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March 8, 2012
Just How New Are The Chefs Competing For People's Best New Chef Crown?
Five area chefs are in the running for the title of People's Best New Chef in Food & Wine's online contest, but the competition raises questions about what constitutes newness in the contemporary restaurant world. According to a Food & Wine spokesperson, "nominees are all talented innovators who ha ... More >>
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February 8, 2012
A Schooling in Sleight of Hand (& Pearl Jam) with Walla Walla Winemaker Trey Busch
Seattle may be the hot seat of Washington wine drinking, but when it comes to wine making, Walla Walla wears the hot pants. Meet Your Maker is a new Voracious column that bridges the Cascade divide, introducing the winemakers and artisans putting Washington wines on the new world map - and at the to ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
The Soup & Bread Cookbook Nourishes and Inspires
In the winter of 2009, food writer and Seattle native Martha Bayne was living in Chicago and working at The Hideout, an area dive bar and music club. Wednesday nights were the slowest night of the week, made worse by the poor economy. Bayne hatched a plan for warming the bellies and souls of those a ... More >>
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 >>
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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 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 >>
Arts
November 2, 2011
The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events
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 >>
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October 26, 2011
Adam Gopnik
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
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 >>
Food
April 27, 2011
Ethan Stowell, Empire Builder
The "new Tom Douglas" couldn't be more different than the vintage.
Blogs
March 22, 2011
Top Chef Robin Leventhal is Mercer Island's New Jewish Mother
Robin Leventhal rollin' with her gnocchi.Top Chef season six contestant and former owner of the beloved Capitol Hill bistro Crave, Robin Leventhal, has started a new project and will be cooking for you very soon! Leventhal has been put in charge of the kitchen at Stopsky's, a new delicatesse ... 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 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 4, 2011
Greatest Hits And What You Missed: Top Chef, Bacon, Girl Scout Cookies and More Bacon
"We all understand that bacon is delicious. We've known that, almost literally, forever. But in recent years, the human love for bacon--our addiction to bacon (which can arguably be traced to its six types of umami, chain-lards, and un-copyable flavor, according to Arun Gupta), has gotten o ... 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 10, 2010
Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Chocolate, Liquor, Loafers and The Dangerous Misuse of Power Tools
"Not one to be held back by my lack of discretionary funds, I embarked on my own chocolate tour throughout Seattle - the "Poor Woman's Chocolate Indulgence Tour", if you will. Along with a photographer sidekick, Victoria Holt, I blazed a trail through the collection of chocolate shops surro ... 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 >>
Film
November 24, 2010
Kings of Pastry: Made With Real Butter
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 >>
Food
October 13, 2010
Voracious News & Notes: Cupcakes, Artisan BLTs, Hot Menu Trends, and Dick's
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
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
October 8, 2010
Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Burgers, Manners and Padma Lakshmi Naked
You know what I like? The fact that I have a job where posting (mostly) naked pictures of Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi is not just tolerated, but considered smart, forward-thinking and good business. Like see that one up there? That picture has nothing to do with nothing. I could claim that ... 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 13, 2010
The Videos: Rene Redzepi of Noma, and Some New Information on His Seattle Event
Rene Redzepi and his boys on awards day for NomaLate last week, I told you all about how Rene Redzepi, chef at Noma which was recently tagged as the best restaurant in the world, would be coming to Seattle on October 5, for a one-night-only event at Mistral Kitchen. I talked about how he's go ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2010
7 Celebrity Chefs That Women Love
Google Giada De Laurentiis; the first video result is titled "Jiggly Boobs." It's a three minute feature of the Food Network star's breasts bouncing up and down as she chops parsley. Groan. Women are slightly more selective when choosing their favorite celebrity chefs. (Repeat: slightly.) Here are t ... 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
June 28, 2010
Real Restaurants and Make Believe People: Favorite REAL Restaurants from Movies and TV
That blurry, shiny head? It's Stefan Richter from Top ChefSo last night, I'm watching the premier of Entourage on HBO. Which is to say, I had the premiere of Entourage playing on the TV while I was...I don't know. Eating a sandwich or reading a book or talking with my wife or something probab ... More >>
Arts
June 23, 2010
The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
That blurry, shiny head? It's Stefan Richter from Top ChefSo last night, I'm watching the premier of Entourage on HBO. Which is to say, I had the premiere of Entourage playing on the TV while I was...I don't know. Eating a sandwich or reading a book or talking with my wife or something probab ... More >>
Calendar
June 16, 2010
Aziz Ansari
That blurry, shiny head? It's Stefan Richter from Top ChefSo last night, I'm watching the premier of Entourage on HBO. Which is to say, I had the premiere of Entourage playing on the TV while I was...I don't know. Eating a sandwich or reading a book or talking with my wife or something probab ... 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 19, 2010
Handicapping the James Beard Awards: Part 2
Yesterday, I started off this handicapping project by discussing two of the really big categories of awards for which the James Beard Foundation just announced their list of semifinalists. Outstanding Restaurateur and Outstanding chef are two of the huge national awards given out each year. A ... 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
September 3, 2009
First Call: Branzino's Bartender Dispenses Irish Coffee and Pimps Out Her Coworkers
A weekly food-blog feature in which we walk into a bar unannounced and ask the bartender to make us his or her favorite drink. Locale: Branzino, 2429 Second Ave., 728-5181. BELLTOWN Bartender: Shawn Reilly Getting Seattleites drunk since: Oh god... forever. Probably before you were born ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2009
Food News: Completely Useless Edition
It's too hot to look for serious journalism: In the most relevant news story of the batch, former P-I reporter Andrew Schneider discovers local yak burgers in Elma, Wash. Someone may want to send this link on to the owner of Ed's Kort Haus. Good news for all of you who were worried that Top Chef w ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2009
Top Chef's Seattle Casting Call Set for Feb. 11
According to the press release from Magical Elves, the production company behind Top Chef, Seattle's open casting call for Season 6 contestants will be held next week:Wednesday, February 1110:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.Canlis Restaurant, 2576 Aurora Ave. N., 283-3313
Blogs
February 3, 2009
Start Practicing Your Knife Skills: Top Chef Coming to Town
Yesterday afternoon I got a call from Magical Elves, the company that produces Top Chef for Bravo. They're coming to Seattle in the coming week or two to hold an open casting call for the next season of Top Chef, but wanted to know if I had any suggestions for chefs they should contact. I tol ... More >>
Blogs
November 24, 2008
Why I Can't Watch Top Chef
Yeah, yeah, I know, Season 5 of Top Chef has started. Once again, most of the food blogs are tracking the season, people I know are organizing viewing parties, and a guy can't settle into a blissful hour on the couch with Tim Gunn's Guide to Style without seeing Padma Lakshmi's face, over and over a ... More >>
Blogs
October 25, 2008
Did Someone Say Cheese?
Yeah, yeah, I know, Season 5 of Top Chef has started. Once again, most of the food blogs are tracking the season, people I know are organizing viewing parties, and a guy can't settle into a blissful hour on the couch with Tim Gunn's Guide to Style without seeing Padma Lakshmi's face, over and over a ... More >>
Food
September 10, 2008
Spur Is Trying Awfully Hard
Which is why it’s great.
Blogs
March 12, 2008
Top Chef Starts Tonight
Which is why it’s great.
Diversions
October 17, 2007
This Week’s Horoscope
Which is why it’s great.
Blogs
January 31, 2007
Top Chef Ends, With Much Kibbitzing
Which is why it’s great.

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