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show name | Top Chef |
format | Cooking, Reality, Competition |
runtime | 60 minutes |
executive producers | Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz |
starring | Katie Lee Joel (Season One)Padma Lakshmi (Season Two onward)Tom ColicchioGail SimmonsTed Allen (Season Three – Season Four)Toby Young (Season Five – Season Six)Eric Ripert (Season Seven)Anthony Bourdain (Season Eight) |
country | United States |
network | Bravo |
first aired | |
last aired | present |
num episodes | 90 |
website | http://www.bravotv.com/Top_Chef/ }} |
The show has produced three spin-offs: ''Top Chef: Masters'', featuring established, award-winning chefs, ''Top Chef: Just Desserts'', featuring pastry chefs, and ''Top Chef Canada''. One more spin-off is planned: ''Top Chef Junior'', featuring contestants in their early teens,
In the Quickfire Challenge, each chef is asked to cook a dish with certain requirements (for example, using specific ingredients or to inspire a certain taste) or participate in a culinary-related challenge (for example, a mise en place relay or a taste test). They are usually given an hour or less to complete these tasks. A guest judge selects one or more chefs as the best in the challenge. Early in the season the winning chef(s) are granted immunity from the following Elimination Challenge. As the number of contestants dwindle no one receives immunity and instead the winner gets another "reward" (such as being team captain for a team challenge). To emphasis the culture and environment of Season 6's setting, the show introduced "high-stakes" Quickfires, which would occasionally replace a regular Quickfire. These differed by having an extravagant additional prize at stake for the winner (usually a large cash prize). Alternatively the stakes of the challenge could also involve the person at the very bottom being sent home even before the elimination challenge. High-stakes Quickfires would continue onward in further seasons.
In the Elimination Challenge, the chefs have to prepare one or more dishes to meet the challenge requirements. Many of these are individual challenges and may require several courses, although some instances require teams to complete the challenge. Teams may be selected by the remaining contestants among themselves, but more often are selected by the random process of "drawing knives" from a butcher's block, with the team identification revealed on the blade of the knife. The chefs may have from a few hours to a few days to complete this challenge. Ingredients for Elimination Challenges are generally limited to what is present in the "Top Chef" pantry and what the chefs purchase at a food store, with a possibly limited budget. However, certain challenges may provide specific ingredients or limit the type or number of ingredients that can be used, while others require non-traditional methods of obtaining ingredients (such as asking people door-to-door). After shopping, the contestants will cook for four judges, usually including at least one guest judge. In most cases, the contestants cook for the four judges and a group of guests or customers (for example, the cowboys in Colorado). The judges and the guests sample the food and rate the individuals or teams.
After the Elimination Challenge ends, the chefs are taken to Judges' Table, where the four judges consider the guests' comments and deliberate on the best and worst dishes. The top individuals or teams are called in, and may be asked questions of their meals before they are notified of their placement. One individual is named the winner of the challenge and may be awarded an additional prize by the guest judge. Then, the bottom individuals or teams are brought to the judges, and similar discussion of their courses is played out. From this group, one chef or team is determined to be the worst, and then the host asks one chef to "pack [their] knives and go." This is usually followed by a knife packing sequence for the eliminated chef, and a clip of his or her exit video, to close out the episode. According to the credits, some elimination decisions (e.g., Cliff Crooks's disqualification in Season 2) are made in consultation with the show's producers.
The show continues in this format for 10–13 episodes, until the Finale.
In the final challenge, the two (or three) remaining chefs prepare a multiple course dinner with the help of other chefs. These other chefs could be previously eliminated chefs or celebrity chefs (for example, Rocco DiSpirito). The winning chef is selected based on several factors including food quality, their ability to lead their selected chefs, and general performance during the show. There is no Quickfire Challenge in this episode.
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Ted Allen | | | ♦ | ♦ | |||||||
Toby Young | | | ♦ | ♦ | |||||||
Eric Ripert | | | ♦ | ||||||||
Anthony Bourdain | | | ♦ | ||||||||
Emeril Lagasse | | | ♦ |
''(*--Denotes a Food and Wine Best New Chef Winner.)''
Sears had been a series sponsor since Season One, along with Calphalon and Toyota. ''Top Chef'' began using GE appliances in Season Three. Other sponsors have included Kingsford Charcoal, Wild Oats, Bertolli, Cold Stone Creamery, Kraft Foods, Nestlé, Quaker Oats, Baileys Irish Cream, T.G.I. Friday's, Red Robin, Continental Airlines, Breville, and Bombay Sapphire.
