Who let all these brown people on Top Chef?

Five! Out of 17! That's . . . hold on one moment . . . (carry the 4; add the 2; yes, I graduated from elementary school) . . . 29 percent brown people!

You can learn more about Timothy, Tiffany, Tamesha, Kevin (the “Barack Obama of the cooking game”?), and Kenny on Bravo's Top Chef website. There's also Angelo, but he's too full of himself for my taste. And let us not forget Arnold, the token Asian person. Like his predecessors, will Arnold be short-tempered like Dale, manic like Hung, or angry and forgettable like Gene?

Take note, other television shows I watch. You can have lots of colorful people on the screen at the same time in significant roles, and still have a well-written, succesful program. Seven seasons of Top Chef? Crazy.

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My new celebrity crush

Meet Ilan Hall, winner of Top Chef Season 2. He's so dreamy. I wasn't that into him when I was watching his season last year. But after watching Top Chef: Watch What Happens, the inexplicable reunion that is airing during the middle of the third season, I can smell what Ilan is cooking. He was wearing a tuxedo with too-short pants and no socks, which is normally a bad look, as well as too fancy for any show on Bravo. But he looked so cute!

According to the special, Sam (seen below) is the former cheftestant who attracts most of the ladies.


He reminds me of this guy that I once knew. Same look, same distant persona. Not my bag, man.

Before a certain someone asks, yes, Ilan is Jewish; but that's not why I like him. I didn't know he was Jewish until after I started writing this post. I'm sure some of the other guys on Top Chef are Jewish, too, but do you see me labeling them as my new celebrity crush? No, you don't. So stop judging me!