Buddha on the judges' table was a nice addition. Nobody does passive-aggressive befuddlement better — "I don't understand why these chefs wouldn't simply make perfect dishes, do they not know they're in a competition?"
Tom's cardigan, so cozy looking, I must have it.
Vince, your top 3 is my top 3 as well and Rasika and Michelle both understand that perspective is the most important element of Top Chef. If a chef says "I just need to start cooking my kind of food", they're going home that week.
Vince you bouffon, faux pas literally means "false step" so foot malfeasance is in the name and nothing is gained by turning it into "faux paw". A pox on your groin!
At this point we have to accept that it's a deliberate creative/production choice to air almost no judges' table deliberation AND to frequently eschew a full top 3/bottom 3 accounting where the chefs can hear discussion about their successes and missteps. In some ways I enjoyed the show more when it was a tightly-formatted hour that occasionally had scheduled overruns, rather than having to add fluff to fill 75 minutes but not fully presenting the ending.
I love architecture and Frank Lloyd Wright, and I thought this was a dumb challenge. If I took a shot every time someone said "duality" I would have alcohol poisoning.
Nice write up and summary , the Fellowship was also where you bought in to be near the master and then were used as manual labor on the farm doing chores and maintaining and repairing the Taliesins west and wic. if you were not one of the chosen ones. Also I don’t think there was a second place in elimination challenge just survivors and confused broken teams.
"It was clear early on which team of chefs would be going home, judging solely by how much they seemed to hate each other. Knowing most of those interviews are recorded after the fact, you had to assume a bad result. If it had been a good one, they probably would’ve been a lot chummier during the post-mortem interviews."
This is the number one thing I want clarity on with the behind-the-scenes of Top Chef: when exactly do these interviews take place? Obviously they are not literally during the cook. But I wonder if the team interviews happened before the knew the results? Kaleena and Alisha seemed frazzled but not completely defeated when they did the tandem interview. But after we saw the elimination, they were solo interviewed. So I wonder when the tandem one took place.
Vinny, your Midwest ignorance is on full display. You have no idea how many Saturdays were spent hopping in our BMW X1s, filling the cup holders with Muenster and cruising down the Ole Wright trail.
I don't know man, I've only ever been to Milwaukee.
Actually the best challenge would have been a beer garden food challenge . Since the only restaurant I know about Wright designed was the Midway Beer Garden (destroyed in 1929 due to probation), that had anything to do with Food. I guess the closest concept of duality
I just realized Chris Jones was the first to wear two frames in episode 4 Red Hot Chili Cook off of Texas Too Chef. Boy that Brings back memories, the mean girls Sarah and Lindsey and super needy nerd Bev.
Maillard Angelou
Maya Vindaloo
Maya Agnolotti
Buddha on the judges' table was a nice addition. Nobody does passive-aggressive befuddlement better — "I don't understand why these chefs wouldn't simply make perfect dishes, do they not know they're in a competition?"
Tom's cardigan, so cozy looking, I must have it.
Vince, your top 3 is my top 3 as well and Rasika and Michelle both understand that perspective is the most important element of Top Chef. If a chef says "I just need to start cooking my kind of food", they're going home that week.
Vince you bouffon, faux pas literally means "false step" so foot malfeasance is in the name and nothing is gained by turning it into "faux paw". A pox on your groin!
At this point we have to accept that it's a deliberate creative/production choice to air almost no judges' table deliberation AND to frequently eschew a full top 3/bottom 3 accounting where the chefs can hear discussion about their successes and missteps. In some ways I enjoyed the show more when it was a tightly-formatted hour that occasionally had scheduled overruns, rather than having to add fluff to fill 75 minutes but not fully presenting the ending.
I love architecture and Frank Lloyd Wright, and I thought this was a dumb challenge. If I took a shot every time someone said "duality" I would have alcohol poisoning.
So sad that they didn’t make the taliesin massacre a part of the challenge
https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/famous-murders/taliesin-massacre-frank-lloyd-wright/
Nice write up and summary , the Fellowship was also where you bought in to be near the master and then were used as manual labor on the farm doing chores and maintaining and repairing the Taliesins west and wic. if you were not one of the chosen ones. Also I don’t think there was a second place in elimination challenge just survivors and confused broken teams.
Papaya Angelou?
The right team went home and that is also what they get for talking smack and saying Danny and Rasika would overthink it.
"It was clear early on which team of chefs would be going home, judging solely by how much they seemed to hate each other. Knowing most of those interviews are recorded after the fact, you had to assume a bad result. If it had been a good one, they probably would’ve been a lot chummier during the post-mortem interviews."
This is the number one thing I want clarity on with the behind-the-scenes of Top Chef: when exactly do these interviews take place? Obviously they are not literally during the cook. But I wonder if the team interviews happened before the knew the results? Kaleena and Alisha seemed frazzled but not completely defeated when they did the tandem interview. But after we saw the elimination, they were solo interviewed. So I wonder when the tandem one took place.
Vinny, your Midwest ignorance is on full display. You have no idea how many Saturdays were spent hopping in our BMW X1s, filling the cup holders with Muenster and cruising down the Ole Wright trail.
I don't know man, I've only ever been to Milwaukee.
Actually the best challenge would have been a beer garden food challenge . Since the only restaurant I know about Wright designed was the Midway Beer Garden (destroyed in 1929 due to probation), that had anything to do with Food. I guess the closest concept of duality
I just realized Chris Jones was the first to wear two frames in episode 4 Red Hot Chili Cook off of Texas Too Chef. Boy that Brings back memories, the mean girls Sarah and Lindsey and super needy nerd Bev.
For Wright was lack of integrity justified by his creativity. Is a kind of duality.
Frya Angelou
I did not care for the Buddha/Kristen pep talk at the end of the episode! They knew what they did, let ‘em stew!
I’ve started thinking of Kevin as Gigakevin