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• Colorado Chef, Hosea Rosenberg is the winner of Top Chef New York. Rosenberg is the executive chef at Jax Fish House in Boulder, Colorado, and has worked in the past under Wolfgang Puck, Kevin Taylor and Sean Yontz.Jax Restaurant: Our Chef: Hosea Rosenberg

• Fast Facts

  1. Hometown: Taos, NM
  2. Self-taught chef
  3. Education: University of Colorado; Bachelors of Science in Engineering PhysicsJax Restaurant: Our Chef: Hosea Rosenberg
  4. Decided he wanted to become a chef in 1997Bravo: Hosea Rosenberg
  5. Worked for Wolfgang Puck in 1998 and became a head chef three years laterBravo: Hosea Rosenberg
  6. Awards: Top Chef, Three time winner of Best Chef and People's Choice of Denver International Wine Festival; seven-time, undefeated winner of the Flatiron Chef CompetitionJax Restaurant: Our Chef: Hosea Rosenberg
  7. Flirted with and kissed fellow cheftestant Leah Cohen until the experience put both of them off their game
  8. Often affected in the kitchen by fellow competitor Stefan Richter
  9. Chosen along with Stefan Richter and Carla Hall to go on to the season finale in New Orleans, LA

• Hosea Goes to New Orleans

  Hosea Rosenberg and sixteen other competitors kicked off the fifth season of Top Chef together in New York City. Challenge after challenge, Rosenberg avoided elimination, often only by the skin of his teeth. During the "Last Meal Challenge" he managed to impress with his own spin on shrimp scampi, which allowed him to go on to the first half of the final round. During the break before the finale, Rosenberg studied up on New Orleans and creole cooking which gave him the extra edge he needed to land a coveted spot in the season finale.

  During the finale he won the upper-hand in a last-minute appetizer challenge in which the cheftestants were required to use one of three New Orleans dishes, red snapper, crab or alligator. Rosenberg used the snapper, gave Carla Hall the crab and Stefan Richter was left with the alligator. In the end, the judges panel felt that Rosenberg's overall contribution was more well-rounded than his fellow chefs, and he was proclaimed as the winner.

• About Top Chef

  Bravo TV's Top Chef is a reality cooking series that takes the best of the best in culinary arts from all over the world and pits them against one another in the kitchen. Each new season takes place in a different city, which often dictates the nature of the cooking challenges issued by hostess Padma Lakshmi and judged by Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons and a celebrity guest judge. Each episode begins with a "Quickfire Challenge" that grants the winner either immunity from elimination or an extra advantage in the "Elimination Challenge." The judges panel chooses one chef as winner of the "Elimination Challenge", and the chef with the poorest performance for that challenge is eliminated.

• The Prize

  Top Chef contestants are in competition for a $100,000 prize, meant to be used as seed money to start a new restaurant and are given a featured spread in Food & Wine magazine.

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  Top Chef | Top Chef New York | Top Chef New York Season Finale | Padma Lakshmi | Tom Colicchio | Carla Hall | Stefan Richter

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