No Effen Flava on Top Chef Chicago

Top Chef Season 4 premiered this week with no effen flava left on the show. Sixteen chefs are going up in 24 challenges and after the first challenge, the flava’s all gone with Nimma packing up her knives. You’ve heard the phrase “variety is the spice of life” but the cast of Season 4 looks, well, blanched.

The third season of Top Chef featured a little more racial diversity with its crew. There was the winner Hung, brother man Tre, so-close-to-the-finals Sara, and the younger Sara N. Season 4 counters with Nimma, Filipino Dale, Manuel, and a ton of effen swearing, you motherfathers! No $h*t, I’m not counting the Grecian Spike.

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However, there is a some lifestyle diversity in the Windy City. Jennifer and Zoi are an outed Lesbian couple both in the competition, Mark is from New Zealand and represents all the Hobbit chefs of the world, and Erik is the laid back bad ass who would like to open up a “shack on a beach in Hawaii and cook in flip flops and aloha shirts. Andrew is the Marshall Mathers of the crew, cussing and swearing and bringing more white man hip hop than Justin Timberlake. Richard is the culinary scientist and of course, there’s Los Banos’ own, Ryan, who doesn’t know what chicken picatta is (well, neither do I but I’m not vying for the title of Top Chef).

Over the course of the season, I’m sure personalities and fan favorites will emerge, making the Wonder Bread complexion a little less noticeable. Based solely on their bios, I’m going with Dale. Check out his kicks in his bio’s pic – Dale’s rocking the classic fire red Jordan III. Now that’s a way to pay homage to Chicago’s own legendary Airness, Michael Jordan.

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