Welcome Top Chef fans and Iron Skillet devotees (all five of you)!

Tonight's Liveblog is dedicated to my love of the new and improved Zaftig Padma.  As two of you know, I am picky about my Top Chef hosts.  When Top Chef Masters tried to make a… Read full post »

 Greetings Top Chef fanatics!  The Iron Skillet returns this week hopeful that maybe this is the week that the cheftestants on Top Chef reveal themselves to be more about the food and less about the game.  So far too many of them are playing it safe, doing just enough to… Read full post »

 Greetings!  All three of you! 

 Well, here I am two weeks in a row liveblogging Top Chef DC.  I have to say that the more I think about this season, the more I am starting to wonder about the chefs in the DC season.  They seem long on sound… Read full post »

 Okay, I know, I have let my public down.......

 I haven't been here for the last two weeks. I wish I had some sort of fabulous excuse like, say, Padma Lakshmi had invited me to the set of Top Chef DC as a panelist or some other awesome thing.

 But no. … Read full post »

I have always been a big fan of dinner parties.  I gave them when I was a broke student.  I give them now that I have an honest-to-god formal dining room.  I come from a culture where food is love.  I never need an excuse to feed people, whether it’s… Read full post »

(real photo of actual risotto)  

I have come to the conclusion in recent years that life is too short for bad food.  If I don’t love it, I’m not going to eat it.

In adopting this mantra for my life, I have started to cook more.  I have a coupl/… Read full post »

 Greetings, everyone, and welcome to the FINALE of Top Chef Seasaon Six, the Las Vegas edition.  As everyone knows, our finalists are the Voltaggio brothers, Bryan and Mike, and weird bearded dude Kevin, who gave up MIT to be a chef. 

 Tonight's episode, the finale, the s… Read full post »

So here we are, folks, at the beginning of the end for our remaining cheftestants:  Jennifer, Kevin, and Mike and Bryan Voltaggio.  We are down to the wire here, and the chefs that everyone knew were the most talented have indeed risen to the top.

The Iron Skill… Read full post »

Well, it had to happen sooner or later.....

With Top Chef becoming so popular, it was sooner or later bound to cross paths with the Bocuse d'Or, the international cooking competition that since the 1980's has been pitting the best… Read full post »

Well, here we are folks, another edition of the freshest Top Chef commentary on the Internet!

 This is going to be an interesting episode....Robin has been around far too long, and the other cheftestants have grown weary of seeing more talented chefs going home in favor of the clea… Read full post »

Well, here we are folks, back for more of the freshest Top Chef commentary on the Interwebs.....

 Salon's own Heather Havrilesky apparently decided to take on the Top Chef this week, and while I love her reference to the Top Chef kitchen as the Glad Torture Chamber, I think/… Read full post »

Well here we are folks.  It's the RESTAURANT WARS episode.  For the Top Chef uninitiated, it's the most interesting episode because it gives you some idea what folks might be like if they won.

10:00 p.m. -- For the record, there was a misprint last week: Kevin did indee… Read full post »

Greetings my fellow Top Chef devotees!  I am coming to you live having just returned from a trip to Denver, where I had occaision to eat phenomenal food for nearly a week, starting off in Boulder with our own Mary T. Kelly at the fabulous Kitchen (we tried to… Read full post »

Here we are folks! More of the freshest commentary on the Internet about Top Chef, the cooking show that is more than a cooking show, the reality show that we all adore....

 This week for the Iron Skillet has been a bit of a challenge food-wise.  Today I had the… Read full post »

 Well, here we are again, getting ready for the freshest commentary on Top Chef. 

 I see snarky comments complaining on my spelling on some of the prior blogs...let me explain something for those of you who don't understand what  LIVEblog is.... this blog is written in re… Read full post »

Welcome folks!  We're here again for another liveblog!  Although tonight, it's an ALMOST liveblog, as an evening class schedule has left me unable to start the blog until the first rebroadcast at 11 p.m.  That means, you dear readers, will have the advantage on me in tha… Read full post »

Due to a class I need to attend tonight, the Liveblog of Top Chef: Las Vegas will begin promptly at 11 p.m.  Eastern with the rebroadcast of tonight's episode.

 Yes, my readers, I am for once giving you the upper hand.  You will have seen the episode in question, while I… Read full post »

Greetings and welcome to another installment of Iron Skillet, where we serve up the freshest commentary on the newest episodes of Top Chef as it happens!

My culinary adventures this week have included indulging my passion for heirloom tomatoes in a mozzarella, tomato and arugula salad,… Read full post »

Greetings, and welcome to our first Top Chef liveblog in the new blogging space, “Iron Skillet.”

I have to admit that it’s been a crazy week, but once again, hubby is on vacation, and those of you who follow this blog more regularly know what that m… Read full post »