When Steve Lewis interviewed Nikki Cascone of Top Chef, season four, she complained about having to cook macaroni and cheese at 24 Prince, though she admitted it paid the bills. One former cheftestant who’s just fine with serving the stuff, thank you very much? Dave Martin from season one. At an event for Self magazine, he told our reporter Sharon Clott than in six months he’s sold $35,000 worth of the $15 black-truffle macaroni and cheese at Crave on 42nd Street. “I actually had a conference call with Whole Foods last week, and they were talking about bringing it on their hot line or prepackaged menu,” he revealed. “I’m also talking to them about doing my sauces and roasted vinaigrette.” And people? He also might be on an upcoming episode of Sesame Street! Beats being stuck on the Top Chef cruise, no?

Want your post to be picked up by other food bloggers? Just ask a Top Chef what they think about food bloggers! Korin Miller points us to his interview in which Ilan Hall explains why he moved to L.A.: “New York is just competitive now. Professionally, it's not the healthiest of things for me. There are the bloggers and…with chefs — there's like a dissing contest. It's not a place I want to be.” And Steve Lewis continues his conversation with Nikki Cascone and Camille Becerra (neither of whom, for better or worse, are among the show alums teaching the Culinary Institute of America's $195 Top Chef cooking classes). Nikki tells Steve, “I definitely stay away from [blogs] now. When someone alerts me that my name’s in any of the blogs, unless it’s something that my publicist got me, intentionally, and I did it, then I don’t really get caught up in them. They get too personal for me.” Note to bloggers — Nikki does not want you talking about her dog: “It’s not up for discussion.”

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Steve Lewis talks to Nikki Cascone and Camille Becerra of Top Chef this week, and though they have some interesting things to say about typecasting and “sexy chefs” (Camille says she intentionally “tanked” her run for the top), the real jaw-dropper here is normally Über-diplomatic Uncle Steve on the subject of Todd English:

Todd was to open down on Kenmare Street; I’m not sure of the details on why it hasn’t opened or if it will, but I was supposed to design it. He was doing a restaurant upstairs and a club/lounge thing downstairs. Let’s just say I won’t talk to his lying ass again, and I’m not unhappy that he hasn’t gotten open down there.