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This week, Robin once again managed to remain in the bottom yet still survive on “Top Chef.” The quick fire challenge was to cook a TV dinner inspired by a show for chef Paul Bartolotta. Kevin lucked out getting “The Sopranos” and won the challenge. Not that Kevin isn’t a great chef [...]

Last night’s Top Chef featured a quickfire challenge where the contestants had to pair a snack food (specifically an Alexia Crunchy Snack) with something else to create a dish.  Hmm…do you think that Alexia Crunchy Snacks is a sponsor of Top Chef?  The contestants were given 45 minutes to create their dishes.  The guest judge [...]

The “Top Chef” quick fire was a cookster.com challenge judged by chef Tyler Florence. The chefs had to create a dish using three keywords, such as “stressed umami asian.” Robin tried to pass curry off as Middle Eastern. Padma was like “not really” but Robin was going to argue with her. [...]

The “Top Chef” contestants were pretty bummed that Mattin was gone and a few even said it should have been Robin that left. They wore red bandannas in honor of Mattin – everyone except Robin, who discretely wore her bandanna in her pocket.
The Quick Fire challenge was to create a duo of dishes representing [...]

This season’s “Top Chef” has been weird for me. The obvious favorites have been obvious from the start while the bottom dwellers are pretty consistent. But, for tonight’s quick fire challenge (to cook cactus no less!), things were shaken up a bit. The bottom three was Ash, Michael, and Ron, while the [...]

There was a surprise on this week’s “Top Chef.” The high stakes of the quick fire wasn’t $15,000 for the winner, but that the loser would go home. And, they had to cook escargot for Daniel Boulud. Many of the chefs were nervous, but Mike I., Kevin, and Jennifer were named the [...]

The quick fire guest judge on “Top Chef” this week was Mark Peel. The challenge was to create an out-of-this-world dish made of potatoes. Preeti accidentally put her asparagus in Ashley’s water (thinking it was the water Kevin told her she could use) and Ashley just blew a gasket. Ash decided to [...]

The quick fire challenge on “Top Chef” was to roll dice on a craps table. The number the contestant rolled was the number of ingredients he or she could use in a dish. Laurine rolled the lowest number I remember seeing – a 3. Still, she managed to avoid being on the bottom. [...]

It has been a long road to the “Top Chef Masters” finale and some great chefs have fallen by the wayside. This week was the finale with the final three chefs: Hubert Keller, Michael Chiarello, and Rick Bayless.
The challenge was to make a series of four dishes: their first food memory, the [...]

This year, 17 “Top Chef” contestants converged on Las Vegas. They are Ron (who grew up in Haiti), Preeti, Mike I. (a Rising Culinary Star nominee), Hector (from Puerto Rico), Kevin (a James Beard nominee who had a full scholarship to MIT but turned it down for culinary school), Ashley, Jessie (who has no [...]