Oh yeah, so Top Chef 5...

...is back and I will once again be recapping and talking to the eliminated chefs for BuddyTV.

This season the publicists are only doing conference calls instead of single interviews. 

Sadly this means less one-on-one interactions for me, ergo less chances for me to ask my weirdo chef-obsessed fan girl questions. 

Happily, though, it also means no audio, ergo, no gritting my teeth through sound editing my own giggly doofusness and wondering why I ask such weirdo chef-obsessed fan girl questions and why can't I just be normal for once?

So here's last week's Top Chef Premiere Live Thoughts (unedited, meandering), Recap (less meandering), conference call notes with eliminated chefs and my weekly Gourmet/No Way column.

The schedule will be Prediction columns on Tuesday, recaps on Wednesdays, eliminated chef conference calls Thursdays, and Gourmet/No Way Fridays.  We always have polls where you can pick favorites and you can leave comments here or there if you have questions you want me to ask.

As yet I have no official chef crushes, but I will keep you apprised of any developments.