Profiles
‘Top Chef’ Season 5
Fellow chefs, barkeeps and ex-roommates give us the scoop on the new cheftestants
“Top Chef” fans are a pretty serious bunch. The minute one season’s winner is announced, the next batch of contestants are ready for some roasting. On the spit: “Top Chef” Season 5’s hopefuls, who mark the series’ return to New York after a brief detour to Chicago last season. (It debuts on Nov. 12.)
When taping on “Top Chef” Season 5 began in Brooklyn this past summer, the blogosphere was abuzz with chef IDs and speculation about who’d be the last cook standing. Yeah, Bravo’s own Web site give you some quick, sugary bios on the contestants. We did our own sleuthing—here’s what we dug up…
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'Top Chef' Season 4
We’ve got the dirt on this year’s crop of NYC contestants
The new season of “Top Chef” debuts on March 12, and this year a whopping seven of the 16 contestants hail from New York.
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At the Centro of the culinary universe
Centro Vinoteca’s Anne Burrell on breaking balls and breaking into the all-boys chefs’ club
Anne Burrell is nothing if not incredibly excited. After steadily advancing through New York’s culinary scene—working at Lidia Bastianich’s Felidia and Mario Batali’s Italian Wine Merchants, with a stint teaching at the Culinary Institute on the side—she’s now the executive chef at Centro Vinoteca in the West Village.
A sleek and inviting bi-level space, “chentro” as Burrell pronounces it, buzzes with activity whenever she works the open-facing kitchen…and so far, that’s always. She hasn’t had a day off in the three weeks since the restaurant opened.
Burrell is only too keenly aware that her enthusiasm and “super-positive attitude” permeate the food. “Food is like a dog,” she says. “It smells fear.” More…
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