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Top Chef New York Season 5
TexasLady:
Thanks Apskip for the recaps and Marigold for your treasure trove of articles. :-*
Interesting comment from Chef Colicchio, he didn't think using the green tomatoes was the best idea when there were beautiful ripened ones available. (I confess, I just LOVE fresh vine ripened tomatoes.)
We're getting down to the finals and I see a few that I believe are the outstanding chefs, the Restaurant Wars episode should be revealing. Can't wait!
I like Stefan, Fabio and Jeff, I see them as the top three chefs. I'm not impressed with Leah or Jamie. I thought it was lame that Leah offered to tie the lamb but did a crappy job of it, but took no responsibility for how uneven they were rolled. What do the rest of you think? Am I all mutton and not lamb? :angel:
marigold:
--- Quote from: TexasLady on January 16, 2009, 07:26:18 PM ---Thanks Apskip for the recaps and Marigold for your treasure trove of articles. :-*
Interesting comment from Chef Colicchio, he didn't think using the green tomatoes was the best idea when there were beautiful ripened ones available. (I confess, I just LOVE fresh vine ripened tomatoes.)
We're getting down to the finals and I see a few that I believe are the outstanding chefs, the Restaurant Wars episode should be revealing. Can't wait!
I like Stefan, Fabio and Jeff, I see them as the top three chefs. I'm not impressed with Leah or Jamie. I thought it was lame that Leah offered to tie the lamb but did a crappy job of it, but took no responsibility for how uneven they were rolled. What do the rest of you think? Am I all mutton and not lamb? :angel:
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:lol: Like a little lamb hopping in the meadow of course
I was just looking at Fabio's restaurant it's very very nice inside and a really good menu
Why doesn't he cook like that on the show
Link to his site: http://www.cafefirenze.net/home.cfm
TexasLady:
His restaurant is beautiful and it seems he wanted only the best of ingredients even importing them for authenticity. I don't know why he isn't standing out but I do believe he will be one of the final three or four. Won't it be interesting to see how the restaurant war works out. Will Fabio step and lead? He hasn't won any quick fire contests either, but I'm not sure how much that enters into the finals, other than keeping the winner safe at the judging.
marigold:
An interesting article:
‘Top Chef’s’ Tom Colicchio Turns Hero At D.C. Dinner Party
“Top Chef’s” Tom Colicchio went from celebrity judge to hero over the weekend, after saving the life of a fellow foodie.
According to the Food Association, Colicchio performed the Heimlich maneuver on Joan Nathan, a cookbook author at the Art.Food.Hope fundraising dinner in Washington, D.C.
Nathan reportedly began choking on chicken when Colicchio was forced to spring into action and perform the move, which dislodged the food from her windpipe.
“I just happened to be nearby,” the judge told a Food Association blogger of his safety move.
Colicchio is currently starring in Season 5 of Bravo TV’s “Top Chef,” in New York City.
Link to the article: http://www.accesshollywood.com/top-chefs-tom-colicchio-turns-hero-at-dc-dinner-party_article_13138
marigold:
.... more about Colicchio:
Tom Colicchio: Hero
There’s a phenomenon in journalism called “burying the lede”: It’s when a writer buries the factoid or argument that makes his story interesting deep in the body of the piece. I do not mean to bury my lede. So here it is: Earlier tonight, Tom Colicchio saved Joan Nathan’s life.
Joan Nathan is a James Beard-award winning cookbook author best known for her books Jewish Cooking in America and The New American Cooking. She lives in Washington, DC. Which is how, presumably, she came to host a sprawling party for the Art.Food.Hope inaugural events benefiting DC Central Kitchen and Martha’s Table. It was, well, very DC. Bob Woodward was there, and so was Carl Bernstein. Jeff Toobin was in the corner and Rachel Maddow wandered through.
But it wasn’t just politicos. Art.Food.Hope is a set of 12 fundraising dinner parties organized by Ayelet Waldman and Alice Waters and catered by an array of accomplished chefs, most of whom were in attendance at Nathan’s soiree. Jose Andres presided boisterously over the proceedings, and some of his kitchen staff spent the night in the front yard roasting a lamb. Daniel Boulud worked the room, Najmieh Batmanglij — whose son turns out to be in Vampire Weekend, oddly enough — spooned Persian wedding rice onto plates, Dan Barber ambled about, Lydia Bastianich floated through a couple of times, and Tom Colicchio was pinned against the banister deflecting fans (there is grassroots anger over last week’s elimination). Which is how he ended up standing next to Nathan when a chunk of chicken went down her wind pipe.
I was in the next room concentrating on a plate of lamb sausage. Alice Waters flung herself into the banister behind me. She was shouting. “Does anyone know the Heimlich maneuver?” She ran back. This is not what you want to hear at a dinner party. Moreover, this is not what you want to hear in the room full of chefs. Don’t they teach the Heimlich at the CIA? Moments later, Waters appeared again. “It’s okay,” she breathed.
What happened in the interim was this: Tom Colicchio knew the Heimlich maneuver. And the Top Chef judge performed it. On Joan Nathan. So not only can Colicchio run multiple restaurants and anchor a cooking show and win five James Beard awards and cook for the rescure workers after 9/11, but he can save your life. Versatile guy. Think he’d be willing to manage the stimulus package?
Incidentally, I managed to chat with Colicchio and Nathan a bit later in the evening. Colicchio was modest. “I just happened to be nearby,” he shrugged. Nathan was more effusive, “He’s so strong!”
Link to the article: http://internetfoodassociation.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/tom-colicchio-hero/
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