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Opinion: Top Chef: Masters Episode 4

10 Jul 2009 07:34:12 PDT

Written by Stuart Reb Donald
Quickfire: Cook an egg with one hand tied behind your back. Why?!?!?! These people are world class chefs, why waste their talents doing something from a junior high Fall festival? What a crock. At least the judges were adults even if the challenge was childish.

Original story at Edible TV .

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Opinion: Bravo's new show, 'Top Chef Masters,' is well done and good fun

10 Jun 2009 02:23:09 PDT

NY Tim Love' (left) and Chris Lee on Bravo's new cooking competition show, 'Top Chef Masters.' Comparing a show like "Hell's Kitchen" to Bravo's "Top Chef Masters" is like comparing a swim in the shark tank to wade in the kiddie pool. ... Review: 'Top Chef Masters' Los Angeles Times

Original story at New York Daily News .

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TV Review: Cook Yourself Thin Premieres

06 May 2009 00:10:36 PDT

The third expert, Candice Kumai works as a special events Chef at the Ritz-Carlton and has her own catering company. She was professionally trained at the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu and appeared as a contestant on Bravo's Top Chef. ... Cook Yourself Thin Cookbook! LALATE

Original story at Blogcritics .

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Opinion: Not much new cooking on 'Chopping Block'

11 Mar 2009 01:09:40 PDT

By Devra First With "Top Chef," "Hell's Kitchen," "Iron Chef," "The Next Food Network Star," and all the planned spinoffs of the above, cooking can now be considered a competitive sport. Tiger Woods drew 1.7 million viewers to the Golf Channel last ...

Original story at Boston Globe .

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Opinion: Top Chef – Gail’s Bridal Shower

10 Dec 2008 22:00:03 PST

Written by Patsy Kreitman
Photo courtesy of Bravo TV. First, let’s start with a quick recap of last week’s episode with Rocco DiSpirito as guest judge. The elimination challenge was a new one for this season – a 2 and a half minute cooking demo for television. The winning demo would get featured on the Today Show. Man...

Original story at Edible TV .

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Opinion: 'Top Chef' -- or is it the 'Today' show?

03 Dec 2008 22:32:52 PST

Written by Mary Hartney
OK! Quickfire. The guest judge is Rocco DiSpirito and while all the cheftestants are more than aware of his fame, none seem too impressed. Their challenge, after Padma wishes them a good morning and we're all quite sure it's more like 5 p.m. when this is filming, is to create a breakfast amuse-b...

Original story at The Swamp .

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Top Chef news and blogs - November 23, 2009

23 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Top Chef news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Top Chef: The Game Review -- from IGN
• TV Review: 'Top Chef' recap: A dish best served cold -- by Kate Ward from EW.com: TV Watch
• Opinion: Top Chef: The Game - Mexican Grilled Beef -- by rss@youtube.com (stupergenius) from YouTube :: Tag // topchef
• Top Chef Review -- by Gamezebo from Gamezebo What's New
• Networks to woo viewers during sweeps week - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review -- from PittsburghLIVE.com
• Opinion: From food writer to TV guru, Ted Allen wants to make great food easy - Bonitanews (subscription) -- from subscription
• TV review: Exotic tucker takes the Top Chef cake - Stuff.co.nz -- from "Top Chef" "Top Chef" OR Bravo OR "TV Guide's" OR "Padma Lakshmi" OR "Katie Lee Joel" OR "culinary competition" OR Padma's OR "Harold Dieterle" OR "Top Recipe The Wong Way To Cook" OR "Quickfire Challenge" OR episode OR "Reality TV" OR chefs OR chef OR culinary OR "Elimination Challenge" OR "Gail Simmons" OR elimin OR "means the chef won" OR "Lee Anne Wong" OR "HIGH LOW" OR "competition series" OR "Casting Call" OR "Carlos Fernandez" OR "Show Me The Money" OR Lauderdale's OR "second season" OR contestants OR "Project Runway" OR "Queer Eye" OR "Food Network" OR "twelve aspiring chefs" - Google News
• Reality TV in Review - Film.com -- from "Top Chef" "Top Chef" OR Bravo OR "TV Guide's" OR "Padma Lakshmi" OR "Katie Lee Joel" OR "culinary competition" OR Padma's OR "Harold Dieterle" OR "Top Recipe The Wong Way To Cook" OR "Quickfire Challenge" OR episode OR "Reality TV" OR chefs OR chef OR culinary OR "Elimination Challenge" OR "Gail Simmons" OR elimin OR "means the chef won" OR "Lee Anne Wong" OR "HIGH LOW" OR "competition series" OR "Casting Call" OR "Carlos Fernandez" OR "Show Me The Money" OR Lauderdale's OR "second season" OR contestants OR "Project Runway" OR "Queer Eye" OR "Food Network" OR "twelve aspiring chefs" - Google News
• Thursday’s Line featuring Top Chef review -- by patrickdonohue from The Bottom Line
• Opinion: Andrea Strong Responds! -- from BravoTV.com Blogs: Padma Lakshmi's Blog

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Opinion: Liveblogging Top Chef...

