"♪ ♪" "I wanted to tell Dale more than I told him there at the end." "I just wasn't prepared, you know?" "It is great to win." "It's always an amazing feeling, but I wanted to go to the end with Dale, and this is probably the only elimination that I'm sad about." "Dale, there is absolutely no way we could taste that amberjack buried underneath all those spices." "Dale, please pack your knives and go." "Wow." "You can't-- just--you're invincible." "Wow." "This is the moment last season where I went home." "Not so many people get a second chance." "I cannot go home on the same challenge." "It's hard." "Mm." "I don't even know what to think at this point." "Don't." "It's better don't think." "Xexe?" "Hi!" "Being a single mom is so unbelievably hard." "I miss my daughter Xea." "It's wearing, and I try not to think about it." "Yeah?" "Are you having a good time?" "But having her see me be really passionate about something that I love..." "Bye, sweetie." "It's the best example that I can set for her." " Final five?" " Cheers." "Now it gets tough, guys." "Mikey." "This hasn't been tough?" "The next challenge, this is a big one." "We're one step away from figuring out who's going to the final rounds." "I don't wanna be happy until..." "I get there because I don't wanna celebrate before and then drop the ball." "Five Chefs remain, but only four will make it into the final rounds of Top Chef All-Stars to fight it out for $1/2 million in cash and prizes and the grand prize-- a feature in Food  Wine magazine," "a showcase at the annual Food  Wine classic in Aspen," "$200,000 to pursue their culinary dreams, furnished by Buitoni, and the title that's eluded them all" "Top Chef." "♪ Top Chef:" "All-Stars 8x12 ♪ Give Me Your Huddled Masses Original Air Date on March 2, 2011" " sync, corrected by elderman " "Today is a stressful day." "As long as it's under 50 plates." "Antonia, you have a good nose for this." "What's happening today?" "For real, that's what I started thinking." " Did you?" " Yeah." "I'm like, what is going on?" "Hi!" " Mama Mia!" " Aah!" "Oh, my God!" "Wow." "Totally surprising." "It's nice to see Padma in the house." "But this is our area." "It's like the zoo." "Don't get near the animals." "Padma's in the lion's cage." "One Brooklyn." "Well, it's a great view." "We're actually talking about what--what's gonna be going on today." "Well, why don't you get your Chef coats on, meet me on the roof, and I'll tell you." "Hurry up!" "The roof, huh?" "I think that we're having a quickfire on the roof." "We're gonna like base jump off our roof." "She's gonna be like, "scramble an egg and fry an egg before you hit the ground."" "18 all-star Chefs started this competition, and now, only five of you remain, and that's quite an accomplishment." "Congratulations." "Thank you." "Chefs, for your quickfire, you're taking a ferry to one of America's most historical landmarks." "Ellis Island." "I'm kinda bugging out." "I mean, I've never been to Ellis Island." "I know that's where all the immigrants came through." "I just don't know what to expect at this point." "Your guest judge and I will meet you there." "Sound good?" "Awesome." "Okay." "Good-bye!" "Bye." "Guys, we have a note." ""Chefs," ""your quickfire challenge is happening right here." ""Assemble a dish with whatever ingredients" ""you can find onboard before this ferry docks at Ellis Island."" "The things we find at the snack bar are chips and hot dogs and cheese." "Delicious." "Blah." ""The boat is your clock for this challenge." ""When you hear the horn, time starts." "When you hear it again, time is up."" "Our clock is from horn to horn, but there's no actual clock." "So it could take five minutes." "It could take three hours." ""Good luck." "Padma."" "Thanks, Padma." "Ahh..." "Oh, wow." "Scary." "So when's this horn gonna blow, huh?" "When is this horn gonna blow?" "♪ ♪" "This is ridiculous!" "♪ ♪" "Blow!" "Oh!" "Ha ha!" "Is there a cutting board or anything?" "There's no kitchen equipment." "There's no cooking equipment." "There's no produce." "There's no nothing." "It's just some bagged and canned stuff." "Guys, we're almost there!" " Shut up!" "No, we're not." " Ha ha ha!" "I'm thinking I'm gonna make some type of nachos." "Everyone likes nachos." "I need to win this to give me the drive in order to make it to the final four." "Is that hot dog grill on over there?" "Yeah." "Never made a grilled cheese sandwich on a hot dog roller, but I know I can make that quickly." "I'm like, all right, if I grab the bread from there and the cheese from there and the apple from there, maybe I can make a really good grilled cheese." "Where are we?" " Is there water, anyone?" " Yes, there's water." "I grab hot dogs, and I pull out of my knife kit an MRE bag, you know, a meal ready to eat." "It's actually what our soldiers eat when they're in the field because you just have to take any liquid, pour it in the bag, and you get boiling water." "I've had them in my kit just kind of waiting to unveil them, and why not?" "I don't see any fresh herbs." " Fresh who?" " Fresh mint." "Are you kidding?" "Who's in there?" "Somebody in there?" "Ready!" "Oh." "People are doing nachos, hot dogs." "It's too much junk food." "I decide to make an orange salad, which will be totally different than what some of the other Chefs are doing." "In a good way, though." "No, I want it on." "I started it." "It didn't start." "I'm going to infuse some rosemary into this papaya carrot juice because I think creativity is going to be the difference between a winning and a losing dish." "We landing anywhere?" "Anyone see anybody?" "That--oh, wait." "If we're turned around, that's-- you know, not knowing where we are, in retrospect, to Ellis Island, is nerve-racking." "How many minutes away are we?" " I don't know." " Can I grab some of those pork rinds, dude?" "Yeah." "I see some pork rinds, and I kind of had an idea of a soup in mind." "And I see hot dog rolls, and that's traditionally