Top Chef Final Four

For me it has been a season of the best Top Chef challenges ever. This Wednesday's episode was the last in New York City. The 5 remaining chefs had to prepare a Last Supper for 5 of the Culinary World's Top Chefs. With the Last Supper being what that particular famous chef would want as their last supper, I suppose in a they are about to be executed situation? I don't know, that wasn't made clear.

Okay, I'll totally tell the truth here. While I do know of some of the Culinary World's renowned cooks, and celebrity chefs, I really didn't know much of anything about any of these Culinary World's gods and goddesses on this episode. But the Top Chef contestants sure did.

The Chefs drew knives that had the name of the famous chef on it. Carla won the Quickfire, she drew first. Her Quickfire advantage was she could have taken someone else's knife and cooked that Last Supper. But she really liked the guy she picked, knew his stuff. She turned out to be right to stay with that Last Supper.

During the course of cooking, Stephan the Finn, was his usual cocky self. But this time the cockiness seemed to be a bit of foreshadowing. Maybe he'll get told to pack his knives and leave, I thought.

While prepping his food, Fabio, the Italian, hurt a finger real bad. A medic suggested he go to a hospital. But he wanted to continue. He drew an Italian food Chef's knife. The famous Italian chef loved Fabio's chicken, as did the other judges, including the constantly annoying new British judge, Toby Young, who they really need to tell to pack his knives and leave.

When it was all over, Fabio's and Carla's Last Suppers were determined to be the best. The guest judge, the really really famous guy who's knife Carla drew and who really really liked what Carla made for his Last Supper, picked Fabio as the winner. I thought, huh? Why did you not pick Carla? Carla is my favorite.

So, that left Leah, Hosea and Stephan on the bottom. Stephan screwed up pretty bad for once. I had some hope he'd be sent away with his knives. But in the end it was Leah who is not going to New Orleans for the finale.

So, it is Carla against 3 guys, two of them being Euros, and Hosea, who really doesn't seem as if he has a ghost's chance in hell of winning.

There is a lag time between the final New York City episode and the finale episodes in New Orleans. This gives the Final Four time to go home. For Carla to see her husband and Fabio his wife. I don't know who or what Stephan or Hosea have to go home too.

From the previews we saw that Carla came back from the break with a new hair do. As did Fabio. Carla's new do seemed a bit better new do than Fabio's.