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I keep misreading the name of Jeff's restaurant. According to the website it's Di Lido Beach Club but the caption on TV has it as Dilido which I read as...well you know
LOL I keep reading that too.
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From a Plain Dealer interview, Michael Symon on Dinner Impossible:"Right from the get-go, we knew Robert was probably going to come back and do the show - but we couldn't say that," Symon said. "There was a lot going on with him that he needed to clear up. They [Food Network] told me, 'You're the only one who can do it, keep up that level.' "
"We didn't 'lose' [the show]," Symon added. "I knew going in that there was a 95 percent chance that he'd be coming back. We really want to keep this brand alive. So we came in, rocked out the 10 shows, and moved on."
He sounds like a FN employee
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The O egg was an intelligence test that all but she passed.
Perhaps if she had used the giant egg shell in some creative way..... (but how do you get three servings out of one egg).
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Mario has jumped the shark. No more Molto Mario...now its Basta Mario!
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I've been thinking about vinaigrette and whether it is an emulsion. I think that the answer is "it depends".
Shaking oil and vinegar alone doesn't make an emulsion since it separates almost immediately. If an emulsifying agent of some sort is added then it would be an emulsion. So some vinaigrettes are emulsions and some aren't and Stephan was wrong anyway, because he is an ass.
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I only caught the last half, so I'll say more when I see it all.
One comment: it surprised me that Padma was so disgusted by the avocado dessert. Maybe it was done badly, but it doesn't seem that unusual.
Maybe Padma is emulating Gordon Ramsay... She'll start saying "F... me" soon.
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Ariane may have been and should have been at risk after stating she didn't need to travel all the way from Montclair NJ into New York City to visit the ethnic neighborhoods because she had the cookbooks.
In weak defense of her... she was asked what would she do if someone wanted an ethnic meal cooked. I think we'd all turn to books for that task.
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So far , so good.
The two most irritating were booted is short order. IMHO both should've gotten the ax for that uninspired salad idea in the first quickfire.
My early bet is the "Finnish" guy who looks (and sounds) like a U-Boat Captain from a B-movie... or the guy with all the tats.
Not a good reflection on the CIA
And which one with the tats, there were so many
I think he is talking about the guy from Hawai'i that nailed the Indian dish without really knowing it.
Exactly. That guy who did the Indian thing after (apparently) just tasting it once. Hmmm. Brilliant or crafty? The latter I think, perhaps both, but we shall see in due time.
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So far , so good.
The two most irritating were booted is short order. IMHO both should've gotten the ax for that uninspired salad idea in the first quickfire.
My early bet is the "Finnish" guy who looks (and sounds) like a U-Boat Captain from a B-movie... or the guy with all the tats.
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If you play the IC commercial backwards it says "super mario Bros" over and over. What can it mean?
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In the only show I watched, they were at a tapas place owned by an Adria family member. Batali, Paltrow and Michael Stipe were at the table with Ferran Adria's wife, and when a beautiful plate of jamon hit the table, Paltrow actually blurted out the word "traif." I turned it off right then and there. This could have been a good show -- without that overindulged bubble head at the table.
This is the same person who feels compelled to inform the world how tacky her country and its citizens are. Why expect manners from a vapid actress who thinks that her opinion is important? Seems like a spoiled teenager to me.
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His other one, Between Bites, is as good.
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I never liked that place anyway. I don't think that you missed much.
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James Villas' memoir, In Search of the Green Fairy. Entertaining, well written recollections of one of the last of the bon vivant of the old school.
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can you post the tape so we can see it?
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I was giving my opinion that he deserves a break on this one. I was not saying that you have no right to yours.
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"I think it's just that I HOPED he had the same feelings and values as me.
I happen to find ANYONE paying thousands of dollars for a Hawaiian shirt disturbing. But that's just me.... "
Time for a reality check. Tony told us a lot about himself and his values in Kitchen Confidential. Even if it was part Hunter Thompsonesque gonzo semi-fiction, TB still put his name to it and named those feelings and events as happening to him.
So how many of us are attracted by the idea of shooting smack or getting laid in a dumpster (or wherever it was he was peeping at as a young cook). A minority, I'd bet. No shared values there.
We might be attracted by the lifestyle that he has on TV. But that's no more his real life than it is ours.
From what I've read young cooks idolize him and see the myth as being a real person. They are in their teens and naive.
I'm sure TB has his edgy moments. No doubt he has better food more often than most of us and more travel too. But still he must take out the garbage and wonder about his next check as much as the rest of us...maybe more.
So is it reasonable to excoriate the guy for a show that sucked...that he probably was talked into by his paymasters...that might not have sounded too bad initially?
Give him a break. If he does it again and it sucks, then take the swords out. Don't expect him to stand for everything rebel either. 50 year olds who don't want to go back in the kitchen have to make concessions.
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"A culinary Chuck Shumer" simile, irony, and hyperbole all in 4 words.
Poetry, dude.
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I think that it is a cultural thing. Savory cooks hate pastry cooking/baking because it is so much like a chem lab...weigh this weigh that..."no artistry/finesse".
If restaurants employed quality control programs like other industries do, there would be a quickly mandated conversion to careful measurement and outcomes monitoring and a lot of the status quo would change, I think.
Having said this, I hate to measure anything... :-)
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Probably right. But he was a bit unrealistic in the beginning too. He's growing up a bit, I think.
The show wasn't too bad if seen as a first effort by a guy who's never done this sort of thing before. The questions were a bit dorky and to me the cause of the show falling flat. The concept wasnt bad to me
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What twaddle! Cockeyed philosophy applied to cooking. Folk medicine is full of this kind of pseudowisdom.
So you're a no then?
Sometimes folk medicine will pass Randomized Double-Blind Studies and actually work. Making food tasty is different, one person's yummy is another person gag reflex.
I want a respected and licensed flavorist to explain why this topic title could be true. If there is such a person, I may have made it up.
Eh. Not often will folk medicine stand the test of rigorous study. Even when it does reach significance it is still not typically a big benefit.
But anyway, I don't think that even a flavorist's explanation, pro or con, would be worth diddly until it is tested. All of us here could make up some high-sounding jive about the terroir causing foods to compliment one another better than food from unlike soils etc.
I'd like to see a blind testing of similarly prepared and grown cauliflower (or whatever) from different soils to see if taste differences could even be detected. If there was a difference one might then try pairing the veg with local and foreign meats etc.
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What twaddle! Cockeyed philosophy applied to cooking. Folk medicine is full of this kind of pseudowisdom.
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In a recent episode there are only pix of Flay, Cora and Morimoto in the "pantheon" although they do show a shot of Batali later. Foreshadowing perhaps?
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Sounds like we got luckier with our meals than you did.
You are right about not being up to Philly standards. In fact it isn't even up to local standards (Farmhouse, Katherine's, Fair Hill Inn (very very good BTW)).
But, it is better than the Perkins in Avondale (which I'm told is the busiest Perkin's in the world...go figure) :-)
Top Chef Season 5
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How do you know about the sweet potatoes?