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This is a pretty sweet find I stumbled on. Just nine days ago the prestigious James Beard Awards were given out in New York City. And now, from that event, here is almost a half hour of video, broken into three parts, where cookbook author and television personality David Rosengarten interviewed celebrity chefs on the Beard red carpet, compliments of devour.tv and Bravo network.
Here, David talks with event hostess Kim Cattrall and event host Bobby Flay, along with José Andrés, Drew Nieperont, Terrence Brennan, Cesare Casella, Ted Allen, Tom Collechio and Todd English.
Part 2 of the video for some bizarro reason starts out with a total repeat of the Kim Cattrall interview. Don’t let that fool you though, for this is plenty of new material here. In fact the entire rest of the clips is with interviews featuring Masaharu Morimoto, Pichet Ong, Katie Lee Joel, Michael Psilakis, Donatella Arpaia, Thomas Keller and Douglas Rodriguez.
We go a slightly different place in part three with interviews as well as some background on the Beard Awards, and then interviews with chefs Wylie Dufresne, Marcel Vignenon (from Top Chef, season 2), Tony May, Dan Barber, Cindy Wolf, Michel Richard and Danny Meyer.
And yes David, we too find it both ironic and very scary a food award show has no food!
Jim Burke of James in Philadelphia; Gerard Craft of Niche in St. Louis; Tim Cushman of O Ya in Boston; Jeremy Fox of Ubuntu in Napa, Calif.; Koren Grieveson of Avec in Chicago; Michael Psilakis of Anthos in New York City; Ethan Stowell of Union in Seattle; Giuseppe Tentori of Boka in Chicago; Eric Warnstedt of Hen of the Wood in Waterbury, Vt.; and, Sue Zemanick of Gautreau’s in New Orleans.
The winners were fêted last Thursday night at a party in New York City. Twenty former F&W Best New Chefs, including Daniel Boulud, Tom Colicchio, Wylie Dufresne, Dan Barber and Todd English, created signature dishes and Level™ Vodka cocktails in honor of the 20th anniversary milestone. Addtionally, Hung Huynh, winner of the third season of Top Chef on Bravo, also prepared tastings for the celebration.
And the shoes will be on the other feet when the 2008 F&W Best New Chefs prepare an exclusive tasting dinner at the 26th annual Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, June 13 to 15.
The F&W Best New Chefs are chosen as part of a six-month selection process. The magazine works with trusted restaurant critics and food writers around the country to identify outstanding chefs who have been in charge of a kitchen for less than five years. Then the editors travel, incognito, to taste the food themselves.
As America’s talent-seeking epicurean magazine, Food & Wine has awarded the Best New Chef title to such luminaries-in-the making as Thomas Keller (1988), Nobu Matsuhisa (1989) and Rick Bayless (1988).
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 week before the next episode? Dunno, something crazy like it’s on 27 or something more times? … That said, hey, a month has passed, so here’s a little TCB “What’s Happenin’ on Top Chef” score card for you.
Top Chef, Season 4. The standings at the end of Week 4.
Super quick Top Chef recap of the past month:
Week 1: Welcome to Chicago; Zoi and Jennifer are lesbian lovers; Nimma majorly over salted her food - First casualty. Rocco Dispirito and Anthony Bourdain guests. Week 2: “Zoo Food”: Valerie made bilinis to serve a couple hours later - Goodbye; Tom is a bear. Wylie Dufresne judges. Week 3: “Block Food”: A-hole Eric (who thinks he knows more about Mexican food than judge Rick Bayless) made corn dogs to serve several hours later. - See ya, genius! Week 4. “Film Food”: Spike came up with stupid food idea; teammate Manuel went along; the judges decide that passively going along is a worse sin than actively making a stupid decision. - So Manuel is gone. Not the best judgement they’ve ever made, not the worse either. Solomon would have cut each chef in half. Daniel Boulud is guest.
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