On June 6, 2007, as part of the buildup for Season 3, Bravo aired a special charity episode called "4 Star All Star," which awarded $20,000 to the charity of the winning team's choice. The show brought together Season 1 contestants Stephen, Harold, Dave, and Tiffani, and pitted them against Season 2 contestants Ilan, Elia, Marcel, and Sam. The show format was kept the same, with a Quickfire Challenge to start, followed by an Elimination Challenge. The show was filmed in Miami Beach at the kitchen and hotel used for Season 3. Padma Lakshmi hosted.
Bravo has ordered eight episodes; currently no air date has been set.
''Top Chef Masters'' features established, award-winning chefs—a contrast from Top Chef, which features chefs that have been called relative "culinary amateurs". Food journalist Kelly Choi hosts the show, and restaurant critic Gael Greene, culinary expert and Saveur Editor-in-Chief James Oseland and food critic Jay Rayner serve as judges.
The show debuted in 2009 with contestants including Rick Bayless, John Besh, Michael Chiarello, Wylie Dufresne, and Hubert Keller. As of 2011, three seasons have been produced and aired.
Top Chef: Just Desserts is a spin-off featuring pastry chefs. The show is hosted by ''Top Chef'' judge Gail Simmons. The head judge is Johnny Iuzzini, the award-winning pastry chef at Jean-Georges. Hubert Keller, owner of world-renowned restaurant Fleur de Lys and Top Chef Masters finalist, and Dannielle Kyrillos, "an entertaining expert and Editor-at-Large of DailyCandy" are regularly featured judges.
The show debuted on Bravo on September 15, 2010, after the seventh season finale of ''Top Chef''.
Thea Andrews is the host of the Canadian show. The head judge (the position held by Tom Colicchio on the original version) is Mark McEwan, chef and owner of several restaurants in Toronto and host of the Food Network Canada program ''The Heat with Mark McEwan''. The "resident judge", as described by the network, is Shereen Arazm, a Toronto native and owner of several Los Angeles-area restaurants.
! Country !! Name !! Host !! Judges !! Channel !! Year aired | |||||||||
Arab World | Siham Tueni | * Siham Tueini | * Joe Barza | April 26, 2011 – July 19, 2011 | |||||
Top Chef Canada | Thea Andrews | * Mark McEwan | * Shereen Arazm | Food Network Canada | April 11, 2011 | ||||
Top Chef Suomi | Pipsa Hurmerinta | * Pia Kämppi | * Hans Välimäki | January 26, 2011 | |||||
France & Belgium | Sandrine Corman & Stéphane Rotenberg (Season 1) Agathe Lecaron & Stéphane Rotenberg (Season 2) | February 22, 2010 | |||||||
Top Chef | Nadia Boule | * Elias Mamalakis | * Christopher Peska | * Trastelis Apostle | * Herve Pronzato | ANT1 | October 16, 2010 | ||
Martijn Krabbé (Season 1) Robert Kranenborg & Julius Jaspers (Season 2, 3 & 4) | * Robert Kranenborg | * Julius Jaspers | * Changing judge | RTL 4 (Season 1) RTL 5 (Season 2, 3 & 4) | October 13, 2009 | ||||
''Time'' magazine's James Poniewozik named it one of the Top 10 Returning Series of 2007, ranking it at #10.
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name | Michael Voltaggio |
birth date | September 29, 1978 |
birth place | Frederick, Maryland |
style | Modern American |
education | The Greenbrier Hotel Culinary Apprenticeship Program |
restaurants | The Dining Room at The Langham (Pasadena, California) |
television | ''Top Chef'' }} |
Michael Voltaggio (born September 29, 1978) is an American chef residing in Pasadena, California. Voltaggio is the winner of the sixth season of ''Top Chef'', Bravo's cooking competition reality show, where he competed with his brother, Bryan Voltaggio. The two ended in the finale, alongside Kevin Gillespie, with Michael winning the contest.
Voltaggio is currently the Chef de Cuisine at ''The Dining Room'', Langham Huntington Hotel & Spa in Pasadena, which is the recipient of several culinary awards, including the AAA Five Diamond Award, the Mobil Five-Star Award, and a Michelin Star, one of the few held by restaurants in the US. During his tenure as Chef de Cuisine at ''The Bazaar'' by Jose Andres, the restaurant was nominated for the James Beard Foundation Award for Best New Restaurant in 2008.
Voltaggio аppeared in September, 2010 on the finale of season seven of ''Top Chef''.
Michael has been married to Kerri Adams for ten years and is in the process of a divorce. He has two daughters.
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name | Carla Hall |
birth date | May 12, 1964 |
birth place | Nashville, Tennessee |
education | L'Academie de Cuisine (Gaithersburg, MD), Howard University |
television | ''Top Chef'' }} |
Carla Hall (born May 12, 1964) is an American chef residing in Washington, D.C. She was a finalist in the fifth and eighth seasons of ''Top Chef'', Bravo's cooking competition show. On April 14, 2011, it was announced that Hall will be one of 5 cohosts on ''The Chew'', a one-hour live show centered on food from all angles. The show will premiere in September on ABC, replacing ''All My Children''.
