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Food
January 11, 2012
Tom Colicchio's Fat Chance
Why the Top Chef host should have called a fat girl fat.
Blogs
January 6, 2012
Tom Colicchio Whiffed a Teachable Moment
A longtime foe of childhood obesity, Tom Colicchio in 2010 addressed a Congressional committee on the subject of improving school lunches. "I find myself in the slightly surreal position of being able to comment on issues of importance to me to a public willing to listen," he told the legislators. B ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2011
Seattle, Please Pack Your Knives and Go
Seattle's remaining hopes for Top Chef representation evaporated tonight with the first-round elimination of cheftestant Ashley Villaluz. Villaluz was sent home for a lackluster plate of oxtail, following the northbound path paved last week by Seattle's Simon Pantet, Nina Vicente and Colin P ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2011
Eliminated Top Chef Contestant Colin Patterson Still Hasn't Watched the Show
A city-full of Top Chef fans cringed last week when they watched Colin Patterson of Sutra become the first contestant eliminated by the show's judging panel, but Patterson wasn't among them. The chef still hasn't seen the show. "I was busy working," Patterson says. "I didn't need to see it; ... More >>
Blogs
November 3, 2011
Seattle Annihilated in Top Chef Competition
Challenged to "prepare a dish using one cut of pig," Sutra's Colin Patterson made a short rib zucchini cake with mole roja and roasted cauliflower tarragon soup. And it was messy. So that's why Top Chef's Seattle delegation was so prickly abut Texas. When I spoke to the show's Seattle-based ... More >>
Blogs
November 1, 2011
Meet Seattle's Aspiring Season 9 Top Chefs: Simon Pantet
The new season of Top Chef starts tomorrow night, and Seattle's supplied an impressive four cheftestants. To help you get your rooting plans in order before Padma announces "your time starts now," Voracious put the same probing questions to each of our hometown reps. Now up, Simon Pantet. Na ... More >>
Blogs
September 21, 2011
Four Seattle Chefs to Appear on Top Chef: Texas
The biggest-ever Top Chef class of cheftestants includes four Seattle representatives, or a full 14 percent of the cast. The forthcoming season of Top Chef features 29 chefs, including Simon Pantet of 22 Lounge; Colin Patterson of Sutra; Nina Vicente of Spur Gastropub and Ashley Villaluz, id ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2011
Robin Leventhal: 'My Life Will Not Be Defined By Pastrami'
Photo by Julien PerryBy now, pretty much everyone (at least in Seattle) recognizes Robin Leventhal as the lovable underdog in Top Chef season six. Most recently, Leventhal is making local headlines as the chef who was abruptly asked to pack her knives and get the hell out of Stopsky's just mo ... More >>
Blogs
July 5, 2011
Bruni Taps Revel's Rice Bowl for "Best Thing I Ever Ate" Segment
Another Revel rice bowlMany of the dishes featured on The Best Thing I Ever Ate, the Food Network's popular compendium of culinary celebs' favorite restaurant foods, automatically become menu fixtures. But chef Seif Chirchi says he won't let stardom trump seasonality at Revel. Revel's aspara ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2011
What Awaits Top Chef Contestants in San Antonio?
The touring Top Chef road show stopped in San Antonio a few weeks back, delegating season four contestants Dale Talde and Ryan Scott to a local grocery store for a quickfire beef challenge (San Antonians picked the featured ingredient via Facebook. Score one for the Texas Beef Council.) But ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2011
Victory Is Sweet for Mighty-O's Sara Beth Russert
Sara Beth's a big winner on Food Network Challenge's first-ever hole-off.Mighty-O's badass doughnut diva, Sara Beth Russert, came out on top of the heap during Sunday's Food Network Challenge, a heated battle against some tough competition. Sara Beth kicked the butts at Top Pot as well as Th ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2011
Voracious Tasting Chef Showdown Special Edition: Seth Caswell vs. Rachel Yang
Seth Caswell, giving some love to the troopsLast week, we let two dumpling heavyweights battle it our here in the Versus arena, pitting international superstar Din Tai Fung against beloved local Mandarin chef. And despite much mewling and whining from those who thought it was an unfair, inapt ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2011
When It Comes to Making Tender Pasta, Martha's Going for the Feel of a Baby's Bottom
Photo by Leslie KellyAll hail the pasta queen! You've probably heard it before, but the true genius of a great pasta maker is all about getting the right touch. Just like making bread. This isn't something that can be taught. It's something you learn over the course of making buttery-soft pas ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2011
Naked Lady Cooking Show: Well, It's About Time . . .
