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Dinner Party at Stephanie Izard’s House

As you might remember, a couple of weeks ago, I entered a contest that the RedEye was running called Virtual Kitchen Stadium. The idea was that Stephanie Izard, winner of Top Chef Chicago, would pick three random-ish ingredients, each participant would create a dish, and then she would judge the dishes based on the pictures and recipes. You can read more about my entry here.

I didn’t win. That’s the bad news.

The good news is, Stephanie Izard is so sweet and awesome that she decided to invite everyone who participated in the contest over to her place for a pot-luck dinner party!

me

David and I went last week, and had an awesome time. There was a ton of great food, and lots of fun conversation. We met some very interesting people, in addition to Stephanie herself. We got to try a bunch of new dishes, including, for me, brussels sprouts. (They were good! What is the world coming to?!). After all of the food, and there was LOTS, we all crowded in around Stephanie’s new TV to watch that night’s Top Chef.

It was a little weird, watching Top Chef with an actual Top Chef, but a lot of fun. Stephanie was really nice, friendly, warm, and just plain normal. We had a great time.

If you want to see more pictures, you can check out the RedEye gallery here.

Stephanie also blogged a little bit about the night at her own website/blog, here.

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5 Responses to “Dinner Party at Stephanie Izard’s House”

  1. November 15th, 2009 at 7:49 pm

    Cara

    omg, I hadn’t had a chance to look at the RedEye pics. SOOOO CUTE!!!

  2. November 16th, 2009 at 9:44 am

    Teri

    @Cara

    Good call on re-wearing my cute outfit. ;-) I’m in so many pictures, I would’ve been ticked if I didn’t look cute!

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  4. December 31st, 2009 at 8:49 am

    Olga

    wow, how cool that she invited everyone over! Guess she’s as nice in real life as she appeared on TV.

  5. January 2nd, 2010 at 11:39 am

    Teri

    She really was super nice. Though you’d have to be, to come out of Top Chef’s editing room looking like a nice person. :)

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