Feb

6

Meet Top Chef: Dale

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February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Top Chef: Dale
AGE: 29
HOME TOWN: Chicago, Ill.
PROFESSION: Sous Chef at Buddakan
CULINARY EDUCATION: Culinary Institute Of America
FAVORITE SIMPLE SPRING RECIPE: Grilled matsutake mushrooms, shaved myoga, spicy truffled ponzu
Dale, a sous chef at Buddakan, one of [...]

Feb

3

Introducing Top Chef: Ryan

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February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Top Chef: Ryan
 
AGE: 28
HOMETOWN: Los Banos, Calif. – currently resides in San Francisco, Calif.
PROFESSION: Chef, Myth Cafe
CULINARY EDUCATION: Associate of Arts, California Culinary Academy
FAVORITE SIMPLE SPRING RECIPE: Chilled spring pea soup with Strauss yogurt [...]

Feb

1

Meet Top Chef Antonia

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February 1, 2008 | 1 Comment

 
Top Chef: Antonia
AGE: 31
HOMETOWN: Los Angeles, Calif.
PROFESSION: Executive Chef, Foxtail, SBE Restaurant Group
CULINARY EDUCATION: French Culinary Institute
FAVORITE SIMPLE SPRING RECIPE: Baby beets with bouchon goat cheese and marcona almonds Antonia worked for executive chef Lee [...]

Feb

1

Introducing Top Chef: Andrew

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February 1, 2008 | 2 Comments

Top Chef: Andrew
AGE: 30
HOMETOWN: Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – currently resides in New York City
PROFESSION: Sous Chef in NYC
CULINARY EDUCATION: A.S. Culinary Arts, Johnson & Wales, North Miami
FAVORITE SIMPLE SUMMER RECIPE: Diced strawberries, mango, tomato, [...]

Jan

31

Top Chef Chicago Picks Final 16

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January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The fourth season of Top Chef is still more than a month away, but for 16 lucky and talented contestants, it must feel like years! 
Bravo has announced the line-up for Top Chef: Chicago and they include a restaurant consultant from San Francisco, a sous chef from New York, and a culinary designer who [...]

Aug

22

Catching Up With Top Chef’s Ilan Hall, Second Season Winner

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August 22, 2007 | 3 Comments

It was not easy to make people feel affection for Marcel on the second season of Top Chef but somehow that smirk and attitude from ultimate winner Ilan Hall drove a number of viewers into Marcel’s camp. Ilan’s status as a villain in the making was not helped by revelations that he spent his [...]

Aug

16

Top Chef 3.8 - April in the Garage

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August 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Sounds sort of romantic, doesn’t it? Well, maybe not. This week’s Top Chef featured one of the most anticipated events for dedicated viewers, the challenge called “Restaurant Wars.” The competitors are divided into two teams that each create an entire restaurant from the food served out of the kitchen to flowers on the [...]

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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