I would recommand you to use another template because black and white are not that nice colors and don't fit to the topic "cooking" you should know that the colors of the website are influencing the mood of the visitor. Would you feel good if you eat in a restaurant wich is only black and white?
The design is kind of plain. For your header area, I would add more photographs (food related) and then move the text to somewhere below the header (in HTML not within the graphic)