Top Chef season 5 winner and New Mexico native Hosea Rosenberg is set to be featured on the BlogTalkRadio show entitled "A Little LightWork with Jen & Amy" on July 9 Thursday, to dabble on the connection of "cooking and intuition" by exploring his spiritual side.

"Hosea exhibited remarkable focus and a calm confidence during last season's Top Chef," says co host Amy Grant. "He was such a pleasure to watch that I was excited to see him win. Meeting him in person was like meeting an old friend - he seems very much the same as he appeared on television."

The judges of Top Chef reportedly made a number of references on intuition throughout the season, which Grant describes as "a natural part of great cooking." She adds that, "anyone can follow a recipe, but it is only through intuition that new flavor combinations can be created."

Prior to his sting on Top Chef, Rosenberg was the head chef at Jax Fish House in Boulder. For winning Top Chef, he received a cash prize of $100,000, on top of a showcase at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen.

Rick Bayless, the chef who won on the third episode of Top Chef Masters, apparently found a way to communicate with his potentially growing fan base, thanks to, what else, Twitter.  The Chicago-based chef-testant recently discovered the micro-blogging site, and revealed that after his victory Wednesday on the Bravo reality show, he sent a heartfelt Tweet to those who supported him.

"A huge, heartfelt thank you to everyone who sent congrats on tonight's Top Chef Masters win.  Wish I could respond to each of you but am a little overwhelmed by response. Thank u, thank u!! Will be posting more tomorrow w pics."

On tonight's episode of Top Chef Masters, four new chefs take center stage in order to advance on the Bravo cooking reality show for world-renowned chefs.  Cindy Pawlcyn, the queen of Napa Valley; Wilo Benet, the king of Puerto Rican cuisine; Ludo Lefebvre, the prodigy from France; and Chicago's authority on Mexican cuisine, Rick Bayless, all slug it out to follow the footsteps of two former episode winners Hubert Keller and Suzanne Tracht.

For this week's episode, the elimination challenge is to create "Street Food" - something very timely because of the increasing popularity of gourmet food trucks around the country.  News has it that all four chef-testants opt to make street food inspired by Mexican and Latin cuisine. Pawlcyn, the lone woman, decides to make a menudo soup with tripe.  It is also said that Top Chef Masters should expect bickering between young and cocky Lefebvre and Bayless, who is a multiple James Beard winner.

After a mere two episodes, the food-lovers community is abuzz with speculation that the winner of Top Chef Masters was leaked.  According to published reports, seasoned San Francisco-based food journalist Grace Ann Walden revealed the winner of the Top Chef upgrade in her Yummy Letter newspaper. She did put in a spoiler warning, but in the same paragraph revealed the identity of the winner, attracting blame for single-handedly ruining the Bravo cooking show.

Asked by Bravo's PR company FerenComm why she openly published the winner knowing the nature of Top Chef Masters, Walden simply said she was in the news business and "it is news."

On tonight's episode of Top Chef Masters - "The Lost Supper" - another four chef-testants take center stage and duel it out with the best of the best.  Among those competing are Elizabeth Falker (Citizen Cake, San Francisco), Suzanne Tracht (Tracht's, Los Angeles), Graham Elliot Bowles (Graham Elliot, Chicago) and Wylie Dufresne (wd-50, New York).

Starting off the episode is a quickfire challenge reminiscent of the amuse bouche vending machine challenge from Top Chef's sophomore season.  As for the elimination challenge, the Top Chef Masters contestants start off with a counter full of protein, including animal heads, chickens, etc. The task is to create a meal for the writers of ABC sci-fi series Lost (which is from a rival network).  We also learn that Tracht is a huge Lost fan, while Dufresne has never heard of the show.  Nevertheless, the challenge is to create a meal as if they were one of the survivors of Lost. So that explains all the fresh protein and all the canned and preserved goods labeled "Dharma approved."

If you think all the dishes and kitchen drama on Bravo's Top Chef are already exciting, then better hike up the anticipation because the reality show is set to super-size things with the launch of Top Chef Masters tonight.  Twenty-four world-renowned chefs will see battle in good ole Top Chef format, and cold cash is involved during every elimination - the winners of eliminations will be awarded cash donations for their charities.

On Top Chef Masters, everything on the regular Top Chef is upped one notch. During the first six episodes, four chefs will compete against each other to name one winner.  The six winners from each episode will then meet on the final four weeks, during which one person will get eliminate each episode until the finale where one chef is crowned Top Chef Master.  The winner will receive $100,000 for the charity of their choice.