Compliments to the Chef

<p>Join hosts Bits and Nancy as they unpack every episode of Top Chef. Follow along each week as they discuss the cheftestants, their dishes and, most importantly, Tom Colicchio's hats. Your friendly Top Chef companion podcast will bring you all the Monday morning quarterback commentary you've always wanted to share along with guests from the food industry and beyond to prolong your enjoyment of the most elite cooking competition on TV.</p>

Triflin' (Dessert Week)

It's the quarter finals and it's time to finally make....dessert??? As if that weren't what's been happening all season! The baker make cheesecake, steamed pudding and TRIFLE WITH NO WALLS! Tune in for out coverage of this week's episode of Great British Bake Off.

11-18
29:15

Stiff Peaks (Meringue Week)

Whip up your eggwhites because it's meringue week in the Great British Bake Off tent! Paul and Prue are set to judge pavlovas, tarts and soufflés. Tune in to hear our coverage of this delectable week of GBBO!

11-11
34:36

Going Full Puff (Pastry Week)

Chill your butter because it's pastry week in the Bakeoff tent! The Great British Bakeoff returns with a delightfully British pastry week, full of lamination and esoteric bakes. You don't want to miss the sculpted tarts and sausage roll creations!

11-03
40:28

Loose Mousse (Chocolate Week)

Let's get WONKED in the tent with delicious chocolate treats. There are volcanoes exploding with chocolate, pianos filled with chocolate and nymph grottos oozing with chocolate. You don't want to miss this great british bake of episode recap!

10-27
37:01

HOOK A DUCK à L’ORANGE (Back to School Week)

Sharpen your number 2 pencils and sit at your desks because we're back to school in the tent! Great British Bake Off is making nostalgic treats that are sure to bring you back to your school days.

10-20
30:32

Monkeying Around (Bread Week)

It's the most highly anticipated week of the season, bread week! Activate your yeast because it's time to step into Paul Hollywood's thunderdome and challenges. The bakers take on bread in all it's forms and the gals take on the history of Jumbo Kingdom.

10-13
50:55

Bob Loblaw's Hobnob (Biscuit Week)

You gotta risk it for the biscuit and these bakers are putting it all on the line! Tune in for our punny coverage of the cookie extravaganza

10-06
43:53

Jurassic Bakes (Cake Week)

We are back in the Great British Bake Off tent and we're ready for some delectably fondant fancy treats! Join us for our coverage across the pond, where we discuss Week 1 of everyone's favorite wind down television. Ready, set, bake!

09-29
44:18

Dinner Party (The Office) - w/ The LA Food Podcast

We're ending our summer blockbuster series with perhas the most iconic 22 minutes of television in this century. Behold: The Dinner Party. From the brilliant minds of The Office comes an absolute calamity of coworkers socializing outside work. We breakdown this episode (and lots more), with our best pals at the LA Food Podcast. Tune in!

08-25
51:54

Big Night - w/ Katherine Lewin

Put on your dinner jacket, hop in your Cadillac and join us for a Big Night. Joined by Founder and CEO of Big Night (the store) in NYC, we unpack this cinematic classic. From the timpano to the risotto to the surprise sucking pig, we get into the details and have a laugh doing it. Katherine Lewin is the founder of Big Night, a one‑stop shop for dinner‑party and hosting essentials in Greenpoint and the West Village. She is also the author of Big Night: Dinner, Parties & Dinner Parties.Instagram @kklewinBig Night Website: https://bignightbk.com/

08-18
01:00:42

The Taste of Things - w/ Kendra Vaculin

This week we review The Taste of Things with Kendra Vaculin. Get ready for the Nancy Meyers kitchen of the french countryside and a delicious feast for the eyes!

08-04
58:24

The Lovely Gail Simmons

Today is a momentous day for the pod. Compliments to the Chef is honored to present our interview with the beating heart of Top Chef, the one, the only, the lovely Gail Simmons. This interview gets to the soul of what makes Top Chef the greatest cooking competition to ever do it. You absolutely do not want to miss this interview with the woman who has been there since day one.

07-30
27:25

Chef - w/ Jessie Evans

This week we are joined by Jessie Evans (@jessie_eats) to discuss the feel good, 2014-coded movie "Chef." Tune in for a fun conversation about the early days of social media, whom we'd cast as our love interests and the worst thing you can put caviar on.

07-28
42:27

Ratatouille - w/ J Lee

Wash your hands and grab your rodents! The most highly anticipated food movie of the summer blockbuster series is HERE. Ratatouille is the pinnacle of food cinema, and there is no better person to unpack it than J Lee, Critic at Large @ Feed Me and Food Editor of Interview Magazine. Summer is hot, but J's takes on this cult classic film are even HOTTER! You don't want to miss this one.

07-21
01:10:27

Julie & Julia

It's time to discover the art of french cooking all over again! Tune into this discussion of three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep and her iconic performance as Julia Child in post-war france. We may also discuss Julie from time to time.

07-14
47:30

Mystic Pizza

It's summer and we're ready to kick back with some famous movies all about food! For our first recap, we're going into the archives and bringing out the movie that started it all. Grab a slice and and your shoulder pads, because it's time to head to Rhode Island to watch MYSTIC PIZZA!

07-07
01:03:38

Second Helping Week 14 - w/ Season 22 WINNER!

Top Chef Season 22 Winner Tristen Epps-Long joins the pod for a well-earned victory lap! Tune in to this post-finale catch up with the newest member of the Top Chef winner's circle.

06-13
14:41

The Last Supper (S22E14, Finale)

It's time to say Ciao to Top Chef Season 22 with the most epic season finale. Bailey, Shuai and Tristen deliver the meal of their lives, which just so happens to be the best finale anyone has ever seen on Top Chef. Tom is overcome with excitement, Kristen is overcome with emotion and Gail is overcome with Canadian pride. Tune into our last coverage of Season 22, it's not goodbye, it's arrivederci!

06-13
01:01:53

Bonus Interview - Bailey Sullivan, Shuai Wang, Tristen Epps

Happy Top Chef finale day to those who celebrate!!! We have all three finalists on the pod today for a quick pregame for tonight's episode. Tune in to hear Bailey, Tristen and Shuai talk about their headspace going into the last cook of the season.

06-11
10:10

Going for Gold (S22E13)

Top Chef has arrived in Italy and Tom is giddy with excitement! We have the first ever diabolical risotto challenge and, in true NBC fashion, Olympians! Tune in to hear our coverage of the elite athletic event of the season as the chefs go through a three-round Italian live showdown.

06-06
47:25

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