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Live Blogging Top Chef Masters, Week 4
Well, a fortnight has passed since we last met, thanks to Bravo's pre-empting of TCM with The Fashion Show last week — a bid to trick us into watching their lame Project Runway replacement. Hope you didn't fall for it! More » -
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Live Blogging Top Chef Masters, Week 3
Hi there. Is everybody ready to talk about Chef Fight Club? After all, the first rule of Chef Fight Club is, "Everybody talks about Chef Fight Club," right? More » -
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Live Blogging Top Chef Masters, Week 2
Happy last Wednesday of spring! It comes only once a year, and you probably don't want to waste the rest of it doing something inane or frivolous. So why not join our commenter live blog instead? More » -
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Top Chef: Masters Spies on Girl Scouts, Snoops In Dorm Rooms
Hello. My name is Joshua David Stein. I think we should probably talk about what happened last night on Bravo's Top Chef: Masters. It was at once heartwarming and a little creepy. More » -
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Live Blogging Top Chef Masters, Week 1
Hey, you! Ever read a live blog and thought, "hey, I could do that"? Do you love to drink and talk about food (or to eat and talk about drinking)? Well, this could be your lucky night! More » -
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All the Summer TV You'll Need to Watch
Summer is basically here. Your kids are more wild-eyed by the day, that tiny swimsuit seems tinier and tinier, and the television has begun to fizzle and fall quiet. Except it doesn't have to! There's so much summer television to be watched and absorbed. Why, enough for a listicle, even. More » -
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Padma Lakshmi in Sordid Bacon Cheeseburger Sex Tape
An attractive supermodel overcome with meat-induced lust? Where do I, an 18-34-year-old male with disposable income, sign up? At Hardee's! Padma Lakshmi has decided to do one of those Slutburger commercials. More » -
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Live Blogging Top Chef: The Reunion Show
A week has passed since the commenter gang gathered to live-gab the season finale of our favorite foodfight. Thought you'd seen the last this little live-blogging luau (and my hyper-alliterative prose), didn't you? More » -
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Top Chef Ends. Rash of Self-Inflicted Fork-Into-Eye Wounds Reported
Bom dia a todos. Eu sou Joshua David Stein. The world's worst hour of television aired yesterday. It was called Top Chef and it's an hour I wish never happened. Now let's relive it. More » -
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Live Blogging Top Chef: The Final Episode
Mardi Gras is over in New Orleans, but that doesn't mean we can't keep partying on the streets of cyberspace. Is everyone ready for our season-ending live blog blowout? Laissez le blog en direct rouler!* More » -
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Place Your Top Chef Finale Bets Here
Hey you Bravo loving fools! It's JDS. In a mere eightish hours, the finale of the fifth season of Top Chef will descend like a pestilence. Meanwhile, enjoy this photograph which reveals the following: More » -
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N'awlinsqatsi and the Return of Crapster Leah
Hello. My name is Joshua David Stein. The penultimate episode of Bravo's Top Chef aired last night. Let's discuss. More » -
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Live Blogging Top Chef, Week 13
Hello America, how are ya? Like the train in Arlo's song, Top Chef is bound for the city of New Orleans — and starting tonight, we have just two episodes left to live-blog about it. More » -
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Padma Readies For Finale Climax
Hello, my name is Joshua David Stein. Please, open your hymnals to Matthew 26:17 wherein is discussed Bravo's reality television show Top Chef. More » -
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Live Blogging Top Chef, Week 12
Hello Top Chef lovers, wherever you are! With Valentine's Day just around the corner, why not join us in posting a few hundred sweet nothings to the reality-show object of our viewing affections? More » -
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Eat Tom Colicchio's Meat for Cheap
Like fashion before it, the fancy food industry needs to change its rules a bit to get your business. Starbucks is doing McDonald's-style value meals, while Tom Colicchio's swanky steak house is halving prices. More » -
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Mouth Kisser Leah's Horrendous Fish Fail
Hello. From 10pm to 11pm last night, the developed world watched Bravo's Top Chef. I'm Joshua David Stein reporting live from Bushwick. Stay with us as BBC World Report returns. More » -
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Live Blogging Top Chef, Week 11
We're down to the final six, the end's racing toward us like a runaway shopping cart, and our live-blogging routine has become as warm and comfy as a favorite shirt fresh from the dryer. More » -
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Ousted 'Top Chef' Contestant Feels He Was Treated Like A Broken Down Piece Of Hunky Filet Mignon
Interviewed today by People, last night's Top Chef casualty [spoiler alert!] Jeff McGinnes had some choice shit-talking words for head judge Tom Colicchio, before suggesting the show portrayed him as a shirt-a-phobic "sex object." More » -
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Hunkiest 'Top Chef' Elimination Ever Spares Fake-Italian, Scars Prettyboy For Life
On last night's Top Chef Super Bowl All-Star Face-Off Synergistic Cross-Promotion Can-We-Fit-Quaker-Oats-in-There-Somehow Extravaganza, the surviving chefs of Season 5—a group we find ourselves strangely attached to—were forced to cook head-to-head with past Chef contestants. More » -
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Why Does Guest Judge Scott Conant Hate Wops?