On the show, Carla gained popularity for her personality, although she did not win Fan Favorite in her season. She became known for her call-and-response catch phrase "Hootie Hoo!", a tradition she and her husband had whenever trying to locate one another in public. Hall also became known on Top Chef for her philosophy of "cooking with love", which she defined as putting one's own care and warmth into food. She believes that if one is happy and calm while cooking, then this will show in the food, making it much better, whereas if one feels otherwise, it will degrade their cuisine. For this reason, she says that, “If you’re not in a good mood, the only thing you should make is a reservation."
During the season seven finale of Top Chef, Carla was announced as part of the cast of Top Chef: All-Stars, the eighth season of the show which would consist of participants from past seasons. Throughout this season, she performed much stronger and more competitively-at one point leading the competition in number of Elimination wins-and making it again into the Finals. Most notably, she won the chance to demonstrate her recipe for Chicken Pot Pie on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. However, she was eliminated in the first round of the Finals, after being plagued with equipment difficulties in both of her challenges. In her exit interview, she said, "The judges made the right decision. I didn't have a winning dish." She would appear twice more in the Finals, once as part of a Quickfire challenge and again as a sous-chef for season runner-up Mike Isabella. Finishing fifth overall in the competition, Carla was awarded "Fan Favorite" for the season by viewers of the show, beating out Season 5 fan favorite Fabio Viviani.
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name | Eric Ripert |
birth date | 2 March 1965 |
birth place | Antibes, France |
style | seafood , French, Latin |
education | Culinary school in Perpignan, France |
restaurants | Le Bernardin (New York City), The Releigh (Miami), Westend Bistro (Washington, DC), 10 Arts by Eric Ripert (Philadelphia) |
television | }} |
Eric Ripert (rih-pair') (born 1965 in Antibes) is a French chef, renowned for his seafood dishes. His flagship restaurant, Le Bernardin, located in New York City, is ranked among the best restaurants in the world, and holds the maximum rating of four stars from the New York Times and three Michelin stars.
He was born in France and learned to cook at a young age from his grandmother. When he was young, his family moved to Andorra, where he was raised. He later returned to France and attended culinary school in Perpignan. At the age of 17 in 1982 he moved to Paris where he worked for two years at La Tour d'Argent, a famous restaurant more than 400 years old. Ripert next worked at Jamin under Joël Robuchon and was soon promoted to Assistant Chef de Partie. In 1985 Ripert left to fulfill his military service, after which he returned to Jamin as Chef Poissonier.
In 1989, Ripert moved to the United States and was hired as a sous chef in the Watergate Hotel's Jean Louis Palladin restaurant. He stayed for two years before moving to New York City in 1991 to work for David Bouley. He stayed just under a year so he didn't break contract by being pursued by Gilbert Le Coze at Le Bernardin. In 1994, Ripert became Le Bernardin's executive chef after Gilbert Le Coze died unexpectedly of a heart attack. The following year, at the age of 29, Ripert earned a four-star rating from the ''New York Times'', and in 1996 he became a part-owner. In the ''Michelin Guide'' NYC 2006, Ripert's Le Bernardin was one of four New York City restaurants to be awarded the maximum 3 Michelin stars for excellence in cuisine. Le Bernardin received four stars from the New York Times four consecutive times, making it the only restaurant to maintain that exquisite status for that length of time and never dropping a star in ten years. Le Bernardin is often referred to as the Temple of Seafood.
Ripert chairs the City Harvest’s Food Council, and is president of the Jean-Louis Palladin Foundation. He has been a guest chef at the French Embassies in Mexico and Venezuela and for the New York City Ballet.
Ripert lent his name, talents, and several members of his team, including Le Bernardin's then-sous chef Richard Brower, to the Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman, in the form of two restaurants: Blue and Periwinkle. The former received a AAA Five Diamond Award, the only restaurant in the Caribbean to receive this rating. Both restaurants make creative and extensive use of local food products – particularly the lobster and red snapper, which are strictly sourced from the surrounding waters – as well as sea salt harvested by evaporation. Blue features a three course prix-fixe menu by tradition, as well as a six course tasting menu and à la carte selection. They were the first restaurants to bear Ripert's name and he reportedly brings a team to the restaurants once a month to ensure quality.
Westend Bistro by Eric Ripert at the Ritz-Carlton on 22nd & M Streets in Washington, D.C., opened on 8 November 2007. The concept features casual French and American bistro fare in DC's West End neighborhood. In early 2009, to encourage people to continue to go out for meals despite the economic downturn, Westend Bistro began serving a family-style Sunday Supper of a starter and entree for $28 per person. Ripert opened his newest venture in the Ritz Carlton Philadelphia spring 2008. The name of the restaurant, 10 Arts (run by former Le Bernardin Sous Chef and now Chef de cuisine Jennifer Carroll, also a Top Chef contestant), comes from the hotel's address along Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts.
