Casey said what?

I was reading the Top Chef message boards over at Bravo.com when I came across a post with a link to a story about Casey and her side of the story. Now, I wasn't happy with Casey but I felt Carla's failure to take control of her kitchen was her own fault. Its a flaw Carla needs to work on and I'm sure my girl will do just that.

Then I read what Casey had to say. This is the post written by Sarah Eveans for SideDish at D Magazine.


Casey speaks! And she doesn’t sound happy, folks. I asked her to comment on last night’s episode, and here’s what she had to say:

"Carla was not prepared and in over her head. The show did not talk about how the first course (crab) took her half of the friggin’ cooking time that day, I was left to work the rest of HER dishes.

She also did not have a plan. The ONLY thing she had in mind was a cheese course! I would NEVER do a cheese course. And where in the hell did french come from!? She is not even classically trained! It (the show) didn’t talk about how I worked on a sauce for 2 days and Carla forgot to put it on the plate… It didn’t show how the 2nd course (fish) was MINE. It didn’t show how she took the sous vide idea and decided to GRILL it last minute causing it to be tough… And it didn’t show how she WANTED to do the souffles which she does not even know how to make! That was HER food, because it certainly was me asking her how she wanted to do this and that while she was busy picking crab the entire time and making a souffle that didn’t rise!

I am done with TC. I did not influence her. She has NO ideas of her own, oh, except a cheese course."

I dunno, it comes off kinda mean girl-ish to me. What do you think?

I've got a question...

What was more surprising?
	Carla actually blowing her chance to win by listening to Casey?
	Stefan's reaction to Carla's tears?
	Hosea being mediorce all season and actually pulling off the win?
	Gail's ginormous boobs seeming to be even more ginormous then usual?
pollcode.com free polls

And The Winner Is

We have our new Top Chef!

Hosea, we wish you all the best.

Top Chef Final Tonight

Who do you think will be the next Top Chef?

Be sure to join us in the LIVE chat room tonight. It is the TC party to be at.

Monday Morning Mix

What our fellow bloggers have to say.

Eric 3000 - How can you start a Monday without Eric. : Top Chef New York Finale Part 1: Tonight we eat in Hell!

Amuse-Biatch have tasty tidbits. Click HERE

My Monkey Could Do That - Top Chef 2/18/09--"Finale pt. 1" summary

MinxEats - join the fun over on Vote for Top Chef

Reality Check prepares 'Top Chef': 'Top Chef': Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez!

Cliffieland - keeps it going with Top Chef: New York Episode: Finale, Pt. 1 (Or, Aw Shucks!)

David Dust - the fun and talent of David Dust presents Top Chef New York Episode 13 - The Return of Blondie and the boobs

Dealing In Subterfuges-is serving Top Chef: It's the Final(e) Countdown (Part One)

ModerDomestic Weblog presents - Top Chef: Soul(ess) Cooking in New Orleans

Bravo Fan- Top Chef’s Padma Lashkmi In Black And White

Procrastiblog: Will There Be a Slaughtering?

Cooking with The Single Guy - Top Chef: Season 5, Episode 13

Bored Morons is dishing up Top Chef 5 Episode 13

Maxthegirl joins us with Aw Shucks, The Top Chef Recap

Fellow fans, be sure to support these wonderful fans and leave comments for them on their sites.

and for some great recipes please help us welcome RecipesRank. com

Enjoy!

Your Turn To Vote

Ah New Orleans, the land of Mardi Gras, jazz, King Cakes, streetcars, cafe au lait and beignets, muffulettas, neutral grounds, heat, humidity, crawfish, Yats, hurricanes (both the storm and the highly intoxicating drink), the French Quarter, gumbo, and red beans 'n rice.

What a great place for the final of Top Chef Season 5. The final chef’s did not let us down with the dishes they prepared.

