Top Chef Examiner

Hosea Rosenberg wins 'Top Chef'

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:31:52 -0700

Boulder, Colorado! Represent! "I think it's a coin flip, I really do. I do not see Hosea posing any kind of a threat." - The idiot Matt Wolf, February 24, 2009"During his tenure at Jax, he has won numberous awards including Best C...

'Top Chef' season recap

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:49:19 -0700

God forbid I'd go the whole year without a picture of PadmaHeading into tonight's finale, a look back at Season 5:Episode 1: Stefan sets the tone in a cooking competition representing the different ethnic neighborhoods of New York, winning the day wi...

'Top Chef' finale preview

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:15:54 -0700

Can he do it? We'll find out...In Wednesday night's final episode, Carla, Hosea and Stefan will compete in cooking "the best meal of their lives." The ground rules are three courses, dessert optional, with three famous sous chefs working wi...

'Top Chef' finale, part 1 recap

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:46:26 -0700

Carla's on fire The fifth season finale began with a surprise quickfire, as eliminated chefs Jamie, Jeff and Leah were allowed to make their way down to New Orleans for a shot at redemption. With reknowned New Orleans chef Emeril Lagasse&nb...

'Top Chef' episode 12 recap

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:08:11 -0700

I breaka my finger and I still winna the challenge"Hospital?! I'll chop it off and sear it."So said Fabio about his broken pinkie finger after somehow injuring himself in the kitchen while cooking Lidia Bastianich's "last sup...

'Top Chef' episode 11 recap

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:14:39 -0700

Adios muchacha... you were good So now your friendly Top Chef Examiner is back on neutral ground. I threw out all notions of objectivity and "no cheering in the press box" weeks ago when I admitted that I was rooting for Jamie, and I ...

'Top Chef' episode 10 recap

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:27:51 -0700

And the female fans weep... no more Jeff What a night for Carla. Not only did she win the elimination competition, not only did she finally perform well during a quickfire, but she successfully encapsulated the entire episode only ten ...

'Top Chef' episode 9 recap

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:19:34 -0700

Radhika says goodbye Through five seasons of Top Chef the high-octane "Restaurant Wars" episodes have given us some great moments: Season 1: Amiable but overly sensitive Dave, finally fed up with the abrasive interruptions of Ti...

'Top Chef' episode 9 preview - Restaurant Wars

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:09:48 -0700

Tomorrow night's episode features the annual "Restaurant Wars," where the chefs divide into two teams and open their own restaurants over the course of six hours. With the exception of the finales, these are usually the best episode...

'Top Chef' episode 8 recap

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:09:44 -0700

Most chefs feel that the pig is the most noble animal in the food chain. The pig offers pork belly, pork tenderloin, pig ears, pig's feet, and oh yeah... bacon. And you can certainly do a lot of interesting things with lamb, many winning ...

'Top Chef' episode 8 preview

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:18:49 -0700

Tonight's quickfire challenge is for the chefs to pick some random pantry staples ("a pile of garbage" according to Jeff) and fix a dish within fifteen minutes for guest judge Hung Huynh, the winner of Season 3, and by all accounts,...

'Top Chef' episode 7 recap - How you like THEM scallops?

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:07:10 -0700

Jamie finally wins one Jamie certainly redeemed herself last night, and what's more, the perennial bridesmaid with several second place finishes this season may have redeemed an entire species. The dreaded scallop, a delicate mollusk whose line...

'Top Chef' episode 7 preview

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:17:17 -0700

The quickfire involves preparation of a dessert, the catch being that the chefs must use non-sugar ingredients only:

The elimination challenge is a no-limits cooking challenge, and will be judged blind:

'Top Chef' midseason power poll

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:08:25 -0700

Ariane is this season's star, but can she win it all? With the show roughly at the halfway point (six chefs down, seven more to go before the finale) and taking a two week break for the holidays, it's time to rank the remaining conte...

'Top Chef' episode 6 recap

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:16:27 -0700

Hosea wins challenge, female admirers First off - the T-Mobile product placement while poor Hosea was on the phone talking to his sister about his cancer-stricken father was a new low. What kind of creep arranges these things? On to the epis...

'Top Chef' episode 6 preview

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:48:57 -0700

Tomorrow night's quickfire challenge is to cook a holiday-themed "one pot wonder," and will be judged by none other than Martha Stewart: And the elimination challenge has the chefs cooking for a party of 250 rich people (Ma...

'Top Chef' episode 5 recap

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:21:46 -0700

Danny is history Though it would have been hard for him to top his "Donald Trump is the most powerfulest man in Noo Yawk," comment, I will miss Danny and his sometimes-intentional comedy during interviews. After Hosea won the palate-...

'Top Chef' episode 5 preview

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:18:29 -0700

The annual "Name That Ingredient" palate-testing competition will be tomorrow night's quickfire challenge:And the elimination challenge has the 12 chefs splitting up into 4 groups of 3, with each team responsible for preparing a ...

'Top Chef' episode 4 recap

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:30:28 -0700

No more Vic Mackey, no more Little Joy, and no more Alex Eusebio Well, that was a rough week for the 213. Vic Mackey became a cubicle slave in th...

'Top Chef' episode 4 preview

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:08:59 -0700

Episode 4's quickfire challenge has the chefs preparing a breakfast amuse bouche (tiny portion) for celebrity chef extraordinaire and plastic surgery victim Rocco DiSpirito: The elimination challenge involves cooking a breakfast d...