Top Chef NOLA Recap: An Étouffée to Remember

John Besh has an equally low tolerance for bandannas as he does for hand gestures. Happy New Year, my Top Chef: New Orleans friends! I hope your holidays were warm and happy. Myself, I spent Christmas in St. Louis, eating toasted ravioli, thin-crust pizza with Provel cheese, and my mother’s zesty Velveeta-and-RoTel dip with Frito Scoops. May I borrow your pancreas? At the moment, I am spending New Year’s Week in Napa, and our cabin has no television, so we’ve been engaging in an ancient cu...