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Top Chef Season 8: All-Stars
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Who Won Top Chef All Stars Fan Favorite? Was Fabio Robbed?
2011-03-30 / Famecrawler
... right? Who won Top Chef Fan Favorite? Carla and Fabio were the top two for fan favorite. Oh, be still my heart. Fabio. Even though I adore Carla. Hootie hoo! The Top Chef Fan Favorite from Top Chef All Stars, winning $10,000, was Carla Hall. Okay, Carla, I adore you. If Fabio couldn’t win, I’m glad it... to antique dolls, but she mostly likes sharing stories about her adorable children on her blog, Because I Said So. Emma Brady has been the publisher of Celebrity Moms - where celebrity and parenthood collide - since January 2006. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her husband... -
Top Chef: All-Stars - Episode 15 Recap
2011-03-24 / Realitywanted
... banter of the season. Carla: "Maybe some lime zest." Carla: "Oh, because it's fresh." Wolfang names Isabella's one-pot dish the victor, making this his third win in a row. I think the hair on Richard's head is standing up a little straighter now. For the Elimination Challenge, the chefs will cook for ... who to send to the finale. Wolfgang Puck breaks the tie. In heartbreaking fashion, Antonia is sent home just shy of the final episode. I'm a dude, but even I am sick of the all-dude finales on this show. Come on, Tom. Show some love to the ladies. Top Chef: All-Stars airs Wednesdays at... -
Top Chef All-Stars Episode 15: There's Nothing Last About This Supper
2011-03-24 / Eater.com (blog)
...win, the final Quickfire of all their Top Chef careers. What is a Top Chef career? I don't know. I mean, I hope it's all their last Quickfire? The Real World just got picked up for a 27th and 28th season... kill them? Figuring that out is the Elimination Challenge. Actually, no one is going to die, and this show isn't over yet, so the only thing...winner, but that didn't happen. Today, creativity won out over execution. Antonia is heading home. Mike says goodbye to his cousin, and Antonia sadly feels like her first boyfriend is breaking up with her all over again. Mike's plan worked, and the finale... -
Top Chef Recap: Top Chef Twists and the Top Chef Final Two
2011-03-23 / Famecrawler
...this challenge. It’s good that Carla got to help Antonia, since Carla has said that there was . The winner of the quickfire was Mike. I really thought he would be gone from the competition by now, but he’s really on a roll. The elimination challenge had the Top Chef All Stars cooking a “last meal... challenge to determine who will be moving on. Antonia and Mike have 45 minutes to make the perfect bite. The Top Chef judges were going back and forth on whose was better. Antonia was sent home and Mike moves on to the Top Chef finale! But, can anyone beat Richard for the title of... -
Carla Hall Says There Was A "Boys Club" On Top Chef (VIDEO)
2011-03-22 / Famecrawler
...on Watch What Happens: Live, former Top Chef contestant Carla Hall was interviewed about her experience on the show. Watch What Happens: Live host Andy Cohen asked Hall if she felt that there was sexism... season’s Top Chef All Stars (season 8), where she finished fifth in the competition. Carla continues to work as the executive chef and owner of Alchemy by Carla Hall (formerly Alchemy Caterers). Watch Carla... stories about her adorable children on her blog, Because I Said So. Emma Brady has been the publisher of Celebrity Moms - where celebrity and parenthood collide - since January 2006.... -
'Top Chef All-Stars' Eliminated Chef: 'I Wasn't Going Out Without a Fight'
2011-03-17 / TV Squad
...Top Chef' participants, they were cognizant that while getting to the final four was a major achievement ... nobody wanted to get that far only to be sent home. The chef...chef from season 7, was the first of the final four to be ousted. Tiffany, a self-taught culinary wiz, lost out in a nip and tuck competition. If only her conch chowder had been piping hot, or a little less sweet ... In her exit interview, Tiffany was as gracious on the phone as she was on the show... wrong, I was not happy to see Carla go, but I do understand that it is...the Elimination Challenge, they told us in the previous show ... -
Top Chef: All Stars - Conference Call with Tiffany Derry
2011-03-17 / Realitywanted
... close to the finale this season on Top Chef: All Stars but not close enough. On this week's episode, she was eliminated in the Bahamas after the judges felt that her soup was not hot enough and a little too sweet. This late in the game, any little thing can send you home, as Tiffany unfortunately..., I lost my grandfather just two days before the show began. It's a lot going on and you're away from family, you're thinking about your restaurant ... there are a lot of other things that go into it. Q. Did Carla leaving have any impact on your performances? A. Tiffany: Don't get me wrong, I was ... -
