Top Chef

Top Chef Texas: Houston IS IN Plus Pay-to-Play Allegations
2011-07-11 / Eater.com (blog)
... hats: Another day, another round of Top Chef Texas rumormongering. Last week we ran with the story that Top Chef was rumored to be shooting in the Lone Star State: specifically in San Antonio, Dallas, and Austin. Curiously Houston was absent in that list of cities, leading to whining from local... approached by TM Advertising to begin negotiations for a chance to underwrite a possible Houston episode. Presented as an "investment opportunity," out of a nine-episode season, two episodes would be out of state (presumably the finale), one would be in Dallas, one in Austin, one in Houston, and the ...

More Top Chef: Texas drama: Did Houston get snubbed because we wouldn't pay?
2011-07-11 / CultureMap Houston News feed
...of the season. Holly Clapham with the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau confirmed to CultureMap that a marketing agency did approach the city last year with an offer to film Top Chef here but... Clapham said. Clapham said the GHCVB has had no other contact with Bravo or Top Chef and doesn't know if the show will end up shooting in Houston. She also said she can't speak for the... go to the highest bidder? (Really? Even after Top Chef had a finale in Puerto Rico?) Does this mean that Houston is getting at least one Top Chef: Texas episode? And if so, what are the chances that Monica...

Chef Sam Talbot On The Surf Lodge and The Sweet Life
2011-07-10 / Huffington Post
...is due in no small part to Imperial No. 9 chef Sam Talbot, who steers the kitchen. A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Talbot was voted 'Fan Favorite' on Bravo's "Top Chef" TV series. A diabetic actively involved in diabetes awareness efforts...? ST:Fish tacos, quinoa and the fried chicken are all good to go. LC: What's up next for you? ST: At the end of October, my first book is being published by Rodale Press ... and part lifestyle book, a mixture of diabetic friendly recipes as well as tips on how to live life to its fullest while managing the condition. I am also working on the launch of my ...

Top Chef Texas: Will Bravo film in Houston or what?
2011-07-07 / Houston Chronicle (blog)
...noticed Twitter buzz last week over famous faces from a certain Bravo show making their rounds in San Antonio restaurants. Rumor has it that Season 9 of Top Chef will be right here in the Lone Star state. From the... which has two studio kitchens wired for sound and taping. Student chefs from the CIA were also helping at the Bravo "Top Chef" national tour stop at . Officially, no one is talking. But, it&#.... also caught on to reports of the Top Chef Texas season, noting that Houston has yet to mentioned in the list of cities rumored to be featured on the show (San Antonio, Austin and Dallas). Why...

Magical Elves Casting Adventurous Chefs For a New Show
2011-07-06 / Eater.com (blog)
... adventure ." So it sounds like it might be NEW CHEF COMPETITION SHOW!! FROM MAGICAL ELVES, THE PRODUCERS OF BRAVO’S EMMY AWARD-WINNING HIT “TOP CHEF”.... ARE YOU A PROFESSIONAL CHEF WITH A HUNGER FOR COMPETITION? DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BECOME THE NEXT CULINARY SENSATION? A potential new series for Bravo will follow... hear from you immediately!! To be considered, email [email protected] immediately!! Please be sure to include your name, phone number, city and state you live in, your current job title and restaurant name where you work plus a recent photo.

Oshkosh native to appear on 'Iron Chef America'
2011-07-06 / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
..., is preparing to tape an episode of the cooking competition show, "Iron Chef America," which airs on the Food Network. The Oshkosh Northwestern reports that Stellings will appear on the show as sous chef to Leanne Wong, who appeared on the first season of Bravo's "Top Chef." The taping is set for ...July 13 or 20, with the episode airing on the Food Network at a later date. Stellings attended New York's French Culinary Institute...

Top Chef Texas: The Next Season of Top Chef?
2011-07-05 / Eater.com (blog)
...inbox. Last week word came that Top Chef was shooting in San Antonio, Texas — Gail Simmons told a local blogger that " You tweeted this location and have compromised our ... " — and now multiple sources are telling us that the next season of Top Chef is going to be Top Chef Texas .... couple of weeks the show will then be in Austin . Additionally, a commenter who claims to work at Whole Foods San Antonio wrote that And in cheftestapant news: Rumor is that Edward Lee , chef/owner of 610 Magnolia (Louisville, KY), is on the next season. So far other rumored cheftestapants include Dakota...

