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'Top Chef Masters,' Ep. 5: Junk Food, a Big Dinner, a New Way of Looking at Panna Cotta

TeriN - Frasca is near Denver (is that close to you in the MidWest?). I had a fabulous meal there which beat everything I ate at Chiarello's old Napa restaurants.

These TCM competitions are a lot more about the chefs' personalities than about their food, which can vary from day to day and aren't particularly accessible on TV anyway.

claudette at 5:22PM on 07/16/09

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'Top Chef Masters,' Ep. 5: Junk Food, a Big Dinner, a New Way of Looking at Panna Cotta

TeriN - Frasca is near Denver (is that close to you in the MidWest?). I had a fabulous meal there which beat everything I ate at Chiarello's old Napa restaurants.

These TCM competitions are a lot more about the chefs' personalities than about their food, which can vary from day to day and aren't particularly accessible on TV anyway.

claudette at 5:22PM on 07/16/09

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'Top Chef Masters,' Ep. 5: Junk Food, a Big Dinner, a New Way of Looking at Panna Cotta

Top Chef and Food TV's Next FN Star let you "get to know the competitors," and for the most part I end up sad that I did. These are not people I want to know well. I think Bravo's on the right track-- focus on the food, not the people, and give them strange challenges because it's always interesting to see how "masters" act outside their normal routine. Also, it's fun to watch them go down in flames occasionally.

Re: guests-- Bravo is owned by NBC Universal, which is apparently in negotiations to buy Lifetime channel, or something like that (it gets complicated on that level). They're probably cross-promoting in case the deal works out.

sidebernie at 2:54PM on 07/20/09

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'Top Chef Masters,' Ep. 5: Junk Food, a Big Dinner, a New Way of Looking at Panna Cotta

also i heart nils.

kristin314 at 1:03PM on 07/20/09

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'Top Chef Masters,' Ep. 5: Junk Food, a Big Dinner, a New Way of Looking at Panna Cotta

top chef masters is way better than regular top chef, but i agree that the 20 minutes of judging is totally tedious. i dvr the episodes now and fast forward from the end of the meal to the final verdict.

i also agree with the commenter above that the show would be better if the producers primarily just let these chefs "do their thing," maybe have some simple restrictions or a theme - not have them doing ridiculous stunts. this was less stunty though than say, the dorm room episode.

kristin314 at 1:03PM on 07/20/09

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'Top Chef Masters,' Ep. 5: Junk Food, a Big Dinner, a New Way of Looking at Panna Cotta

I couldn't help thinking, if you're panna cotta has the jiggle of Kelly Choi's breasts you've got some pretty solid panna cotta.

Dish at 9:47PM on 07/18/09

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