Host Padma Lakshmi and head judge chef Tom Colicchio, alongside judges Gail Simmons and new this season, best-selling author and chef, Anthony Bourdain, serve up their patented cooking competition. Eighteen chefs will battle to show who can whip up the most impressive food. Rumor has it, the 18 chefs will be made up of former Top Chef contestants. We’ll see. I don’t watch much reality TV, but I’ve watched Top Chef the past three seasons. The food looks amazing and the challenges are innovative. You might want to give Top Chef a try. Look for it on the BRAVO channel in the 10 P.M. time slot on Wednesday nights.
Padma’s picture didn’t come through. This is just wrong!
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It’s the mysterious graphics problem again, Jeff. I can see lovely Padma clearly, but apparently you can’t. So I added another graphic of Padma. Hopefully, this one will work. Patrick has yet to explain why graphics appear and then disappear in WORDPRESS. I’m baffled.
Ah, that’s more like it!
Glad you can bask in Padma’s loveliness, Jeff.
We watched two seasons but watching them race around grew tiresome by the third year. I don’t know why being fast has to be such a big part of the show. I know chefs need to be quick in a kitchen but not to this extend. It’s more like the amazing race some weeks. I’d like to spend more time on how they put their dishes together.
I agree with you, Patti. I’d like to see more of the secrets of food preparation than to see the TOP CHEF contestants run around WHOLE FOODS gathering their supplies.
Looks edible to me.
Much of the food on TOP CHEF looks incredible, Bob. Oh, you were referring to Padma…
With Bourdain there, I’d try it, but thanks to Comcast, Bravo is part of some $15/mo extra package, most of the rest of I have no interest in, so I can’t see this.
BRAVO is a standard channel on our TIME-WARNER system, Rick. But who knows for how much longer. Right now, TIME-WARNER and FOX are feuding so we may lose FOX and FOX NEWS. No big loss.
I sample this show only occasionally. Agree that the time crush, running around business is tiresome, as it is with Iron Chef and Next Food Network Star. Doesn’t anybody have the imagination to structure a cooking competition with wide time latitude? Padma is pretty, but I find myself distracted by that burn scar or whatever it is on her right arm. Fewer sleeveless gowns would be sensible/
What burn scar, Art? I confess I’ve missed that while appreciating Padma’s other charms.
Most of her model shots are carefully posed to hide the scar, but it’s quite noticeable on the show when she’s wearing a sleveless dress. According to her Wikipedia bio, it’s the remnant of a serious car crash at age 14. It’s prominent in one of the photos on the Wiki page. Scars aside, when it comes to cooking show babes, nobody tops Nigella Lawson, even in her present state, where she makes Christina Hendricks look skinny.
I almost bought Diane a Nigella Lawson cookbook for Christmas, Art. Nigella is on NPR a lot and I love her British accent.
Hm…Lawson gains, McLachlen loses. Meanwhile, I first saw Lakshmi in an early Cooking or Food Channel series called MELTING POT, where she was one of several “ethnic” cooks in rotation (she was either on every fourth week or four weeks in a row in the season)…a half hour of getting to watch her prepare a dish, not idiots running around a supermarket or foolish taste-offs or arguments. Went on from that to see her modeling work, including the nudes. And then to hear that she and Salman Rushdie had wed…and then that it wasn’t much of a marriage…the stuff that one picks up w/o trying (aside from the modeling photos).
Padma has parleyed her love of cooking and her modeling career into a successful amalgam in TOP CHEF, Todd. It’s worked for her for 8 seasons.
Phil could watch Nigella forever. I haven’t told her she’s on the new cooking channel. We see enough cooking shows as it is.
Nigella’s voice is attractive and her insights into food are clever, Patti. Like Phil, I could watch Nigella forever, too!
You’ll need to see this video, if you haven’t, George:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L57BcmGB-E0
Suggestive video, Todd! Thanks for the link. Perhaps Phil shouldn’t see this one, Patti.