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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 [...]

The “Top Chef Masters” quickfire proved to be disastrous for most of the chefs. It was the dreaded blindfold taste test. I guess the regular Top Chef contestants have an advantage to do better at this as these chefs are established and set in their styles, but I was surprised how poorly they [...]

The “Top Chef Masters” contestants walked into the Quickfire Challenge room to a table full of burgers and fries. Their challenge was to make a gourmet burger with one side. For some reason, Anita decided to think outside the box and make a soup with little burgers in it. That almost eliminated [...]

Tonight was the first “Top Chef Masters” champions round. The former winners who were competing were Art Smith, Hubert Keller, Anita Lo, Suzanne Tracht, Michael Chiarello, and Rick Bayless. There would be three rounds and the chef with the highest score would win another $10k for their charity. The chef with the [...]

This week’s “Top Chef Masters” featured Michael Chiarello, Rick Moonen, Nils Noren, and Lachlan M. Patterson. The quick fire was for the chefs to take junk food and turn it into fine dining cuisine. This one had to be tough. Of course, they shied away from the Twinkies and went for the [...]

I saw the lowest scored I’ve seen on “Top Chef Masters” this week. For the quick fire challenge, poor John Besh got ½ a star. But then again, he did serve the judges only one plate and half of it was raw. The challenge was to cook an egg only using one [...]

This week’s “Top Chef Masters” was all about French attitude, thanks to chef Ludo Lefebvre. The other chefs were Rick Bayless, Cindy Pawlcyn, and Wilo Benet.
The Quick Fire Challenge was to cook with food of a certain color. Cindy drew a yellow knife, Rick drew a green knife, Ludo drew a [...]

The Top Chef Master this week were Elizabeth Falkner – Orson, San Francisco, CA, Graham Elliot Bowles – Graham Elliot Restaurant, Chicago, IL, Suzanne Tracht – Jar, Los Angeles, CA, and Wylie Dufresne – wd~50, New York, NY.
Their quickfire was the dreaded vending machine challenge. They had to cook an amuse-bouche using stuff they [...]

It’s a new season of “Top Chef,” but this year, it is 24 celebrated chefs rather than unknowns. The critics table consists of Gael Greene (restaurant critic), James Oseland (editor and chief of Saveur Magazine), Gail Simmons (Food and Wine Magazine), and Jay Rayner (restaurant critic of the London Observer).
There will be [...]