After watching last week’s season premiere episode of Top Chef, I think there was probably a consensus among fans that this was going to be a fun season full of talented contestants. But then last night happened… What the hell was that? My train of thought while watching that gastro-disa...

Top Chef is in New York City this season. Does every contestant have sleeve tattoos? The cool chick and the Filipino do anyway. We also get an Indian chick, a couple Europeans, a couple bald dudes, a freakishly tall chick, and only 2 gay dudes. Too many people to keep track of in the beginning, as e...

Leading up to last night’s season five premiere of Top Chef, I couldn’t decide how I wanted to cover my favorite reality show on The Chew Blog for The Dagger. I thought about live blogging each show, but decided against that for many reasons*. So I decided to highlight the top and bottom...

Patrick and LaurenAre gone before we evenGot to know them. Meh. So here we are again, muffins. Another season of Top Chef. And I don’t want to go all “Worst/Best season EVAH!!!!!!!eleven!!!!!” based on the first episode, but. . . I don't know. It was kind of lackluster? There are too many godd...

Just finished the millet, which I must say holds up very well to things that would make anything else plain soggy. Now to settle in and live blog Top Chef 5 while I start on dessert - just a plain but tasty cupcake from the library - and a beer. To celebrate the (hopeful) success of Baltimore chef J...

I was trying to sort out what to do for the third and final day of our pre-Season-Five celebration of all things Top Chef. I considered several things: cooking what I would cook in response to one of the more famous (or infamous) challenges; lamenting the fact that Ted Allen is apparently not going ...

We continue our relentless march to the premiere of Top Chef: New York by celebrating a course that's played an integral role in many of the show's classic episodes: the amuse bouche. An amuse bouche is a course eaten in a single bite, designed to awaken and excite the taste buds and to provide a sn...

Yes, I've been a slacker. Yes, I've failed to keep up even my normal, extremely lazy, twice a week pace of blogging. Fear not. Things will pick up this week. You know why? Season 5 of Top Chef starts this week! Yayyyyy!!!!! To celebrate, I thought I'd kick off Top Chef week by making something from ...

Top Chef 5 is just days away. And so is my live blogging thingy. I need a little release from grad school. And for the first time ever, there will be at least one person from Maryland on the show. The season premiere has not one but two Marylanders in the beginning lineup. One is Latrobe, PA, native...

Filed under: Project Runway, Ratings Despite rumors and conspiracy theories about Bravo trying to sabotage Project Runway because the show is leaving them for Lifetime, the premiere had the most viewers for a premiere that the network has ever seen, 2.9 million. That was enough to make Bravo the #1 ...