Top Chef New York: let’s hack up some fish!

Due to the ridiculousness of last week’s episode, rife with gimmicks, product placements and misnomers of “all-stars,” I have chosen not to recap it.  I will wax a little on Jeff’s exit, however; while likely not the Top Chef in this group, he is extremely talented–I just wish he could focus his ideas more and [...]

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Top Chef New York: restaurant wars!

From the first season of Top Chef, the challenge now affectionately known as Restaurant Wars has always been entertaining, from Stephen in season 1 babbling ad nauseum about the wine selection for his restaurant, to the do-over required in season 3, and this go-around was no different.
Appropriately enough the guest judge for both rounds this [...]

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Top Chef New York: country chefs, city chefs;

Dio mio!  This week’s episode was one that got this household fired up, for oh so many reasons, so let’s just dig in and honor this episode, shall we?

Image, as always, from Bravotv.com, but for some reason it won’t let me link directly  to it. 

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Top Chef New York: Gail? Gail?

The title of this week’s episode, “Focus Group,” naturally has me incredibly intrigued–especially after last week’s total letdown with a non-elimination.  That, along with the promise of a double knifing and a new judge meant that we were going to have quite a good episode in store for us, and happily, we weren’t disappointed:

(photo from [...]

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Top Chef New York: happy holidays?

I know I’ve dragged my feet on writing this recap–it was actually one of my least favorite episodes of the season, and the conclusion didn’t provide a satisfying end for the show going on a holiday hiatus, so I didn’t have a deep desire to write about it.  While it was a supersized episode, it [...]

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Top Chef New York: a foodie bridal shower;

Ah, the bridal shower:  a chance for a bride-to-be to gather with her friends and loved ones and open presents and catch up with people you haven’t seen in forever.  Mine was held back in July at my godmother’s gorgeous house, and it was a fun afternoon–albeit on a stinking hot day.  So hot, in [...]

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Top Chef: ready for primetime, yes; daytime, TBD;

Another Wednesday, another Top Chef at 10 PM.  Continuing with last week’s episode ending in tears, they waterworks continue as Alex, a Brillo-headed chef (as Michael called him while we sipped on Barbera d’Asti) weeps as he reads a letter Richard left him (it’s shockingly long for an acquaintance that lasted what–a few weeks?) to [...]

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Top Chef: don’t want to be your monkey wrench;

A serious lack of DVR over the weekend and then trying to catch up on other things since we’ve returned kept me from properly revisiting the Thanksgiving episode of Top Chef, but late is better than never, right?   So let’s keep the preliminaries short and just dig in.
That seemed to be the idea behind the [...]

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Don’t worry…

Top Chef recap is coming tomorrow.  I’ve only been able to watch the episode in full once, and I tend to enjoy watching it at least twice in order to capture all of the lovely minutae.  So stay tuned!

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Top Chef New York: it’s witchcraft;

Hooray! Another Wednesday, another episode of Top Chef. And we’re in for a doozy this week, because it’s all about the New York lunch: both the simple and the fancy.
Also: I never thought I would be typing (or saying, or THINKING) these words, but: oh, Fabio!
Of course, I’m referring to [...]

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