When one thinks of Thanksgiving desserts, s'mores don't necessarily come to mind. Unless you're Richard Sweeney, of course. Last week's axed
Top Chef contestant will forever be haunted by
Thanksgiving s'mores.
Yesterday I spoke to Jill Snyder, the latest cheftestant to pack her knives and leave
Top Chef. Jill's a chef in Baltimore, MD, where she enjoys making desserts and crab cakes. She wishes she would have defended her dish better, but claims that with the cameras staring at her, she choked up.
Hot dogs and ostrich eggs were important ingredients on last night's episode of
Top Chef. Things heated up in the kitchen of
Tom Colicchio's
Craft as the cheftestants had to make "new-American" cuisine. To discuss the episode (warning: spoilers ahead), .
Yesterday I spoke with Lauren, the first contestant to pack up her knives on the fifth season of
Top Chef. The confident, young pastry chef was emotional when she spoke of her deployed husband and opinionated as she discussed the difference between the food and film industries. To find out what she had to say about
Padma, .
Season 5 of
Top Chef is off to an exciting start! While we already
discussed the gory details, I want to see how well you were paying attention. With 17 chefs it was hard for me to distinguish one from the other!
The fifth season of the hit show
Top Chef got off to an exciting start. One of the cheftestants was eliminated before the competition officially started and another cut his finger while peeling apples.
Jean-Georges guest judged the New York City neighborhood-centric challenge.
During the
South Beach Festival,
Rachael Ray's Burger Bash is one of the weekend's most coveted tickets. Naturally the event planners decided to recreate the party at the
New York City counterpart. I was lucky (or unlucky — that many burgers made me sick, literally!) enough to attend the party last Friday night.
Last week
Forbes released a
list of the 10 top-earning celebrity chefs. The richest celebrity "chef" is
Rachael Ray who, thanks to her four Food Network shows, daytime television show, magazine, and Dunkin' Donuts deal, makes $18 million a year. She's followed by Oscar caterer
Wolfgang Puck ($16 million) and
Gordon Ramsay ($7.5 million).
Currently the fifth season of
Top Chef is filming in New York City. Although the competing chefs are still unknown, details of the upcoming season are being released.
Last week
Tom Colicchio went on the Today Show with three dishes created by 13 of the current contestants.