She's just not naked yet.See, now this is why I love Eater.com. Not only do they keep up on some of the weirdest cooking news in this country, but they also have a subscription to the South China Morning Post, which keeps them in the loop on culinary developments on the other side of the Paci ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2011
Wanna Be On Top Chef? Read On...
Padma can hold my octopus any dayBravo has a total golden goose with their Top Chef franchise. But in order to keep that goose laying, they have to constantly be feeding it knife-wielding men and women in white jackets. Making it some kind of huge, carnivorous goose...or something. Anyway, t ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2011
URBAN Enoteca Chef Takes Farm-to-Table to New Level
Photo by Leslie KellyChef Chris is a big believer in terroir, in both beef and grapes.At the sparkling new URBAN enoteca--a tasting room featuring seven wineries and a restaurant in southern SoDo--chef Chris Opsata recently partnered with a rancher and a butcher for a feast that gave a new sp ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2010
On Top Chef, Jen Carroll, Rochester and Angry, Angry Women
I used to really like Top Chef. I watched it fairly religiously for a couple years because, at a time when cooking competition shows seemed to pretty much rule TV, Top Chef was the only one that came within a mile of actually showing chefs doing what they do: cooking good food under unimagina ... More >>
Blogs
November 19, 2010
7 Stupid Things We've "Learned" From Food Television
Idiocy makes Alton cryI have had issues with food TV for a long time. From the ridiculously chipper Rachael Ray to the catch-phrase-ery of Emeril, the shrieking freak-outs on Hell's Kitchen and the glorification of every goddamn cheeseburger and burrito in America courtesy of Guy Fieri, the F ... More >>
Blogs
October 8, 2010
Celebrity Chef Tour with Top Chef's Richard Blais Goes Down This Evening
Rawr! Top Chef host Padma LakshmiGet your booze and schmooze on this evening. (It's not too late to buy tickets!) At the Celebrity Chef Tour, three renowned chefs - former Top Chef contestant Richard Blais, Columbia Tower Club executive chef James Hassel, and Trellis executive chef Brian Sche ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2010
Celebrity Chef Tour Hits Seattle
Remember that guy? That's Richard Blais, the fella who almost won Top Chef back during the last season that I actually cared enough to watch (season 4), and the man who brought liquid nitrogen, cold-smoking guns (and the combination of a chef's jacket and a faux-hawk) into most American livin ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2010
Noshing At Poppy With Food Network Star Anne Burrell
Photo by Leslie KellyThe star of this vegetarian thali at Poppy was the chard-stuffed pasta.Last weekend, I was invited to have dinner with Anne Burrell, star of Secrets of A Restaurant Chef and Worst Cooks in America. If you haven't seen those shows, maybe you'd recognize Anne as Mario Bata ... More >>
Blogs
August 30, 2010
In A Snub to Actual Reality, Top Chef Takes Home the Emmy for Outstanding Reality Program
Padma, Tom and Gail are all going to melt down their Emmys to make some wicked grills to cover all those teeth Did you watch the Emmy Awards last night? I did. Not by choice, necessarily, but because my darling wife Laura celebrates exactly four holidays around our house: Christmas, Thanksgi ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2010
One of Those Rare Moments In Life When Having Slept With Bobby Flay Might HELP Your Career
Look at me! I'm an Iron Chef!It's not often that something I read in the food world makes me snort lemon chicken out my nose. Mostly I'm researching odd spices, the history of salt, the youthful culinary indiscretions of Michael Mina or, you know, just pretending to work while I'm actually lo ... More >>
Blogs
August 2, 2010
Maria Hines Victorious on Iron Chef
In case you missed last night's Iron Chef America viewing party at the Bottleneck Lounge, I can now tell you that Tilth's Maria Hines did the very-nearly-impossible by kicking the mother-lovin' crap out of Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto. But wait, not only did she totally hand Morimoto his ass ... More >>
Blogs
August 2, 2010
Hines Beats Morimoto: Updated
photo courtesy eater.com, via Food Network As mentioned earlier today, Tilth chef Maria Hines took down Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto in the Iron Chef America battle Pacific cod last night. And that's all well and good. But there are some things that simply can not be done justice by words alo ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2010
Just Because It's Awesome: Ready, Set, Bag! Movie Trailer Released
There are a lot of food competitions on TV these days. There's Top Chef where the pros fight it out, Top Chef Masters where more pros do the same, but for charity. Hell's Kitchen is for barely ambulatory knuckleheads and rank amateurs competing for (wink wink) an exec chef's job at one of Gor ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2010
Details Announced for Top Chef Washington D.C.: Eric Ripert For President
