What’s worth watching on food-related TV this week? Next Sunday is the finale of The Next Iron Chef (9pm on the Food Network). Michael Ruhlman has a comment from Chef Chris Cosentino on his blog about the airplane episode—he was clearly getting crowded by cameras, but for him the crowding was to the degree that he couldn’t work, and he wanted to clarify that fact “now that 1/2 the country thinks i am an asshole.”......

For almost two decades, the 35 year-old chef Alex Ureña has been quietly working behind the scenes at some of New York’s most well regarded restaurants: His very first kitchen job was at The River Café during Charlie Palmer’s tenure. A few gigs later, Ureña was translating the contents of Ferran Adrià’s first cookbook for David Bouley, a chef he spent 7 years with and considers a mentor. Alex Ureña later served as executive chef......

If you have been reading along you know that last week the column covered tips to successfully producing a moist turkey and the week prior it was about how to select a turkey. This week the topic is what you can to serve with the Thanksgiving turkey. Gravy is mandatory, but everything else is up for grabs. We are going to leave stuffing and cranberry sauce up to other people, try looking at Kiri......

Even as the stores sport back to school sales (which depress us, even now), summer lingers on your friends the -ists. This week's collection of links provides some of the best, worst, and oddest bits of summer fun. So, bring your laptop up onto the roof, make yourself an umbrella drink or ten, and enjoy this week's choice posts from across the Gothamist network. Torontoist (where it's 75 degrees F as of this writing)......

On Tuesday evening Charlie Palmer's Metrazur reopened it's doors, er, balcony at Grand Central Terminal. The brasserie got a sleek re-design while we were away this summer and is welcoming guests back with specials including a $39 per person Saturday dinner menu that include a bottle of wine per couple and Tuesday night Ladies Night that we're particularly excited about- $4-5 glasses of wine all night and food specials still to be ironed out. We'll......

- Gothamist Arts & Events has a tip on two listening parties tonight - one for Ted Leo and one for Bjork. And in an effort to challenge the constraints of space and time, Arts & Events editor Jen Carlson explains how you can hear both CDs. - Have a nice dinner at one of Charlie Palmer's smartly priced $25-for-three-courses restaurants, Kitchen 22 and Kitchen 82. - And we'll be stopping by the Park Avenue......

Gothamist is grateful to be within walking distance of a great concept in neighborhood dining. Chef Charlie Palmer, who made his bones at Brooklyn's River Cafe before launching to super-stardom through his Upper East Side flagship Aureole, is the author of the idea: a short-menu 3-course prix fixe for $25, offering the same skill of preparation that you might find at one of his pricier restaurants but with less fussiness. There are five choices for......

Thanksgiving is a little more than a week away, and Gothamist is gearing up for the best holiday of the year. (Why is it the best holiday? Because there's no gift-giving, people usually come together, and it involves ridiculous amounts of yummy comfort foods.) Our stomach growled a little louder this morning as we read the 12 Thanksgiving side dish recipes from different chefs in the Times today. Here they are: Sausage Stuffing With......