Casey Thompson
Top Chef Season 8: All-Stars
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'Top Chef All Stars' Eliminated Chef: 'I'm Not Brokenhearted'
2011-01-07 / TV Squad
...Top Chef All Stars" was heated to say the least! For the one-hundredth show of the Bravo series, we were not only given the chance to watch head judge Tom Colicchio pick up his knives and cook in the Quick Fire Challenge, we also had the chefs thrust into one of the toughest Elimination...Casey Thompson's undoing. Chicken feet did Casey in, partly because she had also taken a chance by agreeing to work as a server and let other chefs plate up her dish. Despite her "ballsy" move, the dish failed and the Executive Chef of Dallas' Shinsei restaurant was told to leave. As our interview reveals, Casey... -
Top Chef recap: Chinatown meltdown
2011-01-06 / US News Portal
...For knocking out the winner in 8:37 he got immunity and a new Toyota Prius. Elimination challenge: Here's ...Top Chef" fan is saying the exact same thing right now: How is Jamie still on the show? If it hadn't been for Casey's chicken feet being cooked wrong, she would have gone home. She's in danger of turning into this season's Lisa Fernandes (season 4) or Robin Leventhal (season...Top Chef." Ultimately, chefs will stay or go based on what they cook, so they have little incentive to pull together in a total team effort. It was evident in this episode when they were being crushed by the weight... -
Top Chef Recap: Which Chef Wasn't Up to Speed?
2011-01-06 / People Magazine
...html" title="Post to Twitter" target="_blank"> Twitter It's Top Chef 's 100 episode – and even Tom Colicchio joined ... immunity. Speed was the key ingredient in the Elimination challenge as well, which asked the chefs to work as a team, head to Chinatown ... run the show in the kitchen – while Carla Hall and Casey Thompson would work the dining room. For reasons unexplained, the chefs didn't seem ...showing in the Quickfire. He had the winning dish – some sticky rice that Colicchio especially loved. In the end, though, despite Jamie's two poorly executed dishes, Casey was sent home... -
'Top Chef All-Stars,' Episode 5 Recap: 'Dim Sum Lose Some'
2011-01-06 / Wall Street Journal Blogs
... as a montage of her season plays “Jamie’s Scallops Greatest Hits.” “This is not Top Scallops,” Fabio snarked then,... Casey, Mike and Carla move on to expedite and serve the dining room. A packed dining room awaits, including guest judge and “Top Chef ... unlikely that there can even be a winner, since the service went so badly. This week’s low performers: Casey, Jamie, Carla, Antonia and Tre. ...Casey. While we’re not keen on chicken feet, we still wish we’d be rid of Jamie once and for all. A blog can dream… Next week: A double elimination... -
Top Chef All-Stars Ep. 5: Large talons
2011-01-06 / Washington Post Blogs
...winner gets immunity in the Elimination Challenge, as well as a Toyota Prius. Man, the prizes are really good this season, aren't they? When they cut to Marcel saying, "Immunity? Pffsshhh, I'm not worried about going home" I think -- nay, I yell -- "FOR THE LOVE OF CHARLES NELSON REILLY, Bravo, STOP SPOILING THIS SHOW!!!!!" As the chefs... beans, and Jamie again for the gross dumplings, so I'm thinking it's finally time for Stitch to go home. But sadly, it's one of my favorites, Casey, who is sent packing. And I kind of hate Top Chef. Up Next Week: Who even cares, because Jamie will, once again, ... -
Top Chef Recap: A Tom Colicchio Smackdown (He Is So Hot)
2011-01-06 / Broward New Times
... show has managed to retain some dignity and actually stay on track to resemble a cooking competition and not a soap opera. I love Top Chef, if only for the super hot Celebrity Chef... Top Chef "Cheftestants"...until now. Top Chef' s Season Eight's All-Stars (All-Star meaning cheftestants who never won Top Chef but are recognizeable to Top Chef fans) got a surprise during last evening's quickfire challenge with Chef/...sticky rice. Losers are Casey's chicken feet, Jamie and Antonia's greasy overcooked long beans and Tre's soupy custard. Dale wins for his sticky rice and Casey packs her knives after ... -
Top Chef All-Stars Episode Five: "Everyone Sucked and Everything Sucked"
2011-01-06 / Eater.com (blog)
...season. "Mendelsohn out." Those were the very gross words Chef Spike left us with before darting out the back door. He's gone, and we kick off the 100th episode of Top Chef , and the first of 2011, with chefs...pictures of your lady friend in your KNIFE CASE? I know you are a chef, but knife cases are already a little creepy, and pictures of your girlfriend.... But Casey's chicken ...top. Fabio's over the moon. His short ribs magically came together, and he jokes he expected to be eliminated even before the service. But the winner, bouncing back from his poor performance in the Quickfire, and showing... -