19 Nov 2008 19:04:14 PST

Written by anna
I am scared of the ostrich egg one of the other contestants is messing with. Very scared. Tom Colicchio drops the BOMB on 'em: "you've set American cuisine back 20 years". Eeeep. C'mon Padma! Yell at her for almost making you barf!! anna at 10:04 PM in Food, TV

Original story at Sepia Mutiny .

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Opinion: Top Chef: New York

19 Nov 2008 15:17:32 PST

Written by jeremyblachman
Someone just left a comment asking if I had any thoughts on this season of Top Chef so far. Well, I'm looking forward to tonight's episode... thought last week's was solid, although I'd read an advance review that called it one of the most emotional episodes of TV all year and I'm not sure I'd go t...

Original story at Jeremy Blachman's Weblog .

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Opinion: Chicagoist Re-Grills: Top Chef Finalist Dale Levitski

18 Nov 2008 08:00:00 PST

Written by Karl Klockars
DL: I completely agree. I don’t think they used enough Chicago chefs. Even though I have a lot of respect for and I really like Rocco DiSpirito, but to open Chicago with Rocco DiSpirito seemed like…there’s so many amazing chefs here, why couldn’t we really get more of an identity with the city...

Original story at Chicagoist .

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Opinion: Melissa from 'Top Chef' is a Marylander, too

14 Nov 2008 14:36:40 PST

Written by Mary Hartney
We've been remiss in noting that "Top Chef: New York" cheftestant Melissa is a Marylander, in addition to Jill Snyder of Red Maple fame. (Read Baltimore Sun dining critic Elizabeth Large's review of Red Maple -- and her Dining @... Also on Baltimore Sun blogs, TV critic David Zurawik reports t...

Original story at The Swamp .

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Opinion: Melissa from 'Top Chef' is a Marylander, too

14 Nov 2008 10:17:56 PST

We've been remiss in noting that "Top Chef: New York" cheftestant Melissa is a Marylander, in addition to Jill Snyder of Red Maple fame. (Read Baltimore Sun dining critic Elizabeth Large's review of Red Maple -- and her Dining @ Large blog post about Melissa.)

Original story at baltimoresun.com .

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Opinion: Top Chef Carlos Fernandez "Outted"

29 Aug 2008 22:45:36 PDT

Written by Zachary Hug
Now that he got the boot! "Ouch!" Carlos, back in Fort Lauderdale, talked to OUTzone about his time on "Top Chef." We kinda totally love Carlos. Not only is he incredibly funny and a pleasure to talk to -- he's... OZ: You were in New York, right?

Original story at OutZone .

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Opinion: Tonight on the Tube: NBA Finals, Iron Chef, Next Food Network Star & Army Wives

08 Jun 2008 02:44:32 PDT

Written by Jason the TVaholic
Tonight, ABC has NBA Finals action and a Jimmy Kimmel Live special. Food Network Challenge (Food Network): Repeat. Chefs compete in a “Luau Beach BBQ” challenge. Plays again later. Iron Chef America (Food Network): New. Chef Marcus Samuelsson challenges Iron Chef Bobby Flay. Plays again lat...

Original story at TVaholic.com .

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Opinion: ‘Top Chef’ Epsiode 11: Restaurant wars

21 May 2008 21:39:38 PDT

Written by monkeybear
Antonia’s prize? She got to pick her teammates for Restaurant Wars. Yes, that’s right: Restaurant Wars. Hooray! Indeed, we fans of Top Chef had worried that the show had made a serious error in turning “restaurant wars” into (incredibly lame) “wedding wars.” In fact, the usually sadistic T...

Original story at My husband cooks .

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TV-Hell's Kitchen Review Episode aired 4/22/08 and Top Chef Episode aired 4/23/08

28 Apr 2008 04:56:12 PDT

Written by The Kaitlyn Mae Book Blog
It's time for Cooking Reality and on Hell's Kitchen we've got Family night and Chef Ramsey mad at one contender for no discernible reason. In Top Chef-it's yellow, turned-on asparagus and a Polish sausage dish with no polish sausage. A review of the episodes aired on this cooking show the we...

