Cooking has become a focal point for many aspects of pop culture.

Delicious Deluxe is a tantalizing restaurant food challenge. Restaurant Empire is a more advanced fun and addictive online game. For some reason, games are becoming more and more popular.

However, if you think about it, tons of cooks and chefs are now big-time celebrities, games are popular game shows, and chefs how-to books are national best sellers. Along with the rise of chefs to celebrity status, so many cookbooks making the best seller lists, and famous chefs endorsing everything from silverware to juicers, is a bigger part of peoples’ lives and more popular than it ever was.