Change I can believe inBravo has finally released the vital details on their new season of Top Chef, and this time around the whole show is going to be centered in Washington D.C.--certainly an interesting and cosmopolitan destination, food-wise, and a perfect excuse for the producers to snag ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2010
One Big Truck Full of Crazy: Top Chef Tour Coming to Seattle (and also Portland)
The best thing about watching Top Chef in the past couple seasons? Watching the chef-testants go all cuckoo-bananas after being locked up together in that house for a few weeks. There was Jennifer Carroll's slow-rolling meltdown from last season, the Hosea-and-Leah debacle from the season bef ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2010
Comment of the Day: The Crazies
I am going to see those eyes in my nightmares...No sooner had I gotten my breaking news posted about the Top Chef roadshow coming to Seattle, than apparent Top Chef fanatic Zibby popped up to remind me about one of the great, all-time Top Chef crazies: Marcel Vigneron (pictured right there in ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2010
Update: Top Chef Masters Taps Seattle Chefs
Yeah, that's Bender he's holding. I still prefer Futurama to The SimpsonsIntrepid reporter Erika Hobart already came through with the news yesterday that three of our local chefs will be packing their bags to compete in the second season of Bravo's Top Chef Masters. Thierry Rautureau from Rov ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2010
Morning Food News: Three Seattle Chefs Compete on Bravo, Cheap Wine Tastings at Meridian Market
Maria Hines of TilthThree Seattle Chefs will complete on season two of Bravo's Top Chef Masters: Maria Hines of Tilth, Thierry Rautureau of Rover's, and Jerry Traunfeld of Poppy. On the sho-w, established chefs from across the country compete against one another for charity--think Top Chef wi ... More >>
Blogs
January 15, 2010
Joule's Iron Chef Viewing Party
Everyone in Seattle is already in awe of the innovative, flavor-forward food cooked up by Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi at Joule. (If you go, get the agnolotti with brussel sprouts and fermented black beans. Do not ask questions, just do it.) After this Sunday, January 17, the rest of the worl ... More >>
Blogs
October 12, 2009
Holly Smith Bites Dust on the Next Iron Chef
After narrowly escaping the jaws of defeat in the series premiere of The Next Iron Chef, Cafe Juanita's Holly Smith's lackluster bouillabaisse got her sent back to her Kirkland kitchen in round two. My money's on New York chef Jehangir Mehta to win it all, but I must say I'm disappointed with the fo ... More >>
Blogs
October 5, 2009
Holly Smith Surives Iron Chef Elimination...Barely
When you hear people speak of "food porn," they're likely speaking of the Food Network in general, and Iron Chef in particular. Just finished a huge dinner? Not to worry: After an hour of watching Iron Chef, you'll be ready for round two--not exactly good news for that plan to practice tough ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2009
Saturday: Anthony Bourdain & Mario Batali @ The Paramount
Celebrity chefs Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali gave a two-hour plus talk at the Paramount on Saturday, during which they gave advice to aspiring chefs, hated on the Food Network, and between the two of them guzzled several Heinekens. They looked almost cartoonish when they made their entrance, ... More >>
Food
May 20, 2009
Bottomfeeder: Pete, Patty, and the Eggnest
The famous quirks of two Greek culinary cousins.
Blogs
October 15, 2008
Hug It Out: Chef Jeff Best New Face of Food Network
The famous quirks of two Greek culinary cousins.
Blogs
March 12, 2008
Top Chef Starts Tonight
The famous quirks of two Greek culinary cousins.
Food
February 20, 2008
New Sushi in the UD, the Grapple, and Our Local Online Cooking Show
Selections from Voracious, our food blog.
Blogs
February 18, 2008
Local Talent: Cookus Interruptus
Selections from Voracious, our food blog.
Blogs
September 11, 2007
Food Network: ISO Next Talking Head
Selections from Voracious, our food blog.
Food
April 27, 2005
Two Twos
Caprial and John's new show and Lisa and Jonathan's new restaurant.
Diversions
December 15, 2004
Lovin' in the Oven
Caprial and John's new show and Lisa and Jonathan's new restaurant.
Diversions
August 4, 2004
Best Dinner Theater
FOOD & DRINK
Diversions
December 10, 2003
The Real Dr. Food
Alton Brown makes cooking shows useful again.
Food
May 8, 2002
Family-style
The Batalis, keeping it real here and in N.Y.C.
News
January 16, 2002
"Stop publishing such whiny articles! It makes the people at your magazine, as well as those who live in Seattle, sound like a bunch of spoiled babies."
The Batalis, keeping it real here and in N.Y.C.
Food
January 2, 2002
Yo! Em-TV Cooks
The smell of testosterone fills TV cooking-show kitchens.
Food
August 15, 2001
Side Dish
Dough-it-yourself
Arts
December 6, 2000
Naked Dinner
Two new books ease cooks into the kitchen, stripping down recipes so that anybody can dress them up.
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