Top Chef Season 5: Meet the Contestants! Get excited,
Top Chef fans. Bravo has announced the latest set of 17 cheftestants who will unpack their knives on the upcoming season of Top Chef. Mark your calendar: The competition kicks off on Nov.
Top Chef Season 5: Meet The Contestants Get excited
Top Chef fans.
Bravo has announced the
latest set of 17 cheftestants who will unpack their knives on the upcoming season of Top Chef. Mark your calendar: the competition kicks off on November 12 at 10 pm.

Get excited
Top Chef fans.
Bravo has announced the
latest set of 17 cheftestants who will unpack their knives on the upcoming season of Top Chef. Mark your calendar: the competition kicks off on Nov.

I got a kick this week out of a piece Slate did on the
doomed reality show contestants who have been voted or kicked off in the first episode, complete with tips on how to avoid their fate. At first I struggled to remember a single first contestant, but then this piece reminded me of Jerry and Nimma from Bravo's
Project Runway and
Top Chef.
If you are planning on competing on one of these reality shows, these are some pretty good tips for sticking around for more than one episode.

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.

This week, there are things going on all over the map.
Beer lovers unite in both Honolulu and California. Colorado's busting out the buttered
corn (and the sounds of country star Travis Tritt) as well as hosting a festival for tea enthusiasts.

Last week I had the wonderful opportunity of going into the kitchen at San Francisco's
Mission Beach Cafe. Chef
Ryan Scott, a competitor on this season's
Top Chef, invited me in for a crouton cooking lesson. The friendly, good-looking chef told me about his re-creation of the menu and his hopes to build the restaurant's status.

From
teens to
tours,
Bravo's been busy announcing
Top Chef spin offs. Yesterday at the
TCA press tour in Los Angeles, they publicized another: Top Chef: Masters. 2009 will bring us a culinary competition that unites some of the brightest stars of the food world.

In an attempt to make herself more likable,
Lisa Fernandes, the
Top Chef runner-up who everyone loves to hate, has made her first cooking video for
Time Out New York. Sporting her fabulously boyish haircut, Lisa takes viewers inside the kitchen of the New York City restaurant where she works,
Mai House. She promises to teach us how to make an
entire Asian meal, complete with five dishes, for less than $20.