Recap: 'Top Chef All-Stars' - 'Island Fever'
2011-03-16 / HitFix
...final four and, as expected, the chefs are becoming just as cranky and neurotic as you’d expect with the Top Chef title in such close proximity. Still, there’s a little time to mourn those recently ordered to pack their knives and go. Everyone liked Carla...floor and sucking their thumbs, Padma announces the Elimination Challenge. The Nassau Yacht Club is having an...go and show us Mike in all his loveliness anyway. Thanks, “Top Chef”! ...home. Tom thinks the cold ceviche and hot soup of Tiffany’s meal weird. Lorena thought Mike’s food was greasy. Hmmm. The winner... -
Top Chef All-Stars: Power Rankings Week 13
2011-03-12 / Cinema Blend
... pride with Tiffany narrowly edging season seven’s surprise winner. After that, it was all down hill. The chefs were told they’d be cooking for royalty, but that royalty ended up being the king of a street celebration. All but Tiffany who decided...Top Chef Power Rankings are a weekly ordering of lists put together by Cinema Blend writers Mack Rawden and Jessica Grabert, as well as professional poker player and food fanatic Brain Carraher. Eighteen points are awarded for a first place vote, and this week, fifteen were given for a last place vote. Fourteen competitors have already been eliminated... -
'Top Chef All-Stars' Eliminated Chef: 'I Lost My Focus At The End'
2011-03-11 / TV Squad
...Top Chef All-Stars.' The circumstances conspired to make it one of the most challenging Elimination Challenges ever ... and that was without the machinations of the producers to make it so. It was fate. Fate in the form of a kitchen fire. The sudden, shocking turn of events meant that all five chefs remaining -- the final... interview, Carla was grateful for the 'Top Chef' experience and satisfied that she'd given it her all ... and nearly won it all. Carla Hall:..., but I enjoyed meeting and working with all the chefs that I came to know from watching the show. Just a little bit. (laugh) I had met... -
Top Chef Recap: Finale Part 0
2011-03-11 / The Quad (blog)
...Top Chef. This episode was the first part of the finale - a t hree part finale! Madness! Anyway, the chefs are in the Bahamas, and for the Quickfire they have to cook against the past winning chefs season, head-to-head. The winning...breast. Finally, season 7 (Tiffany vs. Kevin) had some pork, and Tiffany beat kevin with her pork stew (her first win all season , and it doesn’t really count). For the elimination, the chefs were...it aired, what she made. In the end, Mike won (!) and the wonderful Carla was sent home! It’s just proof that even if something is overcooked or boring, it’... -
Quick Feeding: Top Chef Carla Hall Hopeful for Stevens Space
2011-03-11 / Washington City Paper (blog)
for the beloved Top Chef star? "I am hoping to be able to open up a place in the old Steven's School at 21st & L. I'm waiting for the city to get the right ... we'll see if I become part of that team. It's a really good idea. It will have a market and cafe, cooking classes and chef's dinner." [Endless Simmer] More Mid-Range, Please: chef Ed Witt , in a Q&A with We Love D.C., hits on something about the D.C. dining scene that has frustrated Young & Hungry, and certainly others... -
'Top Chef' recap: We're Not In New York City Anymore
2011-03-10 / Entertainment Weekly
...chefs' genealogy binders. And we did, and I cried, and maybe you did too, and suddenly here we all are again, in the Bahamas! Everyone showed... Top Chef Fort, the chefs found old enemies. Poised menacingly behind cooking stations were the winners of each of the All-Stars' seasons:... Top Chefs. I think we were supposed to worry for them, and if so, I failed. Hosea wanted to win the Quickfire against Carla...win, that. Stephanie's veal scallopini scraped past Antonia's roasted veal (too dry), and lost to Blais' seared loin and braised veal cap (too good). She still won $10,000! "Lucky" b****. The final... -
Top Chef Recap: Cooking For The King
2011-03-10 / Broward New Times
...winner of their particular season. The winner gets $10,000. That means that if the challenger wins, they get the $10,000. The cheftestants have to make a dish with the ingredient that Tom picks specifically for them. Elimination... get into a car with a police escort. They're taken to Junkanoo at Fish Fry. OMG, Carla says. Man, I love Junkanoo! The cheftestants are dancing with the Junkanoo dancers and Tom walks out ... start to cook in the small kitchen equipped with only fryers, a microwave and a flat top, one of the fryers catches fire. I mean flames! There's smoke, the fire department comes... -