Eric Ripert has made several guest appearances on cooking-based television shows, including guest judge and assistant chef roles on the second, third, fourth and fifth seasons of Bravo's "Top Chef". Chef Ripert had been considered to join season 8 of Top Chef as a permanent judge, but bowed out when his employee Jen Caroll was selected as a contestant again. He is friends with and has appeared on many episodes of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations. Most recently he has launched a series of brief online cooking videos called "Get Toasted" on his website AVECERIC.com which focuses on easy and quick meals that can be prepared and cooked in minutes with a toaster oven. In the series he uses a somewhat high end brick-oven based toaster oven produced by Cuisinart. Adding to his adventures, PBS has aired Avec Eric episodes (started September 2009) where he travels the world and finds inspiration and shows the idea in a profession setting, travels on location, and then finally shows the enlightenment in his very own home kitchen. Chef Eric occasionally resides in Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York with his wife, Sondra and son.
Chef Ripert has been a featured chef on Great Chefs television.
In 2010 he played himself in the television show ''Treme'' on HBO (season 1 episode 5). He returned in his cameo role in Season 2, in multiple episodes.
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name | Curtis Stone |
birth date | November 04, 1975 |
birth place | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
occupation | Chef, Television Personality |
website | curtisstone.com |
children | }} |
No stranger to television, Stone has appeared in a number of cooking programs in the UK, including ''Dinner in a Box'', ''Good Food Live'' and ''Saturday Kitchen''. He also hosted the first series of ''My Restaurant Rules'', but from then on, it was replaced by Ian Dickson for the second series. Stone starred for two seasons in the now canceled ''Take Home Chef'' on TLC in the United States. He is, at the same time, the main chef, author, and host of the new series in which he specializes in putting shrimp on the "barbie".
Stone has appeared twice on NBC's ''Today''. His second appearance featured him visiting the home of host Meredith Vieira to teach her how to cook, as her children had complained that she did not know how to cook. Stone is scheduled to appear on the show again in the coming months for a feature on grilling and barbecuing. He has also recently appeared on Martha Stewart's show ''Martha'', also on NBC, preparing two of his signature dishes. He also appeared on Stacy London's talk show ''Fashionably Late''.
On 13 May 2009, Stone appeared as a special guest chef on Network Ten's ''Masterchef'', and again on 19 May. He also appeared on the show's finale, which aired on 19 July. He has appeared on Food Network's ''Iron Chef America'' in the episode Battle Skipjack Tuna, where he lost to Iron Chef Bobby Flay 49-37. Stone has also appeared on several episodes of ''The Biggest Loser''.
Stone was also a candidate on ''The Celebrity Apprentice 3'', which premiered in March 2010 and was the third installment to the "Celebrity" version of ''The Apprentice''. The show premiered on 14 March 2010, and Stone was fired on 16 May 2010, placing fourth out the fourteen contestants. Stone has also made an appearance on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'', as well as ''The Ellen Degeneres Show''. He also does TV commercials for Coles Supermarkets (meals for under $10), as well as Hy-Vee supermarkets.
In June 2010 it was announced that Stone would join the judging and investment panel on NBC's new series ''America's Next Great Restaurant'' alongside Bobby Flay, Steve Ells and Lorena Garcia. The first season aired Sundays from 6 March to 1 May 2011 directly followed by the fourth edition of ''The Celebrity Apprentice'', where Stone made a guest appearance on the first episode. He was brought in to judge the pizzas the two contesting teams had to make in their first task, ultimatly handing out a check of $35,000 to the team he considered made the better pizza.
In 2011, Stone became host of the third season of Bravo's Top Chef Masters, replacing Kelly Choi.
In 2008 Stone developed 'Kitchen Solutions by Curtis Stone', a line of kitchen utensils, accessories and glassware. He also has written a series of cookbooks, including ''Surfing the Menu: Two Chefs, One Journey: A Fresh Food Adventure'' and ''Cooking With Curtis: Easy, Everyday and Adventurous Recipes for the Home Cook''. His latest book, ''Relaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone: Recipes to Put You in My Favorite Mood'', was released in April 2009.
Stone’s cookbook, ''Relaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone'' (ISBN 9781741669718), was published by Random House Australia in November 2009. It is a collection of recipes that are fuss free and tasty.
In 2010, Stone appeared at the Singapore Sun Festival to give a cooking class and a cooking demonstration. In October 2010 it was announced that Stone had created recipes for in-flight meals for United Airlines.
Curtis Stone is also creating recipes, and commercials for West Des Moines, IA based Hy-Vee grocery stores.
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