how they were thinking up soups." "They did it with bread, and that was bread soup." "It tastes a little weird to have chunks of soggy bread." "Hopefully, if I keep mashing it, it'll emulsify." "You got my sour cream, Richie?" " I do, right here." " Richard is known for his 14-plus ingredients in one dish." "But I'm looking, I'm like..." "Okay, that's a hot dog with a lotta stuff on it." "That's Ellis Island right there." " Where?" " Right in front of us." "Ah, , I'm in the weeds!" "Yeah." "We're definitely pulling in." "Yeah, we're definitely pulling in." " Go on with your bad self." " Girl, shut up." "No one in their right mind would just put together nachos." "Anybody see any salt and pepper packages?" "Yeah, I decide, okay, let's go with the second dish." "And I'm making popcorn with dried fruit." "Who's in the mic?" "Richie is." "Richie, you done?" "That's a pretty bold move, man." "I'm pushing it." "Boat's slowing down, guys." " We're definitely docking." " Got ten seconds." "All right, time's up, guys!" "Fortunately, I finished right on time." "But honestly, I'm just not happy with it." "I wouldn't serve that dish to...my cat." "Hi, guys." "I'd like to introduce you to Dan Barber." "He's the Chef and owner of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns." "Dan Barber, he's all about local and sustainable food." "And it's funny, because we only had processed food." " Hi, Richard." " Hi." "We know each other." "We were partners." "I have worked with Dan Barber." "He was my celebrity sous Chef for my finale in Puerto Rico." "I think he's a great Chef." "But he's a tough judge." "This is sort of my version of a banh mi sandwich." "So I've taken some hot dogs I cooked in an MRE packet, 'cause I just happen to travel with MRE packets in my knife kit." "I wanna go to war with you, bud." "Okay, so I did a little bit of nachos, melted down a little bit of cheese." "Took some lettuce and tomatoes, jalapenos, banana peppers." "So really, they had all the nacho fixings." "Yes." "And then I decided I had more time than what I thought, so I popped a little popcorn with some candied mangoes and pineapples, 'cause I like the sweet and salty popcorn." "Tiffany made nachos." "I mean, here's the cheese, here's the jalapenos..." "In the microwave-- oh, we're done!" "Here ya go!" "So, yeah, not a lot of effort put into that one." "I did a kind of like a peasant-style soup where I thickened it with bread, cheddar cheese, sour cream, a little bit of pork rinds in there to give it that pork and cheese flavor." "There's bread thickening the soup?" "Yeah." "I took some hot dog rolls, took the crust off, mashed it all up." "It's just so funny to me how everyone was sort of elevating their dishes in terminology." "Mikey, you just made a soup using hot dog buns and sour cream, and that's disgusting." "I did an orange an papaya salad with carrot and rosemary juice." "I infused the rosemary chips in the juice." "Very refreshing after your cheese soup." "So I basically took apart a lot of sandwiches and then put them back together." "I got some really nice raising bread, muenster cheese, and apps and basically did a grilled cheese on the hot dog griller back there." "So the pork flavor's coming from the..." "Is there a little bit of pork flavor?" "Fantastic." "Yes." "That's what I was going for then, Chef." "I'm kinda seeing what is being put up around me, and there's some weird stuff going on here." "Carla sliced some of the oranges." "Antonia did the old shell game and took cheese from one sandwich that was already made and put it on bread from another sandwich that was already made, and then...toasted it." "So I'm feeling pretty good about my chances of winning this challenge." "I'm like, "who are these people?"" " It's very emotional." " Aah!" "Dan, how do you think our Chefs did overall in this quickfire?" "It's not the kind of food that I'm used to on Top Chef, but...under the circumstances, you guys did a great job." "Tiffany, the dish was a little bit plain and too much like a throwaway." "I know I messed up." "Just pretty embarrassing." "Richard, we found it tasty, and I found it really a creative way to use a frankfurter." "Thank you." "Mike, you had the cheese soup, and it could have sunk the ship." "Mike's dish was gross and disgusting, so I'm happy that he's on the bottom." "Antonia, the technique of grilling it was really, really smart." "Thank you." "And Carla, your orange salad was refreshing and very innovative with the infusion in the carrot juice." "Thank you." "So Dan, tell us who won this quickfire." "The dish we enjoyed the most was..." "Carla." "Oh!" "Thank you!" "Watch out, everybody." "Watch out." "T.C. Title!" "Whoo!" "I'm a little bitter about it." "Sliced oranges with some candied fruit on top of it." "I don't get it." "Chefs, this is the last elimination challenge in New York." "Ellis Island is the symbol of the American immigrant experience." "More than 20 million immigrants passed through here, hoping for a better life in the United States." "Using your family history, we want you to assemble the perfect dish that represents your heritage, the journey of your ancestors." "The African-American experience is obviously very different from the immigrant who came through Ellis Island." "The fact that some of my ancestors came from Africa through the slave trade is just as important to me as someone else coming through Ellis Island." "That's just how we got here." "But we still are part of the fabric of America, and I love it all." "Knowing where you come from will play a large role in helping you become the kind of Chef you want to become." "To give you deeper insight into your ancestry, we hired one of the best genealogists in the country." "She's researched the lineage of each one of you and compiled historical documents and stories about the families that came before you." "It's an exciting concept because I think so much of the food that we put out as Chefs are really