Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Unclean Sweetbreads and Kristen’s Baroque Euro-Esoterica
"Hugh enters the kitchen doing his best Michael Ian Black imitation."
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Top Chef Seattle Recap: Spiritual Rice Washing and Fatherhood
"I try to transfer all of the ancestors and all of the spirits and all of the energies that surround my whole existence and put that into every single kernel of rice as we wash it."
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Naked Sushi and Human Centipede Chicken
"Our gang walks into the kitchen and sees a bunch of fish and sea creatures lying on a bed of ice. Is it a mafia-style warning?"
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Mojo Sauce and Thai-German Fusion Lollipops
This, week, the gang encounters Wolfgang Puck, and their worst fears.
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Healthy Food and Sexy Knives
"The winning dish will, in turn, inspire a new Healthy Choice 'Café Steamer,' which sounds like a sex act from a French frat house. "
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Personal Branding and Geopolitical Humblebrags
The teams must prepare their dishes before the Space Needle completes a full rotation. It’s like something out of Dr. No.
Top Chef Seattle Recap: And We’re Off!
Top Chef continues to represent an upper-middlebrow trashy sensibility that purees accessibility, celebrity, and actual talent in a back-stabbery broth of semi-sophistication.
Top Chef Masters Recap: When Teens Take Over
Someone got kicked off last night, and chances are you're pretty happy about it!
Top Chef Masters Recap: An Unforgivable Elimination
You'll never believe who made it through to next week's finale.
Top Chef Masters Recap: The Gloves Come Off
With five cheftestants remaining, the competition heads to the boxing ring.
Top Chef Masters Recap: The Art of Losing
The chefs cook for Dita von Teese and a legend of Thai cuisine.
Top Chef Masters Recap: Canapés and Creeps
This week we're treated to tuna bacon, James doing push-ups, and Art in a Speedo.
Top Chef Masters Recap: Take Me to Tokyo
There's nothing like a bit of Japanese cooking to bring out the worst in almost everyone.
Top Chef Masters Recap: Bake Me a Cake As Fast As You Can
Art and Chris jump right back into the role of bickering couple, turning prep time into a therapy session.
Top Chef Masters Premiere Recap: The First Cut Is the Deepest
Curtis's hair has lost its former spiky exuberance and looks flatter, more somber and mature, perhaps the first sign we can take this season seriously.
Around the World in 80 Plates Recap: David Rees on the Finale
"The chefs toast their amazing journey and that’s that: 'Around the World in 80 Plates' concludes its first and only season. Yeah, I’m calling it."
Around the World in 80 Plates Recap: David Rees on Empanadas and the Antichrist
"Did you know there’s a very particular way one should attach a goat carcass to an iron cross before cooking it by an open fire? I didn’t — maybe because I’m not an Argentinian Satan-worshipper?"
Around the World in 80 Plates Recap: David Rees on Dim Sum and Demon Chefs
"I can feel them judging me as I grind more pizza into my snark-hole while wearing my second-cleanest pair of pleated khaki shorts."