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I love 'Top Chef.'
Monica Raymund / Actress
Chef
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I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'.
Kate Winslet / Actress
Chef
Obsessed
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I am so proud of 'Top Chef' - I think it's got great cred.
Andy Cohen / Host
Chef
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Thinking
Great I Am Proud
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I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.
Andy Cohen / Host
Book
Chef
Thinking
Tvs
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You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?
Haley Bennett / Film Actress
Chef
Hospitality
Someday
Me Know See
Midwestern
Outlet
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I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go.
Andy Cohen / Host
Chef
Emmys
Only Time
Won
Nominated
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During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
Padma Lakshmi / Author
Chef
Dresses
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Two
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I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.
Joe Jonas / Singer
Dream
Chef
Judging
Last Year
Years
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Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you're a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.
Wolfgang Puck / Chef
Chef
Thinking
Want
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Bringing your kids into the kitchen doesn't require you to be a top chef; only time and maybe a willingness to get a little messy.
Michael Mina / Chef
Chef
Messy
Only Time
Willingness
Little
Bringing
Maybe
Require
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I watch a lot of shows on Bravo - I'm not just saying that. I love 'Top Chef.' I love 'Real Housewives of Atlanta.' That's my favorite.
Chris March /
Atlanta
Bravo
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I love 'Gossip Girl.' I used to hang out with Blake Lively and Jessica Szohr. I'm also addicted to Bravo and reality shows like 'Top Chef.'
Jessica Stroup / Actress
Blake
Bravo
Chef
Gossip
Gossip Girl
Jessica
Lively
Reality Shows
Hang
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'Top Chef' is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.
Toby Young / Journalist
Chef
Incredibly
Professional
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Shows like 'Top Chef,' 'Hell's Kitchen' have helped bring attention to the culinary world on a whole, but you have to be cautious it doesn't get out of hand.
Geoffrey Zakarian / Chef
Cautious
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Culinary
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I'd like to see 'Top Chef: Amateur'. Sometimes we have an amateur chef on the show and they just can't cut it against the pros but there are some great stories there.
Tom Colicchio / Chef
Chef
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Stories
Amateur
Cut
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Pros
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Food is entertainment now. People tune into 'Top Chef,' and they're not trying to replicate the recipes. Anthony Bourdain is entertainment. Instagramming your dishes is entertainment.
David Sax /
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Dishes
Entertainment
Recipes
Replicate
Food Chef People
Food Your People
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My chefs don't apply for 'Top Chef'. They all know that there is no way. At the end of the process I look at the resumes of the last 25 options just to make sure they've never worked for me before.
Tom Colicchio / Chef
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Apply
Chefs
Options
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I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.
Padma Lakshmi / Author
Home
Chef
Contestants
Empathy
Finish Line
Lines
Finish
Go Home
Right Away
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I spend so much time in Los Angeles and normally stay at a corporate apartment when shooting 'Top Chef: Just Desserts,' but when I have the chance to stay somewhere more luxurious, I love The Montage in Beverly Hills.
Gail Simmons / Television Personality
Apartment
Beverly Hills
Chef
Corporate
Hills
Los Angeles
Luxurious
Shooting
Angeles
Love Time Chance
Beverly
Desserts
Los
Normally
So Much Time
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I swear, I didn't really go in thinking, 'I'll be the Simon Cowell' of 'Top Chef.' I was just used to being a judge on British food shows where people are much more outspoken and rather rude. That's the culture over here.
Toby Young / Journalist
British
Chef
Outspoken
Rude
Swear
Judge
Simon
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We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and talk about food. The wild things happen when we aren't around. I expected Top Chef to last three or four seasons and we are now shooting season ten.
Tom Colicchio / Chef
Chef
Seasons
Shooting
Ten
Things Happen
Wild
Privy
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I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body.
Padma Lakshmi / Author
Camouflage
Chef
Cooking
Eight
Eye
Seasons
Draw
Preferable
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There's the common misconception that restaurants make a lot of money. It's not true. If you look at maybe the top chef in the world, or at least monetarily, it's like Wolfgang Puck, but he makes as much money as an average crappy investment banker.
