Friday, August 17, 2007
Chefs
Top Chef is often delightful to watch, in my opinion. Good food, lively personalities, crazy nutty people, competition, enviable kitchens, on and on. This week was odder than usual, however. In the quick round (which was not an elimination round even though it's touted as such), they were told to make awesome burgers. So no one made anything with hamburger. Sure. Salmon, mushrooms, etc., but no plain old hamburgers, which was supposed to be the point, for goodness sake. Trying to out-thinking instructions wouldn't seem the way to win anything, it seems to me, but what do I know. Anyway, in the long part, they were divided into two teams and had to conceive of a restaurant and prepare a dinner that was served to 30 people in each place. The reactions of the judges, who were among the guests, was the brass ring. But instead of amazing them, the contestants appalled everyone both with the restaurant designs and with the food. Apparently the food looked and tasted ghastly, in some instances, and one of the restaurants smelled so heavily of vanilla that it was off-putting. Plus, one server smelled, which must have been horrifying; I mean, can you imagine going to a gourmet meal and being greeted with body odor? In the end, the judges either have an agenda to which viewers and contestants aren't privy or just plain wimped out; they decided that everything was awful so they'd not send anyone home this week but they'll have to do the restaurant again next week. Properly, one devoutly hopes. Anyway, if any of this interests you, you should read the TV Guide blog about it, here; it's a riot, especially the imaginary conversation with a grab-him-off-the-street dinner guest.
Labels: food, ridiculousness, tv
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| posted by jau at 12:59 PM
jau — at 5:13 PM, August 17, 2007:
Barb the Evil Genius — at 9:38 PM, August 17, 2007:
| posted by jau at 12:59 PM
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jau — at 5:13 PM, August 17, 2007:
I LOVED "Chef"! Did you know that the guy who played him is (or was) married to the woman who played the Vicar of Dibley?! I wonder if their home is a laugh a minute, or deadly serious.
Hell's Kitchen is more about how hard the profession is, I think. I haven't see it much, though.
Do you cook a lot?
Hell's Kitchen is more about how hard the profession is, I think. I haven't see it much, though.
Do you cook a lot?
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Barb the Evil Genius — at 9:38 PM, August 17, 2007:
I don't cook nearly as much as I should. And when I got married, my husband was a better cook than I was. Being a picky eater probably doesn't help me either.
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Did you ever see the Brit-com Chef? My husband and I still quote funny lines from it years after first watching the episodes on public television. Of course, like a lot of television shows, the last season kinda went downhill.
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