SEASON PREMIERE: For this Season 11 version, Padma Lakshmi takes her culinary cronies, including Tom Colicchio, to New Orleans, where everyone is expected to kick it up a notch. Among the initial challenges is to cook alligator – which I’ve done, by the way. If ever there was a use for the phrase “Tastes like chicken,” alligator is it. One time, I grilled a batch of alligator, put the leftovers in the refrigerator, and my son Mark, visiting from college and arriving late