Food Industry Employees Focus of New Weight Loss Show
2011-07-05 / Eater.com (blog)
... focus exclusively on overweight chefs, line cooks, servers and anyone else in the food industry . Hell, even food bloggers, sommeliers and employees in the commercial fishing industry are welcome to respond to going on right now. The show's description takes great pains to state "This is NOT a reality show!" The producers, who also.... Industry members who need to lose 75 pounds or more can apply by sending in a few photos and a 300-word essay. That's a cinch compared with Top Chef 's 25-page application, plus producers probably won't ask you to create a dish inspired by a Christmas carol. ·

Front Burner: Bravo Top Chef â€" Texas
2011-07-05 / San Antonio Express
...Top Chef" was in town earlier this month for a live challenge between chefs Dale Talde and Ryan Scott. The crew was aloof about upcoming locations for its TV show when members of the audience kept urging them to film in Texas. Fast-forward to last week, when news leaked out on Twitter that the cast... given to guests who check into DoubleTree by Hilton hotels. Pick up a free cookie at DoubleTree by Hilton San Antonio Downtown, 502 W. Durango Blvd. (...news release. The first Buck Out Hunger Bull Riding Tour Challenge will be July 30-31. Also on the schedule is an event in August, two in September,...

Top Chef All-Star Mike Isabella Throws Out First Pitch At Washington Nationals Game
2011-07-03 / SB Nation DC (blog)
... Saturday's Nationals game. Afterwards, we caught up with him. Jul 3, 2011 - On Saturday afternoon, the Nationals invited celebrity chef Mike Isabella to throw the ceremonial first pitch before a doubleheader with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Fortunately for Isabella, the chef cooks better than he pitches. A two-time contestant on Bravo's Emmy award winning reality cooking show for a few...

Westchester Magazine Hosts Spectacular Wine and Food Weekend Event
2011-07-03 / Talk of the Sound
... along with an exquisite list of wine samplings for the Grand Tastings. World-renowned wine experts taught seminars and talented chefs hosted live cooking demonstrations throughout the ...weekend. The Winemakers Dinner served as a perfect end to Saturday, with a six-course sit-down dinner created by five of Westchester's highly-rated chefs...Live Chef Cook-Off featuring Ash Fulk and Dale Talde from Bravo's popular television show, Top Chef, going head-to-head to create the winning meal for a panel of judges. Ash prevailed but both contestants...

Is Top Chef Season Nine Shooting in San Antonio, Texas?
2011-06-30 / Eater.com (blog)
Sign up for the Eater National newsletter Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. ] A couple of days ago we got the news that Top Chef season nine started shooting, and if the blog post title "The night Bravo told me to stop tweeting" by..., there's only one location of Whole Foods in all of San Antonio and surroundings: the . In addition a tipster sends unverified news that Dakota Weiss , executive chef at NineThirty at the W Hotel in Westwood, Los Angeles, is a cheftestapant on the next season. This is along with the rumor that

Top Chefs' Sizzling Summer Beer Pairings
2011-06-29 / Forbes (blog)
... " Now to a man whose well known beer passion is legendary. While Chase Rabenn's, Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio's assistant beer director at Colicchio & Sons, takes his beer very seriously he ... seamlessly with the tomato butter, zucchini, and fennel." Julia Travis, beverage manager at Top Chef winner Harold Dieterle's restaurant Kin Shop, created some unique pairings based on the restaurant's contemporary... the Szechuan peppercorns which season the salad. The hoppiness of the beer also helps balance on the sweetness of the plums." For dessert? Daniel Angerer, Iron Chef Winner and owner of The ...

