Speaking of Top Chef

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Voltaggio Brothers

How have I not talked about the Voltaggio Brothers yet?! Ever since the the first episode of Top Chef Season Six, I have been celebrity crushing on the good looking chef brothers so this post comes a little late.

I've never had celebrity crushes before. I mean sure, I think Brad Pitt and Jude Law are quite hot, but I definitely do not swoon over them. But give me Michael and Bryan Voltaggio and I will go weak at the knees.

I love a man who can cook really well and to have two of them and such easy on eyes, that's like jackpot. That's a blessed family. My heart rate went up a little just from gathering their pictures from their website to put on here. I think Bryan is better looking but Michael is a bit more creative and talented. Ahhh, they both light my fire.

Bryan Voltaggio: 32, Chef and Partner of VOLT (Frederick, Maryland).

Michael Voltaggio: 30, Chef de Cuisine, Langham Huntington Hotel & Spa (Pasadena, CA) and Top Chef Season 6 Winner.

Are you a fan yet? Check out their website by clicking here. And you can follow Bryan's twitter here and Michael's here.

New Show From Producers of Top Chef

Saw on Eat Me Daily that NBC is going to have a new reality show from the same producers of Top Chef. The prize will be a restaurant chain with four locations in different U.S. cities. "Contestants will have to impress "a panel of wealthy investors from the cooking and business worlds" with their restaurant concepts, menus, marketability, and management skills.

Reminds of that ABC show Shark Tank where the contestants sells their idea to a bunch of wealthy investors, which is not all that interesting. Do we really need more chain restaurants in the world?

Top Chef: Just Desserts

NY Daily News reported that Bravo annouced today that they are going to start a new spin-off series called "Top Chef: Just Desserts." The show is expected to air in 2010, but no judges or contestants have been selected (for casting info, go to www.BravoTV.com/casting).

Frances Berwick, Bravo's VP and general manager told Variety that the show was inspired in part by the difficulty that desserts have posted for "Top Chef" cooks.

"Their Achilles heel is usually the desserts," Berwick said of the "Top Chef" contestants. "As this has gone on, we've been thinking that it would be fun to do a 'Top Chef' with experienced pastry chefs. We've had a few pastry chefs on 'Top Chef,' but they haven't gone too far. It's just a different skill."

I am so very excited about this! And just last Thursday, they annouced they were picking up a second season of "Top Chef Masters." Ahhh I love Bravo!

Jamie Oliver's New Show

Jamie Oliver, The Naked Chef, has a new show coming to ABC next year. He has done shows in Britain on improving school lunches and encouraging people to eat healthier and living better. And now he wants to move that to the States.

His production company chose Huntington, West Virginia as their location because of the 2006 CDC report of them being the fattest and unhealthiest city in the United States. And Jamie Oliver plans on shaping them up. The people of Huntington are not too happy about it though because they do not want to get stuck with the fattest city label. Too late I guess.

I tried to find the video of him dancing in the Village People costumes, but its not available for embedding and I can't find it on YouTube so you can see here.

[image via dailymail.co.uk]

Bayside Class of 1993 Reunites!

This upcoming cover of People magazine nearly made my heart skip a beat. I am on the same boat as Jimmy Fallon in wishing hard for a Saved by the Bell reunion. This might be as close as we get, but I'll take it! This issue will be available tomorrow, July 31. Pick up a copy to see what the gang has been up to.

The only person missing from the group was Dustin Diamond, better known as Screech Powers. But after he put out his own porn, I'm really not a fan of his. And he's not even cute.

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Top Chef: Las Vegas

Get your TiVo ready, the sixth season of Top Chef, Top Chef: Las Vegas is set to start August 26.

Celebrities set to make guest appearances are Natalie Portman, Wolfgang Puck, Todd English, Danile Boulud, Tyler Florence (yay! my favorite FN person), Laurent Tourondel, and Nigella Lawson (who I heard talking about her book on NPR and don't really like).

