“It’s been one of if not the main issue she’s emphasized in the last year or two,” said Matthew Baum, Marvin Kalb professor of global communications at Harvard University.

For "Top Chef" alum Chef Jackson Kalb, though, he's looking to subvert that form, turning the realm of Italian-American cuisine on its head and injecting some humor and levity into the medium.

Salon Food spoke with Kalb about his brand new restaurant Jemma, the menu itself, his approach and ethos towards food and cooking at large, his time on "Top Chef" and what might on the horizon going forward.

Gen. Johann de Kalb, who led a division of Maryland and Delaware Continentals southward and died from wounds sustained in the Battle of Camden.

Kalb said the storm wouldn’t qualify as an atmospheric river, a particularly powerful kind of storm.