Posts

Showing posts with the label TOP CHEF

TOP CHEF'S GAIL SIMMONS STOPS BY AOL NEW YORK

Image
Gail Simmons Trained culinary expert, food writer, and dynamic television personality Gail Simmons discusses the latest season of Bravo's Emmy-winning series "Top Chef" at AOL BUILD Series in New York City the other day.  Photo By: Diego Corredor/MediaPunch

TOP CHEF JUDGE GAIL SIMMONS EXPECTING BABY

Image
Gail Simmons Celebrity chef Gail Simmons is now eating for two! The Top Chef judge, 37, is pregnant with her first child, her rep tells Us Weekly exclusively . Simmons and husband of five years Jeremy Abrams' little one arrives this winter. Simmons and Abrams -- who heads up music programming business Audiostiles -- wed in 2008, with their nuptials featuring in Martha Stewart's Real Weddings magazine. They live in Brooklyn, NYC. As the Toronto native wrote in her memoir Talking With My Mouth Full, Abrams proposed to her when she woke up one morning in bed after a grueling ten days on the road promoting Top Chef. After she accepted his ring, she answered the door -- to discover a "full breakfast delivery" from the their favorite NYC eatery, August. "We made it last the whole day, laid out like a picnic on our living room floor," the Food and Wine editor wrote. "Twenty minutes later, the doorbell rang again. Two deliverymen ar...

CHEFS UNCORK'D MASTERS SERIES DINNERS

Image
**** TIMES SQUARE GOSSIP "TOP CHEFS" **** Chef Francois Payard Chef Michel Richard Chef Bobby Flay Chef Guy Sovoy The famed chef's of the world, came out during Las Vegas Uncork'd Masters Series Dinners at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photos By: RD/Kabik/Retna

THE GLAAD HANCOCK PARK TOP CHEF INVASION

Image
Shonda Rhimes Fabio Viviani Jessica Collins Lisa Vanderpump Singer Kaya Jones Lisa Vanderpump along with Jessica Collins, Shonda Rimes, Fabio Viviani, Singer Kaya Jones and others attended The GLAAD Hancock Park: Top Chef Invasion held at a Private Residence in Los Angeles, California. Photos By: RD / Orchon / Retna Digital

TOP CHEF AT NY TIMES ARTS AND LEISURE

Image
**** WALTER MCBRIDE AROUND TOWN **** Natalie Portman Top Chef Padma Lakshmi Eric Ripert With Padma Lakshmi And Gail Simmons The Cast of Top Chef including: Eric Ripert along with Padma Lakshmi, Gail Simmons attended the New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend at the Times Center in New York City. Natalie Portman also stopped by for some weekend fun . Photos By: Walter McBride / Retna Ltd.

THE HILTON GARDEN INN'S NEW TOP CHEF

Image
**** MARCY MCDONALD'S DINING **** THE HILTON GARDEN INN **** Tasty Egg Wrap Fried Egg Like Never Before Race to a screeching halt: Don't pop that vitamin pill in your mouth instead of breakfast! Why waste a perfectly good carb on a vitamin (Yes, secret eater, even vitamin pills have cholesterol) when you can pig out on a great, big breakfast without adding girth to your boyish figure? Well, not by much anyhow. Perhaps best known as a popular contestant on Season 3 of Bravo’s hit show “Top Chef” C.J. (aka Chris Jacobson, former volleyball champ and current six-foot-eight-inch, 34-year-old-heart-throb-super-chef) has actually developed a new breakfast menu worth staying the night at any Hilton Garden Inn to nosh. First, he roasted a brisket over night to tender shreds (then soaked out the fat before the juicy beef to strands of 'sweating' onions with high-vitamin kale and a little olive oil) before ladling the melange over a wedge of whole grain bread, topped it off wi...