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TV Alert: "Top Chef" takes a bite out of the Big AppleFoodies and lesbophiles unite. Top Chef returns tonight with out lesbian chef Jamie Lauren among the 17 contestants competing for culinary supremacy.
The fifth season of the hit Bravo reality series has the cheftestants packing their knives and heading to New York City. Chefbian Jamie is the executive chef at San Francisco's Absinthe Brasserie & Bar. According to her Bravo profile, the 31-year-old New York native has a thing for tattoos, Madonna, Indian food and — I'm not making this up — onions. And if the shots in Jamie's Top Chef photo diary are any indication, we're in for a fun season.
This season’s total of 17 cheftestants is the most ever. The field includes eight female chefs. They include Baltimore chef Jill, Boulder, Colo., chef Melissa, Georgia-stationed chef Lauren, D.C. chef Carla, New Jersey chef Ariane, New York chef Leah and Chicago chef Radhika. Jill, Melissa and Lauren Carla, Ariane, Leah and Radhika Heck, and we haven't even talked about host Padma Lakshmi yet. Though in all honesty that's probably a good thing, because as soon as I see her all higher brain function ceases. Mmm, Padma, mmm.
So, who do you like this season? And a word of advice to handicappers: Never bet against the lesbian. Just ask Lisa. Submitted by on November 12, 2008 - 1:00pm. |
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mmmmmm PADMA...MMMM!!
Dear Dorothy Snarker,
If you are going to recap this show please show as many pics of Padma as you can. I am watching reruns and I only go out when they are cooking and come in when Padma is on. If you do this you will make me happy and I will send you cookies!
Sincerly, Lashun
top chef
yummy...
OMG!! Im so glad Top Chef is back. Which AE writer will be doing the recaps and/or blog about season 5?!?!
Ill kno who I like after the first episode...gotta see their food!!
And yea...Padma..yummy! I get so dam distracted, i would LOVE to see her cook! Sexii Sexii lol!!
yay
Looking forward to the recaps of Top Chef, especially since I don't get Bravo. Anyone know if there is a place I can catch the episodes online?
Actually, just checked out the videos of the other contestants -- I like just about all of the ladies and am also excited to see there is another out contestant in Patrick this season.
I'm going to have to be on
I'm going to have to be on Team Patrick.
http://www.bravotv.com/Top_Chef/season/5/bios/bios.php?c=patrick
Patrick is my roommate's friend from high school and he seems really cool. Plus, while he may not be a lesbian, he is a gay man! If he is voted off early though, I think I could be
finally!
just judging from the first episode (what i can remember), i'm rooting for jamie lauren and eugene to make it to the end.
The Padma Show.
ep 1
Leah seems like a strong contestant. Radhika is a cutie, even though I want to buy her a stick of concealer.
And then Padma...there's that...JEEZ
TEAM RAINBOW!
Just got done watching the season premiere and I can already tell that I'm going to have a season-long problem with Stefan and Fabio. They are as pretentious as their names' suggest.
My earlier favorites are Leah and Gene. I'm also cheering for the cheftestant from my adopted hometown of DC, Carla (and as a bonus, she reminds me of Tracee Ellis Ross).
Though, while I'm mentioning TV resemblances, anyone else think Gene looks like like Escobar from Nip/Tuck (Robert LaSardo)? Not sure why that makes him more endearing to me.
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." - MLK
yay top chef is back!
im glad they always have out gays and lesbians on the show, it makes me happy
and Jamie is hot too