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Top Chef Recap: What You Sea Is What You Get

May 19, 2022 by tamaratattles 14 Comments

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Well, Gang, it looks like for tonight’s Top Chef Recap we are going fishing! I used to love to fish but not on a boat. I’m a puker. I hope the weather gets better by morning. At least Tom gave them some nausea meds. The next morning we learn that Damarr has never fished. There […]

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Top Chef Recap: Dinner in Zero Gravity

May 5, 2022 by tamaratattles 13 Comments

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Once again, the Bravo website doesn’t even list the title of the show or give up any previews making a Top Chef recap more difficult. I remember when I first started this website, Bravo kept offing me gifts like pots and pans or free online cooking lessons to cover Top Chef. I wasn’t interested in […]

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Top Chef Recap: Freedmen’s Town

April 28, 2022 by tamaratattles 20 Comments

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It’s less than an hour before the show airs for this Top Chef Recap and there are ZERO clips on the website for this episode. It’s barely listed at all. I wish Bravo would publicize the good shops as much as they do the trash TV. Oh I just went to NBCu Media Village expecting […]

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Top Chef Recap: It’s Time For Restaurant Wars!

April 21, 2022 by tamaratattles 14 Comments

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Welcome to Restaurant Wars! This will be the best challenge of the season. I’m really looking forward to writing a Top Chef Recap more so than usual. Coming off a week of grown ass women whipping wine glasses at each other and pushing over tables at public dinners, ganging up on each other while wearing […]

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Top Chef Recap: Swallow The Competition

April 14, 2022 by tamaratattles 18 Comments

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Whoever is in charge of the Bravo website is doing a crappy job. Fortunately, the NBCu Media site had some photos available for tonight’s Top Chef recap. I hope the challenges are better than they stupid ones from last week. Luke is losing his confidence in the game. The quickfire will be focused on Nigerian […]

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Top Chef Recap: Texas Trailblaze-hers

April 7, 2022 by tamaratattles 6 Comments

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It’s time for a Top Chef recap and we will all get to see who is coming back from part one of Top Chef Last Chance Kitchen. It’s time for the Quickfire but first, Ashleigh rejoins the competition. Then, half of the chefs must pick a sweet ingredient and the other half have to pick […]

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Top Chef Recap: Don’t Mess With BBQ!

March 31, 2022 by tamaratattles 15 Comments

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YAY! It is Top Chef recap night and tonight is all about BBQ! Yum! Sadly, Brooke Williamson is the guest judge and one of the very few Top Chefs I don’t care for. Nonetheless she is telling the chefs that they need to “reinvent” Texas BBQ. Um, WHY?  I hate this challenge already. Leave Texas […]

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Top Chef Recap: Double The Dishes, Double The Eliminations

March 24, 2022 by tamaratattles 11 Comments

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Who is ready for another Top Chef recap? It looks like tonight they will be paired up and BOTH members of the losing team, will be eliminated. Or maybe the two least favorite dishes across the board? I have not had time to see the previews tonight, but I really prefer going in with no […]

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Top Chef Recap: Noodles And Rice And Everything Nice

March 17, 2022 by tamaratattles 10 Comments

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I am so looking forward to the Top Chef recap. It’s been one of the worst mental health days ever. I just need to watch a bunch of people cooking fancy food. Also, Master Chef Junior premieres at the same time! I may end up recapping that too. Because, I love Master Chef Junior! I […]

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Top Chef Recap: Friday Night Bites

March 10, 2022 by tamaratattles 19 Comments

Top Chef Recap

This Top Chef recap is going to be quite the jolt since I’ve been watching the Jussie Smollett sentencing all day. Like really it took all day. But, once the sentence was handed down, all hell broke loose with Jussie. Read my real time recap here. Then, as I was doing set-ups the news was […]

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Top Chef Finale: Who Is Top Chef?

