Top Chef

[schild]

Padma Lakshmi and Salmon Rushdie got a divorce.

One million cooking nerds just found optimism. 

I tend to look for viciously scarred alcoholics when I'm on the prowl.

[Nebu]

I tend to look for viciously scarred alcoholics when I'm on the prowl.

Yeah, but you're not a cooking nerd.

[AngryGumball]

I dunno there was one episode last season where Gail Simmons is that her name the Food and Wine chick, whom I think Schild is calling bloated. She had some green shoulder dress I think on and man her breasts had me falling on the floor. :P Those beautiful curves. :P

[HaemishM]

She was pregnant then, IIRC.

[SuperPopTart]

She wasn't preggers, I don't think. She just wore bad outfits or got chubby.


Editing to say I'm f*cking pissed I didn't choose the name AngryGumball. Damnit.

[Ookii]

[voodoolily]

I hung out for a bit with Ilan from Season 2 last night. He's actually very nice in real life, and totally forgave me for making fun of him on my blog. Which he knew about before I introduced myself.

[SuperPopTart]

I'm surprised to hear he is nice, actually - he comes across as such an asshole most times.

Then again.. *I'm* really a nice person and a total bitch all at the same time so.. yeah that doesn't say much.

Glad you had fun.

[Nebu]

I was a much bigger fan of Sam and Elia.  I remember being bummed that one of them didn't win. 

Still... pretty neat that you got to chat with Ilan.  Be interesting to hear what the making of that show is like.

[Signe]

I'm surprised to hear he is nice, actually - he comes across as such an asshole most times.

Then again.. *I'm* really a nice person and a total bitch all at the same time so.. yeah that doesn't say much.

Glad you had fun.

You are not a TOTAL bitch!  You are -just- bitchy enough.  You maintain a good balance!  If we didn't have our edge, we might as well be Pentecostal or something.

[schild]

I don't understand why anyone would assume Ilan wasn't nice. He seemed like a nice guy, just not good enough to win Top Chef.

[Sauced]

He has an epic neckbeard.

[schild]

And he's a hipster douchebag. But that doesn't mean he isn't nice!

[voodoolily]

HIs new restaurant in LA is Scottish-Jewish (like him). He's gonna have bacon-wrapped matzo balls as an appie.

[Signe]

Oooo.  I don't usually like matzah much but with bacon wrapped around it, how can you go wrong? 

[Abagadro]

Did he sprinkle you with saffron?

[AngryGumball]

while i'll admit I sided with Marcel....I don't understand how you seemed to have forgotten how punk he was on the show and how he treated Marcel.


I liked Sam, but not Elia.

[Evildrider]

Marcel was like king douche.

[Ookii]

Oooo.  I don't usually like matzah much but with bacon wrapped around it, how can you go wrong?

Matzah balls, not matzah itself!

Ball:


Regular Moses-Variety form:

[Trippy]

Man I used to eat Egg & Onion Matzos all the time as a kid. I'm going to have to find me some today.

[voodoolily]

Marcel was like king douche.

Reality TV brings out the douche in everyone, but it was Marcel who rapped, let's not forget.

[SuperPopTart]

I present:

Marcel's Rap


“These People”

For all the haters out there

As soon as I came to this spot,
You started trying to make me
Out to be something I’m not.
It’s taken every ounce that I got
Not to pop you in the face.
And you have no grounds to base
Your accusations off of,
‘Cause your building’s built on quicksand.
You say my food lacks fundamentals
Like salt and pepper.
And I’m, like, “Yo, man, whatever.”
I don’t even get stressed,
Because I know, at the end of the day,
My food is fucking soigné.

[Signe]

I wish my name was Soigné instead of Signé.  I would even bother to brush my hair now and then if it was. 

Props for Marcel for using the word soigné in a rap. 

[Nebu]

I learned a new word today. 

[Signe]

Was it eukaryote?

[voodoolily]

His rhyme should've ended "cuz my rappin' is so ghey"

[Evildrider]

Marcel was like king douche.

Reality TV brings out the douche in everyone, but it was Marcel who rapped, let's not forget.

Rapping does not make you "cool"   

[voodoolily]

Marcel was like king douche.

Reality TV brings out the douche in everyone, but it was Marcel who rapped, let's not forget.

Rapping does not make you "cool"   

I was using that as an example of why being mean to him was warranted.

[Khaldun]

I'll necro this--I don't think we need a separate thread for each season of the show.

I like this season so far better than the Texas season. I actually kind of like Stefan--even his douche moments are amusing and vaguely self-aware. Josie has to go soon, though, she's unbearable.

Looking good for a female winner, also.

Side note: my family got me Kevin Gillespie's cookbook for Christmas--there's some good shit in it.

[Numtini]

I think Josie actually is on something.

[HaemishM]

Even in his worst douchey moments, Stefan is just entertaining to watch. Josie is annoying but I get more annoyed by the "most hated chef in Dallas" asshole. HE bugs the fuck out of me.

[Khaldun]

I sort of rate each season in part by the personalities, in part by the number of times I see something that I'd like to try cooking myself. So far so good on both counts. Some genuinely talented people this time unlike the Texas and Washington DC seasons. Some fun assholes. I would be happy to see Josie, Mr. Hated Dallas Chef, and Mr. Ridiculous Mustache Who Can't Cook Pork Despite Running a Pork Restaurant all gone soon. Micah in there somewhere too, he only rarely seems up to the challenge.

[Evildrider]

This season has been alright so far.  I'm actually rooting for CJ or Kristin to win.  The only people I really can't stand are Josie and "the most hated chef in Dallas".

[Khaldun]

100% done with this show after this week's episode. That was just horrific. And stupid. They let a subpar stoner deliberately fuck up a legitimate contender, had all the evidence in front of them and didn't get it. The stupidest thing I've seen on the show ever, and there's no way to read the edits that saves them from that conclusion.

[Evildrider]