about the people that we are." "And we've brought in some special guests to help you go through it all." "Oh, wow." "I'm like, "who are these people?"" "Aah!" "Then, I'm like..." "Oh, my gosh!" "My husband was walking toward me." "I see my mom." "It's like a rejuvenation." "I'm so proud of you, Tiff." "So proud of you." "Seeing my mom and just letting it all out-- it's a good thing." "With my mom I'm safe, you know." "I don't have to worry about anything." "It--it's just a feeling that I get being around her." "Hi, mama." "I love you." "Oh, my God!" "I'm like totally shocked seeing my mother here." "I haven't seen my mom in like six months." "It's very emotional." "Lotta pressure." "Oh, I know, I know!" "Oh, my God!" "Mwah!" "Oh, Mikey." "So what's going on?" "I'm excited to see my mom." "She just looked at me, she's like, "are you okay?"" "And I was like, "I'm just really tired."" "I wanted to crouch into a fetal position and be like, "mommy, this has been really hard."" " How are you doing?" " Good." "Big." "My wife's there." "She's five months pregnant." "It's a big moment for us." "I got like a bowling ball." "I love you." "Okay, Chefs, good luck, enjoy your families." "We'll see you tomorrow." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Let's roll!" "You look great." "You look amazing." "You have a little tiny little belly." "I know." "It's exciting." "Family is very important to me, you know." "And it's the driving force of everything I do." "I think she's sleeping now." "It's been a very rough year for us." "My mom passed away about two months ago." "My wife's grandmother just passed away prior to that." "So there's a huge emotional connection to this challenge." "I'm just lucky to have my wife and our children, you know." "It's what life's all about." "Archibald Craig." "What a great name." "Maybe we'll get a baby name out of this book." ""Richard is mostly Irish and English with some deep American roots."" "We find out some fascinating things." "That my family's from Worcestershire." "I love Worcestershire sauce." "I guess it's just in my genes." " Here you go." " Worcestershire sauce." "Couldn't have lined it up any easier." "Ding." "A meat market." "That's crazy." "The meat market, chemistry." "My whole shtick as a Chef is just like kind of unfolding in front of me." "There's a meat and potatoes general sort of theme to this." "Yeah." "Okay." " Wow." " They got all the history." "Now, Mary Lee Tudman." "And look." "That's Mary Lee." "That's your great-grandmother." "Texas, Louisiana." "What are old traditions that are us, you know?" "Like what do we eat in Louisiana the most?" "Pork roast." "Oxtail." "Turkey necks." "We never did eat them too much." "Cooking for family is very emotional." "I want to cook from where we came from." "One dish that represents where I came from." " Okra, tomatoes." " Mm." "I was like, "oh, no." "Mm-mm." "Mm-mm." "Tom doesn't like okra."" "I kind of like the idea of the okra." "I just started thinking," ""why am I going to change great recipes?"" "Tom's never tasted mine." "So I'm gonna do it." "I know the okra's good." "That's the family tradition there." "This is exciting, 'cause I have no idea what they're gonna say." "Oh, there's granny!" "So I mean, we've got Tennessee, Georgia," "Alabama, Mississippi." "Says, "great-grandfather Horace Price served in the U.S. colored troops in the Civil War."" "Oh!" "To find out that my great-great-grandfather was in the Civil War..." "They were the last slaves to be freed in Lebanon, Tennessee." "It's our history, and I'm proud of it." "Your grandfather was a printer." " Printer." " And his own boss." "I don't know any part of this." "And also to find out that my great-great-grandfather had his own business, it's truly an accomplishment." "As soon as I think of someone who has their own business," "I think of independence." "I have a small business." "I'm a caterer." "I'm like, "okay, that's where I got that from."" "I did so poorly on the southern food challenge-- it was--oh, my God." "Couldn't go home?" "I know I'm making a southern dish." "I'm a little nervous." "Well, a soup, like it almost becomes like a chowder." "Oh, yeah." "Yeah, that's tasty." "Aah!" ""Mike appears to be pure Italian."" "I think I knew that already." "This is your dad." "Okay, that's his mother." "My parents split up when I was three, and I grew up with my mom." "Your father does not look Italian." "And neither do you, actually." " I look Italian." " No, you don't." "You look Irish to me." "Please." "To say it nicely, I was a troubled kid when I was younger." "I really didn't have the guidance of a father to kinda keep me in line." "I told my mom I wanted to be a Chef, and she said fine." "Long as it kept me out of jail." "So that was grandma right there." "Grandma is Antoinette Antonacci." "My mom is my number one supporter my whole life-- her and my grandmother." "Yeah, grandma." "When she was younger." " Wow." " Yeah." "My grandmother showed me how to cook." "When she passed away," "I never wanted to cook Italian food because I never wanted to be reminded of all those times of us together." " You gonna make gravy?" " I am, I am." "Maybe some gnocchis with it." "Ah, okay." "Nice and light, I hope." ""Antonia has an interesting heritage, being 3/4 Italian and 1/4 Jewish."" "Okay, mom, we gotta go with Italian, I'm sorry." "Oh, my God, Mike!" "We may be-- Mike, we may be related." " Why's that?" " Really?" "Says right here," ""both Antonacci and Miani names come from both Mike and Antonia's family trees."" " Antonacci?" " Quelle surprise!" "Mike happens to be long-distance relative from Sicily." "That's why we fight so much." "My, like, crazy like arch-nemesis of this entire competition" "I am now related to?" "Oh, they're-- they're related." "You have no idea." "I've been trying to figure out my karma with this man." "Does he--does he do pastry though?" "No." "No." "But he, like, burps and farts and like..." "Oh, my