Hello. My name is Joshua David Stein. Thank you for joining this discussion on Tractatus Topico-Cheficus, a weekly Bravo treatise in its fifth season. [Update: Padma Superbowl Video by popular demand, after the jump.] More » -
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Live Blogging Top Chef, Week 10
Hello commenters! How are we all feeling tonight? Who feels like a hummingbird on cocaine? Raise your hands. More » -
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Leah and Hosea Consummate Their Dumbpoop Romance
Hello, my name is Joshua David Stein. There is much to discuss about last night's episode of Top Chef. So let's get down to it. More » -
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Live Blogging Top Chef, Week 9
Ready for a new, more hopeful era of live-blogging? I sure am. I've been watching two days of inauguration stuff, and suddenly I'm hopeful about everything. More » -
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Imbecile Americans Intimidated By Proper English, Says Toby Young
Professional annoying person Toby Young has an oh-so-self-serving theory as to why he is detested as a Top Chef judge: Americans cannot handle a person who speaks in complete, correct sentences. More » -
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Jersey Housewife Axed in Farmhouse Slaughter
My name is Joshua David Stein. I write a hugely influential weekly column for Gawker.com about the television show Top Chef. More » -
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Live Blogging Top Chef, Week 8
My fellow Americans (and other fellow travelers of cyberspace), it occurs to me that we stand at the threshold of an historic transition: This will be the last Gawker live blog of the Dubya era. (Heckuva job, Clownie!) When next we meet, a presidential upgrade will have been completed. This got me thinking — is there nothing We The People can't improve on, if we just set our minds to it? I say: No there isn't. What about lame reality-show catchphrases — can we improve on those? I say: Yes we can! More » -
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Mean British Bully Toby Young Is Overwrought and Underseasoned
Hello. My name is Joshua David Stein. I'm an avid Top Chef fan and am here to discuss with you that show. More » -
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Live Blogging Top Chef, Week 7
Welcome back, fellow Top Chef live-bloggers! In the three weeks since we last gathered, a holiday season has come and gone, and a shiny new year has dawned. More » -
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Tits the Season to Be Jolly!
It's JDS. It's Top Chef time. Both AIDS and Christmas came to town during last night's episode. More » -
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'I wish to have a application for the lady who you speak about.'
Hello. My name is Joshua David Stein and I am here to recruit you in a quest to find Padma Lakshmi's true love. Stay tuned for your regular Top Chef recap. More » -
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Live Blogging Top Chef, Week 6
Season's greetings, Gawkerites. If you're in a gift-of-gab-giving mood, you've come to the right place. Why not don some gay apparel and join us in a group live blog of Top Chef? More » -
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In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
Rocco DiSpirito used to be a critically-acclaimed chef, but then he did that show the Restaurant and then Top Chef and The Biggest Loser and finally Dancing With the Stars. Now nobody respects him! -
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Padmating 2008/9: Potential Husbands Apply
Hello. My name is Joshua David Stein and I am here to recruit you in a quest to find Padma Lakshmi's true love.
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The Official 'Find Padma a Mate' Campaign 2008/9
Good morning and welcome. My name is Joshua David Stein. I'd like to get at you for a mo' about Top Chef, the Gossip Girl of culinary cinema verité programming. More » -
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Live Blogging Top Chef, Week 5
Welcome to another group-live-blogging hour filled with possibilities — although my watching along won't be one of them. I'm stuck in a Bravo-free hotel in Vegas this week on business trip, so my quest tonight will be a quixotic one: hosting the live-blog of a Top Chef episode (starting at 10 Eastern) that I can't watch. But that's probably apt, because impossibility seems to be a theme tonight. Consider, for example, this list of highlights from last week's live blog: More » -
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Top Chef Is Creme BruLame
Hey guys! Your regular Top Chef recap fella, Joshua David Stein, unfortunately was unable to watch last night's episode. So, you're stuck with me. Most of you probably already got your jibblies out during our weekly live blog extravaganza, but just in case a lone few of you didn't comment til your fingers bled, we'll proceed with a wrap-up right here and right now. I don't know anything about food! So, should be fun! More » -
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Live Blogging Top Chef, Week 4
Multitalented — that's one of many qualities I like about the crowd that gathers here each Wednesday night to comment on Top Chef (starting at 10 Eastern.) They can drink. They can tell jokes. They can … presumably do something for a living. And many can cook! And cook fancy stuff, even! So tonight, my "highlights from last week" involve the culinary feats performed not by "cheftestants," but by my fellow commenters. The fact that it was Thanksgiving Eve likely played a role, but everyone seemed to be cooking something special while they were live-blogging last week. Here's a sampling: More » -
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You Talkin' Jive Turkey, Foo'!
Hello, My name is Joshua David Stein. The subject of this morning's discussion is Bravo's television show Top Chef, specifically the events of the third episode of the Fifth Season. I'm in Albuquerque, NM right now, where my Mom lives and where, due to the large Native American population (mostly Navajo and Pueblo), the very premise of Thanksgiving is deeply offensive. (I always hated the holiday because I had to see my family but they hate it for much better reasons.) Anyway, all this means is I watched this episode of Top Chef with my mom who has never seen it before against a backdrop of anti-Thanksgivingism. Many questions were raised including: Who the fuck is Dave Grohl? Who cares? Wait, is this a commercial? These questions were annoying but, upon reflection, valid. More » -
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Live Blogging Top Chef, Week 3
Hail, pilgrims! Ready to talk turkey on Top Chef? Who's up for some candid yammering? (I know. My Thanksgiving puns are awful. I'll do better on Christmas Eve, I promise.) In case you're new to this ritual, it starts at 10PM Eastern, when we all turn on Top Chef and post comments about it. And rest assured that no turkeys will be harmed in the process (although many a cocktail is likely to bite the dust). Before we dig in, here are some highlights from last week's live blog: More »


















































