Before we discuss last night's finale, let's just take a moment and remember how we got here. When the show first began, just 100 odd years ago, William Howard Taft was president, the world…   Read Story »

Wait, I thought last week was going to be the finale. Admittedly, I wasn't here last week, so I was clearly PLAYING WITH FIRE! (That's a reasonable and not-overly-melodramatic way to describe being…   Read Story »

We are now down to the final five. Wait, seriously? There are still five? That feels like so many. Do you guys remember what life was like before this show? So peaceful and blissfully unaware. It was…   Read Story »

Last week's elimination of Dale has hit everyone pretty hard, I'm sure. Everyone sits around with their Serious Face on saying "that hit us/me pretty hard, I'm sure." So we are down to five…   Read Story »

First of all, let's please take a second and thank Becca's mom again for writing such a wonderful recap last week. Moms are the best! Even if she is not up for "the big prize" this season, she still…   Read Story »

Every week now, when this show begins, I feel like a patient waking up in a hospital bed after a traumatic head injury. HOW LONG HAVE I BEEN HERE? You look around the room with your eyes that shift…   Read Story »

We're not going to spend too much time on last night's episode. We can't. We just can't. As adult human beings, it would be a crime against OURSELVES to spend almost any time talking about last…   Read Story »

WAKE UP CHEFS, IT IS TIME TO GO TO LE BERNARDIN! Oh wait, first everyone has to fart around the house. Carla has girl power. Blais likes nutella. Antonia is the Black Hammer. ERRRRRRP. What?…   Read Story »

My good friend and fellow Top Chef recapper, Max Silvestri, just pointed out to me yesterday that last week's episode was officially titled "Dim Sum Lose Sum" and that this week's episode was…   Read Story »

There was no recap of the episode from two weeks ago because some of us, could have been any of us, really, were not around to watch it much less write about it. Did anything happen, or were they…   Read Story »