God." "That's your father's family." "Don't associate that with me." "I don't do that in my family." "I told you I was your brother you never had." "Now I kinda..." "I'm rootin' for her, and I kinda want her to stay, you know, me and my cousin being in the finals." "I mean, how cool is that?" "Giuseppe Esposito." "That's your great-grandfather." "Oh, my God." "I see this picture of my great-grandfather who came from Palermo, Sicily." "They were just like these very strong men coming to a country to make a better life." "What I've sort of seen, like my father too, working and really taking care of his family." "I feel almost grateful to be a part of that." "I love you." "I love you so much." " Bye." "Love you." " Bye." " All right, mom." " See you." "Gotta go shop." "This picture of me..." "Pretty scary." "It was in the seventies." "There's nothing I can do about it." "That's my cousin." "Go, Mikey." "Hey, guys." "You have osso bucco back there?" "You have some chanterelle?" "At first I thought," ""I kinda wish I was Italian."" "Because I don't have that sort of backbone to my cuisine." "I'm Irish and English." "You know?" "Whiskey's nice." "Potatoes are good." "But it'll be tough." "Gimme two of 'em." "Gimme three of 'em." "Oh, this side." "Thank you." "For this plate of food, the judges are learning more about us as people." "It's just a very intimate challenge." "It would be amazing to win this for my family." "Right behind you." "Coming through, look out!" "Thank you." "That's it." "We're good." "Thanks, mom." "You guys are cousins?" "You guys are cousins?" "Cousin Mikey!" "Let's hug it out." "Let's hug it out." "Aw!" "It totally makes sense." "Now I'm starting to look at them" "Mike, Antonia." "They look the same." "They're related." "It's obvious." "Scary." "I skipped over that paragraph when I was lookin' at it." "My mom goes, "he's really cute, Antonia."" "I was like, "no, he's not." "He flicks his boogers on me." "He farts." I was like, "he burps on me."" " Aw!" " I'm like, he's that annoying cousin that would have come over for dinner." "Two people happen to be on Top Chef together, arguing and fighting the entire time." "They're now cousins." "That's me and my dad and our deli." "You were cute there." "You look like a little cute boy there." "You cannot write this scenario that has just played out." "Give it to me right now." "Mikey!" "They saw it, Mikey." "When I was a kid, probably about five, six years old," "I was in dance school." "That was a long time ago, in the seventies." "Nothing I can do about it, this picture of me in spandex." "Pretty--pretty scary." "You're exposed now, Mikey." " Stayin' alive!" "Hey!" " That's my cousin." "Go, Mikey." "My man." "Can't even talk about this." "I don't wanna get up." "I want to go back to sleep." "Carla and I are like BFFs." "And she's much older, but that's the person that I can relate to the most." "It's only three girls left, and so the guys are looking at it, and we see it and we're like, okay, we just gotta make sure that we stand tough." "I'm looking forward to today." "This is the last challenge in New York, and I just want us to make the judges' decision really hard by making great food." "What's goin' on here?" "Guys, come up here." "We have a DVD." "I don't know." "This was left on the table." " And these." " A Toyota." "Let's go see what we got!" "Oh, my God!" "Okay." "Okay." "Okay, here we go." "Hello, Chefs." "Look around." "I hope you like what you see." "Because the winner of this elimination challenge will secure a spot in the final four and win this Toyota Highlander." "A Toyota Highlander hybrid that is off the chain." "Good tuck with the challenge." "It has DVD systems, leather seats, touch screen." "Whoo-whee!" "It's looking good!" "We arrive at Giando on the Water, which has a beautiful view of Manhattan." "This challenge was all about you embracing who you are as a Chef." "It's really important for a Chef to understand where they've been to know where they're going." "My family is from so many different states in the South." "I'm making braised pork shoulder with fried grits." "My grandmother had this little biscuit cutter that-- it was all beat up." "I just loved watching her make biscuits, so I wanna make them too." "Get into scatter mode." "I look over, and Carla's dabbling with liquid nitrogen." "I think she's pushing herself." "That's what you have to do." "My dish is one of those dinners that you would have anytime at our house." "I'm making braised short ribs, oxtail marmalade, and stewed okra and rice." "I'm on a mission to get Tom to try this okra and to like it." "Whoo-hoo!" "You like it?" "Carla-- it's hot, hot." "That's nothing else added." "Straight out the pot." "One of my father's favorite things to eat is veal, and that's where the inspiration started to come from." "My dad just went through another bout of radiation." "He had prostate cancer, and I wanna really just kind of honor my dad." "The dish is braised veal with risotto." "Got risotto?" "I was gonna go with the polenta." "It's called always having a backup plan." " You're an animal." " It's all about the recovery." "I found out I've had relatives that ran meat markets and that were chemists." "The dish I'm gonna be making is braised short rib with fried bone marrow, corn puree, and pickled glassworts." "It's on here if you need it." "Glasswort is also called sea beans." "But glasswort just sounds so much sexier." "That's what they call them in England, in Ireland, and I'm representing my heritage." "You're okay, right?" "Okay." "Yep." "I had never cooked Italian professionally." "It all comes from the heart of my grandmother to me, and I'm gonna cook it tonight, and I'm gonna make the best out of it." "Come on." "Please." "These recipes go back decades to centuries, and I just want it to be so right." "Come on, mother." "Ah, this is gonna kill me." "I love grandma's cooking." "I love grandma." "I know that she's been watching over me over the