Could be the best season yet!

Stefan seems to be the one to beat in the new season of Top Chef. Winning both the Quickfire (peeling apples) way ahead of the pack (at least according to the editing) and the elimination challenge (even though he had immunity to begin with) was a coop. You try his winning recipe for Lamb Chops with Tabouli, Beef Skewer, Hommous and Youghurt at home. Both Europeans are going to be formidable, but my money is on Gene who pulled Indian out of his a@#. He's self taught which makes him even more genius in my book. As for the two who were eliminated...


really - you made salad for the first bite of food that Tom Colicchio (check out his blog) is going to taste of your food? Interestingly they were classmates at CIA in Hyde Park, NY. When I saw that they had both been eliminated and they were friends, I thought that they had gone to some second rate school. Apparently they don't teach imagination at CIA. Tom actually gives Patrick a bit more credit saying that his technique is right, but that a student just doesn't have enough experience to compete in Top Chef. That, I would agree with.