Top Recipe - Top Chef All Stars Finale

Check out Rick Moonen preparing Richard Blais' black cod and pork belly dish here.

Find the printable recipe here.

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Top Recipe - Top Chef All Stars Finale Part 3

Check out Top Chef Master Rick Moonen making Richard Blais' winning goulash recipe here.

Find a printable version of the recipe here.

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Top Recipe - Top Chef All Stars Finale Part 2

Watch Top Chef Master Rick Moonen prepare Mike Isabella's winning grouper dish here.

Find a printable version of the recipe here.

Top Recipe - Top Chef All Stars Finale Part 1

Watch Chef Rick Moonen prepare Mike Isabella's winning chicken dish here.

The printable recipe can be found here.

Top Recipe - Top Chef All Stars Episode 11

Check out Top Chef Masters' Rick Moonen preparing Richard Blais' winning red snapper dish here.

Find the printable version of the recipe here.

Top Recipe - Top Chef All Stars Episode 9

Click here to watch Top Chef Masters' Rick Moonen recreate Carla Hall's winning Chicken Pot Pie recipe.

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Top Recipe - Top Chef All Stars Episode 8

Watch Rick Moonen prepare Antonia LoFaso's winning mussel dish here.

Find a printable recipe here.

Top Recipe - Top Chef All Stars Episode 7

Click here to watch Rick Moonen prepare Richard Blais' Chicken Fried Codfish.

Click here for the printable version of Blais' "canned tuna" recipe.

Top Recipe - Top Chef All Stars Episode 6

Check out Rick Moonen preparing Carla Hall's winning lettuce wrap recipe here.

Find a printable recipe here.

Top Recipe - Top Chef All Stars Episode 5

Check out a video of Top Chef Masters' Rick Moonen preparing Dale Talde's Elimination Challenge winning Sweet Rice with Chinese Bacon here.

A printable version of the recipe can be found here.

Top Recipe - Top Chef All Stars Episode 4

Check out Rick Moonen preparing Carla's recipe for African Groundnut Soup here.

You can find the printable recipe here.

Top Recipe - Top Chef All Stars Episode 3

Check out the video of Rick Moonen cooking Dale Talde's egg dish here.

Find a printable version here.

Top Recipe - Top Chef All Stars Episode 1

Click here to watch Rick Moonen prepare Angelo Sosa's winning Ramen dish.

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TC News and Information 10.25.10

Guess who can add "Whole Pig Tent Curator" to his resume? That would be TC Season 6 finalist Kevin Gillespie, who will assume the role at Atlanta's inaugural Food and Wine Festival next May 19-22. Also slated for the fest are TC Masters contestants Tim Love and John Besh. Road trip, anyone?

Kevin also "headlined" Taste of Atlanta this weekend. We'd love to hear from any of our readers who attend.

If you can drag yourself away from Top Chef Just Desserts Wednesday and are in the area, check out the gig TC Masters contestant Susan Feniger is doing for the Santa Monica Farmers Market.

Looks like the Project Dinner Table benefit TC Masters contestant Rick Moonen is participating in Oct. 30 has sold out, but for your armchair traveling/salivating pleasure, here's the menu:

• Passed canapés: potato blintz with hot smoked sturgeon and oscetra caviar; Kushi oysters with green apple mignonette, frozen horseradish and duck pastrami with poached quince and rye crumble
• First course: sugar pumpkin soup, peekytoe crab and toasted hazelnut
• Second course: Fuji apple salad, aged white cheddar, bitter greens and maple vinaigrette
• Third course: Whole roasted Sunburst Farms Rainbow Trout, Brussel sprouts and double smoked bacon
• Fourth course: grilled Duroc pork chops, Seckel pears, turnips and grain mustard
• Fifth course: pistachio French toast, coffee ice cream and golden raisin sauce

