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Recap: Top Chef: Plane Bourdain

This week, Top Chef taught us when in doubt, blend, New Jersey’s not Manhattan, and Congress is responsible for sucky [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: Cave Man Overboard

We’re past the half way mark and now it’s time to see our Chefs really shine! Right? RIGHT? Get your [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: Rewind It and Cry All Over Again

This week, Top Chef taught us you can’t lose if you don’t play, wine can taste Tuscan and not be [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: Bundas on the Line

This week, Top Chef taught us that the best chef in the world isn’t the Kentucky Fried Chicken man, Men’s [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: Stone Cold Degradation

This week, Top Chef taught us that Howie’s a big stupid asshole who is never going to leave our TVs. Can’t [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: Plugging Rocco

I went to the freezer and pulled out my dinner. As I unscrewed the top from the bottle of Sapphire [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: Watch What Doesn’t Happen

On tonight’s very special episode of Top Chef, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… Not really sure what Bravo’s doing tonight, other than making me not [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: Que Emocion!

This week, Top Chef taught us that it’s not safe to run with knives, France and Argentina are two different [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: Bad Things Come in Threes

Micah Crazy Pants was sent home in the last episode, and I was seriously worried that I’d be bored not [...]


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Top Chef’s Padma no longer cooking Salman

Padma Lakshmi is back on the market! After months of rumours, two weeks after her husband received [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: FREEDOM!

Time for fireworks, swimming pools and weenies! July 4th? Nope. Tonight my friends, Bravo brought us loyal fans together to [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: Burnt (Out) Weenies and Muffled Birdsongs

Family barbecues can be wonderful. They can also be bloody hell. I guess it depends on your family. Mine chooses [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: Papa, Can You Hear Me?

The first episode of any reality competition is a bear to recap because there are so many new faces to [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: Return to the Planet of the Apes

It’s time for another season of Top Chef! Wait. No, not yet. First, we have some unresolved bs to hash [...]


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Top Chef 3 to kick off with cook-off

Bravo’s Top Chef will launch its third season with a cook-off between chefs from seasons 1 and 2. Top [...]


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Bravo works that formula

Bravo continues to feed that upscale reality competition machine. Last night’s finale of Top Design was followed by the premiere [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: And Gosh Darn It, People Like Me!

When I was a kid, we had a maid named Romana. She was sweet, charming, and pretty cute, but she [...]


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Pick on Padma? Beware the Rushdie Fatwa!

Yeah, Marcel was robbed on Top Chef. And probably sabotaged. And Ilan is a weenie. But now [...]


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Top Chef party spoiled!

This should be a great week for the folks at Bravo’s Top Chef. The second season finale is tomorrow [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: Ya Gotta Get a Gimmick

When I worked as a busboy at Applebee’s in the early 90s, I became friends with a newly reformed stripper [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: True Colors Shiner Through

Every time my Aunt Kayla and Uncle Bruce show up to a family get-together, they’re fighting. It gets pretty nasty, [...]


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Judge gives clues to Top Chef finale

Honesty… attitude… and seasoning… could be the keys to eliminations as the second season of Top Chef heads into its [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: MC Monkey Shines

I sat in my car and looked myself over in the rearview mirror. Tonight was going to be a different [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: Too Many Cooks…

As I sat in Mrs. Shassi’s office, I couldn’t figure out why I was filled with such dread. She seemed [...]


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Bravo orders a third helping of ‘Top Chef’

Salman Rushdie’s trophy wife, the bescarred model and cookbook writer Padma Lakshmi, and her edgy gang have made quite an [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: The Mia Monologues: Christmas Edition

When I was 19 years old, I participated in a year-long “performance” internship at the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre in [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: Raw Arrogance Cooked the Goose

A long, long time ago, when I was a wee young Kiddie Flipit, I would refuse most days to go [...]


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Gail Simmons: Not As Spontaneously Prickly As Previously Believed

Last night during Top Chef, I noticed something peculiar about judge Gail Simmons’ appearance (not to mention Padma’s beachside bikini [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: Cutting Edgy

Just when my friends have me believing I’m good enough, smart enough, and that people like me, I’m [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: Left Over Awful

“Flipit, there’s a starving child in India who would kill for that pile of peas.” “Then do us all a favor [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: Finalist Submission II

By Nikkibot Last week’s episode focused on the masses and the need for widely appealing comfort food at TGIF Restaurants — [...]


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Recap: Top Chef: Finalist Submission I

By Flipit Sometimes I can’t figure out if “Top Chef” is brilliant or retarded. It’s like the prettiest person in high [...]


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One Word: PADMA

Season two of Top Chef premiered on Wednesday, and already, I’ve become slightly obsessed with new host PADMA LAKSHMI. [...]


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From the Casting Couch: Top Chef II

Okay, okay — so we haven’t been recapping Top Chef, but that’s not because we don’t like it. We [...]