Casey Thompson: Life After 'Top Chef'

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Posted by Adam Kuban, April 29, 2008 at 3:30 PM

What's Casey Thompson from last season's Top Chef up to? Slashfood has an interview with the executive chef at Shinsei in Dallas, who shares snippets from her post-restoreality life.

What magazines do you look at? Do you ever read blogs or content on the web?
I don't read blogs. I actually read Food Arts Magazine. I'm constantly reading Santé—about food and wine—I read Food and Wine, Gourmet, I'm always picking up Asian Restaurant News, where you read about how to make Peking duck—it's a lot about technique and also written in Japanese. It's really cool. Online, if anything, I read, not bloggers, but people who have created food websites where they share experiences, like pictures from the latest restaurants they've been to. It is like they are going around dining for me, and I get to see what's going on. I also talk to chefs, share ideas, do test kitchens, look at new products.

What's the difference between "blogs" and "people who have created food websites where they share experiences, like pictures from the latest restaurants they've been to"?

6 Comments | Tags: Casey Thompson, Top Chef, Top Chef Miami, TV

6 Comments:

Yeah, isn't that a definition of a food blog?

Carosone at 4:01PM on 04/29/08

Totally.

renzata at 4:05PM on 04/29/08

I think the difference of the two can be the contrast of these two links:

http://donnacooks.wordpress.com/

http://www.dallasfood.org/index.php

kind of. well, sort of. maybe.

adkim at 4:33PM on 04/29/08

Am I the only one who's surprised that she reads cooking magazines written in Japanese?

sethgodin at 5:16PM on 04/29/08

Well, I imagine in her mind it's something like this:

A "blog" would criticize what a chef does, while "people who have created food websites where they share experiences, like pictures from the latest restaurants they've been to" would gush about how great a chef's food is.

Rather telling...

hyperfocal at 7:08PM on 04/29/08

Yea, unfortunately bloggers have a seriously poor rep amongst chefs. They think we're all evil idiots who know nothing about food and are just out to criticize. I faced this exact situation when I replied to a thread on eater about Mario Batali remarking that he dislikes bloggers. It sparked a pretty heated debate both on eater and on my blog! http://www.strumerika.com/2007/06/13/mario-batali-hates-on-food-blogs/
http://eater.com/archives/2007/06/why_i_hate_food.php

Strumerika at 7:30PM on 04/29/08

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