Elia Aboumrad
Top Chef Season 8: All-Stars
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Anthony Bourdain's 'Top Chef' Blog Might Be More Entertaining Than 'Top Chef'
2010-12-13 / TV Squad
...the cheftestants and their dishes, but to the show itself. If his second season 8 entry is any indication, this is going to be the first blog I visit on Thursday mornings for the entire season. Somehow, Bourdain manages to connect 'Top Chef' and 'The Wire,' of all shows. He opens the entry by talking how, ... this season acted poorly at both the judges' table and after they were told to go. If it were up to Bourdain, both Jen and Elia should have comported themselves with more dignity, even if they didn't agree with the verdict. He was especially critical of Elia's post-episode interviews, where... -
Top Chef All-Stars: Episode 1, Redeem Thyself
2010-12-02 / Washington Post Blogs
...this show should be called "Top ...eliminated tonight if this was called "Top Hair") await them with their Quickfire Challenge: Chefs team up with others from their season and cook a dish that represents the city where their season took place. Winning team gets immunity. Tom and Padma didn't like Marcel and Elia...winner, and all four of them have immunity for the elimination challenge. Out came 18 silver domes of doom, and the chefs were presented with ingredients dominating the dish that got them eliminated in their original season. The Elimination...interview sequence, Angelo traded in last season... -
Top Chef recap: All-Star season kicks off with a bang
2010-12-02 / US News Portal
...Elimination challenge: Take your worst fear. Now multiply that by about 100. In maybe the biggest single bleeping in the show's history, almost every chef (except the newly immunized Season 4 players) yelled expletives when the ingredients for the dish that sent them home last time were revealed. Antonia Lofaso's pigeon peas? Check. Elia Aboumrad...Didn't taste good. Wasn't cooked right." The trifecta. Elia . . . she gone. Top group: Richard Blais, Spike, Jamie Lauren, Angelo Sosa (winner) Bottom group: Fabio Viviani, Elia (eliminated), Stephen Asprinio The takeaway: A few things are obvious from... -
'Top Chef All-Stars' Premiere Recap: Ghosts of Dishes Past
2010-12-02 / CafeMom Daily Buzz
...Top Chef All-Stars brings together eliminated contestants from the first seven seasons of the show, so all of these guys have their work cut out for them -- and are bringing some big-time agendas to the table. Just as a refresher, here's the line-up: From season one, Tiffiani Faison and Stephen Asprinio. From season two, Elia Aboumrad... the challenge, earning immunity for its four chefs: Spike, Dale T., Richard, and Antonia. But they got off easy. Because the elimination challenge is intense. Each chef is ordered to re-create the dish that got them sent home . Ouch. They get three hours to cook... -
'Top Chef: All-Stars': If at first you don't succeed… – The Marquee Blog
2010-12-02 / The Marquee Blog
...and Stephen from season one; Marcel and Elia from season two; Dale L., Casey and Tre from season three; Richard, Antonia, Spike and Dale T. from season four; Carla, Fabio and Jamie from season five; Jen and Mike I. from season six; and Angelo and Tiffany from season seven. What we DON'T have are any "Top Chef" winners. This is... Fabio's dish, and Fabio took special exception to Bourdain's comments. Apparently, Fabio forgot what show he was on, or that judges are supposed to, you know, judge. But the minute Elia admitted that she neither tested nor tasted her dish, I knew she was toast. Being the... -
Top Chef: All-Stars' Elia: There Was a Lot of Fighting You Didn't See
2010-12-02 / TV Guide
... eliminated the first time around. And in the eyes of the judges, some chefs were unable to learn from their previous mistakes. But according to Season 2's Elia Aboumrad, the first chef asked to pack her knives this season,... then there shouldn't be any rules! I fought back for like 40 minutes. I was hoping they'd show some of it. I know I specifically cooked the fish in a Hawaiian style that is medium rare, and...but I didn't know I was going to be in the bottom. I never imagined I was going to go home. Elia: I think that it had motivation that I didn't like. It was all so we'd get on the nerves ... -
Top Chef Exit Interview: Elia blasts Tom Colicchio
2010-12-02 / US News Portal
...Elia Aboumrad's exit from "Top Chef." She said on the show that she felt "humiliated" by the experience of being the first one to pack her knives and she echoed that again today when talking to The Stew. She blasted how the elimination...than welcome to do it. " Here is an exit interview with Aboumrad as well as an extended response from Colicchio below. It... I like Diet Coke and actually I am drinking one right now in my home. I'm not kidding, I actually am. We sell it in all of my...'s embarrassed. Being the first one to go on an all-star season, it's terrible. But someone was going to go. It's what... -
'Top Chef All-Stars' Eliminated Chef: 'People Did Not Follow the Rules'
2010-12-02 / TV Squad
... resulted in one of the most recognizable contestants being sent home early. There were also All-Stars pushing the limits with...show. Today, TV Squad caught up with the first All-Star to pack their knives, who revealed tidbits about fellow chefs ... and most significantly, criticized head judge Tom Colicchio for "selling out." In a surprise turn of events, Elia Aboumrad was last night's eliminated contestant. In season 2, Elia had made the final...that that is the best thing that 'Top Chef' have allowed me to have. I am very, very close with Ilan Hall (season 2's winner). We are like family. We've ... -
Recap: 'Top Chef All-Stars' Premiere - 'History Never Repeats'
2010-12-01 / HitFix
...fondness for Carla, the super nice chef whose insecurity got her eliminated in her season. Plus, she occasionally calls out ...season two shrimp was bland. Season one used too much garlic. Season five only had one good dish out of three and season seven sucked it. The winner was… Chicago, season...is floored, as she thought she was heading to the finals without a bump. Focus, Jen, focus! Padma calls ...show, bested by banana leaf-wrapped fish. But at least she can say she was a “Top Chef” all-star, if only for a moment. Who do you think will win? Do you think Elia deserved to go home...
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Elia Aboumrad
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