Season one winner Harold Dieterle on the recent crop of Top Chef contestants: "some of them call me, and they don't really have a game-plan about what they're going to do when they get out. Some of them just want to do TV. Most of them don't even work in restaurants anymore – they just become obsessed with seeing themselves on TV and that's what they want to do." [Zagat Buzz via Eater NY]
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