Trumpeter, cook, and weird smiler Kermit Ruffins joins the chefs for a series of forced musical tie ins.

Cooking is like improvisation in music… in that sometimes there’s a trumpet? And then there’s a potluck for a group of musicians, except instead of a potluck, it’s a party catered by professional chefs? Let’s not be too picky about names (who do we think we are, Tom?). Instead let’s just revel in the fact that the chefs didn’t all blow it this week.

And let’s try not to be too sad for this public vote of no-confidence in Patty.

We also talked about which Top Chef restaurants we’ve eaten at (here’s the map of them all in case you want to try). Got more questions? E-mail us or leave a comment below.

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