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March 6, 2012
Safeway is looking for the next great chef...fast
Forget Top Chef. Safeway's Next Chef Competition is looking for local talent, and there's not a moment to waste, since the deadline is March 7. So fire up your skillet (yes, that's an intrinsic part of the project) as you read the contest announcement:
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February 24, 2012
Reader: Where's the creativity on Top Chef?
The Top Chef crew came to Denver this week, auditioning chefs for the tenth season of the Bravo show. "We've had auditions before in Denver, but never a proper casting call, and it was time to see what the city's chefs really had to offer," Hunter Braun, Top Chef's senior casting producer, told Lori ... More >>
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February 22, 2012
Top toques from across Colorado audition for Top Chef
Lori MidsonClint Wangsnes (Zengo); Hunter Pritchett (Luca d'Italia); Stephen McCary (Mizuna); Marty Steinke (Linger) and Theo Adley (The Pinyon) showed up at Linger today to audition for Top Chef.Some were still scribbling answers to the questions on the 25-page application, which asked, amon ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
What’s Cooking?
Lori MidsonClint Wangsnes (Zengo); Hunter Pritchett (Luca d'Italia); Stephen McCary (Mizuna); Marty Steinke (Linger) and Theo Adley (The Pinyon) showed up at Linger today to audition for Top Chef.Some were still scribbling answers to the questions on the 25-page application, which asked, amon ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
Have a Ball!
Lori MidsonClint Wangsnes (Zengo); Hunter Pritchett (Luca d'Italia); Stephen McCary (Mizuna); Marty Steinke (Linger) and Theo Adley (The Pinyon) showed up at Linger today to audition for Top Chef.Some were still scribbling answers to the questions on the 25-page application, which asked, amon ... More >>
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September 16, 2011
Win two seats to ChoLon's craft beer dinner with Top Chef Stephanie Izard and Alex Seidel
Girl and the GoatSeason 4 Top Chef Stephanie Izard It's been a good year for Lon Symensma, the chef/owner of ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro, the leading-edge Asian restaurant that he opened downtown last October.
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September 13, 2011
HUSH's upcoming pop-up dinners will spotlight dishes and cocktails from Hosea Rosenberg and James Lee's forthcoming restaurant
Lori MidsonJames Lee, a bartender at Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, is teaming up with Top Chef winner Hosea Rosenberg to open a new restaurant -- but first, they'll spotlight their drinks and dishes at a HUSH event at mise en place. For the past several months, Phil Armstrong, Denver's princ ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
Reader: Nadia G. of the Bitchin' Kitchen is the most annoying woman on TV
Lori MidsonAndy Martinez, the exec chef of Citron New World Bistro, isn't a fan of the Bitchin' Kitchen. In fact, for his recent Chef and Tell interview, he offered this in answer to the question of which celebrity chef should shut up: The chick on the Cooking Channel's Bitchin' Kitchen. She ... More >>
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June 22, 2011
Mark Monette, executive chef of the Flagstaff House, on the woman who asked for raw elk and his disdain for duck tongues
Mark Monette Flagstaff House 1138 Flagstaff Drive, Boulder 303-442-4640 www.flagstaffhouse.com This is part one of my interview with Mark Monette, executive chef of the Flagstaff House. Part two of my chat with Monette will run in this space tomorrow. While Boulder today is renowned for ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
Alice's Howie Drummond is the first contestant off The Next Food Network Star
Food NetworkHowie Drummond, an Alice 105.9 personality, was one of fifteen contestants to start off season seven of The Next Food Network Star last Sunday. Drummond, who lives in Highlands Ranch, had experience in professional kitchens, had owned his own now-closed tapas place, and had plenty ... More >>
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May 5, 2011
