Restaurant Wars is Top Chef's challenge for episode 9, with Rick Moonan as guest judge. Laurine goes home after Tom and Padma decide she's not restaurant material. The Quickfire and Elimination challenges are heated, entertaining and delicious all at the same time.

Chef Dave Levey of San Diego, beat out Kevin and Ariel in Hell's Kitchen Season 6, episode 15. Chef Dave gets the job at Araxi Restaurant in Whistler, British Columbia as the head chef. With the 2010 Winter Olympics gearing up, Chef Dave is at the right place at the right time!

How would you like to be the next Top Chef? Bravo TV is holding casting calls in Miami, San Francisco, NY, Dallas, Washington DC, Chicago and Los Angeles. Show up in person or send in an application. Either way, the competition will be fierce.

Top Chef returns this week as the chefs are at the mercy of the slots. Guest judge is yummy Tyler Florence. Top Chef Season 6 Episode 7 is titled “Dinner Party” – a catered dinner for the chefs in Macy’s Culinary Council.

For 25 years, Gooseberry Patch has been selling cookbooks, calendars and assorted housewares through their free catalog. With over 220 cookbooks, Gooseberry Patch has made their colorful mark in the world of cookbook publishers.

Harris Teeter offers to enter for a chance to win $2,500 cash or a $500 Harris Teeter gift card by submitting an online video recipes.

Drinking the recommended daily amount of water is more important to women than having enough sex, according to a national survey conducted by Cooking Light magazine. When asked what women’s priorities were in terms of their health and well-being, drinking enough water ranked fifth and sex ranked seventh. Over 1,000 women across the country participated in Cooking Light’s “Women’s Wellness Poll” which surveyed their opinions on healthy living, eating and exercise.

A unique partnership focusing on curbing childhood obesity has been selected to demonstrate its success to attendees at the annual meeting of the National Association of Counties (NACo) today in Nashville. The Nashville Collaborative, an innovative partnership between the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and Metro’s Parks & Recreation Department develops and tests innovative, family-based, community-centered programs to reduce pediatric obesity.

Have you ever traveled across continents on a quest to find the BEST shish kebab in the world? Then Frommer’s® 500 PLACES FOR FOOD & WINE LOVERS belongs on your bookshelf. 500 PLACES FOR FOOD AND WINE LOVERS (Wiley, May, $19.99, ISBN: 9780470287750) is the first book of its kind to serve as a trusted Frommer’s® travel guide for those seeking a vacation combined with epicurean adventure.

It’s another day in Hell’s Kitchen and it’s full of surprises during the season 5 episode 509. The contestants are asked to create a unique dish staring King Crab. The best dish from each team will be served to Chef Ramsey a winner will be chosen.

LG Electronics (LG), the world’s leading innovator of home appliances, held a premier culinary competition for home chefs, “The 2008 LG Global Home Chef Award,” at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel in Dubai on December 10, 2008.