Which dishes and drink would you like to taste?
	Chef Jeff
	Chef Stefan
	Chef Hosea
	Chef Fabio
	Chef Carla
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Oh What A Night

Now we know how to eliminate 2 and remain with 3. Congratulations to Carla for tonight's win and to Jeff for the QF win that put him back in the running one more time.

So we have the final 3... but are these the three you wanted?

Ah Fabio. So many of us are still in shock and crying. Many of us wanted to see you go all the way. We wish you nothing but the best and hope you will drop by our little kitchen sometime.

So onto next week and the final!

Jeff, Hosea, Leah, Jamie and Bangs McGee To Showcase Culinary Skills In Miami

Chef's Night features Top Chef Foodie-celebs




Click here to read the story by Joseph Quinones at examiner.com but hurry, time is running out!

Another interview I didn't get

Top Chef's Carla on Peas and Finding Her Sea Legs




Click here to read the interview at The Washington Post.




Sorry to not give credit to the interviewer but I saw no name to credit.

Gordon Ramsay's culinary boner is showing

Hells Kitchen: Gordon Ramsay Tells 'Top Chef' To Stop Copying





Click here to read the story at buddytv.com. Be sure to vote in their poll too.


BTW, I do watch Hell's Kitchen and I would totally do Gordon Ramsay.

The interview I wish I had done

Chef Viviani brings love of Italian food to Americans

Click here to read this great interview by Natalie Haughton at dailynews.com.




Photo By Michael Owen Baker

Thanks Robert

Top Chef Final In New Orleans

Tonight it all begins.

The Top Chef Season 5 Final in New Orleans.

Who is going to be the next Top Chef?


Be sure to join us in the LIVE Chatroom tonight. It will be the party place to be.

Final Top Chef Guest Judge

The final guest judge for season 5 Top Chef is New Orleans own Chef Emeril Lagasse.

As the previews have shown us. He is not taking out 1... he is taking out 2. Tomorrow night will be a double elimination.

Who do you think Chef Lagasse is asking to Pack Their Knives and Go?

Monday Morning Mix

What our fellow bloggers have to say.

Eric 3000 - How can you start a Monday without Eric. : Top Chef New York, episode twelve: Da Top Chefi Code!

Amuse-Biatch have tasty tidbits. Click HERE


My Monkey Could Do That - Top Chef 2/11/09--"The Last Supper" summary

MinxEats - join the fun over on Top Chef New York Episode 12

Reality Check prepares 'Top Chef': 'Top Chef': Reduction to the Final Four

Cliffieland - keeps it going with Top Chef: New YorkEpisode: The Last Supper (Or, Padma And Her Apostles Of Cookery)

David Dust - the fun and talent of David Dust presents Top Chef New York Episode 12 - The Shank Must Go!

Dealing In Subterfuges-is serving Top Chef: It's really the Antepenultimate Supper, but that just doesn't have the same ring.

ModerDomestic Weblog presents - Top Chef: Let Them Eat Chicken

Bravo Fan- Leah Cohen will not talk about Padma except when she does ["Top Chef"]

Procrastiblog: The (Still) Raw and the (Over)cooked

Cooking with The Single Guy - The Last Supper

Chew On That is serving -The Last Supper

Bored Morons is dishing up Top Chef 5 New York: Episode 12

Another GREAT WEEK EVERYONE!

Fellow fans, be sure to support these wonderful fans and leave comments for them on their sites.

Enjoy!

Thank You Fellow TC Fans

We learned this weekend the AC Associated Content/Technology website posted the following and we are still speechless over here in the little kitchen:


So you never meant to become addicted to Top Chef, but now you are a total Top Chef junkie and you need to have your fix even between new episodes? I want to share a few blogs with you that are devoted to Top Chef Season 5 and help you choose which one will best fit your needs. Take your pick from official, functional, informative, or just downright funny from this collection of Top Chef Season 5 blogs:

Most Well Rounded and Updated Top Chef Season 5 Blog

Blogging Top Chef : This blog is updated frequently, and when I say frequently I mean that it is often even more than once per day so it is a good one to check out if you constantly find yourself visiting the same blogs or websites throughout the day. There is a lot of important information in this blog and it has a nice mixture of things to do including information about casting for Top Chef Season 6, amazing links, polls, and tons of photographs of the show, people, and food.