In Connecticut Nov. 5-7, you can catch Tom Colicchio, TC Masters contestant Susur Lee, and TC Season 3 contestant Casey Thompson at the Foxwoods Food and Wine Festival. The foodie event takes place at the Foxwoods Casino and Resort on Mashantucket Pequot tribal land - if you go, don't miss the awesome Native American museum that has been built with gambling dollars. I think Tom Colicchio and his young son would enjoy it :)

Now here's an event outside the norm from what I typically see wrangling the old ATC mailbox. The Astor Center in NYC will host “The Alchemy of Taste and Smell” November 12-13. From the press release: “Cooking is alchemy: the art of transforming raw materials into a perfected form. Cooking fuses taste and smell, emotion and memory, culture and nature. The work of chefs today is much discussed, but the process by which new dishes and flavor combinations are created remains mysterious. This event will explore creativity in cooking, the composite nature of flavors and the importance of aroma in food and drink.” Capping off the event is a seven-course collaborative dinner “exploring new flavor combinations and making explicit the connection between what we smell and what we taste. For instance, a cucumber/melon salad served on a plate scented with mint essence, as a sensory sleight of hand where by the end of the dish the diner thinks that they have eaten the herb, even though they have only smelled it.” Just Desserts judge Johnny Iuzzini, TC Masters contenders Wylie Dufresne and Nils Noren, and other big names in the food world, including David Chang and Harold McGee, are among the participants. Click here for more details.

Exit Interviews - Top Chef Masters 2 Finale

Top Chef Masters 2 Finale Previews

After a grueling season of out-of-the-ordinary challenges, three accomplished chefs – Rick Moonen, Susur Lee, & Marcus Samuelsson - stand to face their final challenge, but only one chef can be crowned the prestigious title of “Top Chef Master.” Who will ‘wow’ the judges panel with their expertise one last time? And who will fall short of incredibly high expectations? Find out tonight, Wednesday 6/9 @ 10/9c, only on BRAVO.

Top Recipe - Top Chef Masters 2 Episode 8

Find the printable recipe for Rick Moonen's Spice Crusted Swordfish here.

TC News & Information 5.19.10

On May 19th, Top Chef Masters season 1 winner Rick Bayless will be cooking in the White House for a state dinner that will honor President Felipe Calderón of Mexico.

Check out the Cooking for Solutions celebration on May 21-22, 2010 at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Top Chefs in attendance will be Masters Rick Bayless and Rick Moonen, and TC6's Kevin Gillespie. For more details, click here.

Check out the interview with new Top Chef judge Eric Ripert at Eater.

Here's an article on Top Chefs in LA from DiscoverLosAngeles.com

Congratulations Chefs Waxman and Moonen!

Welcome back to two chefs from last season's competition, Jonathan Waxman and Rick Moonen, who did far better this time around. Chef Waxman won both the Quickfire Challenge and the Elimination Challenge this week, his years of expertise leading him down the right path. Chef Moonen, who didn't complete his Quickfire dish last season, this time got high marks in the Quickfire and impressed the judges with his fish cookery in the Elimination.

Congrats to both chefs and we're looking forward to seeing you do well in the Championship Round.

This post is only for positive comments about Chefs Waxman and Moonen. If you have anything negative to say about them or any of the other chefs in the competition, please do so here.

TC News & Information 3.1.2010

The Guardian UK is giving away a dinner with Top Chef Masters judge Jay Rayner. Click here for more information and to enter.

LAist has an interview with Top Chef Masters competitor Susan Feniger.

Top Chef season 1 host Katie Lee and season 5's Fabio Viviani will serve as hosts and mentors of the Almost Famous Chef Competition, sponsored by S. Pellegrino. Top Chef Masters competitor Rick Moonen will serve as one of the judges. More info can be found here.

The CIA has a series of podcasts called Insight from the Inside, one of which features Top Chef season 2 winner Ilan Hall and season 3 winner Hung Huynh. Another features TC season 4 guest judge, hottie pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini. You'll need iTunes to access the podcasts. The listing is here.