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Pack Your Knives

A weekly TV, Film and Arts podcast featuring Kevin Arnovitz and Tom Haberstroh
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Pack Your Knives

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Pack Your Knives

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Pack Your Knives

Count The Dings

Pack Your Knives

A weekly TV, Film and Arts podcast featuring Kevin Arnovitz and Tom Haberstroh
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Tom and Kevin discuss how much team competition is too much team competition on Top Chef, as the chefs again split up into two teams to come up with a progressive, 5-course meal befitting of a vintage supper club.The producers inject an edgy d
Buddha dropped by to dish with Tom and Kevin about his time on set, who actually served the best dish of the week, getting to watch Kristen Kish at work in her rookie season, and whom he’d name White House chef should he ever occupy the Oval Of
For all Tom and Kevin know, Wisconsin native Frank Lloyd Wright’s career might have been fueled by Pop-Tarts and Spaghetti O’s.But some of the architectural luminary’s best work can be found just a couple of blocks from where the Top Chef 21 c
This week's PYK Premium guest is Carly Levitz, the delightful queen of Top Chef data science.Carly joins the show to talk about her (recent) obsession with Top Chef and how she watches every episode through the lens of a data nerd (we say this
Tom & Kevin aren’t huge fans of hidden doors or cheese croquettes, but they love getting to the bottom of a good mystery -- like who’s to blame over the slippery floor this week in the Top Chef kitchen.This week’s Cheese Elimination Challenge
In the annals of Top Chef lore, Joe Flamm is a legend. He clawed his way back through Last Chance Kitchen to win Season 15 with his combination of rustic Adriatic fare and technical savvy.If you find yourself anywhere in the vicinity of Chicag
It’s a Pack Your Knives’ tradition like no other: The annual Top Chef fantasy draft. Team Tom has deployed its scouting and data analytics departments to scour the field of cheftestants for the sure bets and hidden gems.Since Kevin got a glim
Brew City wastes no time throwing its first beer-focused challenge at the Season 21 field.Nobody seems excited about cooking with hops in the Quickfire challenge, but the chefs who go sweet win favor with guest judge, Top Chef champion, and Fr
It’s a Pack Your Knives’ tradition like no other: The annual Top Chef fantasy draft. Team Tom has deployed its scouting and data analytics departments to scour the field of cheftestants for the sure bets and hidden gems.Since Kevin got a glim
The Kristen Kish Era of Top Chef has arrived! Top Chef Season 21 is here, and Tom and Kevin like the new look.This 'inverted' premiere episode has immunity up for grabs in the Elimination Challenge at the beginning, while a Quickfire cook-off
Pack Your Knives is back. And better than ever.On the Season 21 preview, we discuss the new host, new rules and bring in PYK’s Wisconsin correspondent and Milwaukee-native C.J. Krawczyk to give the scouting report on the host city.Tom and Kev
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Padma, Buddha and the f'ing liver. In a jam-packed episode of Pack Your Knives, Tom and Kevin recap the contentious Season 20 finale, bid farewell to Padma Lakshmi and launch a campaign for her replacement. Also joining the show are Buddha Lo a
Our love for this season continues to grow like mushrooms on cow dung. Tom and Kevin recap the infamous Wall Challenge and the mushroom elimination challenge ahead of next week's finale.While reeling from a cheftestant's elimination, Tom shock
Breaking news: Tom and Kevin went to a Top Chef dinner in Los Angeles at Craft this week!The Pack Your Knives crew not only got to meet Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons, but also the Restaurant Wars winning team and taste their five-course meal.
ESPN's Mina Kimes drops by Pack Your Knives for a recap of the Beef Wellington episode. Kevin, Mina and Tom wrap themselves up in the drama, investigate the mystical origins of the Beef Wellington and discuss the double-elimination choices by t
With Restaurant Wars in the rearview mirror, Tom and Kevin digest the smoked fish and thali challenges of this week's episode and interview Top Chef producer Thi Nguyen. As one of the brains behind the show, Nguyen shares what it's like to work
It's Restaurant Wars!!! Or is it?Tom and Kevin air their grievances about the unconventional Restaurant Wars episode and wonder what happened behind the scenes.They rank their favorite dishes and designate the roles that we never got to see.
Sixty-eight teams enter the NCAA Tournament, but only one walks away victorious. With 99% of the field heading home without a trophy, how do athletes and teams cope with defeat? In this episode of the LG Transparent Conversations series, The Ne
This episode The Next Chapter continues the LG Electronics Transparent Conversation series, Prim and LG recorded live from Fan Fest during the Men’s Final Four Championships in Houston, Texas. Joined by LCSW and founder of AthMindset, Lisa Bont
With Restaurant Wars around the corner, Tom and Kevin get their engines rev'd with the incredible Fast X mise en place elimination challenge.Then, Team Haberstroh and Team Arnovitz, each with four cheftestants remaining, fill in the roles of t
Kevin and Tom get their hands dirty with the Gaggan Anand episode of Top Chef: World All-Stars and take stock of the competition as we near ever closer to the Restaurant Wars mark.Cheftestant Dale Mackay of Saskatchewan fame joins the show to
With the most confusing Top Chef episode of the season, Kevin and Tom fight off whiplash and vertigo as they recap the Downton Abbey episode. Tom bids farewell to one of his top picks but discovers a budding crush on another and rants about san
Top Chef heads to the Kent countryside, where a shocking ending sends a cheftestant home. Kevin takes issue with the cheftestant's fate while Tom defends his squad.Then, World All-Stars contestant and Season 16 finalist Sara Bradley of Freight
Kevin and Tom put their green velvet blazers on and recap Episode 4 of Top Chef World All-Stars. We get introduced to the glory that is Paul A. Young and deliberate on the value of an English biscuit. After a scouting report on the Tottenham Ho
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