Bravo's Top Chef will take its tour to Larimer Square on Saturday
Top Chef contestant -- and Vail restaurant owner -- Kelly Liken will be part of Bravo's Top Chef tour on Saturday in Larimer SquareBecause, you know, we don't already have enough eatertainment in Denver this weekend to satiate our hunger pains, what with The Great Food Truck Race motoring in ... More >>
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April 1, 2011
Biker Jim's elk sausage is Susan Feniger's "Best Thing" she ever ate
Lori MidsonAccording to celeb chef Susan Feniger, Biker Jim's elk dog is one of those things that you must eat before you die.Four years ago, Susan Feniger, Food Network personality, star chef, restaurateur, a leading authority on Latin cuisine and proponent of street food, was in Denver bum ... More >>
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February 22, 2011
Boulder's Jimmy & Drew's 28th Street Deli on the Food Network
http://www.jimmyanddrews.net/Come to me. Ask a Jew about his or her main dream in life. Some look for spiritual enlightenment, others just crave happiness. Most mothers want their children to finish their law or doctoral degrees. But a few of us Chosen have set our sights on the Jimmy's Fa ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Top Chef All-Stars, round one: Back for more
Fabio Viviani is back -- bringing his sex appeal with him.Top Chef All-Stars back contestants from past seasons -- most of them finalists -- and promises to be quite a bit meatier than the regular Top Chef. For one thing, we don't have to spend the first few episodes figuring out who's who. ... More >>
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October 28, 2010
Diners, Drive-ins and Dives filming at Sam's No. 3 on Sunday (and allegedly, a whole lot of other joints)
Just got word that a production crew from Diners, Drive-ins and Dives has touched down in Denver, and for the next week, they'll be lugging their camera equipment all over the Mile High City and Boulder amassing footage for a future episode of the popular Food Network show hosted by Guy Fier ... More >>
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September 29, 2010
Kelly Liken didn't win Top Chef DC, but she's at the top of her game
This is part one of Juliet Wittman's interview with Kelly Liken of Restaurant Kelly Liken. Part two will run tomorrow. Kelly Liken Restaurant Kelly Liken 12 Vail Road, Vail 970-479-0175 One of Kelly Liken's finest moments on Top Chef D.C. came when the contestants were challenged to make ... More >>
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September 23, 2010
Top Chef Just Desserts: Nice guys don't finish first
Tim Nugent was sweet, but got the boot.Dessert's a funny thing in fancy restaurants these days. No more slices of cherry tart, chocolate cake or apple strudel unless they're miniatures, deconstructed, flavored with something incongruous like curry, set on curlicues of sauce you have to sample ... More >>
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September 16, 2010
Top Chef DC, round 14: Kevin wins!
Kevin Sbraga (center) won the seventh round of Top Chef ."Kevin, you are Top Chef," Padma announced, and a stunned Kevin responded, "I am?" I was happy with the outcome of this seventh season of Top Chef -- but I would have been equally pleased had Angelo won. He irritates a lot of viewe ... More >>
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August 30, 2010
Top Chef takes the cake at Emmy awards
A lot of my irritation with Top Chef DC is the rage of a spurned lover. I've been watching, mesmerized, since the beginning of the show, but this season the gimmicks seem cheesier, the judges smugger, the contestants less interesting -- and the food just a secondary player. In context, thou ... More >>
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August 26, 2010
Chef Eliza Gavin takes top chef honors at the World Wine Tasting & Telluride Top Chef Competition Fundraiser
Eliza Gavin does her thang.Top Chef does Telluride? Well, sort of. It was more like Iron Chef than Top Chef during last week's culinary competition pitting a clutch of Telluride chefs against one another during the "World Wine Tasting & Telluride Top Chef Competition Fundraiser."