The other 4 blogs were:
Most Media-Infused Top Chef Season 5 Blog : Amuse Biatch
Funniest Top Chef Season 5 Blog : Top Chef : They Cook We Dish
Most Official Top Chef Season 5 Blog : Gail Simmons and Tom Colicchio Top Chef blogs on Bravo
Best Overall Top Chef Season 5 Blog [Especially for True Foodies] - Cooking With The Single Guy.


We owe this honor to you, our fellow TC fans. You are the reason we do this each day. We love Top Chef and love sharing our thoughts and fun with all of you. We consider this blog your blog as well as ours and many of you help contribute to this fun little kitchen.

Thank you all.

Sunday Roast

Sorry there was no Roast last week. Do you know how hard it is to try to do a Roast when you couldn't care less about an episode? No, that's not correct, I did like the episode but I hated the fact that Leah stayed another week. In a perfect world, Leah would have left last week and Hosea this week.

Also, my PhotoShopper, the HoInMo, was having computer problems again so that meant I would have to depend on my razer sharp wit to get the Roast going. Well, this week, the HoInMo is in the hospital. That bitch will do anything to get out of doing PhotoShop for me! Get well sis, my wit is as sharp as Toby`s so I need your help.

And to top things off, Bravo has reworked their website and I can no longer snag pics from them. Since I tend to wait until the last possible minute to do the Roast, this leaves little time for my blog partner to try and rescue my lazy ass.

Combine all these things and you get no Roast.






Look at my girl work it. No joke here, go Carla!



The pissing contest went something like this...


Tom: " You've heard I'm a Bear icon, right?"

Jacques: "I`m JacquesMotherFuckingPepin."

Jacques won.





The Apostles gazed upon the table and thought "Holy shit! Is that really Jacques and Lidia?"



Is it me or does Jacques look drunk and Fabio looks like he is trying to talk the bottle away from him?

Fabio: "Comma ona, Jacques, you'va hada enougha."

Jacques: "I'm JacquesMotherFuckingPepin and I was cooking before you were a twinkle in your daddy's eye!"






Leah:"Top Pussy? Where do I go to try out for that show?"

Fabio: "Blessa youra lil hooker hearta."




The Leah Slayers rejoice!





Yall`s turn.

Top Chef Final Previews

Can't wait for next Wednesday. Then we have the previews for you to enjoy.

The Chefs arrive in New Orleans. Click HERE to watch.

Click HERE to see Stakes are High in New Orleans.

Your Turn To Vote

WOW!!! We have fun providing polls for you and we see, by the results each week, that many of you enjoy participating. But last weeks poll was by far the biggest turn out of votes that we have had on one poll.

The vote was in regards to the new judge Toby Young and if Top Chef should keep him or bring back Gail or Ted or ask Chef Bourdain or Chef Harold to join.

With 593 votes... Chef Anthony Bourdain had 238 votes to join Top Chef.

To bring Gail back had 213 votes. To bring back Ted had 80 votes. To ask Chef Harold to join had 34 votes but to keep Toby only had 28 votes. WOW!! Looks like we, the fans, are not big fans of Toby.

Onto this weeks vote. The Quick Fire challenge involved eggs so our question is, Which Eggs Would You Like To Taste?

Which Eggs Would You Like To Taste?
	Chef Stefan
	Chef Leah
	Chef Hosea
	Chef Fabio
	Chef Carla
Free polls from Pollhost.com

Have You Been Missing Gail?!?!

Bravo wrote to us. Yes, they do that from time to time and told us about the cool new webisode series featuring Top Chef judge, Gail Simmons.



This is a selection of web videos with Gail as she ventures to various foodie destinations around NYC. Yes, Bravo has throw in product placement with Gail in a new Toyota Venza.

