Dale Levitski
Top Chef Season 8: All-Stars
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Top Chef All-Stars Recap
2011-03-09 / Box Office Prophets
...Dale's ascension to the top of the power rankings did. 2) Carla Hall - With Dale gone, everyone moves up a spot. In terms of performances relative to their seasons, Carla is the remaining contestant who came closest to winning. That bears noting as we grow closer to the finale...finals would have been epic. Dale is gone. No one can believe it. That is the way this episode begins and the behavior is perfectly human. Dale won a Quickfire and an Elimination... informed of their contest. This one is as tricky as anything in the show's history. Using only the contents of a snack bar, the challengers are ... -
Top Chef All-Stars Recap: Episode 11
2011-02-25 / D Magazine
...standing and Quickfire judge, Paula Dean y'all! The southern girls, Carla and Tiffany, were ecstatic! We all know that Paula is known for her down home cooking but she further explains how much she loves fried food. "If you can eat it, you can fry it." I immediately thought to myself,...back in the bottom three and Dale's shot at the title of Top Chef was over. I'm left feeling frustrated and deflated. I just can't be for sure if it's because it's total bologna that Dale was eliminated or because now I have 6 days to pick my new favorite contestant. I love this blog! I almost died when I read... -
Top Chef Recap: Paula Deen's Down Home Fry Fest
2011-02-24 / Broward New Times
...Elimination Challenge New Orleans chef John Besh and Paula Deen are hosting a foundation dinner to benefit The Greater New Orleans Foundation. The challenge is to cook a southern dish. Since the cheftestants are going to be making food for a benefit they get help in the way of cheftestants that were kicked off the show... Antonia, Richard and Mike are the top three. Richard's inspiration is the Florida side of the Gulf. Mike put lots of shrimp heads and andouille sausage in his sauce and no salt. Paula Deen announces the winner is Richard. Carla, Tiffany and Dale are the bottom three. John says ... -
Top Chef Review: Mean Paula Deen!
2011-02-24 / TV Fanatic
... by the oil spill. The chefs are tasked with cooking seafood with the help of the previously eliminated chefs! Yay, Fabio’s back!...FTW! Richard wins the challenge and gets some of his mojo back from the Quickfire, although Mike is also in the Top 3. Richard wins a trip...season as well. Good riddance! I was surprised that mike stealing richard's idea was not brought up a judge's table, I wish richard would have fixed the same thing and blew mike's out of the water!!!! I don't know that Dale deserved to stay over Tiffany, but I completely agree that Mike should have gone home. He broke "Chef... -
Top Chef All-Stars Ep. 11: There goes my Final Four
2011-02-24 / Washington Post Blogs
... original season. The girl works, and works hard, unlike so many people you hear about who pay $60,000 for culinary school and expect a TV show to be handed to them. Dale talks ... would have been the winner, but instead it's Mike who takes home the $5,000 cash prize. John Besh then joins Padma and Paula -- and, ultimately, the judging panel -- to announce the Elimination Challenge: cook Gulf coast... story for another blog/recap/whatever. Let's get back to the show. The competitors get $200 to shop at Restaurant Depot, and $500 for a Whole Foods spree. They'll prep in the Top Chef kitchen, and then... -
'Top Chef' lays down the law
2011-02-24 / The Marquee Blog
...Top Chef" taught us all a very important lesson: "There is man law, and there is Chef Law." After some initial foreshadowing from an interview and at-home... is to create a deep-fried dish, with the winner taking home $5,000. Antonia shines, and Paula proclaims her dish easily...interview at the start of the show? It was Dale, saying that everyone will eventually have to be eliminated except for one person. He takes his elimination incredibly well, showing joy and gratitude in front of his colleagues and displaying some real emotion directly to the camera. After the first episode of this season... -
'Top Chef All-Stars,' Season 8, Episode 11, 'For The Gulf:' TV Recap
2011-02-24 / Wall Street Journal Blogs
.... So Paula Deen shows up for a Southern...Elimination Challenge, with ...top three with a grit-encrusted gulf shrimp. Paula Deen flips over the shrimp but we’re hoping karma awards the win... to clearly deserving, much-too-nice Richard instead. Our belief in karmic retribution is momentarily restored: Richard wins! Throughout the season...Dale, who couldn’t wrangle his stew or his vegetables; and Carla, who overwhelmed her grouper with hot sauce and mustard. This week’s loser: Dale, whose disappointed tears moves our pea-hearts. But as he says, everyone has to go home, except the winner... -
