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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]


sumi - Feb 24, 2011 5:56:59 am PST #16209 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

Yes, me too.

I need to go read the blogs to see what they most hated about his dish because I had thought that the seafood was itself okay but his potatoes were wrong and that Tiffany and Carla had messed up the seafood so their dishes had the most egregious mistakes. Clearly I missed something.


lisah - Feb 24, 2011 6:00:38 am PST #16210 of 23273
Punishingly Intricate

I need to go read the blogs to see what they most hated about his dish because I had thought that the seafood was itself okay but his potatoes were wrong

I thought at least one of the judges (Besh maybe?) said something about the taste of the amberjack being lost in the stew?


Nora Deirdre - Feb 24, 2011 6:01:25 am PST #16211 of 23273
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

the mustard crouton blew out everyone's palate.


sumi - Feb 24, 2011 6:03:54 am PST #16212 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

Oh, okay. I had forgotten that.

So he messed up the main ingredient AND he had uncooked potatoes. Should have realized.


DawnK - Feb 24, 2011 7:49:35 am PST #16213 of 23273
giraffe mode

I thought that Carla was a gonner from the edit, I'm sad to lose Dale but glad that Carla is still in it. Mike I. gets more and more irritating all the time. Chef law, indeed! What a jerk!


Jesse - Feb 24, 2011 7:56:29 am PST #16214 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

All three of them disrespected the protein, and you know that's Rule 1 of Chef Law! Or at least, Top Chef Law.


Nora Deirdre - Feb 24, 2011 10:18:25 am PST #16215 of 23273
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

wait, I thought Rule One of Chef Law was never steal someone else's cooking ideas?!?!?


le nubian - Feb 24, 2011 10:21:19 am PST #16216 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

no the first rule of Chef Law is not to talk about Chef Law.


Kathy A - Feb 24, 2011 10:36:26 am PST #16217 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Dale Levitski (faux-hawk Dale from Chicago) was just named a semifinalist for a Best Chef: Great Lakes James Beard award (which is a regional award), and Stephanie Izard's The Girl and the Goat has been named Semifinalist for the Outstanding New Restaurant James Beard Award by the same group.


sumi - Feb 24, 2011 10:50:13 am PST #16218 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

That's excellent.