Aug

11

Tom Colicchio’s Craft Sets Up Shop in L.A.

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August 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment

For those who follow Top Chef closely both on TV and online, they may have noticed that Tom Colicchio abandoned his Bravo Network blog recently due to work on opening a new restaurant. That venture is a Los Angeles location for Colicchio’s signature line of Craft restaurants. The blog has carried on without [...]

Aug

10

Sriracha: Condiment of the Gods?

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August 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment

When Casey decided to use sriracha, the Thai red pepper sauce, as a mix-in for Coldstone Creamery ice cream in this past week’s Top Chef QuickFire challenge, some viewers were perplexed, while many of us understood why she at least considered it as an option. Named for the Thai port of Sriracha, the [...]

Aug

9

Top Chef 3.7 - Give Them Bacon!

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August 9, 2007 | 1 Comment

This week’s Top Chef was sub-titled “Guilty Pleasures” in anticipation of the QuickFire and Elimination Challenges for the week. The QuickFire pointed out there are limitations to what tastes good mixed into ice cream, and the Elimination Challenge proved that it pays to rise above petty disappointment and focus on the task at hand [...]

Aug

9

Hell’s Kitchen 3.10 - Strreeettcchhiinnngg For Ratings?

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August 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment

As we were all impatiently waiting for the finale to find out if Rock or Bonnie would be the executive chef of their own restaurant at Las Vegas’ Green Valley Ranch, Fox Television took the opportunity to grab a bit more of the ratings derby with a drawn-out pre-finale show. Fortunately, there was a [...]

Aug

5

Hell’s Kitchen’s Rock in Real Life

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August 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment

As we head into the finale for Hell’s Kitchen tomorrow night, the heavy favorite to come out victorious is Rock Harper. He is an executive chef up against a personal chef/nanny named Bonnie. One of the questions on many viewers’ minds is…if Rock is an executive chef, what does that mean? Where [...]

Aug

4

The Kitchen Hierarchy: Do You Know Your Chefs?

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August 4, 2007 | 3 Comments

While watching top reality cooking shows like Top Chef, Hell’s Kitchen, and The Next Food Network Star, various kitchen titles are tossed around like Executive Chef, Sous Chef, and Line Cook, but do you really know what they mean? This is your quick and dirty guide to the hierarchy of who’s who in a [...]

Aug

2

Top Chef 3.6 - Out of the Freezer and Into the Fire

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August 2, 2007 | 1 Comment

Although this week’s guest judge was notorious reality TV veteran Rocco DiSpirito, little drama appeared as a result of his participation. Rocco exhibited his exemplary food knowledge, appeared minus 30 lbs. looking impressively fit and trim, and dropped a tremendous compliment to one of the competing teams. However, the Top Chef editors did [...]

Aug

1

Perilla - Top Chef Season 1 Winner Harold Dieterle’s Restaurant

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August 1, 2007 | 2 Comments

It is the dream of all Top Chef contestants. It is what it seems the winners of the first 2 seasons of Hell’s Kitchen were promised but didn’t really get. Season 1 winner of Top Chef, Harold Dieterle, has his own Manhattan restaurant and it is getting great reviews. Open since May, [...]

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