The latest and greatest news about celebrity chefs, served up buffet style.
– Learn how to cook like former Top Chef-er Spike Mendelsohn. Whether or not you wear a jaunty hat while in the kitchen is completely up to you.
– Padma Lakshmi is not just awkward in prime time — she’s awkward in late night, too!
After the jump…a food fight, the fishermen’s plight and my new channel don’t look right.
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Left to Right: Mark Peel, Anita Lo, Douglas Rodriguez, John Besh
After a brief hiatus for the holiday, Top Chef Masters has returned, and I’d love to say I’m excited about that fact. I’d love to say that, I really, really would, but Ludo taught me something last episode: I like the d-bags. And by “like,” I mean love to hate, curse their name and feel better about myself as a human being in general because of their existence on a reality show. I wanted to love the civil, the calm, the professional, but that just isn’t the case. Top Chef Masters is no Top Chef.. but I’m still going to tune in every week.
I never really bought into the claims that without Padma and Coliccho the show wouldn’t be as good either, but Tom’s appearance on last night’s episode proved me wrong. Only walking on set for a meager 30 seconds, Tom brought an insight and context to what was going in the challenge that I had yet to see on the Masters spinoff so far this season.
“I can tell right off the bat, [The Masters] understand something the normal Top Chef contestants never do,” he quipped. “These guys know you don’t get bogged down in the challenge… because through cooking you can pretty much tell any story.” And there the chefs were, walking around cool as cucumbers. Fuck you Tom, I love you. Padma, I’d take you over a dozen Chois any day.
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