Your Questions About Top Chef

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Cnn says that it was Ilan Hall

Eater LA, a Web log devoted to Los Angeles’ restaurant and nightlife scene, said that for about 15 minutes a Food & Wine story identifying Hall as the reality-show winner appeared on the magazine’s Web site on Monday afternoon. Eater LA quickly trumpeted it.

Eater LA also noticed last week that Hall had quit his job at the restaurant Casamono in New York and was playing a song that talked about “money in the bank” on his MySpace.com page. The winner of “Top Chef” gets $100,000

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I NEVER heard of Top Chef Masters, will this be on Bravo too? I LOVE Top Chef, they compete against each other to win a cash prize, kitchen equipment & a chance to be at a famous cooking show or whatever. I LOVE restaurant wars! I enjoy all the episodes, even though I don’t eat those kinds of foods generally & I don’t understand cooking terminology sometimes, I’m not a chef, but I LOVE to watch them do their thing & see what they come up with, I LOVE the quickfire challenge too…I LOVED the NY Season & also when they were in Chicago, I LOVED the opening of the firsat episode, when they went to the pizza parlor, that was cool! And I LOVED the Season finale that they were in Puerto Rico, I’m Puerto Rican & enjoyed seeing them in Puerto Rico, dancing & roasting a pig…I LOVED watching them try to re-create Puerto Rican cooking!

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Now that you mention it they are really breakin bad this season with the critiques !
And we’re only a couple of shows in for crap sakes they usually save the hard core stuff for the latter part of the season when they have thinned the herd so to speak and have the best of the best remaining.
This year they seem to be getting harsh on the newbies right from the get go.

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I learned how to make the seafood sausage from the Chino-Latino influenced chef. While I made it out of skepticism I have to say I’ve found a new homerun in the kitchen. It’s really not that difficult just a bit time consuming and not even so much for that. The blend of spice really livens up the seafood and brings out the subtle flavors you might not notice otherwise.

I also tried making the vanilla lobster and the date wrapped in panchetta. That didn’t turn out very well but I do believe with a small amount of tweaking in the amount of vanilla you could do incredibly well with it.

The watermelon shooters from the one quickfire challenge are also incredibly delicious and perfect for summer get togethers. Highly recommended.