Gordon Ramsay Cookbooks

"Hell's Kitchen" 8 p.m. KMPH (Channel 26.1): You knew it was coming. Every season of this Fox competition series, drill sergeant/chef Gordon Ramsay puts the competitors through a blind taste test. A good chef can identify anything in the kitchen without seeing it. Ramsay has said he is amazed that so many chefs smoke because that tends to affect their taste buds. The test doesn't stop there. The winners of this challenge dine with Chef Ramsay in the dark at a restaurant where they can rely on

Tonight is more or less a perfect storm of food-oriented television programming for foodies. Just a quick reminder to tune in to tonight's season kick-off of Bravo's brand-defining culinary competition series Top Chef: Las Vegas, which joins the schedule at an earlier-than-usual time of 9 pm ET/PT before relocating to its normal timeslot at 10 pm ET/PT next week. (In the meantime, you can read my advance review of the first episode here.) Plus, the super-sized season premiere of Top Chef leads