After watching the Monday episode, I was thinking - one of the guest judges was Indian and another Israeli - shouldn't they have asked about any dietary restrictions? If the Indian is Hindu, wouldn't he have refused to eat meat? and if the Israeli kept Kosher, wouldn't she have refused to eat shellfish? or did they assume, since there was no warning up front, that there weren't any forbidden foods?

And, on that note, I had lunch (corned beef on rye with mustard - good, but not as good as it should have been) from a Kosher food truck.

I wondered that too - but the Israeli judge ate the shellfish with no problem and the Indian judge ate the beef.

I have to say that I loved the teamwork that Adrien and Jennifer showed in the elimination challenge in the first hour.

And Christian asking for flour! from Jennifer, when he'd been bad-mouthing her for weeks. As she said, "Karma's a bitch."

I kinda wish she'd just said "I have some but I'm not sharing" but then Christian would have probably gone off on what a bitch she was for not sharing and not being nice.

I did like Ramsay saying at the end to Christian that he (Ramsay) had earned the right to be arrogant and Christian hadn't. Which he didn't say so bluntly but I wish he had.

I have to say that just looking at the menus I liked Adrien's better and if I had a choice between the two that's what I'd have gone for. But Jennifer's entree was much more technical. I've never cooked quail but Dad does a lot (he goes quail "hunting") and it can go bad quickly since it's so small.

Jennifer's dessert really needed some kind of cake or cookie maybe a madeleine.

more to the point: why do they seem to dismiss the fact that there are professional pastry chefs who perhaps should be better suited to cooking desserts than those who are sous chefs and designing the menus for the main courses?

I hate that they get mad when these chefs don't do a good dessert as if cooking dessert is an equivalent activity. Yes, I know it is for the entertainment value, but it ticks me off.

I was watching sort of with one eye, because I was doing an online chat, but I need to watch the whole thing through and really pay attention.

Also, aw! Michael Kors got married!

From that article:

The pair met in 1990, when LePere began working as an intern for Kors's company.

That's really impressive! I mean, a lot of people schtup the intern, but to be together 20 years later?

Schtup! Heh.

And the, er, intern was a good deal younger, based on that picture.

I'm sorry I decided to watch Project Runway in real time tonight. There was a lot I would have liked to FF past in the workroom. But the judging is fun.

I did not hate the loser's look as much as the judges did, but I don't think she's made anything for any challenge that really looks like her portfolio.

And we actually see Nina in the winning garment! That's awesome. And she looks good.

I don't know about next week...