Celebrity chefs headed to the Hill this week to advocate for legislation aimed at standardizing food expiration labels.

Dinner with a bear, a silver fox and a noisy Spaniard sounds like the punchline to a good joke. But if you happen to have nine friends with more than a thousand bucks to burn or have a really awesome sugar daddy, you can bid on a private dinner for 10 with Chefs Tom Colicchio, Eric Ripert and Jose Andres on November 10. Bidding on eBay starts at $10,000 — or you can “Buy it Now” for $25,000.

We know you’re probably tired of all the Top Chef coverage, but via Eater, we get this recent quote from Tom Colicchio about the possible locations for the next season. He says, “I would love to do the show in London — in a heartbeat. One of the producers is a Brit so I think he’d like that as well … I think D.C. and Philly are having a great moment. It would be…

Ezra Klein reports, via the Internet Food Association, that last night, Tom Colicchio (he of Top Chef and craftsteak) swooped to the rescue of cookbook author Joan Nathan, performing the Heimlich Maneuver at a much-needed moment. The big save happened at a benefit for D.C. Central Kitchen and Martha’s Table, where luminaries of the food world milled about and showed off their skills. Colicchio was modest, Klein reports. ““I just happened to be nearby,”…

Last week, Top Chef returned to the Bravo network for a second season, complete with a new host and a fresh-faced group of hungry culinary hopefuls. And one of this season’s contestants on the excellent cooking competition — which pits aspiring cooks against one another in immunity and elimination battles to win $100,000 in prize money, a feature in Food & Wine magazine, an appearance at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic, Kenmore PRO appliances,…