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November 17th, 2008

Top Chef 5 New York: Sneak Peek This Week

This week, the chefs on Top Chef will have a new challenge, to try to please New york City customers! Yikes! They are some discerning diners! With guest judge for the week, New York restaurateur Donatella Arpaia, the chefs are in for a tough week ahead!! Here are a couple of clips to preview this […]

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November 5th, 2008

Top Chef 5 New York: Restaurant Finder

I don’t know about you, but one of my favorite Bravo shows is premiering next Wednesday. I’m getting impatient, but here’s a little fun web site tool to keep me (and you) occupied for the next week. It’s the Top Chef Restaurant Finder.
It features over 250 recommendations from approx. 40 Top Chefs and judges. […]

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October 19th, 2008

Top Chef 5: Heading to New York

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Get ready for season 5 of Bravo’s Top Chef. It premieres on November 12 and promises to bring another great cast of aspiring chefs with their eyes on the prize. To me, this is one of Bravo’s best reality series. I just love it! Those chefs never fail to entertain! […]

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September 20th, 2008

Padma Lakshmi Attended Project Runway Finale

Reality fans know her best as the host of Bravo’s Top Chef, but Padma Lakshmi is also a cookbook author, a model and the ex-wife of author Salman Rushdie. She looked amazing in all white with cobalt blue accents as she arrived at the Project Runway finale. What a beautiful lady!
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June 20th, 2008

Padma Laksmi is AfterEllen’s #85 Sexiest of 2008

That’s right, Padma Laksmi, the lovely host of Bravo’s Top Chef is ranked #85 on the AfterEllen.com Hot 100 list for 2008. She brings a certain sweetness to the show and balances some of the strong personalities. Not to mention that’s she’s unbelievably beautiful.
And she cooks too! Yes, Padma has even published her own cookbook. […]

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June 20th, 2008

Who Are Reality TV’s Worst Villians?

TV Guide Magazine reveals who the top 10 Reality TV villians of all time are in their latest issue. There are a number of people I would have expected to be on this list and they aren’t. (What? No Evel Dick Donato?) But here’s who they think make the top 10:

Omarosa, The Apprentice: She […]

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June 13th, 2008

Top Chef: Chicago - Stephanie Wins!

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Congratulations to Stephanie Izard for becoming the first female Top Chef!
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It was one of he most heated seasons of competition so far on Top Chef! There were some amazingly talented chefs on the show this season…and some real drama queens! (Yes, I’m talking about you, […]

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May 30th, 2008

Top Chef: Chicago - Quickfire Win, But Elimination Loss

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This week on Top Chef, the chefs were taken to a meat packing place and told to cut up a side of perfect tomahawk steaks. Then, they had to bring them back to the Top Chef kitchen and prepare them properly. They were judged on both their butchering technique as […]

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May 26th, 2008

Top Chef: Chicago - Sneak Peek This Week

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Here’s a preview of this week’s Top Chef. We get to see the four who make it to the final show-down.

The two-part finale will take place in Puerto Rico! How cool is that? And I have a feeling that it’s going to be a pretty close competition too.
Who do […]

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May 22nd, 2008

Top Chef: Chicago - Restaurant Wars

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This week, Chef Colicchio told the chefs that they would have to work the egg station in the busiest breakfast restaurant in Chicago. The restaurant owner chose the person they would be most likely to hire. Antonia won the Quickfire Challenge.
Then, they found out that Chef Tony Bourdain would be […]

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