Top Chef All Stars Ep. 13: ZZZZZZZzzzzzzz
2011-03-10 / Washington Post Blogs
...season's winning chef. Tom has selected the proteins. The winner of each challenge gets $10,000. Richard and Antonia each cook against Stephanie Izard, and must use a rack of veal. Mike will compete with Michael Voltaggio by cooking duck. Carla has to go up against the most undeserving winner in all of Top Chef...at all. For the Elimination Challenge, the cheftestants ...be a Top Chef finals challenge. The pace...Carla gets sent home, which is just a big old heaping bowl of crap pudding after the crap sandwich this whole episode was. What a bummer. I'll miss the heart and soul Carla brings to this show... -
'Top Chef All-Stars': royal follies
2011-03-10 / Examiner.com
... are getting ever closer to the grand finale for "Top Chef All-Stars," and Wednesday night proved one thing yet again -- no one is truly safe in this competition. After many weeks of looking like one of the strongest fundamental chefs in the competition, Carla Hall is out. Of course, the steps ...to this result were more than a little complicated. Carla began the episode with a Quickfire, where she had to face off against the winner of her original season. If the All-Star won, they ... -
Top Chef Heats Up the Bahamas - Literally!
2011-03-10 / People Magazine
...chefs who defeated them on their original seasons, the finalists – Richard Blais, Tiffany Derry, Antonia Lofaso, Carla Hall...Carla had a rough go of it. Her undercooked rice undermined her lamb dish, and caused her to fall to her season's winner, Hosea Rosenberg. Fire! Fire! And her poor performance seemed to foreshadow events ahead. Told they were cooking for Bahamian royalty, the chefs...top. Mike's sous vide chicken was a touch dry, but he ultimately claimed the finale's first win...It was a fatal error, and Carla knew it, which is why her unfortunate elimination didn't shock anybody – ... -
'Top Chef All-Stars': The pressure is cooking the chefs
2011-03-10 / Los Angeles Times
...Top Chef All-Stars" finale proved, they are prone to cracking up themselves. There's no doubt the remaining five chefs must feel like a veal chop hammered into scaloppini. Even though it takes Bravo months to show all of the episodes, the series is actually filmed in a matter of weeks, and by the time the season... of melted ice cream, and even if Tiffany or Antonia could have been sent home for their uninspired food, some of Carla's pork was inedible-not a great attribute when everything is on the line. Carla's inexorable grace and liveliness will be missed as much by viewers as it might ... -
'Top Chef' - 'Fit for a King': Fire in the hole!
2011-03-10 / HitFix
...show contestants be this close to cracking up at the end - or, at least, not that many whom I like as much as Richard. Ordinarily, that long gap before the "Top Chef" finals... begins tends to bring people back with their mental batteries recharged, but it seems like Richard spent the interim just obsessing and feeling the weight of expectations as the overwhelming favorite. I'm not saying he will win... life has been like since that season ended. Though he did win some challenges back in the day, his season was dominated by Stefan early and Carla late, and everybody (myself included... -
Top Chef's Carla: I Would've Sent Myself Home Too
2011-03-10 / TV Guide
... equipment, leading to her elimination. "I do think [we should get the best equipment in the finals]," Carla tells TVGuide.com. "I ...top and a microwave. Once that got into my head, I thought I had to change my plan. I have to say that I agree with Mike in that - I can't speak for the other chefs...knew. I would've sent myself home too. I won't fight for a bad dish. ... I said this on the show: I would've rather gone home knowing I did a really great ... changed the name from Alchemy Caterers to Alchemy by Carla Hall. It'll be a line of seasonal products until I eventually hopefully open up a caf&#... -
This season of 'Top Chef' is on fire!
2011-03-10 / The Marquee Blog
...Top Chef: All-Stars" has landed in the Bahamas for this season's final rounds, with five chefs making the trip. We dive right into the Quickfire challenge, where the All-Stars cook head-to-head against the winners of their respective seasons. This means double-duty for Season... the jitters for everyone. The fire department shows up to contain the flames, but when ...chefs when this season started, but he's making a push at the end here (including that Quickfire win over Mike V., arguably the best winner in the first 7 seasons). As for eliminations, again, serving something undercooked is Carla...
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