Compliments to the Chef

It's the Top Chef Season 23 premier!!!!!!!!!!! Welcome to the Carolinas, where 15 chefs will battle it out to see who will be crowned the next Top Chef. This week we meet the new cheftestants, say hello to the judges and meet some titans of the south. From a NASCAR race to Sean Brock's table, this is an action packed first episode you won't want to miss.

The gals from Above Deck join us to discuss this season of Traitors and this week's big episode. We have a recruitment, a banishment and a murrrrrrrder.

It's traitor vs. traitor in the castle. Who will win? Find out on this week's episode!

Today we are joined by guest Sophie Segreti from season 49 of Survivor! Sophie shares about her time on Survivor, as well as lends her newly trained reality chops to watching this week's epsiode of the Traitors. Tune in to discuss the black banquet, medieval met gala fashion and the downfall of Lisa Rinna!

Chaos, confusion, catastrophe in the castle! Traitors epsiode 6 is full of wild accusations and a housewife scorned. Colton is getting under(wood) everyone's nerves and Kristen Kish is masterminding an 8-way alliance. Tune in!

Colton is coming out swinging this week and leading the pack. He's super annoying, but things are really heating up in the Traitors castle. The smoked salmon is getting a lot of play, but the gamers are still being hunted. Tune into our coverage of this week's episodes, we'll see you at the round table!

Woah! Three episodes of The Traitors at a time?! We've got a lot of coverage to keep up with! We go into the castle to our first round table, a murder in plain sight, a shield battle and the reveal of the secret traitor! So much drama jam packed into one episode, tune in to dish it all!

Don your cloaks and best tartan, we're headed to the Scottish highlands to play the greatest game: The Traitors. Over the next 10 weeks we'll cover to deception, treachery and misdeeds of reality television's biggest stars in the Traitors castle. Most importantly, we'll follow Kristen Kish's journey into turret and beyond! Happy hunting!

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.

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!

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!

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!

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.

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.

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

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!

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!

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 an...

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.