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Top Chef Premiere
(Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008)
A new season that will, no doubt, cook up an even better way to prepare pork belly. A set of 17 knives — and their owners — make up the new batch of chef-testants, cooking out of a jumbo kitchen in New York City. Tonight, host Padma Lakshmi, whom we love because she’s a supermodel that is happy to eat 17 little meals a day, will inaugurate the season with its first Quickfire Challenge (yes!), and chef Tom Colicchio will pepper every episode with biting gastronomical how-to’s. You won’t remember every chef tonight, but three of note include: Fabio, who is William Shatner’s private chef; Jamie, who is cook-savvy with absinthe; and Richard, whose motto in the kitchen is: “Keep it simple (stupid).” Please, let him call everyone “stupid,” please. Also on our wish list: Let there be more merciless guest-judging from Anthony Bourdain.
YESTERDAY’S DO-IT: David Archuleta has a crush on YOU!