years, even when she passed away, so she'll shine down on me and help me through this." "30 minutes!" "Whoo!" ", I'm nervous." "Can opener, anybody?" "Can opener?" "Yeah, I've got one." "I really wanna get my biscuits done, but they look anemic as if I'd just put them in." "I'm like, oh, no, are you kidding me?" "The temperature says 500, but there's no way." "Okay, let me just breathe." "I'm running out of time, so that throws me into a little bit of a tizzy." "Behind." "The difficulties in making a good risotto is making sure that it's not overcooked and gooey." "It needs to be the perfect consistency." "We want the cousins in the finals." "Tre got sent home for cooking risotto, but if I do it well, it's gonna be a payoff." "It's almost about that time, my friends." "This could be our last day together." "The last minutes of cooking, they're intense." "I'm just...super-focused." "If I go home for a dish that I feel this confident about," "I will be utterly heartbroken." "Two, four, six, eight, nine." " Hi." " Sorry." "Hold on." "I got it, I got it." "I'm nervous because if you're gonna go, going right near the end," "I think, is the toughest to swallow." "Hello." "Welcome, everyone, to our final dinner in New York." "It's wonderful to have you all sharinthis meal with us." "It sounds like everybody was really surprised when they saw you here." "They were." "I heard your husband got all choked up?" "Yeah." "He's a little emotional sometimes." "They've been away from you guys for a long time." "Yeah." "It." "Plate..." "Five step plates, whatever the it is." "It's a pain in the ass." "I'm very nervous." "It's a lot of pressure on me." "I just feel my grandmother on my shoulder, and I just don't wanna let anyone down." "All right, guys, I got 30 seconds left." "It was a pleasure working with all of you." "Oh, Mike!" "Thank you." "Hello, everybody." "I just want to thank everyone for coming-- especially my mom." "Whew!" "This is tough." "All right." "It's getting cold quick." "All right, my great-great- grandfather was from Naples." "What I decided to do was bring some elements from like when they came over to Ellis Island." "A pork ragu on the bottom, some potato gnocchis, some whipped burrata." "That is something my grandmother would cook for me when I was young." "Thank you so much, Mike." "Thank you." "Everyone enjoy tonight." "Now, did Michael always cook when he was young?" "When did he start cooking at home?" "I had him on a chair near the stove at three." " Really." " Yes." "He learned from grandmother, not from me." "We've had a lot of problems with gnocchi on this show." "This one happens to be a very good one." "Gnocchi is my favorite, so I really thought that Mike did a great job." "I really like that it was like a pillow." "It was very tender." "I also tend to stay away from gnocchi, 'cause I find it to be a little bit heavy, especially to start the meal." "But he hit it with this." "How does it compare to his grandma's?" "He's topping grandma, and that's like...oh, no." "Did Antonia learn to cook from you?" "Yes." "We had a restaurant in Beverly Hills for a couple of years." "And ten years old, she got behind the counter, she cooked, so...she's had a lot of experience." " You see towels?" " There's a bunch right there." "Cooking for my mom, it's completely like my real life and Top Chef have collided." "So I'm a little nervous, but I did my best." "Like hopefully, it pays off." " Hi, Antonia." " Hi." "How are you?" "So it's braised veal, a risotto of fava beans, and rapini leaves." "Little bit of lemon zest bread crumb and parmesan-reggiano." "My inspiration--I just was really envisioning what I would cook for my husband like back in the day." "Might sound totally sixties." "So enjoy and thank you." "Mmm." "I thought Antonia did a great job with all the flavors, and I thought the fava beans were awesome." "It was light, and-- like that lemon zest was just perfect." "Tom, what did you think?" "I have to say, in both dishes, it's not about bells and whistles." "It's really about flavor." "I think Antonia's dish is just packed with flavor." "Well, I'm not gonna be partial." "I thought it was a gorgeous dish." "Almost as good as Michael's." "Very close!" "You need to get over here, Carla?" "Uh, I'm gonna try to go here." "This is like complete deja vu." "I've made it to the number five position again." "It is minutes before the plates go out, and I fry the okra to get the slime out." "Can opener, anybody, can opener?" "Yeah, I got one." "I know it's a gamble to do the okra." "If Tom doesn't like it," "I could be eliminated today." "Hello, everybody!" "I grew up with a family full of cooks, and we love braised meats." "So what we have here is a little bit of a braised short rib with mustard greens that I cooked down with pig feet and okra and an oxtail marmalade." " Thank you, Tiffany." " You're welcome." "I think it's delicious." "Is this something you used to make at home?" " Mm-hmm." " Mm-hmm?" "I have to say, your family's well-fed." "This is-- I could eat." "I love that little crispy nugget of pig's feet." " Yeah, that makes it." " Braised short rib." "It's just done perfectly." "I don't like okra because of the slime." "Tiffany finally made okra that I like." "We live in Atlanta, so we eat a good bit of Southern food, and I thought this was a great representation of her heritage." "It brought all those nice memories in terms of this particular style of food for me, but it was very elegant on the plate." "So Matthew and Jasmine, I have a question for you." "Three really great dishes... feelin' some pressure right now?" "It's like, "get out of my head."" "I'm already thinking there's two left to go!" "'Cause they're all really good." "Have you ever had a final five?" "No." "We've never had a final five." "A final five!" "Anything else in your way, Richard?" "No, I'm good." "Thank you." "As I'm plating, the additional pressure of cooking for my wife is