Top Chef NYC: Stalking officially in full swing

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Would now be about the time that Bravo & Magical Elves are starting to get worried / pissed that they chose NYC as the home for Top Chef season 5?

By cleverly choosing cities for last three seasons (did anyone even watch season 1?) where food/real estate/culture bloggers were either not interested or, more likely, too busy working day jobs to stalk cheftestants, the Top Chef powers that be avoided any real spoiler problems.

This time, however, they're up against a formidable bunch of dedicated and full-time bloggers and thousands of well informed, camera phone toting informants who will be giddily reporting even the most mundane goings on of this season's Top Chef hopefuls.