There are no really cute contestants this year so I just hope they're all really great cooks. I like Top Chef Masters, but I'm very excited for the new season!

[image via bravotv.com]

For My Phoenix Chefs and Homecooks

For the reality series, The Next Food Network Star, the Food Network is coming to the Valley on July 8th for an open casting call for its 2010 season.

So, if you have hopes of becoming the host of your own cooking show, be at the Embassy Suites (4415 E. Paradise Village Parkway) from 10 am to 4 pm next Wednesday.

You need to bring in two recent photos, a copy of your resume, a legible copy of either passport, social security card, or driver license, and a filled out application. For any questions about the show or casting, you can email: nfns6@yahoo.com. Click here for list of other cities open casting call dates.

I would totally do it-- if I could actually cook.

Zack Attack!

I was a HUGE Saved by the Bell fan growing up and it is by far still one of my favorite shows of all time. I remember running home from the bus stop to catch the latest episode. I was in love with Zack and I thought Kelly was so pretty. I hated the New Class thing they tried to do back in 1993. That show was terrible. You can't just replace the cast and expect it to have the same cult following.

Last night, Zack Morris (as played by Mark-Paul Gosselaar) made an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Seeing him dressed as Zack and his giant cell phone, ahh the memories. I hope they do do a reunion show. That would be amazing! My favorite episode of all time was "Rockumentary" so I was especially excited that he sang a part "Friends Forever," even though it didn't sound as good without the actual Zack Attack band. ;) That episode made me so happy.

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Top Chef Master!!!

I am a HUGE fan of Top Chef on Bravo so when I first heard about Top Chef Master months ago (I actually found it on accident reading the Wikipedia page of Kelly Choi, random I know) I was very excited. Then I did not hear anything about it...until now.

On the LATimes Show Tracker page on Wednesday, they provided some great details about the new show featuring "world-renowned chefs" hosted by Kelly Choi (yay for more good looking Asian people on television). New York Magazine food critic Gael Greene, Saveur magazine Editor in Chief James Oseland and British food critic Jay Rayner will be the judges.

The show will premiere on June 10 at 10pm. Guest judges slated to appear are Neil Patrick Harris, Zooey Deschanel, "Lost" writers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, "Flipping Out's" Jeff Lewis, all of the previous "Top Chef" winners, and of course, Tom Colicchio, Padma Lakshmi and Gail Simmons.

There are a lot of competitors on this show so the producers have changed some things from the original series.Bravo's press release states:

In each episode, money will be at stake for the chefs, with the winners of eliminations being awarded cash donations for their charities. The first six episodes will consist of four chefs competing against each other to name one winner. The six winners of each episode will then meet up for the final four weeks when one person will get eliminated each episode until the finale where one winner is crowned Top Chef Master. The winning chef will receive $100,000 for the charity of his or her choice.

Some competing chefs that I am excited to see: Rick Bayless, Michael Chiarello, Wylie Dufresne, Elizabeth Falkner, Hubert Keller, Christopher Lee, Anita Lo, Art Smith, and Roy Yamaguchi. I was actually hoping David Chang would be competing, but maybe he needs more years to be considered "world renowned."

It's going to be interesting to see these chefs compete since most of them have appeared as guest judges on the show before. I can't wait!

[image via bravotv.com]

Michael Scott Tweets

And he is probably one of the funnier twitters that I'm following. His current tweet says, "MichaelScott Things in the office that sound dirty but aren't: punching in, grabbing a snack in the breakroom, doing an annual review, loading my stapler"

Last night's two episodes of The Office was pretty hilarious. I love that show. Too bad Parks and Recreation was lame. Sorry Amy Poehler

Sur La Table on South Park

I like Sur La Table. The place is really nice and they have cool items, but I've only bought a few things from there. I basically stopped liking it after I was searching for financier molds and they were selling tiny ones for $4 each (I would have to get at least 8 to make it worth it). And now that I don't drive by the store every few days, I rarely ever stop in.

But I do love South Park. Here's a clip from the episode, "Margaritaville" where Stan tries to make a return.