Top Chef

In the Louisiana swamp, 19 chefs cook with alligator, frog and turtle; the first chef is eliminated.

The chefs work overnight to prepare dishes for Chef Leah Chase; creating and operating food trucks.

An elimination quickfire challenge; replicating legacy dishes in the elimination challenge.

The chefs get a crash course in Vietnamese culture.

The chefs cater a Halloween party for singer/actress Lea Michele, and the food must be vegetarian.

The creole tomato; the contestants try to impress up-scale chefs.

A food version of musical chairs; the chefs cater a jazzy event.

The contestants make their own hot sauce; the chefs butcher and cook a 300-pound pig.

The contestants create pop-up restaurants to impress the judges.

The chefs must make dishes that remind them of home; Actor Anthony Mackie joins the judges.

Questlove judges various types of poultry drumsticks; the chefs head to LSU's campus.

The contestants create their own versions of etouffe; seafood dishes.

Chef Jacques Pepin tests the contestants; the contestants create French and Spanish dishes.

Po' boys in the Quickfire; the contestants put their own culinary visions on a plate.

The chefs must show how New Orleans has impacted their food.

In Hawaii, the final chefs take on Spam in the Quickfire; Hawaiian canoe crops.

The two remaining chefs open pop-up restaurants for the final challenge.