ridiculous." "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven." "She's an athlete and grew up playing sports and definitely more competitive than me." "So, yeah, on her end, you know, me being here," "I have to win." "This looks like Richard's." " It is." " Hi, guys." "Sorry." "I have to say hello." "Ah." "I'm nervous." "So I found out yesterday that I actually had someone come through Ellis Island, Irish/English." "So I figured that we would go with a steak and potatoes theme, as the other side of my family is deep-rooted in the American Midwest." "So potatoes from Ireland, corn from the United States, and then one of my favorite ingredients, pickled glassworts." "And, of course, it wouldn't be steak without fried bone marrow." "Enjoy." "I love the bone marrow." "It's just-- it's all right." "I mean... not all right." "It's all right." "I'm usually not a fan of bone marrow, but I really enjoyed that little crispy nugget of love on the plate there." "I think he does do a good job of showing that English/Irish, and I thought the corn was-- the corn puree was really good, really tasty." "So Matthew, what's going through" "Carla's mind right now?" "I'm sure she has her game face on." "Can we see that game face?" "And how did you guys meet?" "Really?" "Wow!" "That's great." "I had been on for a couple months, and so I just put in kind of these crazy parameters of taller than 5'10", and, you know, I read her profile, and--wow, this is amazing." "And...as the cliche goes, the rest was history, and we were married about eight months later." "I have two minutes?" "Okay." "What did I-- what did I do with it?" "Oh." "You know, I'm looking at all of the dishes, and my plate looks like this." "It doesn't really look as pretty as I wanted it to." "Just gentle." "Don't jerk the plate, please." "I immediately had this sinking feeling because this challenge is very personal." "The family members are talking to the judges about us, and I don't want to disappoint them." "Oh, it's gonna be an emotional ride tonight." "Somebody's supposed to go home, and I'm nauseous about it." "No, I couldn't even taste anything then." "Who did a gremolata?" "Here in New York, this is our last challenge." "It's just emotional when I think about it." "I want to win it for my mom and for my family." "Taste this." "See if this is salty." "I try Carla's grits, and they're really nice." "The biscuits are nice." "Can you taste that for me?" "Richard and I are particularly nervous." "I feel like Carla and Tiffany always have this like, "whatever happens, happens."" "And Richard and I are like," ""No!" "That's not true!"" "It's delicious." "Everyone's dishes were tasty and amazing." "And the way the challenges have been going-- big seeds aren't standing." "They're all gone." "I might be the only one left." "So like..." "it might be my time." "Like I'm really nervous." "Over here, rich, over here." "Listen, just 'cause you guys are related doesn't mean you start yelling at everyone else like we're in the family too." "That is true." "Hi." "How are you?" " Hi, Matthew!" " Hi, Carla!" "My family is primarily from Tennessee, but there was a little bit of Mississippi, Alabama." "So this is a, um, braised pork shoulder with grits, and I've made some cheddar biscuits." "Hey, don't hog those." "Get those down here." " Please enjoy." " Thank you." "That was my first time with eating grits." " Really?" " Yes." "Really." "It's delicious." "Yeah." "I thought the passing of the biscuits was just such a cool, family-style thing to do and really brought in the Southern roots of her heritage." "I love these grits." "This kind of caramelized, seared side brings another texture, another dimension." "I was really excited that Carla used a shoulder of pork." "There's not a dry bite in there." "Carla's really big on creating food memories, and I think that if you've had this food, it attaches to those memories." "And if you haven't had it, I think it would create one." "I'm--I'm very pleased with how she did." "I'm just sitting here thinking of how difficult judges' table's gonna be." "It's so completely up in the air who's gonna go home tonight and how we're gonna make heads or tails of our decision." "Chefs, I want to thank you all for a truly wonderful meal." "It was a great, great evening." "Thank you." "Did it remind you of home?" "Yes." "Yours was the best, I mean, easily." "Easily..." "Say, if my mom was judging, I'd be in the winner's circle." "Of course!" "I did!" " Flavors okay?" " Flavors were great." "The corn puree was great." "The little reduction was delicious--yeah." "People say some things about it?" "Yeah." "The meat was perfect." "'Cause you'll know." "No, I know." "No." "No." "It was all good." " Was the okra okay?" " It tasted good to me." " Love you." " Bye." "Love you too." " Thanks for coming." " I love you, Mike!" "It's been a..." "wild ride." "And I really learned a lot from all of you." " Yeah." " Cheers." "Cheers, guys." "It's been an honor working with all of you guys." "Yeah, it really has." "Oh, it's gonna be an emotional ride tonight." "My mom said that everybody's food was good." "And I mean like, I mean, my mom, she'll tell you what she thinks." "I don't think the judges were gonna say anything in front of them, you know?" "Well, we're gonna hear soon." "Good evening." " Hello." " Hello." "We'd like to see all of you at judges' table." "Thank you." "It's our last judges' table." "Here we go." "All right." "Last judges' table!" "Chefs, I want to thank you for a wonderful meal tonight." "Your family was very proud, and they should be." "Only four of you can go for that $200,000." "Carla, how did you find this challenge?" "Going to Ellis Island was amazing." "And finding out that I had so many roots in so many different southern states was very inspirational to me." "I loved that broth, and then those cheddar biscuits came down the table, and they were absolutely beautiful." "Oh, thank you." " The pork was pork cheek?" " It was pork