David Chang / Chef
Average
Chef
Common
Investment
Misconception
Puck
Restaurants
As Much Money
Banker
Crappy
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Maybe
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You can't really class all reality shows together. For instance, 'Top Chef' is about talent and competition. 'Big Brother' is more like what happens when you get all those narcissistic personalities crammed in together... and there are limits to that.
Sienna Guillory / Film Actress
Chef
Instance
Reality Shows
Big Brother
Crammed
Personalities
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Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.
Padma Lakshmi / Author
Jobs
Chef
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Giving
Contestant
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Extension
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I haven't fully moved over to the iPad. At any given time, I have about four DVDs in my pocket. I'm constantly screening 'Top Chef,' 'Housewives,' and all the other shows we have in development, racing to meet a deadline. So I pretty much bring my laptop everywhere.
Andy Cohen / Host
Chef
Deadline
Dvds
Ipads
Racing
Screening
Any Given Time
Fully
Housewives
Ipad
Laptop
Pocket
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Making ribs in Texas isn't that unusual a choice for 'Top Chef'. We played the stereotypes everywhere we go. It's not only in Texas. We do it in New York; we did it in San Francisco. Listen if we shoot it in Seattle you know we're going to be throwing salmon somewhere.
Tom Colicchio / Chef
Chef
Ribs
Salmon
San Francisco
Seattle
Texas
Throwing
Unusual
Francisco
Shoot
Stereotypes
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When you have a chef that wants to be in the spotlight, maybe after one or two appearances on a show, they think they're at a certain level that they haven't reached yet in the kitchen. Shows like 'Top Chef', 'Hell's Kitchen' have helped bring attention to the culinary world.
Geoffrey Zakarian / Chef
Chef
Culinary
Kitchen
Spotlight
Thinking
Two
Appearances
Certain Level
Helped
One Or Two
Reached
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Many of them have accomplished a lot before they ever get to 'Top Chef' although they're not well known. The show just provides them with a platform. There's just one winner and on some seasons you can get numerous chefs that are really good. Even if they don't win, they're all talented.
Tom Colicchio / Chef
Accomplished
Chef
Just One
Seasons
Well Known
Winner
Winning
Although
Show
Chefs
Talented
Numerous
Platform
Provides
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It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.'
Curtis Stone / Chef
Inspiring
Add
Chef
Flip
Food Industry
Glamour
Qualifications
Television
Television Shows
Work Food Great
Compete
Unfortunately
Invitation
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'Top Chef' is always entertaining - it's hard to stop watching, like a good hockey fight, but no one gets hurt. It's great that the format is so inherently dramatic and can make cooking so entertaining to people who might not ordinarily be interested in a cooking show. Good for the industry all round.
Wylie Dufresne / Chef
Chef
Cooking
Dramatic
Entertaining
Format
Hockey
Good Great Chef
Cooking Show
Round
Inherently
Ordinarily
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People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.'
Colin Hay / Musician
Boring
Changed
Chef
Runway
Shelter
Extreme
Began
Clothing
Edition
Project
Makeover
Obviously
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I've been fascinated by the world ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bourdain. I've watched 'Top Chef' and watched interviews with chefs on 'Charlie Rose'... I thought they're really intriguing characters, and they really encapsulate that tension between vision and commerce, art and commerce.
Jon Favreau /
Charlie
Chef
Commerce
Confidential
Fascinated
Interviews
Intriguing
Tension
Watched
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It's very different doing a food show in America and doing one in Britain. I did a 20-part series for the BBC series called 'Eating With the Enemy.' The budget for all 20 episodes was probably the budget for a single episode of 'Top Chef.' It's the difference between making a home movie in your backyard and going to Hollywood.
Toby Young / Journalist
Home
America
Britain
Chef
Differences
Eating
Series
Home Food Your
Backyard
Bbc
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Episode
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You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I'm not in them anymore, all I do is TV.
Tom Colicchio / Chef
Chef
Cooks
Restaurants
Age Me People
Assume
Certain Age
Double-Edged
Double-Edged Sword
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