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Eli Explains Emotional Moment on 'Top Chef'

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:50:49 +0000

If 25-year-old Eli were to be believed, he didn't cry out of frustration from not winning Top Chef , but because of pure exhaustion and fatigue. "You're tired and fatigued after being in Las Vegas on a six-week production," he told TV Guide. "When I was doing those exit interviews, it was probably 3 or 4 in the morning. So I don't think I was emotional about not winning Top Chef . I don't feel I went out too early, I was just tired, beat-up, and exhausted."

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Top Chef's Eli on Emotional Exit: I Was "Tired, Beat-Up and Exhausted"

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:17:00 +0000

In the last challenge before the Top Chef finale, Eli Kirshtein's lack of precision and inedible lamb resulted in his elimination following the mini-Bocuse d'Or competition. TVGuide.com caught up with the 25-year-old cheftestant to find out why he became so emotional after being cut, what we didn't see in the kitchen and what he thinks of...

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NBC Picks Up 'United Plates of America'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:18:43 +0000

By Brent Lang NBC is turning up the heat in the kitchen with its latest reality competition show. The peacock network announced today that it has picked up a new series, tentatively entitled "United Plates of America," that will pit contestants against each other in a competition for the opportunity to open a new restaurant chain in four cities across America. "This is the first time the culinary and business worlds have come together in a big event series where the prize is one ...

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Top Chef: We Was Had (and That's OK!)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:21:34 +0000

We got taken for a ride by a Top cheftestant, and we don't mind one bit. When we told you a couple weeks back that we had reason to believe that a front-runner (Jen, Kevin, Mike V....

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Top Chef Final Four Make It Through the d'Or

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:15:00 +0000

Sure, Tom Colicchio's got much respect for the five who made it this far on Top Chef and it was a pleasure watching them all cook. But only four made it out of tonight's episode...

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Eli-minated from 'Top Chef'

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:36:49 +0000

Well duh. After everything's been said and done, after 12 episodes, after a bunch of ceviches and halibuts, the Top Chef final four turned out to be exactly how most people predicted them - the V brothers, Kevin, and Jennifer. 25-year-old Atlanta-native and self-confessed "fat kid" Eli Kirshtein was eliminated on Top Chef this week, which means there won't be any upsets on our midst this season, except the little tumble between Mike I. and Robin a couple of weeks back.

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Top Chef: Preview of Episode 6.12 "Culinary Olympics"

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:56:08 +0000

The Winter Olympics won't happen until next year, and the Summer Games, not in another three years, but the culinary Olympics are here. At least on Top Chef . Tonight on the Bravo cooking show, the five remaining chef-testants take on a challenge based on the Bocuse d'Or, a cooking competition commonly referred to as the Culinary Olympics, established by legendary French chef Paul Bocuse. Guest judges include Jerome Bocuse and Thomas Keller.

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'Chef Academy'

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0000

Bravo tries a slightly different recipe on the cooking-competition genre. > Like Motown Records in the 1960s, Bravo is a network that likes to find a thing that works -- a "real housewife," say -- and do it again and again, with slight variations, until it doesn't. "Top Chef," which, with the departure of "Project Runway" to Lifetime, is the jewel in the network's reality-competition crown, Professional Domestic Arts Division, has already given birth to "Top Chef Masters," with a "Top Chef: Just Desserts" and the tentatively titled "Top Chef Junior" in the pipeline, or the oven, as the metaphor may more aptly be.

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'Top Chef's Robin: They Hated Me

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:40:03 +0000

But not only that, axed Top Chef contestant Robin Leventhal says people have been telling her that it was Eli who should've been eliminated last week on the Bravo cooking show. "So many people told me it should have been Eli. People thought it was going to be Eli."

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Top Chef's Robin: I Felt "Victimized" By the Other Chefs

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:13:00 +0000

Top Chef's Robin Leventhal wasn't exactly the most popular among her fellow cheftestants, and she has a theory about why. TVGuide.com chatted with the self-taught 43-year-old to find out what triggered her tears during judging, why she felt "victimized," and who she thought was the ring leader of chefs who "loved to hate" her. Top Chef's Mike Isabella: I took offense to judges calling me cocky TVGuide.com: Why did you get so emotional during judging? Robin Leventhal: It was ...

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Top Chef's Robin: They Really Did Hate Me That Much

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:31:00 +0000

Robin Leventhal knows she wasn't exactly the most liked contestant on this season's Top Chef. "They hated me," Robin says of her fellow cheftestants. "I think they...

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