TC News & Information 7.19.10

Top Chef Masters competitor Jody Adams was happy to be a part of that show. Read a new interview with the chef here.

Top Chef DC's Amanda Baumgarten shares her kitchen wisdom with the LA Times Show Tracker blog.

Michael Voltaggio got carded and turned away from a taco joint in California the other day. Guess the bouncer doesn't watch Top Chef.

First Isaac Mizrahi, now Marcus Samuelsson: eventually everyone designs something for Target.

TC News & Information 6.2.10

Top Chef 6's Jennifer Carroll is Chef Chair of the 2010 Taste of the Nation Philadelphia. Catch the details here.

The SignOnSanDiego Newsletter has a feature on season 3 cheftestant Brian Malarkey.

Season 5's Carla Hall is preparing for summer. Here's the transcript from her appearance on NPR's Tell Me More.

Vote for Top Chef Masters 2 finalist Jody Adams (or your favorite chef) in the Mezzetta Celebrity Chef Sandwich Charity Challenge. Sandwiches and recipes can be found here.

All Top Chef Interview with Jody Adams

Top Chef Masters contestant, Jody Adams talks about her experience on the show, her career and her charity.

Click here for the podcast.

Click here to learn more about Partners in Health.

Click here to visit the Rialto website.

Thank you Chef Adams.

Exit Interviews - Top Chef Masters 2 Episode 6

ATC Love to Chef Jody Adams

While Chef Jody Adams ended up on top of the heap in the first of the Championship rounds, this week she was bested by a goat and a clam. It's always difficult to work with unfamiliar ingredients, and while roasting goat seemed like the perfect solution, the allotted cook time just wasn't enough to produce the results Chef Adams was looking for.

We're very sorry to see you go, Chef, and wish you happiness and continued success in your culinary career.

This post is only for positive comments about Chef Adams and her work. If you have anything negative to say about her or her competition, please do so here.

Top Recipe, Top Chef Masters 2 Episode 5

The printed recipe can be found here.

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?

Congratulations, Chefs Lee and Adams!

Congrats to Chefs Jody Adams and Susur Lee for making it to the Championship Round! Jody made it via the High Stakes Quickfire Challenge in which she bested the other 4 chefs with her fruit plate. She would have made it anyway, since she got the second-highest number of stars for her Elimination Challenge dish, putting her right behind Susur in the judging.

Susur, despite comments about the heat level in his chutneys, got an astonishing 19.5 stars, including 5 stars each from Gail, Gael, and Jay, the highest number in Top Chef Masters history.

Both of the chefs' dishes looked fantastic and deserving of the wins. We hope the both of you go far in the next round. Congratulations!

Top Chef Masters 2 - Meet Jody Adams

Jody Adams is a James Beard award-winning chef with a national reputation for her imaginative use of New England ingredients in regional Italian cuisine. Her four-star Rialto restaurant in Cambridge has been named “One of the top 20 new restaurants in the country” by Esquire magazine and “One of the world’s best hotel restaurants” by Gourmet.

Beginning her culinary career as a line cook at Seasons restaurant, she went on to open Hamersley’s Bistro as sous-chef and then served as executive chef at Michela’s in Cambridge, where Food & Wine listed her as “one of America’s ten best new chefs.” Soon thereafter, Adams opened Rialto in Harvard Square, collecting many honors as a result, including being inducted into the Nation’s Restaurant News Fine Dining Hall of Fame. Adams has been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Bon Appetit, among many others. She also has a strong commitment to hunger relief and is known for her loyal support of The Greater Boston Food Bank, Share Our Strength, and Partners in Health.