TV or not TV? That's no question for these chefs

Chef Hosea Rosenberg Bright knives, big city. The fifth season of Bravo's Top Chef premieres tonight at 8 p.m. MST when seventeen chefs compete in Top Chef: New York. The lineup includes Melissa Harrison, sous chef at Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace in Boulder, and Hosea Rosenberg, exec chef...

By Patricia Calhoun

November 12, 2008

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Chef Hosea Rosenberg

Bright knives, big city. The fifth season of Bravo's Top Chef premieres tonight at 8 p.m. MST when seventeen chefs compete in Top Chef: New York. The lineup includes Melissa Harrison, sous chef at Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace in Boulder, and Hosea Rosenberg, exec chef at Jax Fish House in Boulder -- a particularly juicy competition, since both work for the same restaurant group: Big Red, whose other restaurants include Lola, West End Tavern, Zolo and Jax in Denver. They're fighting for a $100,000 prize: seed money to help open a restaurant, as well as a showcase at the annual Food & Wine Classic in Aspen and the title of "top chef."

Warm up for this face-off by turning your TV to the Food Network at 5 p.m., for a repeat of the Food Network Challenge: Italian Family Feast . The victor? Frank Bonnano, chef/owner at Mizuna, Luca D'Italia, Osteria Marco and, soon, Bones.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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