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I got the idea with both of them, frankly, that scorn over what they were making interfered with their ability to do it right.
This is something else the judges have been pretty consistent about frowning upon -- showing scorn, of either food or customers.
And again, I think that's fair. To be a chef at all, let alone a "Top Chef," you should have an open mind to both your food and your customers. Scorning either should get you called on the carpet in this show, if not tossed outright.
I'm not saying you should have standards, of course, just that turning your nose up (especially at customers) is seriously bad form.
Pretty much every time somebody made a salad as their course for a meal have been been sent packing.
It was an interesting contrast between the rotisserie chicken etc. v. the bought sausage and lentils. You can buy your sausage or other ingredients, even to the extreme of freaking instant potatoes. But they have be just that - ingredients. Not your damn main course.
right. If she had bought the sausage and made a cassoulet, it would have been fine.
No way he knew it was high cholesterol when he bought it.
Oh he totally did -- he even said as much when he bought it. (Doesn't everyone know that shrimp and lobster are high in cholesterol? Is that not as common knowledge as I thought?)
I know it, so I'd imagine anyone who's been through cooking school would know it.
One of the other contestants behind him did, but I didn't hear him say it. But maybe I missed that.
I know it, so I'd imagine anyone who's been through cooking school would know it.
Especially someone who considers himself a seafood chef.
Brian was clearly going his own way because he had immunity.
I would think recollection of high cholesterol foods would be positively correlated with need to monitor cholesterol intake.