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August 13, 2010
The Next Food Network Star is holding a Denver casting call
Are you the Food Network's next star? The Next Food Network Star, the culinary reality series that will wrap up its current season on Sunday, is holding an open casting call in Denver for the first time. "We are looking for people who are full of personality, passionate about cooking and know ... More >>
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August 10, 2010
Colt & Gray featured on Food Network's The Best Thing I Ever Ate
The menu at Colt & Gray, Nelson Perkins's restaurant at 1553 Platte Street, includes baked sticky toffee pudding, a rich, decadent and dense cakey base smothered in nut-studded toffee sauce and topped with vanilla ice cream. And it counts Food Network host and chef Claire Robinson among its ... More >>
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August 9, 2010
Denver Roller Dolls, local cake designer skate onto the Food Network Challenge
Bill RossThe Roller Dolls face off. Roller derby can be a bit naughty -- what with the tight uniforms, tongue-in-cheek nicknames and racy logos. Maybe that's why the Food Network decided to forgo using the Denver Roller Dolls' A-team, the Mile High Club, as inspiration for cake designers task ... More >>
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July 29, 2010
Top Chef D.C., round seven: peas and thank you
Salmon in the disputed pea puree.The challenges on Top Chef this week had a little more to do with food, and less with gimmickry. For the Quickfire, the chefs were to create a scrumptious morsel on a toothpick because, as guest judge Aaron Schock, a very young Republican Congressman from Illi ... More >>
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July 15, 2010
Top Chef D.C., round five: Kenny curries favor in Elimination Challenge
Kenny Gilbert's curried eggplant.Last night, Kenny Gilbert finally won the big one -- the Elimination Challenge -- and the look of relief on his face was palpable. He's been an obvious contender from the beginning on this season of Top Chef, but various glitches kept him from what he obviousl ... More >>
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June 25, 2010
Today: Chef Jehangir Mehta brings healthy food and kids together
Chef Jehangir Mehta puts fun in food for kids.No one has to tell a parent how difficult it is to get kids to eat anything that's not complete crap, McDonald's this and Doritos that. But celebrity chef Jehangir Mehta -- the runner-up on Food Network's The Next Iron Chef -- is trying to change ... More >>
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June 24, 2010
Tough Art
Chef Jehangir Mehta puts fun in food for kids.No one has to tell a parent how difficult it is to get kids to eat anything that's not complete crap, McDonald's this and Doritos that. But celebrity chef Jehangir Mehta -- the runner-up on Food Network's The Next Iron Chef -- is trying to change ... More >>
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June 23, 2010
Tonight: Taste the South at Jax and Interstate
Hosea Rosenberg heads back to home base. Each month, Jax Fish House, 928 Pearl Street in Boulder, has been welcoming back Top Chef winner Hosea Rosenberg for the aptly named Hosea Rosenberg Monthly Dinner Series. June's theme: "New Found Love for New Orleans." Dinner starts at 6 p.m. tonight ... More >>
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June 17, 2010
Top Chef contestant and Coloradan Kenny Gilbert could go all the way
Kenny Gilbert has gone from Telluride to D.C. The first episode of Top Chef D.C. aired last night, and like every other food obsessive I know, I was glued to the set. Now in its seventh season, at this point the show is pretty much pure formula -- Quickfire Challenge, chefs' race through Whol ... More >>
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June 3, 2010
Hosea Rosenberg's Streat Chefs aims to take mobile global
The Airstream trailer that will hawk Top Chef Season 5 winner Hosea Rosenberg's tricked-out street food has yet to hit the road, but his business partner, Laura Rice, already has bigger plans. Think global, eat mobile, urges the Streat Chefs website.
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May 14, 2010
New season of Top Chef includes two Colorado mountain cookers, Kelly Liken and Kenny Gilbert, but no Denver or Boulder chefs
Top Chef, the often unrealistic reality show that made Hosea Rosenberg, exec chef of Jax-Boulder, a hometown hero when he emerged the conquistador two seasons ago, just released its listage of contestants for season 7, which will be filmed in Washington DC and premier on June 16 on Bravo. ... More >>
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April 22, 2010
Anthony Bourdain may travel the world, but he's no culinary guide
Top Chef, the often unrealistic reality show that made Hosea Rosenberg, exec chef of Jax-Boulder, a hometown hero when he emerged the conquistador two seasons ago, just released its listage of contestants for season 7, which will be filmed in Washington DC and premier on June 16 on Bravo. ... More >>
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April 13, 2010
D Bar Desserts owner and Food Network Challenge host Keegan Gerhard switches roles
D Bar's Keegan GerhardEarlier today, when I got Keegan Gerhard, owner of D Bar Desserts and host of Food Network Challenge, on the horn, he was driving through a jungle in Puerto Rico on his way to Saborea, Puerto Rico's annual culinary extravaganza. He was there with several other Food Netw ... More >>
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March 25, 2010
The Big Boss