shoulder." "Pork shoulder." "Okay, okay." "I thought that was excellent." "Thank you." "The broth I thought was interesting because it had a roundness to it that you usually don't get from broth." "The corn I thought was on the tough side." "The grits-- did you actually fry them?" "I was wondering if they were gonna stay together once I put 'em in the pan, and that's when I took liquid nitrogen to really get em cold." "You did what?" " I know!" " Ha ha." "It all worked together." "A soulful, flavorful dish." " Richard." " Quite emotional." "Having family there and then trying to connect the dots." "When you're a mutt almost, like there's so many things to try and connect, it's kinda tough--you don't wanna be epcot center." "You know?" "So hopefully that didn't happen." "The puree of corn" "I thought it was reminding me of mashed potatoes." "And I could see your thoughtfulness from start to finish on this plate." "It really worked." "Thank you." "You came up with a very interesting, well thought-out dish that just made perfect sense." "Even sea beans on a meat dish just all made sense." "The flavors worked together." "Everything was cooked nicely." "The story that you're telling now is the story that was told in the dish, so...nice work." "Thanks." "Antonia." "Veal was sort of that celebratory protein that my grandmothers like served to their husbands to get that peasant, like, "this is gonna fill you, this is gonna warm you, this is gonna say thank you."" "You were so courageous in serving us risotto." "I know." "Risotto's been tricky on this show." "The risotto had a great texture, and the veal shank just fell apart on top of it." "Thank you." "Everything I hate about risotto that you find in most restaurants-- this was the opposite." "It was about the rice." "It was about the broth." "The vegetables were just there as a complement." "Confidence came through with this dish." "Thank you." " Tiffany." " Well..." "As we found out," "I am from Texas and Louisiana, thoroughbred." "And okra's one of those staples that it's easy to cook, so that was always kind of one of those things that was done." " Oh, you did it." " I did what, Chef?" "You did it, you did it." "You converted me." "Yay!" "That was my biggest worry." "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" "This was the first time I had okra where the slime wasn't slimy;" "It was rich." "If this is what okra's about, you changed my mind." "The memories come through." "It's clear that you grew up in a house where food was important and, you know, your mom talking about some of the food-- just a smile on her face." "And her smile is your smile, her laugh is your smile." "And the dish was just..." "It was good." "Your love for what you were doing had us tasting things we otherwise wouldn't have tasted, so..." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Mike." "The gnocchi were really, really great." "Walk us through that recipe." "Well, my grandmother would cook." "She would let it cook, you know, from early in the morning all the way through the whole day." "It was just such a bold, bold flavor of meat." "And I wanted to kind of do the same thing." "And my mom was like, "well, you're gonna make gravy, right?"" "You're gonna tell 'em, too, it's gravy." "I said, "ma, yes, I'll tell 'em it's gravy."" "The flavor was rich without being heavy or overpowering." "It's really just elevated a classic, humble dish to another level." "Mike, the moral of this story is "listen to your mother."" "'Cause it was so good, soulful and satisfying." "Thank you." "I don't know if I would have had the courage to listen to my mother here if I was in your position." "That said, the last dish I wanna eat on earth is my mother's gravy before I die." "It's a very simple dish, but it is so soulful." "I really, really enjoyed it." "So..." "What's on your mind?" "What's going through your head right now?" "I was really close to my grandmother when she passed away when I was younger, so I didn't understand it." "So I didn't cook it for pretty much my whole career." "Even at home." "Because I didn't want it to, uh, remind me of that." "Your mom actually said to us when we were there that she thought her mother's gnocchi was the best gnocchi she'd ever had." "And then she had yours." "So...you did your grandmother very proud today, Michael." "Yeah." "Hope so." "Well, obviously, we have a huge decision to make tonight." "Please return to the stew room." "We'll call you back in a bit." "Thank you." "They liked our food!" "I know." "That's awesome!" "Mike..." "Mike, you're so open." "That's-- that's like really big." "That's really big." "I-I can understand your missing your grandmother." "Yeah, I thought I got past it, and then..." "The cooking stops being a job, and you are emotionally attached to it and people really can taste that." "I always say I can taste when somebody loves something." "And it's huge." "I mean, you gave them a gift." "Really." "I know it's all good compliments, but at the end of the day it's like somebody's supposed to go home, and I just am nauseous about it." "I don't know where to even begin you know, really-- these tiny little minute things we can go after." "But it's tough." "Each of these dishes were just stunning." "I loved Antonia's risotto." "I just--I completely cleaned my plate." "I thought it was really well-made and the ratio of meat to fava bean to broccoli rabe was just perfect." "To me, the veal shank, when eaten alone, was just a hair...salty." "Salty." "Yep." "I think what Mike did with the gnocchi was brilliant with the light sear." "Not only is it a dish that was-- found some sort of touch point and took it from there-- this was a dish that he made with his grandmother." "And I just thought it was absolutely delicious." "I thought if I was gonna plate that," "I'd probably put a little bit less of the meat." "I loved it with the fresh burrata on top." "You know, there was a great balance to that dish." "Let's