Top Chef

You Can't Nosh On Nostalgia

Michael Nagrant | Posted 08.15.2008 | Chicago

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Michael Nagrant

In the last year, national magazines have lauded Lou Mitchell's and Margie's Candies as the best breakfast and ice cream spots in Chicago. If anyone saw the Top Chef episode where they showed the disgusting curdled egg white laden poaching liquid in the kitchen at Mitchell's, I don't think they'd agree.

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Top Chef: The End. Seriously.

Jane McGivney | Posted 06.15.2008 | Entertainment

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Jane McGivney

The episode is kind of a blur to me, and kind of a letdown. Ultimately I felt that -- surprise -- Lisa should not have been there.

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"Top Chef" Season Finale Rocks Cable Ratings

Hollywood Reporter | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Bravo, Top Chef Ratings, Top Chef Season 4, Top Chef, Top Chef Chicago, Media News

The Season 4 finale of Bravo's "Top Chef" on Wednesday drew 3.5 million total viewers and 2.5 million adults 18-49 to become the most-watched cable te...

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"Top Chef" Picks First Female Winner

AP | ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 06.12.2008 | Entertainment

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NEW YORK — It took four seasons, but a woman finally took the top spot on Bravo's "Top Chef." Stephanie Izard, a 31-year-old, mild-mannered che...

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Top Chef: Whole Hog

Jane McGivney | Posted 06.09.2008 | Entertainment

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Jane McGivney

It's Puerto Rico and the chefs are arriving!

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Inside Bravo's A-List Awards: I Watched So You Don't Have To

Lindsay Mannering | Posted 06.06.2008 | Entertainment

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Lindsay Mannering

Since you can't wait until next Thursday to watch Bravo's A-List Awards, let me give you an insider's recap, because, ahem, I was there Tuesday night when they taped it at Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC.

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Top Chef: Better Late than Never, Right?

Jane McGivney | Posted 05.30.2008 | Entertainment

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Jane McGivney

Spike The Butcher goes for Tomahawk steaks & frozen scallops. Frozen scallops! Ack! This is not good! Lisa says, "Initially I wanted scallops, but they're.....frozen."

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Reality Shows Get Budgets Cut

Reuters | Posted 05.28.2008 | Entertainment

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Now you know networks are hurting: Reality-show budgets are being cut. Long considered the cheapest of programming genres, reality programs increasin...

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Top Chef: Sexy Sam & the Boys in Blue

Jane McGivney | Posted 05.16.2008 | Entertainment

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Jane McGivney

I really think it should have been Spike kicked out. He had an amazing advantage and he cooked the most uncreative dish of all time. At least Andrew tried!

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Bravo Expands Brand Beyond TV, Launching "Top Chef Cruise"

Broadcasting & Cable | Anne Becker | Posted 05.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Top Chef Tour, Top Chef Cruise, Bravo TV, Bravo, Top Chef, Bravo Media, Workout DVD, Media News

Bravo Media is striking new partnerships to sell everything from cruises to cookbooks tied to its shows, in an effort to take its brand name beyond te...

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Top Chef: Challenges Now Decided By Drunken Audience Members

Jane McGivney | Posted 04.28.2008 | Entertainment

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Jane McGivney

We open up with Spike making a coffee - which gives me a strange pang of kinship with Spike: Oh no, I also love coffee! Yikes! On to the quickfire! Q...

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Top Chef: It's Tailgate, not California Flairgate

Jane McGivney | Posted 04.18.2008 | Entertainment

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Jane McGivney

Nikki is being criticized for not making her own sausage, and Ryan is being faulted for basically not cooking tailgate. Ryan goes into a really, really long tangent about his style and life.

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Top Chef: Underseasoned Food & Overseasoned Chefs

Jane McGivney | Posted 04.11.2008 | Entertainment

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Jane McGivney

This is the episode where everyone goes crazy. There is chair kicking, pantomime crotch grabbing and also some cooking.

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Fore! Quickfire Challenge as Prodhomme Shakes Off Bullet

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 03.25.2008 | Entertainment

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Karen Dalton-Beninato

It's going to be hard to beat this in the Top Chef Quickfire Challenge. Paul Prudhomme, the New Orleans chef who made blackened redfish a staple of...

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Top Chef: Into the Wild

Jane McGivney | Posted 03.21.2008 | Entertainment

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Jane McGivney

The challenge is to cater a cocktail party for 200 people, for the Lincoln Park Zoo, and each dish must be based around the diet of the animal they are assigned to. Our guest judge is Wylie Dufresne!

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Top Chef: Season 4 Begins!

Jane McGivney | Posted 03.14.2008 | Entertainment

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Jane McGivney

We start off with the usual city shots of Chicago as our new friends arrive. The first thing I notice as the chefs show up is that there isn't anyone I'm into this season. Which is to say, obsessed with.

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Bitter Lemons: The State of Cookbooks in an Uncivil World

Elissa Altman | Posted 12.30.2007 | Living

Read More: Food, Top Chef, Food Writing, Cookbooks, Claudia Roden, Cooking, Living News
Elissa Altman

Food writers are often a hungry, wistful lot, gazing about the world through muddy rose colored glasses that can only be rendered clean by a few hours over a hot stove.

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Top Chef : Hung-Bot Grows a Heart

Jane McGivney | Posted 10.05.2007 | Entertainment

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Jane McGivney

I think this season has been an interesting one for Top Chef. Dare I say, it was no less than a battle between the forces of good & evil!

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Top Chef: To El(k!) With It

Jane McGivney | Posted 09.27.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Malarkey, Top Chef Eliminations, Eric Ripert, Casey Top Chef, Hung Top Chef, Top Chef, Dale Top Chef, Malarkey Top Chef, Entertainment News
Jane McGivney

We're at the semifinals in Aspen. We have some lovely shots of mountains, smoky streams, and....AGH!...my retinas explode.

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Top Chef: Food Fight

Jane McGivney | Posted 09.13.2007 | Entertainment

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Jane McGivney

Hung makes a smoothie with Gran Marnier and says, "I also put a little alcohol in it...for Padma." Sarah says of Mommy Dearest Padma, "we know she likes alcohol..." and then realizes how bad it sounds.

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"Top Chef" Contestant Beaten In Anti-Gay Attack

AP | Posted 09.12.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Josie Smith-Malave, Sea Cliff, Bravo, Top Chef, Yetta Kurland, Entertainment News

A Miami woman who was a former contestant on the reality show "Top Chef" was beaten by attackers yelling anti-gay slurs, her lawyer said Tuesday. Jos...

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