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"How are you?! Happy Friday!" began the Bravo PR email we received this morning. It continued: "Bravo's Chef Academy student, Emmanuel Delcour, aka, Jean Valjean, is raising more than Cosette...if you get my drift! Before he became a Chef Academy student, Mr. Delcour had a prior career in the movies…the GROWN up movies!" Yeah, Bravo, we get it.  

Tom Colicchio, the head judge on Bravo's Top Chef (and a Food & Wine Best New Chef 1991 ), will be blogging every day this week about his road trip from Atlanta. Since we were planning to stay in DC for the night, Jose Andres encouraged us to have dinner at one of his restaurants. Although minibar at Café Atlantico is the talk of the town in Washington right now, I was in the mood for paella so we opted for Jose's bar and tapas joint, Jaleo.  

Schwan's Home Service is offering Top Chef--branded frozen meals. The idea that hard-core fans who study contestants' knife skills every week would choose to order from a giant company that's been delivering frozen food to rural America for 57 years doesn't surprise Harry Balzer, who tracks food trends for the market-research firm NPD Group. "You're going to eat four to five times today, and the one thing I know you're going to do is try to get someone else to prepare those meals," he says, noting that af

You're going to eat four to five times today, and the one thing I know you're going to do is try to get someone else to prepare those meals   -Harry Balzer

 

A bunch of BJ's shoppers, spending their Friday morning buying in bulk, were treated to a culinary surprise in the front of the massive store in College Point. Three New York based "Top Chef" Season 4 contestants, Manuel Trevino, Nikki Cascone and Season Finalist Lisa Fernandes, competed in a Quickfire Challenge, where they were given 30 minutes to complete a dish from a table of available ingredients ranging from precooked packaged chicken to fresh asparagus. The friendly competition, which mirrored  

There are a handful of components. First of all, you're tired and fatigued after being in Las Vegas on a six-week production. That day and the day before were really exhausting on top of it.  

After 11 years at the White House--including 35 and 40 state dinners--former White House Chef Walter Scheib intimately knows what goes into producing the grand event. "A state dinner is a lot more like a Broadway show than it really is a dinner," Scheib told Politico . "There's so many components...there's literally thousands of people from florists to maids to butlers to chefs to military aides to military colorguards."

A state dinner is a lot more like a Broadway show than it really is a dinner   -Walter Scheib

 

A cooking show featuring Chef Jayson Slusser from Raven's Glenn Winery is set for Monday beginning at 7 in the David Barber Civic Center in Newcomerstown. The show will feature the fine art of holiday cooking. Tickets are $5 and proceeds from the event will benefit the Newcomerstown Public Library.  

Wegmans Food Markets used its store on Monroe Avenue in Pittsford to debut its first full-service restaurant, Tastings, in 2002. Next month, Wegmans is closing Tastings and opening a standalone restaurant called the Next Door Bar & Grill, just across Monroe Avenue. "The décor, the atmosphere and the menu will be relaxed, comfortable and fun," Wegmans spokesperson Jo Natale said Friday.

The décor, the atmosphere and the menu will be relaxed, comfortable and fun   -Jo Natale

 

Today Heston Blumenthal announces the winner of a nationwide search for the culinary British innovator of the future set to transform the UK cooking experience. The top ten finalists from all over the UK presented their ideas in a 'Dragon's Den' style pitch to Heston and three other judges, all renowned for innovation in their chosen fields including Paul Pankhurst, Chair of British Design Innovation, Rosie Nagra and Wendy Miranda, Lakeland. The inventions were as diverse as 'rotating cake trays' to '  

Michigan State University senior Kristina Marks said she loves watching chefs cook food on TV shows such as "Top Chef" and "Cake Boss." On Thursday, the 21-year-old got to prepare food alongside professionals as part of the biannual Visiting Chef Series at the Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center. "It's really interesting to see what new dishes they make and how they put it together so quickly for a lot of people," Marks said. For this fall's program, "Taste of Michigan," all five chefs were from Michi