February 23, 2017 by tamaratattles 29 Comments

Tonight is the night that this season’t Top Chef will be announced! (psst actually, it’s not) I suppose I am rooting for Sheldon. But first, a hotel commercial. Sigh. The quickfire challenge is to feature the very hot Habanero pepper in a dish. They shop at a local market where Brooke picks up a cucumber […]

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Top Chef: Murky Margaritas

February 16, 2017 by tamaratattles 30 Comments

It’s time to find out who won Last Chance Kitchen. I think it is going to be Jamie. Since he gave away his immunity and got eliminated, I feel like Tom probably just picked him every week. It really is all up to Tom regarding who comes back.  No matter how many judges there are, […]

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Top Chef: Adios Charleston, Hello James Beard!

February 9, 2017 by tamaratattles 28 Comments

We are down to just four chefs, the seemingly preordained winner, John Tesar, Sheldon, Shirley and Brooke. The top four walk in to the kitchen to see that the work stations have been partitioned. It’s clearly the challenge where they have to cook while telling an unknown partner how to replicate their dish. Generally, the […]

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Top Chef Charleston: Shrimp Boats and Hat Ladies

February 2, 2017 by tamaratattles 15 Comments

This week we start out going trawling for shrimp. The chefs are all worried about getting sea sick. I am loving all the pelicans. We didn’t get to see nearly enough of the shrimp boat. After no more than two minutes of boat fun, we are back to the dock for an outdoor quickfire. Any […]

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Top Chef Charleston: The Chefs Are Getting Crabby

January 26, 2017 by tamaratattles 15 Comments

Off to a bit of a late start due to a technical glitch with my much beleaguered DVR.  With the return of Shondaland tonight I’ll be surprised if the my poor DVR doesn’t just give up and die tonight. It looks like the first quickfire is a palate challenge tonight. Most of them were really […]

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Top Chef: Restaurant Wars

January 19, 2017 by tamaratattles 22 Comments

If you missed last weeks episode of Top Chef, it was a super crazy week.  Everyone’s favorite chef, Jim was eliminated in a sudden death quickfire. Still. Not. Over. It.  And then, they finally made us all love the burnt veggies guy, Jaime. He seemed to have found his stride and won immunity for this […]

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Top Chef Charleston: Stormy Weather

January 12, 2017 by tamaratattles 26 Comments

Top Chef: Charleston wrapped filming around June 10, 2016. If you are aware of the hurricane season in the Atlantic, It technically begins on June 1st. But 2016 was a crap year and Hurricane Alex showed up in JANUARY.  Because I enjoy going to the beach on my birthday in mid to late June, I often […]

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Top Chef Charleston: Smoke ‘Em If You’ve Got ‘Em!

December 30, 2016 by tamaratattles 25 Comments

Since last’s week’s Top Chef  had a bit of a Christmas theme even if the seven fishes were trashy ones, I expect there to be some sort of New Year’s Eve nod this week. Perhaps they will make Hoppin’ John or something?  I was doing some cooking today and pulled out my cookbooks for a bit. […]

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Top Chef: Feast of the Seven Trash Fishes

December 22, 2016 by tamaratattles 15 Comments

Well, I must say I am ill-tempered and want everyone to die in a fire tonight after that Project Runway finale. I’ll let CJ Bomb tell you all about that in her recap, so please ignore this ranting and save your comments for her post. But it was a difficult last two hours for me […]

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Top Chef Charleston: Choke Holds And Clammy Hands

December 15, 2016 by tamaratattles 26 Comments

When you write recaps for a living, the days no longer really have names anymore. And because I have lost pretty much 56% of the brain cells used for recall, it’s a surprise every day when I find out what I am recapping. Sometimes my response is “Ugh, again already?” and other times I’m excited […]

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Top Chef: Southern Hospitality

December 8, 2016 by tamaratattles 62 Comments

I’m totally looking forward to the episode. I loved everything Charleston and almost all of the chefs seem like people who want to see succeed. Except oddly, Emily the homegirl with the bad attitude.  Also there are no idiot chefs “from Atlanta.”  As a Georgia girl, I am already appalled by the folks on reality […]

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Top Chef Charleston Premiere: Aw Shucks

December 2, 2016 by tamaratattles 28 Comments

I’m not really up for a full recapping of this show but I did want to do a quick post about it because for the most part, I loved the episode.  This season is set in Charleston and in the preview post I made, I suggested that I would likely pull for the female chef […]

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