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Paging Gordon Ramsay, STAT to Collingswood.
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Perhaps, but to be fair throughout the series no scores were given when chefs were asked to go.
My reading of the score would be that all the ICs wanted Garces, and probably 2 of the judges. And Jeffery was probably just adding some drama before voting for Garces. He isn't stupid after all.
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But if you leave out the " " it goes to the newspaper articles about the joint. I really cant figure out searches sometimes.
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Hard to imagine that any explanation would be good enough.
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Seems that the food network is casting for people who cannot cook for a new show.
Show to air Jan. 3rd.
I'd say that they have enough of them already on the payroll.
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I'd post your experience of as many websites as you can. These sorts of places need to be exposed for what they are.
Shouldn't this be on the NJ board?
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I am not sure what I think of this. Gotta test it.
But I suspect that there will be a wave of protest saying that the old way is the best....well because it just is.
I recall the fairly recent NYT piece on boiling pasta in minimal water and, even worse, adding the pasta to the water when its cold. There were any number of replies on eG saying that this had to be a bad way to cook and that the poster would never ever do it themselves.
Similar posts in response to a method of cooking french fries starting with cold oil. Heresy and blasphemy!
Not that every new way is better, or that one should believe everything that is printed, but without innovation there is no progress.
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I'm the opposite. I want a few tbsp of tasty sauce/jus, not an ocean.
In fact this is a major criterion in my mental review of a restaurant, esp for fish and veal dishes. If my saltimboca is an island in a pond of sauce... the joint fails.
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I've not been to the philly Delfriscos, but I have been to the ones in DFW and have always been pleased. A shame it isn't good up here.
My two nominees for worst steakhouse are both in DE. Conley-Ward (tiny ill-cooked portions and lousy service) and Sullivan's, which is a chain, I believe. Solidly mediocre.
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there are so many ways that these sorts of study can be misleading. The soda could be an epiphenomenon... a factor that is linked but not causal. For example fat hypertensive people try to lose weight by drinking diet soda. Obesity ad hypertension are both causes of kidney damage and the diet cola just a marker for the real risk factor. Another issue is that there are many different sweeteners of varying structure and presumably potentially varying effects on the kidney. The study did not appear to differentiate. If all were of equal renal risk then that is strong inference that they finding is an epiphenomenon.
I have plenty of examples of bogus statistical correlation eg rock music and oil production...banana imports and genital cancer etc etc
I'd wait for confirmation.
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I confess that the fussy preps of the mini-B'dO competition did not impress me. They didn't look tasty/appetizing at all. a good test though.
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Very good points. Auto-grat always offends me and usually results in a lower tip than I would have given if not compelled. Mgt should indeed be monitoring the big groups, and i dont think that I've seen that 1 in 20 times.
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Bad over-reaction on the part of management and the cops. Bad judgment on the part of the patrons. Management was worse. It won't happen again.... they should be out of business soon unless they start a big PR campaign up there that includes all kinds of apologies and comps to all involved. College students love to get angry about stuff (and this isn't an election year) so that place is in big trouble.
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Gail's dress looked pretty normal in this show. We need to get Tim Gunn to audit her closet. That green thing she wore last week was bizarre.
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How about the grape leaves? Ask your boss how graceful that was.
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His PR machine would be better used if it taught him a bit of graceful behavior.
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Katie, around these parts Jose benefits from his association with you!
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Deconstruction seems more valuable to a student cook as an exercise, rather than a technique to be celebrated. Etudes are useful, but I don't want to listen to them.
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diet coke is good for you compared to the sugar loaded real thing.
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Mehta is cast as the vampirish villain; a role he is well-suited to and probably in some way reflective of reality. With the editing we really don't know whether the judges were completely impressed or not with his meal.
So the last show is down to Garces vs Mehta. Good vs. evil.
What drama.
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She not doing too badly for a 50 year old. But her schtick is too Benny Hill-ish for my taste. (cue the Boots Randolph LOL)
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I've always thought that Nigella was a bit gross and silly with her sex-ridden approach to cooking. Completely juvenile. To say she's like Julia Child is moronic.
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Finally Robin is gone! For once she didn't survive because of another's mistake. Eli's dish sounded disgusting, but it wasn't a technique failure like hers was. I can imagine that some will say disgusting is worse than bad technique, but the judges have used similar logic before.
Q&A -- Brining
in The eGullet Culinary Institute (eGCI)
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Salt is a bit antibacterial even in 3% concentrations, but not enough to think of it as a sterilizing measure. Many pathogens, esp Staph, have no problem with modest salinity.