... is the return of a new season of Top Chef. This is a movable feast - Season Four takes place in Chicago, with sixteen "cheftestants" whittled-down week-by-week as they compete to out-flavor, out-cook and out-do one another. The winning chef receives $100,000 in seed money to help open a restaurant, a feature in Food & Wine magazine, a showcase at the Annual Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, a gourmet dream vacation in the French Alps, and the title of "Top Chef" ... at least for this year.
I'm no great fan of the 'reality TV' genre, but this is one of the exceptions. The kiddos like it, too, and we were all glad to see Nimma get the heave-ho in Week 1 ... she was such a whiner!
For us, the high point of the first week was the Quickfire Challenge for each contestant to create a signature deep-dish pizza (this IS Chicago, after all). So some contestants talked about their Chi-Town connection, while others stressed their New York roots, or their Italian heritage ..... then, the two winners turned out to be contestants as far removed from pizza havens as you could imagine - Richard from Atlanta, Georgia (though he IS a NY native); and Mark from Invercargill, New Zealand (who has since moved to NY).
Sadly, the show also promises to have some other, unofficial contests ... like who can be the biggest character (my vote is for Erik at this early stage), and who can get more words bleeped-out in a single episode (with the early edge in this one going to Andrew).
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