I loved Top Chef first season. I avidly watched every episode. The finale — even though it was obvious who the winner would be — still featured very strong chefs with great ideas. I would love to try any of their food. It was fun to watch them cook.
This year, although I have watched every [...]
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Last week, I was hoping Top Chef would get more fractious, and thus more interesting. Boy, did I get my wish. This episode was just zany. There really is no other word for it.
First, in the Quickfire Challenge, five chefs won, so they all got to sit out the Elimination Challenge. The remaining five chefs [...]
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The Quickfire Challenge on Top Chef last week had to do with cooking offal. I do not understand offal at all. It is not something I would remotely want to eat. But all the great chefs I read about seem to love it and love serving it. I would think it would be a really [...]
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First of all, I’m not even going to review last night’s Top Chef. I thought it was a really boring episode altogether. The challenges were boring, the food was boring and the results were boring. Even the great cheating “scandal” was boring. I understand why they couldn’t kick anyone off, but that doesn’t make for [...]
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First, I want to say, way to go, Cliff — for winning the Quickfire Challenge and being in the top three! I think Cliff is the only one who is really listening when they give out these challenges, which is why he is winning. Shorty-short Shorts clearly said that the ice cream for the Quickfire [...]
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The second episode of Top Chef was no more suspenseful than the first. It was clear from the beginning who was going home: Otto. I guess they have to clear out the duds in the early episodes. How do these people get on the show in the first place?
Cliff is emerging as another favorite of [...]
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My favorite guilty pleasure in reality TV is back: Top Chef! Last year, I was fairly obsessed with the show, even though it was quite obvious from the beginning who was going to win. But Harold was so adorable and shy and yet passionate about cooking good food–I loved the way he’d get angry at [...]
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