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Top Chef New York Season 5
marigold:
Top Chef New York Season 5
Contestant Bios:
Radhika
age 28
hometown Chicago
resides in Chicago
Elimination Challenge Wins: 0/0
Quickfire Wins: 0/0
status: Still Cooking
Position: Executive Chef, Between Boutique Café & Lounge
Culinary Education: A.O.S. Culinary Arts, the Cooking & Hospitality Institute of Chicago
Favorite Simple Recipes: For summer: Roasted red and yellow beet salad with mixed greens, herb crusted beef tenderloin and crispy goat cheese balls
Bio:
Radhika currently works as the Executive Chef at Between Boutique Café & Lounge in Chicago. A first generation Indian American, Radhika was born in Ohio and raised in an eclectic Indian-tradition home. Trained in classic French and Indian cuisine, she has worked alongside notable chef Vikas Khanna and has staged at the Burj Al Arab in Dubai. She has traveled the world over learning new techniques and flavor profiles and brings spice and bold flavors to the table combined with grace and restraint. Her favorite dish to prepare is spicy chicken and potato curry with cumin scented rice with clarified butter and mint. She describes her cooking style as globally eclectic with a huge spoonful of love.
marigold:
Top Chef New York Season 5
Contestant Bios:
Richard
age 27
hometown Sayville, Long Island, NY
resides in San Diego, CA
Elimination Challenge Wins: 0/0
Quickfire Wins: 0/0
status: Still Cooking
Position: Executive Sous Chef, Confidential Restaurant & Loft, San Diego
Culinary Education: Diplome Professionale du Commis de Cuisine, San Diego Culinary Institute
Favorite Simple Recipes: For spring: Lightly grilled chicken breast, crumbled gorgonzola, dried cranberries, baby spinach salad, all tossed with a light balsamic vinaigrette
Bio:
Richard is the Executive Sous Chef at Confidential Restaurant & Loft in the Gaslamp District of downtown San Diego. Richard grew up in food service. His father has served as a restaurant manager for years and his mother and stepfather have owned several bagel businesses in Long Island where Richard spent many summers during his youth. He's been trained by world traveled chefs in classic French techniques and their modern applications. His motto in the kitchen is, "Keep it simple (stupid)" - and he likes to do just that by keeping his plates simple and infused with natural harmony versus chaotic noise. At Confidential, Richard likes to "play" with his food through the small plates style of dining, which allows him to create many new dishes for his guests to combine. On the side, he also works at the San Diego bar, Pecs.
marigold:
Top Chef New York Season 5
Contestant Bios:
Stefan
age 35
hometown Tampere, Finland
resides in Santa Monica, CA
Elimination Challenge Wins: 0/0
Quickfire Wins: 0/0
status: Still Cooking
Position: Chef, StefansCatering.com
Culinary Education: CMC, Wurzburg Schweinfurt
Favorite Simple Recipes: For spring: Wedge of iceberg lettuce with bacon and blue cheese dressing
Bio:
Stefan was born in Finland but spent the majority of his childhood in Germany, where he began culinary training in his early teens. He worked his way through various European kitchens, learning new techniques and collecting awards along the way. In 1998, he joined master chefs Grant McPherson, Sotta Kuhn, Jacques Torres, Jean Philip Maury and Marc Poidevin as part of the creative team for the opening of the Bellagio Hotel, Resort & Spa in Las Vegas. As Executive Sous-Chef, he created, developed and executed menus for the $25 million-dollar banquet kitchen. Since then, he has held a number of Executive Chef positions and most recently worked with Celestino Drago at Enoteca Drago before opening his own business, Stefan's Catering in Santa Monica. Although he currently resides in Los Angeles, he spends his summer months hunting and fishing in his native Finland.
TexasLady:
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Yay!! Not that long to wait either!!! :yess:
marigold:
An interesting article:
Toby Young replaces Ted Allen as judge for Top Chef New York, which will have 17 contestants
When Top Chef 5 debuts in November, it will have a new fourth judge: Toby Young, who replaces Ted Allen on the panel, which still includes Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons, and host Padma Lakshmi.
British journalist and food critic Young is the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, which Bravo’s press release mentions, but it doesn’t say anything about Ted Allen. It does, however, promise appearances by “Martha Stewart, Foo Fighters, Jean-Georges, Eric Ripert, Rocco DiSpirito, Wylie Dufresne, Jean-Christophe Novelli and Natasha Richardson,” who all “will be featured this season.”
The fifth season, which debuts Nov. 12 and was filmed in New York, has the series’ biggest cast yet: 17 chefs. They range in age from 21 to 44, and in the press release, Colicchio says “we’ve upped the ante because this is our home turf so the pressure’s on for the chefs to impress us.”
Link: http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/top_chef_5/2008_Oct_01_toby_young_judge
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