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Louisiana taps into BP oil spill money to bring 'Top Chef' to New Orleans

Bravo's cooking elimination show "Top Chef" is headed to the Big Easy for its eleventh season – but having Tom, Padma and their team of cooking connoisseurs come to town doesn't come cheap.As first reported by The Times-Picayune and confirmed by FOX411's Pop Tarts column, a total of $375,000 will be issued by Louisiana and the city of New Orleans tourism offices to sponsor the local "Top Chef: New Orleans" showdown – the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation will dish out $175,000 while the Louisiana Office of Tourism will make a $200,000 contribution.The state tourism office's $200,000 "Top Chef" handout will not come from taxpayer dollars, but rather a recovery fund established by BP following the devastating Deepwater Horizon disaster, which gushed for 87 days until it was capped in July 2010."Our job is to get tourism through Louisiana and we recognize that lots of that starts through New Orleans," Jaque Berry, Communications Director Office of Lieutenant Governor, who represen...

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