"Top Chef All-Stars" Recap: Dim Prospects
2011-01-06 / San Diego Union Tribune
...ribs "a Top Chef miracle!"; spring rolls from Dale and Angelo (whose memories of cooking with his over-bearing father made him surprisingly human); and a tasty dumpling from Tiffany. Dale won, banishing those limp-noodle jokes forever. They were fun while they lasted. Sadly, the Bad News Bears Elimination Team ... which was a double bummer. How is she still on the show? But Casey went out with total class, opting not to throw Antonia under the Chef Bus, even though Antonia was responsible for cooking the dreaded chicken feet while Casey bravely served front-of-the-house duty with Carla. I think ... -
Top Chef: All-Stars - Episode 5 Recap
2011-01-06 / Realitywanted
... wins immunity and a new Toyota Prius. Go green or go home, yo. This week's Elimination Challenge is a trip to Chinatown, specifically to dim sum restaurant Grand Harmony, where the chefs ..., because - ya know - Jamie hasn't really cooked much this season. Suser Lee (you'll recognize him from Top Chef: Masters) is this week's guest judge. During service, the entire...winners are swapped out for the, um, non-winners one last time and Casey is sent packing. With that, Jamie redeems what I can only assume to be her ninth life. I can't wait to hear what Casey has to say about this. Top Chef... -
Top Chef's Casey: My Dish Wasn't Inedible
2011-01-06 / TV Guide
...elimination challenges, but this week's jumbled dim sum service resulted in a whole lot of angry - and hungry - patrons reduced to stealing food off the carts. During the madness, front-of-the-house volunteer Casey Thompson was forced to leave her dish in her fellow cheftestants' hands, and the judges' described the final... dish. Plus: Why was she convinced Jamie was going home over her? Casey Thompson: What I've come to realize about team challenges is they...turned it over to the other chefs? Casey: [ Long pause ] You know, when I was watching the show, there was a picture of my dish that came up... -
Top Chef exit interview: Little feet
2011-01-06 / US News Portal
...Top Chef" is "don't work the front of the house," the second is "don't trust your dish to someone else." Time after time, running afoul of one of these simple rules has sent chefs home. So when Casey Thompson not only volunteered to help serve diners but also left the final... eliminated? Going into this from the get-go . . . our mindset was different for each one of us. I felt like this was going to be a tough show ... do that? I don't know. It's weird because in my season, season three, we went to the finale and they just announced the winner, so I had never actually packed my knives. This was a ... -
'Top Chef All Stars' Season 8, Episode 5 Recap
2011-01-06 / TV Squad
... was the perfect way to kick off the show. He's not Mr. Top Chef for nothing! The 'Quick Fire Challenge' was...could prepare. The other chefs had to create on the spot. They had a great reward, though -- the winner would get a Toyota...is consistently in the upper echelon. The elimination challenge was one of the toughest ever for 'Top Chef' -- dim sum. That meant a ...wedding episode in Season 1 when the chefs decided to use a box mix to make a wedding cake! Casey's claim that she...be going home? The chicken feet turned out to be Casey's undoing. Based on what Spike said in his exit interview, it wasn... -
Recap: 'Top Chef All-Stars' - 'Dim Sum Lose Sum'
2011-01-05 / HitFix
...Top Chef,” it’s because the title of the show was suddenly changed from “Top Chef: All Stars” to plain, old “Top Chef.” But hey, this show...time for the elimination challenge. This week, the chefs must serve dim sum to customers in the Chinatown Grand Harmony restaurant. Even before the chefs go shopping,...Casey and Jamie, though I’m putting my money on Jamie going home. Tiffany D., Angelo, Dale and Fabio are next to see the judges. Tiffany’s pork buns are a savory marshmallow, according to Gail. Angelo’s dish had textural integrity. The winner... -
Top Chef All-Stars: Power Rankings Week 4
2010-12-26 / Cinema Blend
...winner this week) remain near the top, though it should be noted how close the voting for places three through six have gotten. After that, it’s a large drop-off down to Casey...dishes show that she’s still competing and still doing well, but it’ll take more than the memory of a strong performance in season 1 to win her..., but the Elimination challenge was a disaster. Tom said flat-out his salmon would have sent him home had he been... Top 5, but can you honestly imagine any of them letting someone else overcook their salmon because they didn’t feel like arguing? #7) Casey Thompson (33) : Casey ... -
Top Chef All-Stars Ep. 4: Game, set, match. Hootie.
