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Top Chef Seattle
18 Things You Learn While Attending the ‘Top Chef’ Finale We sat in on the taping, we ate the food, and we talked to all the previous winners — and we learned that Emeril will never tire of people yelling “Bam” when they see him.
By Hadley Tomicki
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Unclean Sweetbreads and“Hugh enters the kitchen doing his best Michael Ian Black imitation.”
By David Rees
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Sourdough Starters and Tom’s“Sheldon plays a ukulele, which is like a ‘starter’ for people who can’t get their act together and learn guitar. “
By David Rees
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Ships, Icebergs, and Scylla and“Lizzie is adding bacon to her iceberg lettuce. She’s also adding anchovies, which are a type of sea creature. According to my calculations, this means her dish will be salty.”
By David Rees
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Naked Sushi and Human Centipede “Our gang walks into the kitchen and sees a bunch of fish and sea creatures lying on a bed of ice. Is it a mafia-style warning?”
By David Rees
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Restaurant Wars and UnderstandingIf there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that raw fish doesn’t look good on TV. But Emeril, who can’t see the dish on TV, loves it.
By David Rees
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Healthy Food and Sexy Knives“The winning dish will, in turn, inspire a new Healthy Choice ‘Café Steamer,’ which sounds like a sex act from a French frat house. “
By David Rees
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Oyster Bogs and Old Turkey BonesThis week, the chefs go to a Roller Derby match and watch the women slam into each other and use bad language.
By David Rees
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Beautiful Berries and Shredded“The chefs drive to an old property called Remlinger Farms. It looks poverty-stricken and dilapidated, like a meth lab with cows.”
By David Rees
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Vegan Sushi and Artisanally Candied“I thought Seattle artisans would be young and skinny-jeaned. Am I guilty of artisan-profiling?”
By David Rees
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Personal Branding and GeopoliticalThe teams must prepare their dishes before the Space Needle completes a full rotation. It’s like something out of Dr. No .
By David Rees
Top Chef Seattle Recap: And We’re Off!Top Chef continues to represent an upper-middlebrow trashy sensibility that purees accessibility, celebrity, and actual talent in a back-stabbery broth of semi-sophistication.
By David Rees
The Feeding Tube
Sept. 19, 2012
By Alan Sytsma