Top Chef Pig Roast

Several former Top Cheftestants are participating in an event for Share Our Strength No Kid Hungry. Nyesha Arrington's Pig Roast will be held on April 28th, 2013, at Wilshire Restaurant, 2454 Wilshire Blvd in Santa Monica, CA from 1-4pm.

Guest chefs will include Ilan Hall, CJ Jacobsen, Alex Reznik, Marcel Vigneron, and Brooke Williamson from Top Chef and Danielle Keene from Top Chef Just Desserts.

Tickets are $55 and can be purchased here.


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All Top Chef Interview with CJ Jacobson

Top Chef Seattle contestant, C.J Jacobson, talks about his experience on the show.

A highlight:  

ATC:  How did this experience compare to season 3?

CJ:  This experience compared in many ways.  I figured that since I had already been on, that I would not be caught up in all of the drama, but honestly it was exactly the same.

In terms of production after seven seasons, it was much tighter.  No more eight hours in the stew room. I was happy that the challenges were more culinarily-driven rather than like skeet shooting like last season.

Click here for the full interview.

Thank you Chef CJ!

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ATC Love to Chefs CJ Jacobsen and Tyler Wiard

For Chef Jacobsen, his second chance at the Top Chef crown was short-lived. In this case, his strategy to underthink his pickle dish backfired. While pickles go great with burgers, the obvious choice did not impress the judges, and the mistakes made in its creation only made matters worse. It's unfortunate, because we've all seen him do better work.





Chef Wiard may have been right to take the pickle in a more creative direction, but he didn't want to argue with his partner. How many times have we seen chefs go down for going with the flow and not standing their ground? It's hard to say if his ideas would have worked better, but the lack of creativity was definitely a big negative with the judges.

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TC News & Information 5.2.2010

The Huffington Post has a chat with Top Chef Masters competitor Jody Adams.

Eater has a recap of last week's LA Times Festival of Books which featured Top Chef alums Stefan Richter, CJ Jacobsen, Antonio Lofaso, Betty Fraser, and Dave Martin, as well as Top Chef Masters two-time competitor Mark Peel.

Project Foodie has a short interview with TCM's Wylie Dufresne.

Speaking of Wylie Dufresne, his restaurant wd-50 was named one of the 50 Best Restaurants in the World by S. Pellegrino. Congratulations, Chef Dufresne! Read the full list here.

Congratulations go to Bryan Voltaggio as well, for winning the 2010 Chef of the Year Award from the Restaurant Association of Maryland. Next up - a James Beard award?