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marigold:
Recent 'Top Chef' Alum and Judge Sighting
It's just under two weeks until we will have the chance to get to know a whole new batch of cheftestants on Top Chef 4. Meanwhile, previous Top Chef contestants and judges have been keeping busy out and about, and sometimes, they're even hanging out together.
There was a big showing of the Top Chef crew down in Florida at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival. The attendees included chefs from all three seasons and a couple of judges.
New York Magazine reports that they ran into Lee Ann Wong (season 1), Ilan Hall (season 2 winner) and Chris Jacobsen, aka CJ, (season 3 contestant, coiner of season 3 tee-shirt phrase “Oh, Big Time”). Lee Ann and CJ posed with Gail Simmons for a photo, and, New York notes, “Lee Ann talked pork, C.J. hit the bar, and Ilan danced by the pool at the Versace mansion.”
Sam Talbot (season 2) was sighted at another party, and Tom Colicchio put in an appearance as well, although they noted he looked pretty exhausted.
Sam then headed to Charleston, South Carolina, where he's participating in another food and wine festival. For this one, he's putting on a gospel brunch on Sunday. He's from Charlotte, North Carolina originally, and studied at Johnson and Wales in Charleston, so he's familiar with the lay of the land in the southern city and can likely be counted on to serve up a brunch the locals will love to eat.
Meanwhile, host and judge Padma Lakshmi, who divorced author Salman Rushdie, has been seen on the arm of computer mogul Adam Dell of Dell Computers. She was also recently spotted in Florida, where she gave a frank answer to whether or not she's always as even-tempered in response to the brattier cheftestants as she appears on Top Chef.
“They do get whiny sometime,” she admitted. “I never want to show my emotions. But inside I'm thinking, ‘This is your chance! What are you complaining about?' I don't want to upset them. I feel bad for them."
Source: http://www.buddytv.com/articles/top-chef/recent-top-chef-alum-and-judge-17178.aspx
marigold:
Top Chef: Tom Colicchio on His Start in Cooking
Top Chef star Tom Colicchio acts as the voice of authority on the show, with his unique position as the only restaurateur and professional chef on the panel of regular judges. While host Padma Lakshmi is a cookbook author, Gail Simmons is a food expert from Food and Wine Magazine, and Ted Allen has been the go-to food guy on Queer Eye, only Tom knows what it takes to run a professional kitchen and put out quality food night after night.
Each Top Chef contestant followed a different path to the show, but a love of food unites the group. What was Tom's own path to his current career? He recently talked about his upbringing and described how it brought him to his life in food and cooking.
Tom says that his early experience fishing with his grandfather gave him an sense at a young age that food was a source of connection and pleasure.
"It was my job to come home — I had to clean the fish," Tom said. "So, I learned to filet fish when I was about 4 years old. And then we would just cook all afternoon and eat that night, and it would last all night long.
"So, something as simple as going out for day fishing turned into a feast. I didn't know any other way, that's just the way I was raised, and I kind of expect that from everybody."
The idea of turning food into the focal point was continued by his mother. Tom said of his mom, "It was a way of her expressing love and it was clear that it was so important to her to have a meal on the table and have us all sitting together. And I think that really also transfers into what I do today — ultimately, we're here to make people happy, and that I got from my mom."
The Top Chef judge got started on his own food career early. At thirteen, he worked his way into a job as a snack bar grill cook. It sounds like an arduous job for a young man, but he loved it.
"It was the best job I ever had," Tom said. "I found out how much I really enjoyed it. Not only did I enjoy it but I enjoyed the physical aspect of it, sort of working the griddle and sort of timing everything and getting everything down — it was a blast, it was a lot of fun."
And a couple years later, Tim's own father made the suggestion that he pursue cooking as a career. "It's probably one of the few times I listened to him," he said. He headed to culinary school and then continued onto his career in food, parlaying those early positive experiences into the success he's had today.
Source: http://www.buddytv.com/articles/top-chef/top-chef-tom-colicchio-on-his-17076.aspx
marigold:
TOP CHEF CHICAGO SEASON PREMIER MARCH 12, 2008
EPISODE 1: Anything You Can Cook I Can Cook Better
The 16 rising chefs have to put their own twist on a Chicago staple and then serve it to host Padma Lakshmi and guest judge Rocco DiSpirito
the first elimination challenge is a head to head competition.
apskip:
We now have 33 hours to go until TopChef 4 is back(10pm tomorrow night). Please note that this is a special 75 minute episode if you are setting your VCR to watch later!
marigold:
--- Quote from: apskip on March 11, 2008, 10:15:59 AM ---We now have 33 hours to go until TopChef 4 is back(10pm tomorrow night). Please note that this is a special 75 minute episode if you are setting your VCR to watch later!
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:jumpy: I'm getting excited I can't wait. Thanks for the heads up I had no idea it was 75 minutes.
Couldn't they have extend it to 90 minutes, that does not happen often but oh well I'll take an extra 15 minutes :lol:
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