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Top Chef New York Season 5
TexasLady:
--- Quote from: apskip on March 27, 2009, 11:21:59 AM ---It's a fine commercial, but I cannot imagine Padma really having Carl's Jr. burgers as a major part of her diet. I can imagine her ordering a $6 menu item, however.
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I can't either. :lol: Nor wearing that beautiful dress while eating that drippy burger but it is a fine commercial.
marigold:
Top Chef Tour:
Top Chef Kicks Off 21-City Tour
American Idol and Dancing with the Stars aren't the only shows that love to hit the road during the off-season. Top Chef just kicked off its second nationwide tour — aboard a spanking-new 18-wheeler specially fitted with power, water and state-of-the-art kitchen.
The 21-city journey began Friday in New York City, featuring on-site demonstrations and tastings hosted by Season 5 winner Hosea Rosenberg and Season 4 cheftestant Nikki Cascone — and a merch table that offered "I Heart Fabio" and "I Have a Culinary Boner" T-shirts.
While the chefs whipped up curry shrimp with jasmine rice (it was delectable!), Hosea dished on his experience on the show. A proud member of the Bacon of the Month Club, he had nightmares for more than two months after filming. "I'd wake up and be like, "Ah! Where's the chicken?!'" said the Top Chef.
Nikki, on the other hand, revealed the secrets of the Stew Room. "There was a lot of alcohol, filming and stress," she said. Things got so crazy they blew up garbage bags — from the Glad family of products — and wrapped them around a fellow contestant to create "Glad Man."
So what's shakin' with the two culinary gurus these days?
"I'm getting married May of next year, and Christian Siriano of Project Runway designed my dress, so it will be one of a kind." Nikki told TVGuide.com. "And I'm about to launch my clothing line. I have trouble finding chef coats that fit me, so I decided to do a different line."
Hosea, who recently told us he had plans to open his own restaurant, announced he is tabling the idea for now. "We had some things in the works, but I realized that once the show aired, there were so many more opportunities," he said. "I will open a restaurant, but probably not until the end of the year. I want to do food festivals and events like this first."
And for those of you curious if Hosea and Leah will be reunited (and it feels so good) during the tour's NYC stop, the answer is yes. "We're going to meet up," said Hosea. "We're both single now and allowed to go on a dinner date."
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Chef-Tour-1004487.aspx
marigold:
Top Chef Tour:
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
Bravo's "Top Chef" puts the pedal to the metal and foot to the floor today and tomorrow when it begins its 21-city promotional tour in a 44-foot-long, 18-wheel mobile kitchen that's built to cook. The show's fifth-season winner, Hosea Rosenberg (right), and season-four standout Nikki Cascone will cook up samples and give cooking demonstrations for foodies at the Flatiron Pedestrian Plaza (Broadway between 22nd and 23rd streets) today from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and tomorrow from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. While there are only 60 seats on the semi-trailer itself, you can also watch "Top Chef: The Tour Two" on a 50-foot TV. For more info, go to bravotv.com/thetour.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03272009/entertainment/weekend_hot_picks_in_entertainment_161522.htm
marigold:
Video:
An Interview with Top Chef's Patrick Dunlea
Patrick is currently a student at the Culinary Institute of America. With an inherent love for cooking, he was inspired as a child by his mother and grandmother and today by food writer Michael Pollan. Patrick has always had a love for the arts, both performing and visual and tries to incorporate them into every dish he creates. With ingredients as his medium of art, he is inspired by quality and freshness and enjoys making fresh vegetable dishes like succotash, pisto and ratatouille. He has a passion for sustainable agriculture and hopes to educate and promote support for local farmers and growers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg0c227JMJU
marigold:
An interesting article:
Top Chef’s Fabio Viviani Eats New York
While Fabio Viviani doesn’t have plans to move to New York (“You go in a cab in New York, you get out, you just want to punch somebody in the face. I’m a very peaceful person”), the Top Chef contestant was in town last week to promote the Café Firenze cookbook (out in May) and scout a Village location for a local outpost. Since leaving the show, Viviani scored another book deal (with his mom) and has contributed to the nutritious-eating site KidsHealthCafé. We managed to stop the season-five fan favorite long enough for him to share his New York Diet.
Full article here: http://nymag.com/daily/food/2009/03/top_chef_contestant_fabio_eats.html
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