The first video has Gail visit the Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks store. This store is really cool. Click HERE to watch.

Gail at the The Bedford Cheese Shop can be viewed HERE with bonus video of the cheese shop HERE.

Thanks Gail... we miss you!

The Final 4 of Top Chef

How many of you just LOVED Jacques Pepin tonight?

Click HERE to read his Q&A with Bravo.

We have the final 4.

Any thoughts now as to who the next Top Chef is?

So sorry Leah.

We wish you all the best and thank you for making it to the top 5.

Drop by the kitchen any time.

Chef Fan Trish The Dish On Last Weeks Show

Sorry, we fell asleep at the wheel of the blog and did not get this up sooner. Our own field reporter from New York and fellow TC fan Trish gives us the good, bad and ugly of last weeks show.

Good

Eric Ripert! My boyfriend says it's not a season without him!

Lunch in the private room at LeBernardin?? Love that! (and the sunflowers on the table - my favorite!)

"This is what I want to be when I grow up - one of his dishes!"

Best line goes to Carla! I thought it was a good idea that Chef Ripert visited the kitchen and sampled the dishes. I think it was really fair for him to at least give his input on his prize dishes!

Bad

Some of those hack jobs on the sardines - yuck!

Leah giving up on the quickfire after having one of the best sardines (and the pout that went with it!)

Jamie is bored with Chef Ripert's food??? (Good - she got the black bass dish that she was just dissing! LOL)

Ugly

The eel! I would have screamed having to touch that thing!

Jamie's "salt lick" celery! Yikes Tom!

As disappointed as I was to see Jamie go, she really did seem to be beat down by that time. The critique of her dish (I thought) was extra harsh (Padma said she would have sent it back.)

What was that silly "quick fire" that they had at the house with Hosea licking the plate??

Top Chef Masters

Breaking news at the Futon Critic.

[02.11.09 - 08:32 AM] BRAVO ANNOUNCES "TOP CHEF MASTERS" HOST AND JUDGES Released by Bravo

BRAVO ANNOUNCES "TOP CHEF MASTERS" HOST AND JUDGES Food Journalist Kelly Choi To Host; Renowned Restaurant Critic Gael Green, Food Critic Jay Rayner And Culinary Expert James Oseland To Judge World-Renowned Chefs Compete For Charity Of Their Choice NEW YORK February 11, 2009 As previously announced and on the heels of the highest rated season yet for the Emmy and James Beard Award-winning No. 1 food show on cable, "Top Chef," comes the spin-off "Top Chef Masters," produced by the Magical Elves with consulting producer Tom Colicchio. Food journalist Kelly Choi will serve as the series' host, and renowned restaurant critic Gael Green, culinary expert James Oseland and food critic Jay Rayner will serve as judges. The show will feature 24 world-renowned chefs competing against each other in a series of weekly challenges, as only one chef will make it to the finals to compete for the title of "Top Chef Master" and a prize for the charity of their choice. "Top Chef lovers rejoice, Bravo and the Magical Elves are teaming up again to bring more of what our fans love most, fabulous food and tasty competition and this time we're adding world-renowned chefs competing against each other to the menu," said Frances Berwick, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Bravo Media. Kelly Choi, food journalist and creator, producer and host of NYC TV's weekly restaurant show, "Eat Out NY," will host this highly competitive spin-off uniting some of the brightest stars in the world of food, showcasing the often cutthroat world of the culinary arts. A former model, Choi recently finished her book called "The 20 Most Delicious Dishes in New York," which is set to hit stores in spring of 2009. Joining the judges' panel is Gael Green, New York Magazine's famed restaurant critic for over 40 years, a best-selling author and co-founder of Citymeals-on-Wheels, which provides food to the homebound elderly. Along with Green is James Oseland, culinary expert and Editor-in-Chief of Saveur magazine, and British journalist, writer and broadcaster Jay Rayner, who will also serve as regular judges for the series. Each episode of "Top Chef Masters" holds two challenges for the chefs. The first is a twist on the classic quickfire challenge which tests their basic abilities and the second is a more involved elimination challenge designed to test the versatility and invention of the chefs as they take on unique culinary trials such as working with unusual and exotic foods or catering for a range of demanding clients. The food will be tasted and evaluated by the judges and a wide range of tasters for whom the challenge is aimed, whether it is patrons at a five-star restaurant or a room full of hungry kids the food has to appeal to the diner as well as the critics if the chef is to survive. "Top Chef Masters" is produced by the Emmy-nominated Magical Elves. Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz and Shauna Minoprio serve as executive producers. "Top Chef" head judge, renowned culinary figure and chef/owner Craft Restaurants, Tom Colicchio serves as consulting producer. Bravo is a program service of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Bravo has been an NBC Universal cable network since December 2002 and was the first television service dedicated to film and the performing arts when it launched in December 1980. For more information, visit www.BravoTV.com. Here is a picture of the lovely Miss Choi,

