Could I love Rick and Hubert more? No, I could not.
I was disappointed by all of them in the taste test though. Given the ingredients we did see, I can't believe 7 was the best. And to only get 5? Quelle honte!
But if the world doesn't end, I'm gonna need a note.
Cordelia ,'Potential'
Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]
megan walker - Aug 12, 2009 9:09:50 pm PDT #10258 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Frankenbuddha - Aug 13, 2009 2:54:06 am PDT #10259 of 23273
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I can totally see why Hubert won over Rick with the judges (as I think Rick won the highest with the crowd). As they said, this was right in Rick's comfort zone, while Hubert pushed himself (if only in the sheer number of dishes - seventeen?!??!?).
I did like that the two who most relied on their sous chefs won the highest marks. Although you know that Spike is fuming somewhere about how he didn't get credit from Hubert for the gazpacho (vs. how much credit Richard got from Rick for the ice cream). Ahhhhh, happy place.
Jesse - Aug 13, 2009 3:03:17 am PDT #10260 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The Anita/Jaime relationship cracked me up, too. "I had forgotten some things about her...."
le nubian - Aug 13, 2009 4:04:33 am PDT #10261 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I really hope they do Masters again. I have found this so unexpectedly enjoyable.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 13, 2009 4:13:23 am PDT #10262 of 23273
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Next week's going to be a whole lot of Top Chef, I tell you what. Season premiere of the Vegas show followed by the Masters finale, if I'm reading my TV schedules right.
Jessica - Aug 13, 2009 4:39:36 am PDT #10263 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm still behind on TV from vacation so I just watched the last two weeks of TCM last night and didn't quite have the stamina for a third.
The restricted diet challenge was interesting to see what they came up with.
I wonder - would coconut milk whip up like whipped cream if you added some sort of stabilizer (xanthan gum or cream of tartar)? I think a strawberry granita with the brittle and some whipped coconut topping would have been a much better dessert than the rice milk ice cream thing.
Hil R. - Aug 13, 2009 4:45:23 am PDT #10264 of 23273
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Coconut cream will make whipped cream without any stabilizer needed.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 13, 2009 5:53:51 am PDT #10265 of 23273
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Jessica - Aug 13, 2009 5:57:45 am PDT #10266 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
To make matters worse--and more.....uncomfortable, she's standing next to her boyfriend, Andrew Cuomo, the Attorney General of the State of New York.
I did not know this!
le nubian - Aug 13, 2009 6:42:41 am PDT #10267 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Okay, so I went to Franken's link and I didn't realize that I had mistaken all the years of people capping on Sandra Lee. I thought all this time people were capping on Paula Deen. Suddenly I figured out my mistake when I realized that Andrew Cuomo was not dating Paula Deen!
So I went to youtube and searched for the Kwanzaa Cake and I lost my mind. I have never seen anything that horrific on the Food Network before. WTF was that atrocity? I thought everything was going to be okay UNTIL she whipped out the pie filling, oh my god. Oh, the humanity.