'Top Chef' Blog 
Archive Results for January 2009
Pack your knives
Restaurant Wars claims its latest victim
In like a lion, out like a lamb
Tonight’s post got a little delayed by dinner at Mado—fitting, as it’s sort of Chicago’s version of Blue Hill at Stone Barns, without the on-site farm—so here’s our super-speedy “Top Chef” recap, in 150 words or fewer:
1. We like Fabio’s “recycle” shirt.
2. We really, really...
Back in the kitchen
The other day, we choose seven ingredients at random from our cupboards and made an amuse bouche in 15 minutes. Then we diced eight potatoes in a relay race around the kitchen island. And then we preserved everything in the fridge in GladWare. Yes, we were displaying all the symptoms of severe "Top Chef" withdrawal. Thank goodness the holiday br...