women chefs are still definitely a minority, even though the likes of Hamilton, Nancy Silverton (Los Angeles's Osteria Mozza), Stephanie Izard (Chicago's Girl & the Goat)—and of course the old-school game changers Alice Waters and Lydia Bastianich before them—run wildly popular, critically praised establishments. So how do female chefs not only deal, but thrive in a notoriously macho industry

We tend to take easy, safe access to potable water for granted until there's a shortage in access to it (like in Texas) or an overflow (as with Hurricane Irene). And in reality, there are a number of water risks that the world will face in the coming years, including deteriorating water quality, growing competition for limited access to resources, and an increase in water scarcity. The World Resource Institute's Water Risk Atlas outlines those risks--and gives a preview of what you can expect in your town or city in the coming years.

I’m writing from a restaurant in the Mexico City airport, a plate of spicy fajitas in my belly.

I like to look at most areas of life as a game. If I didn't think it were fun to navigate the challenges of the game called "business," I wouldn't have taken the career path I have

HP found the low end of the tablet pricing scale with its $99 TouchPad. Now it appears HTC, with its $700, AT&T 4G LTE-ready Android Jetstream tablet, is trying to see just how much you'll pay for a non-Apple tablet. (Does it come with a set of steak knives?)

Monday, September 05 With all the hot dogs and beer, it's easy to forget the labor part of Labor Day. President Grover Cleveland instituted this work-free Monday in 1894, choosing the date to both recognize the Central Labor Union's labor day and avoid associating the holiday with May 1, the labor day celebrated by the International Workers of the World and marked by the 1886 Haymarket riots

Here's a brief recap of a few of the more creative start-ups (and hair styles) from last evenings Demo Day at General Assembly. Matt Brimmer, co-founder of General Assembly , the location of last night's 500 Startups Demo Day in New York, couldn't announce how many people showed up for the event. Or not that he couldn't, but that he wouldn't—Brimmer didn't want to get in trouble with the landlord for clearly exceeding the office's maximum capacity

It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but its not.

The latest batch of leaked State Department cables from WikiLeaks reveals the U.S. government's deep interest in how tech giants like Apple and Oracle perform overseas.

The QR code is an acquired taste. But just as the tech is primed to be overtaken, America is going nuts for all things QR.

After a major earthquake or flood, people need help but can be hard to find. A new technique--using tracking data from phones to figure out where people have fled to--could make it easier to get them help.

CNN paid $20 million for personalized iPad magazine Zite this week.

The end of the solar company--with $1 billion in investments and hundreds of millions in government loans--is bad for the U.S. economy.

Rather than fundraise, a famous philanthropist plays the market. Cousteau's newest adventure won't require such a puffy jacket. | Courtesy of CNN For the past few years, Philippe Cousteau Jr

I was lifting weights at my gym, a community center in New York City, when he caught my attention. His name, I later found out, was Marvin Moster. He stood a few inches over five feet, mostly bald with some white hair on the sides of his head, sporting a mustache, and wearing a light blue shirt and dark blue shorts.