And Then There Were Five

And then there were 5 but only 4 will go to the final. Who do you think is packing their knives tonight?

Remember the LIVE chat room will open at 8:30 pm. See you there

Monday Morning Mix

What our fellow bloggers have to say.

Eric 3000 - Eric keeps us rolling on the floor with Top Chef New York, Episode Eleven: I think I'm gonna barf!

Amuse-Biatch have tasty tidbits. Click HERE


My Monkey Could Do That - Top Chef 2/4/09--"Le Bernardin"

MinxEats - join the fun over on Top Chef New York Episode 11

Reality Check prepares 'Top Chef': 'Top Chef': Eels and peels, fishes and dishes

Cliffieland - keeps it going with Top Chef: New YorkEpisode: Le Bernadin (Or, Something Fishy This Way Comes)

David Dust - the fun and talent of David Dust presents Top Chef New York Episode 11 - It's all Good!

Dealing In Subterfuges-is serving Top Chef: Seems Fishy to Me

ModerDomestic Weblog presents - Top Chef: Le-Bored-ardin

Bravo Fan- Leah’s Epic Fish Fail ["Top Chef"]

Procrastiblog: Four or Five Good Dishes, No Bad Dishes and Disapproving Colicchio with Private to Hosea, in re: Monkfish

Cooking with The Single Guy - Fish Out of Water

Chew On That is serving -Top Chef: Something’s Fishy

Bored Morons is dishing up Top Chef 5 New York: Episode 11

The Troll Report from Chef Troll - Top Chef and Link-Love

Another GREAT WEEK EVERYONE!

Fellow fans, be sure to support these wonderful fans and leave comments for them on their sites.

Enjoy!

Your Turn To Vote

Last week the Quick Fire challenge consist of using an ingredient and Quaker oats. Of the seven dishes created, we asked you"Which one would you like to taste?"

With 275 votes, Chef Jamie won with 113 TC fans wanted to try her Coconut and Oat crusted shrimp. Chef Stefan came in second with 63 votes.

We have had a couple of episodes with Judge Toby. He is still new to the show but we are ready to ask you if you think he should stay? Or should he be replaced?

So this week

You vote to...
	Bring Gail Back
	Keep Toby
	Bring Ted Back
	Ask Chef Anthony Bourdain To Join
	Ask Chef Harold To Join
Free polls from Pollhost.com

Was Something A Little Fishy

OK before we begin... one more look at Chef Eric. Damn he is hot. What a treat to see his restaurant and him in action with the chefs tonight. Click HERE to read his Q&A over on Bravo. We love you Eric.

OK onto the results for week 11.



Congratulations to Chef Stefan for both the QF and the elimination challenge. Chef Stefan was in his zone tonight.

Ah Chef Jamie. So many of us thought you would make it to the final 3. We are sorry that the salt did you in. We wish you all the best and hope you drop by our little kitchen.

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