thursday thirteen

thirteen reasons why i love top chef!
(wednesdays at 10 pm on Bravo)

1) i get to hear anthony bourdain say things like, "it totally didn't suck",
when referring to michael's stuffed baked potato in season 2.

2) the top chef kitchen *swoons* the kitchen!

3) where else can you see folks get tossed of the culinary island for under salting?

4) we learn that undercooked beets will destroy you

5) we get to see lots of offal. offal, the generally less-appealing bits of edible
animals: pigs' feet, kidneys, chicken feet and rooster combs, pigs blood,
oxtail, sweetbreads (which, I always thought were brains, but are actually
glands; this makes me exactly zero times more likely to ever order them)

6) we learn that there are people out there that actually DO cook geoduck (in
spite of what it actually looks like)

7) we get to watch young chefs scramble to produce a gourmet meal out of
frog legs, chicken liver, eggplant, cornflakes and peanut butter. (yes, really)

8) bacon ice cream. and that's all i'll say about that.

9) where else can you see a couple of chefs get drunk and shave their heads on
national tv?

10) where else can you see an episode where the chefs must create a meal
without cooking (season 2 episode 7) and then have a chef be eliminated in
a later episode for doing just that? ( judge to host, "but he didn't cook anything" )

11) we see that it IS possible to create a family friendly healthy meal with only
$10 at the whole foods market. yeah right.

12) yes, virginia, you can cook a tempting gourmet meal with the ingredients solely
from a convenience store or vending machines.

13) sam talbot........need i say more?

thursday thirteen

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