- Anthony Bourdain, Daniel Boulud, Rick Bayless, Rocco Dispirito, TV Show Reviews, Top Chef, Wylie Dufresne
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05 Apr 2008
©2008 Harry Kenney
So why haven't I talked about Top Chef more? Wny not give a weekly recap or review? You see, if you have a show like Hell's Kitchen or Last Restaurant Standing or some of the others, you get one chance of seeing what you missed the following week. With Top Chef, however, let's admit it, Bravo gives you three more chances the very night; you heard me, within the first six hours of the first episode of that week you have no less than three more chances. And then, over the course of the ... {More...}
- Anne Burrell, Chic & Easy, Cooking For Real, Mary Nolan, Rocco Dispirito, Secrets of a Restaurant Chef, Sunny Anderson, TV Food Shows
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25 Mar 2008
A lot of new brand new shows coming as well as returning old ones. For a quick run down.
In one week, Hell's Kitchen returns with season four on Fox. Come June, A&E is debuting Rocco to the Rescue with Rocco Dispirito. In July, Emeril Green on the (not launched yet) Green Network. Also in July, see below, Grill It! with Bobby Flay. In April, as mentioned already, four new Chefographies, plus one of the three new shows on the Food Network who are going bang, bang, bang with a new show in April, May and ... {More...}
- Hell's Kitchen, Iron Chef America, Last Restaurant Standing, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Rocco Dispirito, TV Food Shows, Throwdown with Bobby Flay
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21 Mar 2008
Why do so many other people come up with much better food reality programs that the Food Network? Is it they're so close to the subject matter they can't see the forest from the trees? Or in this case the parsley leaves from the bushel? Aside from Bobby Flay's Throwdown and Dinner: Impossible, yeah FN does fine with it's dump-and-stir programming, but reality? Eh.
Let's face it FN to this day whines -- and I mean whines a non-stop pathetic blue streak -- that Bravo stole Top Chef from their Next Food Network Star. But ... {More...}
- Art Smith, Food Festivals, Jacques Torres, Marcus Samuelsson, Ming Tsai, Padma Lakshmi, Paula Deen, Rocco Dispirito, Tom Colicchio
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14 Mar 2008
Dozens of celebrity chefs at Common Thread's Third Annual World Festival on Monday, March 17 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
The annual event takes place the Monday of the Housewares Show, in order to bring national celebrities who serve on the Chef Advisory Board to the festival. This year Padma Lakshmi of Bravo's acclaimed Top Chef will serve as the honorary chair and mistress of ceremonies.
From ABC 7 Chicago:
Festival guests will be treated to global delicacies by renowned chefs including founder Art Smith, TABLE fifty-two; David Burke, David Burke's Primehouse; Tom Colicchio, Craft; Gale Gand, Tru; Ken Oringer, ... {More...}
- Anthony Bourdain, Rocco Dispirito, TV Show Reviews, Tom Colicchio, Top Chef
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13 Mar 2008
©2008 Harry Kenney
Ahh, so good to be back. To have "them" back: I'm referring to Padma Lakshmi and Tom Colicchio, of course. (Not time for Ted Allen and Gail Simmons yet.) The judge for the first Top Chef Quickfire was Rocco Dispirito. He joined Padme and Tom again for the Elimination Challenge segment which included Anthony Bourdain as the fourth chair.
As this was Chicago, the QF had to do with making the best Chicago-style deep-dish pizza that also reflected your personality or cooking style. With a few exceptions, none really sucked, though they still divided it ... {More...}