2010-12-23 / Washington Post Blogs
...crab, oysters, chili-lemon aioli, grapes and olive would take top prize. But instead, Tony and Padma liked Marcel's squab with ...came from a Nair commercial audition. Up first: Fabio (whole-wheat gnocchi with pork loin) vs. Casey (pork tenderloin with farro salad...seasons of the show. There's great praise all around, and local D.C. gal Carla is named the winner. She wins not just the challenge, but also a trip to Italy. Up for elimination are the Yellow Team cheftestants whose dishes lost: Casey... sent home because, ultimately, he didn't take control of his dish, or his team, and the final result ... -
Top Chef recap: You got served
2010-12-23 / US News Portal
..."undone-te." The top two dishes were Tre's spicy southwest version and Marcel's whole squab stuffed with raisin brioche, cherries and currants. Tre's stuffing wins. Elimination challenge : Chefs drew tennis balls to...-- unlike Jamie in the museum challenge -- wrapped it up and kept going. The matches (winner in italic): Casey (pork loin and faro salad) vs. Fabio (whole wheat gnocchi) Tiffani (sashimi of black...in this season raised more than a few eyebrows as his previous performance on the show was good but not great (he was ranked the lowest of any season eight chef in the Trib's Top Chef Power ... -
Top Chef Recap: US Open Wide
2010-12-23 / The Quad (blog)
...Casey, with her asian flavors, and Tiffani, whose stuffing was too sweet. The top were Tre, who made cheddar and jalapeño stuffing, and Marcel, who cooked an entire squab. Tre won, and along with immunity he got $20,000. The elimination challenge was even stranger. The chefs...the winner. Only the players who had the losing dishes on the losing team would be up for elimination....went home, but we’ll get to that later. Spike, and his team (Angelo, Jamie, Casey, ...eliminated, which makes me happy, but since he was listed as a cheftender last week, I will have to eat an entire watermelon! Pictures... -
Top Chef: All-Stars - Episode 4 Recap
2010-12-23 / Realitywanted
...seasonal favorite. Did I mention they can't use any cooking tools? Well, they can't. At least the winner will gain immunity and bank an extra $20,000! The bottom three dishes are Carla's undercooked quinoa, Tiffany F.'s super-sweet stuffin' and Casey's plate of food, disguised as stuffing. The top.... Richard's win over spike brings the orange team to match point. Angelo helps Trey finish his Salmon before facing Carla in the final battle. When... but since Angelo isn't up for elimination, it doesn't help Spike's case very much and he is sent home. Top Chef: All Stars airs Wednesdays at 10/... -
'Top Chef All-Stars': Season 1, Episode 4 'Advantage Chef'
2010-12-23 / Wall Street Journal Blogs
...Actually! Surprise! Producers did think ahead and the quickfire is to make holiday stuffing. Guest judge is Top Chef Master’s Tony Mantuano. Oh, but wait a second, Padma says. You can’t use... Carla, Tiffani, and Casey. Tony’s favorites: Tre and Marcel. Tre snags twenty grand and immunity. This week’s Elimination Challenge: After falling into two randomly picked teams, chefs face off one-by...elevated”) and Richard. Was there a strategy?, the judges ask. Nah, Richard says. The winner this week: Carla, who snags a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, in the other room, people snark... -
'Top Chef All Stars' Eliminated Chef: 'Sabotage Is Such A Strong Word'
2010-12-23 / TV Squad
... The members of the team that failed to score a point wound up the losers. The chef sent home was Spike Mendelsohn. Spike was a season 4 cheftestant and one of the more colorful characters in the 'Top Chef' pantheon. Currently he lives in Washington, D.C., where he owns and runs three restaurants -- ... two episodes? Oh yes. Hello, we're on a nationally recognized, Emmy-winning show called 'Top Chef' where people come on a show to cook and present food. I'm not sure what show she thinks she's on. Every chef thought Casey was going home. But I knew as soon as the game was over that it was me... -
Top Chef exit interview: Listen all of y'all it's a sabotage
2010-12-23 / US News Portal
... the team was eliminated first. - Angelo Sosa and Tiffany Derry helped plate Spike's dish, with Angelo adding a yuzu gelee that the judges hated. - And Casey Thompson, who looked d-u-n...just placing it, and they didn't toss anything together or season it. And then on top of that, they added this huge glop of yuzu gelee...voted for the other team. I think I'm the only person who lost all four points, to Richard Blais. I knew I was going home. The only thing on "Top Chef" sometimes that's funny, and people that show they don't have the will to stay in the competition, they send themselves home. Casey...
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