Top Chef's Dale Talde: I Could Not Get in Gear
2011-02-24 / TV Guide
Top Chef: All Stars, Dale Talde With three elimination wins and four Quickfire wins - the most of anyone on so far - Dale Talde seemed like a shoo-in for the finale. Unfortunately, the Season 4 alum came up short yet... home. ... I should've asked the judges to wait [for service]. If I literally had five more minutes, [the potatoes] would've been cooked through. Dale: Well, that's the thing! I've never told my chef ...been an athlete, I would've tried to, but I love to compete. A lot of it was trying to show people I'm a lot more mature this time around. I didn't like who I was. I didn't like seeing... -
Top Chef exit interview: Anger management and Chicago roots
2011-02-24 / US News Portal
...Dale Talde, the second chance at a "Top Chef" title meant even more. This was a guy who clearly had some anger and control issues when last we saw him in season four. Getting to come back onto a show... room, what did you think your chances were of being eliminated? To be honest with you, you do a bad dish and that's what happens. You get sent home. Whenever I do a dish I think I've compromised too...'s dish... http://foodiegossip.blogspot.com/2011/02/top-chef-all-stars-bromance-renewed.html I was sorry to see Dale go too. I thought he'd at least make the finals. I still think Carla should've gone. ... -
Top Chef recap: Same song, second verse
2011-02-24 / US News Portal
...spill. Bearing six different beautiful examples of that seafood? Six eliminated chefs. Choose your ingredient and the sous chef comes with it. Oh, boy. Richard had the best ... was whispering to Dale that he had gotten inside of Richard's head. Richard, however, understands Top Chef about as well as anyone. His choice of sous chefs? Fabio, who he...chefs. In a pre-season interview, Tom Colicchio was adamant that the producers have nothing to do with the outcome. "They never even taste the food," he told The Stew, and decisions are "solely based on the food." Think Colicchio wanted to send Dale home... -
Top Chef All Stars Deep Fries for Paula Deen
2011-02-23 / Famecrawler
... had the top dishes for this Top Chef elimination challenge. Richard won tonight’s challenge and a trip to Barbados. The rest of the chefs had to go in to judges’ table: Dale, Carla, and Tiffany. Dale was the one to go home. We actually saw him cry! It was shocking to see him go home from Top Chef All-Stars... -
Top Chef All-Stars Episode 10-Loren Calls Foul When the Wrong Chef Sinks the 9 Ball in the Corner Pocket
2011-02-22 / D Magazine
...He instead chose Dale's pretzel, potato chip, shortbread cookies as the winner. Even the Cookie Monster can't resist the beautiful combination of salty and sweet. Up for grabs in the Elimination Challenge was $25,000-the largest prize in Top Chef history. To take home this prize the chefs had to cook... Tiffany's jambalaya to be jambalaya at all and thought her overuse of pre-made Cajun seasoning was unacceptable. And finally, the judges thought Angelo's potato soup was completely over salted-a crime punishable by elimination-and he was sent packing. While I hate to be ugly about very nice people... -
Top Chef: All-Stars Recap
2011-02-20 / Box Office Prophets
... from Top Chef season four have dominated this competition. Antonia, Dale and Richard all remain and you will note in the power rankings above that I consider all of three of them to be likely finalists, remembering that four players earn appearances at the start of the finale. This makes me wonder if the winner from that season... -
Top Chef All Stars: That's the way the cookie crumbles
2011-02-18 / Westword
...nerve began failing him completely. The Elimination Challenge was interesting to watch, but ... Why weren't they asked to vote on the food, like most ...on top, and Dale won. Tiffany, whose food hasn't garnered much praise this season, made... firing line. Angelo was sent home, and it was sad to ...quoted the instructions in Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking . David Downie, an Australian, is cooking his way through Hazan's book in much the same way Julie did through Julia's, blogging all the way, and he went further. He asked her directly about the risotto on Facebook. "American chefs... -
Top Chef Review: Elmo Like Eating...
