I don’t think the world needs much in the way of reality television, much less much more, but Top Chef has been my exception. I was looking forward to Season 4, but it just hasn’t caught my attention the way previous seasons had. Joe DeSalazar of foodieNYC nailed it for me: What could I possibly [...]
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Just got back from a week of vacation, where I did the things I never have the time for. For me, it was rereading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and listening to Game Theory’s “Lolita Nation” straight through without interruption. But the moment I returned, I became very busy. I am going to try and [...]
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+ I loved this week’s Top Chef. No bizarre cooking out of a vending machine or one aisle of the supermarket. The contestants cooked classic French cuisine in front of and were judged by hard-core experts and practitioners this week. I have been hoping that they would do this for some time. In the softer [...]
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I am in the midst of exam week, so I have a bunch of entries to finish once Wednesday passes.In the pipeline: System for Creativity: The Elements of Taste Food Blogs: A few links to some recent discoveries Sausage Adventure: In which we match a food grinder and some hog casings and really let the [...]
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I was going to write a quick entry on Top Chef Season Three (or with its insanely ubiquitous product placement, it perhaps should be called “Toyota Top Bombay Sapphire, the home appliance manufacturer Breville, Cold Stone Creamery, Evian Natural Spring Water, Merck/Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals, Red Robin, Glad Chef Season Three“). It reminds me of David Foster [...]
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