Original story at freerepublic.com .

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Opinion: Notable “Top Chef” News

27 Apr 2008 23:00:37 PDT

Written by Stuart Reb Donald
Bravo TV is now casting for Top Chef Five. In a casting call released on April 18, the Bravo Network announced an open call for both professional and home culinarians to compete in next season’s Top Chef. In addition to filling out an online application, contestants are also encouraged to a...

Original story at Edible TV .

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Opinion: 'Top Chef: Chicago' is fired up (but I have a few beefs with the show)

11 Mar 2008 12:10:50 PDT

Written by Tempo
My main quibbles haven’t changed since Bravo debuted “Top Chef” a few years ago: Tom Colicchio, who acts as a coach and a judge, is a somewhat cold and aloof presence. Host Padma Lakshmi has gotten less robotic over time, but I’m still not sure what qualifies her to be a food-competition jud...

Original story at Chicago Tribune .

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Opinion: Recap: Top Chef: Plane Bourdain

16 Sep 2007 10:43:18 PDT

Written by flipit(flipit75@gmail.com)
The next morning, they are all brought to a huge hangar at the airport where Guest Judge Airplane Food awaits them. How many of us have wanted to beat this guy to a pulp over the years? Now's your chance, chefs! Kill him!! Well, the fight is all gone from the contestants because A. they didn't get...

Original story at TVgasm .

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Opinion: Recap: Top Chef: Cave Man Overboard

09 Sep 2007 14:13:45 PDT

Written by flipit(flipit75@gmail.com)
Today's Quickfire is called Aisle Trial. I was hoping it would be like that gameshow, Supermarket Sweep, where a bunch of homely white bread couples run through a Ralph's and get their grubby hands on anything they can reach, but nooooo. The Chefs will be each be limited to their own aisle in t...

Original story at TVgasm .

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Opinion: Answers to Questions Unasked!

05 Sep 2007 09:05:48 PDT

So much! Tonight is a new "Top Chef" featuring a VERY dramatic moment at Judge's Table. After “Top Chef”, we're running a sneak preview of "Tim Gunn's Guide To Style" on Bravo, and I will be live on bravotv.com taking your Top Chef questions with tonight's eliminated cheftestant and Mizz Gai...

Original story at BravoTV.com Blogs .

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Opinion: Recap: Top Chef: Que Emocion!

22 Jul 2007 14:59:33 PDT

Written by flipit(flipit75@gmail.com)
Scar angles her right arm for the camera at least four times as she explains today's Quickfire Challenge. Guys, beauty is only skin deep, got it? Hair toss camera flirt giggle stutter giggle. Today's Quickfire Challenge will involve the most widely used, time saving culinary innovation o...

Original story at TVgasm .

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Opinion: Jane McGivney: Top Chef: The Cored Apple of Doom

14 Jun 2007 09:18:21 PDT

Written by Jane McGivney
THE QUICKFIRE: As the chefs are standing around meeting each other, talking and eating, Padma and Tom surprise them. Tre wins. Swoon! Anthony Bourdain tells him he wants to take him out and get him "savage drunk." Is no one safe from Tre's charms?

Original story at Huffington Post .

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Opinion: A New Chef at B

22 Feb 2007 14:31:07 PST

Written by Jon
Oakland's B Restaurant (or just "B," apparently), promised to be such a place. Since the establishment's doors opened across its refurbished 120-year-old mosaic tile floor in 2005, reviewers have unanimously noted the New American-style restaurant's inventiveness, use of fresh lo...

Original story at SFist .

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Opinion: Top Chef: La-La-Later

17 Jan 2007 00:04:20 PST

Written by Jeremy
We feel that it's time to remind folks of our motivation in writing these short reviews of Top Chef, a fine cooking-based reality show on Bravo. Sam, Mike, and Ilan went for a rustic-yet-modern Italian place; Marcel, Elia, and Cliff went for puffed-up diner food.

Original story at SFist .

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Opinion: Recap: Top Chef: MC Monkey Shines

14 Jan 2007 16:22:34 PST

Written by flipit(flipit75@mac.com)
Today's Guest Judge is Mike Yakura, executive Chef of Sutra in San Francisco. He looks like a cute little Kewpie doll my Meemaw gave me as a kid, so I'm feeling conflicted. Guest Judge Yakura / First sign of severe Flipit homosexuality.

Original story at TVgasm .

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