2011-02-17 / TV Fanatic
... that Cookie Monster recently became Vegetable Monster... but he was back in full force on Top Chef , demanding his desert. Apparently Mike has never baked cookies before and Angelo hasn’t...challenge is $25,000, courtesy of this chain. While that’s awesome for the winner, I feel like many more worthy challenges deserve that insanely generous prize money. Without a...Dale when he wins that much money for just making grilled cheese and tomato soup. Mike Isabella escapes being the bottom three by a squeaker and, in another shocker, Angelo - one of the strongest in the bunch - is sent home... -
Top Chef Recap: Sure They're Cute - But Can Muppets Really Eat?
2011-02-17 / Broward New Times
...joke, not mine. Cookie monster doesn't like Richard's cookie. Angelo's was too dry. Favorites are Dale (sweet and salty) and Antonia (the only cookie that was "chewy gooey"). The winner is Dale. Dale wins $5,000. Elimination Challenge Padma says that now that their inner child is unleashed, they're going to be turned ...morning in the stew room. Padma wants to see Dale, Antonia and Richard. They have the top dishes of the evening. Tom says Dale's sandwich was nice and crispy. Tony liked the creative use of a clothes iron for the sandwich. The winner is Dale. $25,000. Padma says it's a very ... -
Top Chef: If You Give a Monster a Cookie...
2011-02-17 / People Magazine
..., though, the chefs faced a decidedly ...chefs' Quickfire challenge. While some chefs (like Dale Talde) admitted they ...were a bit rusty in the cooking-making department, Antonia Lofaso was confident she could win...win. That, instead, went to Dale. Midnight Snack Then it was over to Target, after midnight, where the chefs...their kitchens, many chefs spent less time ... a winning streak recently, ... noticed. Dale made soup...win approval from the Target employees and the judges, nabbing Talde another big win and $25,000. Equally impressive: the (few) other chefs... -
Top Chef All-Stars Ep. 10: Iron chef Dale
2011-02-17 / Washington Post Blogs
...big surprise to anyone watching the show. They loved Dale's and Antonia's, although Elmo told Antonia her cookies looked like cow chips. He's right. And, the winner is Dale, who takes home $5,000. We go right into the Elimination Challenge and find out the winner will receive the biggest cash prize in Top Chef history: $25,000. That... season here in Washington, but even though I think he flies his freak flag a little too high, the dude can cook. He gives a classy goodbye to the team, and there are hugs all around the room. So now, I guess my final four has been figured out for me: Blais, Dale,... -
'Top Chef All-Stars': Cookie Monster and the fall of another favorite
2011-02-17 / Examiner.com
... shot at taking home the title. Neither one of them has been a frequent winner this season, and have merely stuck around by being above average for most of the season. This could still change, but for the time being it seems like Dale, Richard, Carla, and Antonia are the four at the top. If there's somebody... inside of a store. (Then again, was this really a great ad for Target, since so many chefs struggled to find exactly what they needed?) With everyone working under limited time it quickly become a soup-off. Dale won again for a dish he used to pretty much make in his dorm room, while Angela... -
'Top Chef' - 'Lock Down': S is for salty, that's bad enough for me
2011-02-17 / HitFix
...I prefer my "Top Chef" challenges to be divided as follows: Quickfires are for goofiness, while Elimination Challenges are for the contestants to show off their cooking ..., that's the one at Clifton Commons, right? Bourdain's (always-hilarious) blog said that it was in Jersey, and while all Targets look alike in...final four featuring those three (all alums of the same season) plus Carla, since Mike has been struggling a fair amount and Tiffany mainly seems to be sticking around because someone's always worse. That's not always the way "Top Chef" works out - in the Dale/Richard/Antonio season, Dale... -
'Top Chef' Season 8, Episode 10 'Lock Down': TV Recap
2011-02-17 / Wall Street Journal Blogs
...home, Wednesday's episode of "Top Chef All-Stars" was a doozy. On the positive side, Dale pretty much ruled the show. He proudly showed off his inner Tiger Mom when he commented that losers shouldn’t be coddled, and he cleaned up monetarily, picking up $30,000 for winning both the Quickfire and Elimination Challenges. For his Quickfire win, Dale...as Elmo put it saucily, Dale scored the win with his potato chip/pretzel/chocolate cookie concoction. Dale also won the Elimination Challenge, which was one of the harder competitions of the season. At midnight, the chefs headed over to a Target ...
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