D Bar's Keegan GerhardEarlier today, when I got Keegan Gerhard, owner of D Bar Desserts and host of Food Network Challenge, on the horn, he was driving through a jungle in Puerto Rico on his way to Saborea, Puerto Rico's annual culinary extravaganza. He was there with several other Food Netw ... More >>
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January 15, 2010
Busted: Food Network cops to filming fake White House veggies
It was a highly anticipated episode: Mario, Bobby, Emeril, and the White House executive chef, Cristeta Cornerford would all be there. The secret ingredient? Any vegetable from the White House vegetable garden. And the 7.6 million viewers that tuned in to Iron Chef America on January 3 also ... More >>
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December 14, 2009
You know things are jacked up when Guy Fieri hits the NYT best-seller list
Whether or not this is a shockingly discouraging testament to the page turners of America or Guy Fieri threatening to jam his back-ass headwords sunglasses down the throats of anyone who doesn't purchase his books, it's still a fact: Guy Fieri, who just dove into Denver with his "Culinary Roa ... More >>
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December 3, 2009
Guy Fieri Dives Into Denver
Whether or not this is a shockingly discouraging testament to the page turners of America or Guy Fieri threatening to jam his back-ass headwords sunglasses down the throats of anyone who doesn't purchase his books, it's still a fact: Guy Fieri, who just dove into Denver with his "Culinary Roa ... More >>
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November 6, 2009
How does Michelle Obama's garden grow? Find out on Iron Chef America
Photo: Courtesy of Getty ImagesFirst, Michelle Obama caught the attention of carrot stalkers when she corralled a group of Washington, D.C., schoolkids to help her garden grow on the White House's South Lawn; she also pimped her garden on Sesame Street. Then Spike Mendelsohn, burger wizard, forme ... More >>
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June 25, 2009
What's Cooking?
These chefs aren’t kidding around when they go to bat for kids.
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June 22, 2009
Highlights and lowlights from the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen
Lori MidsonTop Chef winner Hosea Rosenberg and knifed cheftestant Fabio Viviani By the time the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen ended yesterday afternoon, I'd already seen a whole posse of amateurs puke; another man suffer a seizure just after chef Michael Symor ended a fantastic cooking demo devoted ... More >>
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March 3, 2009
A few words with Top Chef Hosea Rosenberg
Top Chef Hosea Rosenberg is officially a very busy man. We all saw Rosenberg, the chef of Jax in Boulder, come out on top on Top Chef last week, and he's been on the talk-show circuit ever since. I tried to get into the West End Tavern for the final-episode party, but it was jammed. So instead, I de ... More >>
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December 23, 2008
Note to Top Chef: Stop sucking
It's been three weeks since I wrote a word about this season's Top Chef on Bravo. Know why? Because it has been so boring and so contrived and so stupid that the episodes themselves were painful to watch -- making me less than excited about the notion of then rehashing them here. There w ... More >>
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October 28, 2008
Beef: It's what's not for dinner when Dan Landes is in the 'Dinner Impossible' kitchen
It's been three weeks since I wrote a word about this season's Top Chef on Bravo. Know why? Because it has been so boring and so contrived and so stupid that the episodes themselves were painful to watch -- making me less than excited about the notion of then rehashing them here. There w ... More >>
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July 1, 2008
Rachael Ray Invents Colorado’s Official Food
It's been three weeks since I wrote a word about this season's Top Chef on Bravo. Know why? Because it has been so boring and so contrived and so stupid that the episodes themselves were painful to watch -- making me less than excited about the notion of then rehashing them here. There w ... More >>
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June 2, 2008
Ray Loves Terrorists, Wants To Make Them Pie
It's been three weeks since I wrote a word about this season's Top Chef on Bravo. Know why? Because it has been so boring and so contrived and so stupid that the episodes themselves were painful to watch -- making me less than excited about the notion of then rehashing them here. There w ... More >>
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April 17, 2008
Must See TV
It's been three weeks since I wrote a word about this season's Top Chef on Bravo. Know why? Because it has been so boring and so contrived and so stupid that the episodes themselves were painful to watch -- making me less than excited about the notion of then rehashing them here. There w ... More >>
Blogs
April 17, 2008
Must See TV
It's been three weeks since I wrote a word about this season's Top Chef on Bravo. Know why? Because it has been so boring and so contrived and so stupid that the episodes themselves were painful to watch -- making me less than excited about the notion of then rehashing them here. There w ... More >>
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April 17, 2003
Tough Toque
Cooks sharpen their knives, and tongues, to prepare for Battle of the Chefs.
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