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]
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.
The Anita/Jaime relationship cracked me up, too. "I had forgotten some things about her...."
I really hope they do Masters again. I have found this so unexpectedly enjoyable.
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.
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.
Coconut cream will make whipped cream without any stabilizer needed.
Tony Bourdain on running into Sandra Lee after the Julie and Julia premiere:
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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.
UNTIL she whipped out the pie filling, oh my god.
Sandra Lee is ALL about the repurposed pie filling.
I die a little inside whenever I remember she's a CIA graduate.
