Top Chef 5.1

So Christey was asking me the other day when Top Chef would be back, and I had just looked it up a month or so again and there was no air date set yet. So imagine my surprise yesterday when a foodie blog I read mentioned the first episode on Wednesday...I had completely missed it. Thankfully, Bravo gets a lot of mileage out of the show (and it's sponsors), so I was able to catch it last night. Was anyone else as caught off guard as I was?

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