talk about Richard's dish." "The flavors are perfect, the execution was perfect, and then he gives you the story that connects you to the dish in a way that you couldn't without hearing it." "The sea beans did it for me." "It was something that I would never think of doing." "I'm gonna steal that." "I thought it was a beautiful accompaniment to beef." "There wasn't that much green on his plate." "I wanted more." "I think Richard did an exceptional job of embracing his past, but in usual Richard style, moving it into the future." "Carla's dish." "I loved the broth." "I thought that was the best part of the dish." "The garnish--I think it all got lost in that broth." "I loved that little grit cake that she made." " Sure." " I thought it was beautiful." "It had texture." "It had flavor." "There was just something interesting and different about it." "Yeah." "She froze 'em with liquid nitrogen." "She frozen them in liquid nitrogen!" " Isn't that amazing?" " How crazy is that?" "Everything on Tiffany's plate, be it the okra, the greens, the sweet potato, were sort of like a window into her life." "And although it was so totally foreign to what was around my table growing up, it made me feel at home." "I think this was Tiffany's coco chanel moment." "She needed to lose some accessories here." "I found the oxtail marmalade to be..." "Something I've never seen before, never thought of, and I really enjoyed it." "These were five really, really great dishes." "It's tough." "Honestly, it could be anybody." "And I think that they loved it." "I want their job to be hard." "Well, I think we have our decision." " Yes." " Absolutely." "Okay." "Let's get them out here." "The winner of this challenge will be moving on in the final round and win a new Toyota highlander." "Dan, as our guest judge, please announce the winner." "This was an incredible dinner filled with really impressive dishes." "Our job here is to pick one dish that rose above all the others." "The winner is..." "Antonia." "My mother and daughter will be so unbelievably excited." "Congratulations, Antonia." "You win a new 2011 Toyota Highlander hybrid." "Thank you very much." "This means you'll be moving on to the final round..." "Oh, my God!" "Thank you so-- thank you so, so much." "Which will take place... in the Bahamas." "Oh, my God." "That's amazing." "Thank you so much." "Thank you for a beautiful plate of food." "Mike." "You're safe, and you'll be moving on to compete in the Bahamas as well." "Thank you so much." "It feels great to move on and to finally get my chance at winning it." "I'm gonna fight my hardest to be the best." "Congratulations, Mike and Antonia." "You can return to the stew room." " Thank you very much." " Thank you very much." "I appreciate it." "Chef." "The cousins!" "Going to the finals, baby!" "That's so awesome." "I'm so excited!" "I won a car!" "I won a car!" "I won a car!" "I wanna compete with her in the finale, you know, me and my cousin being in the finale." "I mean, how cool is that?" "Well, Chefs, you learned a lot about yourselves, about your family, about your ancestry, and clearly, you all showed it on the plate." "Tiffany, you gave us a soulful dish of beautiful southern food." "There were so many things going on, but we really enjoyed it." "Richard, that story just unveiled itself in a beautiful way on the plate." "Irish/English food." "But you did pull it off." "Carla, that sauce was one of the best sauces" "I've had all season." "Things here and there with some of the vegetables, but...great plate of food." "This is just a hard decision, and I hate to see any one of you go home for this." "Richard..." "Please...pack your knives." "You're going to the Bahamas." "Why did you do-- thank you so much." "Thank you." "Why would you do that to me?" "You know that I'm crazy to begin with." "My heart and soul is like hovering above the top of the kitchen." "But I'm happy." "Given some of the time frames that we have, it's not" "Safe." "Yeah!" "We've been going back and forth and we're nitpicking and trying to... make sense of this all." "It's a tough decision, but... ♪ ♪" "We've been going back and forth and we're nitpicking and trying to... make sense of this all." "It's a tough decision." "♪ ♪" "Carla..." "Tiffany..." "You're both going to the Bahamas." "You're both going too." "I'm like--we're like--." "I'm like, "yeah!"" "I'm happy." "I'm amazed." "I'm like, "oh, my gosh!"" "I had already said in my head," ""Tiffany, pack your knives,"" "but I'm going!" "Yay!" "We couldn't decide." "Yeah, we always say it's a tough decision." "And this time it was just too tough." "We just couldn't say good-bye to either of you." " Thank you." " Thank you so much." " Thank you, guys, really." " Thanks." " Good night." " Thank you." "They didn't like my soup." "Who's going?" "We're all going!" "Aah!" "No way!" "No way!" "I can't believe there's five people moving forward." "I mean, I wish there was four, but I'll take five!" "It's great to be the last three women standing." "It would be pretty amazing to be a woman winning Top Chef All-Stars." "Y'all ain't getting rid of me." "I'm here!" "Thank you!" " Ha ha!" " Oh, my God!" "Next on Top Chef All-Stars..." "The final rounds begin." "Padma in a bikini." "Good morning." "You're gonna go head-to-head with the Chef that won your season." "What?" "Ooh, they were mad." " This sucks." " Whoo!" "I may have just shot myself in the foot." "We all came back for redemption." "My knives are sharp." "I'm ready!" "Careful." "Don't get too close to the eye." "You know, I've choked once before." "So, I mean, I'm nervous." "It really is anybody's game." "Oh!" "Everybody out of the kitchen!" "The other Chefs can think whatever they want, but I am here to win." "I could not finish eating the dish." "If I go home without winning," "I'm just kind of where I was before I came out here." "It just doesn't work." "I want to do it." "I want to be there at the end." " sync, corrected by elderman "