Chef Traci Des Jardins Talks Top Chef Masters and Africa
2011-06-29 / YumSugar.com
... shared a day of her life with us, she took a quick minute to chat about the Top Chef experience. Here's what she had to say: On not winning Masters : At that point, Floyd, Mary, and I were ready for the show to be over. We were each playing for charity and each of the charities was... to go on safari in Africa. I'm going all over. I'm going to see the migration. The best thing is we're following up the trip with a week in Barcelona. It's just a great city; the last time I went the food was spectacular. It's so unique and local. The fish they have there, we...

Food Network's Extreme Chef: Like Top Chef With Snakes (Video)
2011-06-28 / Broward New Times
...- Top Chef concept and manages to up the ante. During each episode, three chefs will compete for a $10,000 prize by completing challenges like cooking a meal by the heat of a car engine, swimming across raging rapids for ingredients, and navigating a pail of live rattlesnakes (yes!) for a spatula. Don't know about you, but we will be watching...

What Top Chef says about teacher evaluation
2011-06-28 / Philadelphia Public School Notebook (blog)
... rated by some of the most famous chefs in the world. Each episode, the chefs are challenged by the ingredients, style, preparation time, and evaluators they are given. The evaluation panel includes names that even a little-cooking, non-foodies like myself recognize. The contestants clearly admire and respect those judging their...right, and where it went wrong. How do you think a "Top Educator" show would compare? What would the challenges be? How do you think the contestants would be evaluated? Do you think the student learning on the show would be measured by a bubble test? Who would be the "...

Top Chef Season Nine Is Maybe Filming Right Now
2011-06-28 / Eater.com (blog)
... for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. An Eater mole inside the BravoTopCheftaplex have delivered the news that Top Chef season nine just started filming . (That is a lot of seasons.) And just last week Eater Austin relayed that as he was ...cryptically " going away for six weeks ." Sources would neither confirm nor deny that this was the case...

Easy gourmet grilling with Top Chef Ariane Duarte
2011-06-28 / baltimoresun.com
Here's a hamburger recipe from Top Chef Ariane Duarte, using Finlandia cheese, "Guests love to feel pampered and one way you can do that is to replicate the restaurant experience at home. I like to offer my guests a host of burger toppings, but make them special by introducing high-quality ingredients to the menu.” 1 ¼ pounds...

Food Network's Extreme Chefs Is Extremely Extreme
2011-06-27 / Eater.com (blog)
You were warned that Food Network's new show Extreme Chefs was like totally extreme, and it's even more extreme than that. No, this is Saturday Night Live parody of Top Chef extreme. In the final round, the competitors were told to run a 1/2 mile in the desert in 120 degree heat to get their supplies... episode, the contestants had to make ice cream using 50-pound blocks of solid ice — having to carry them with cast-iron ice tongs — and then use ingredients including black beans, corn, yams, or chiles. AND THEN: They got handcuffed for the last ten minutes . Also, watch for judges ...

Top Chef Masters' Curtis Stone and Actress Lindsay Price Expecting Gorgeous Baby
2011-06-25 / Starcasm
Curtis Stone is pretty. Very, very pretty. We all know that. In fact, I’m guessing I’m not the only Top Chef Master s/ Biggest Loser fan who is getting a little weary of everyone’s inevitable comments about Stone’s looks. His fabulousness seems to stop all women... before gushing openly about his handsomeness . . . or not. More Lindsay Price loveliness: , Stone was one of Bobby Flay’s partners in the competition show, America’s Next Great Restaurant . Price can be seen these days in her role as Liz on Love Bites ; but, she’s been knocking around TV for...

Top Chef Masters Winner Marcus Samuelsson Tells Us The Difference Between Women And Men In The Kitchen
2011-06-25 / The Business Insider
...And Men In The Kitchen Last night we caught up with Marcus Samuelsson , owner of Harlem's Red Rooster and winner of Bravo's "Top Chef Masters" Season 2. Samuelsson, a Swedish chef of Ethiopian descent, had teamed up with Planters to create some new recipes using the company's newly launched peanut butter.... In the East Village I'll try Angel's Share, a bar. On his burgeoning social media empire: I've built my company around where the online conversation is centered. is a platform for men, and marcussamuelsson.com is more of a female conversation, with a blog format. To center the conversation...