The Chefs run like mad around the kitchen and rampage the walk-in. Betty is yelling "Guys! Are we gonna talk about the menu?" over and over again to no one in particular. Before last week, someone would have listened to her, but after crying about Splenda, she just doesn't have the same authority. Everyone dismisses her as a lunatic and grabs for food like a storm's a comin'.
Marcel ridicules and henpecks Frank into a heavier than usual sweat. Frank finally takes a stand on his sauce, and Marcel demands a cook off, with Cliff as the judge. When Marcel "wins" he snickers to the camera and tells us Frank just lost his last opportunity to put his name on the dish. Yeah, I'm sure Frank's really upset about not getting to claim ownership on the oh so original and ground-breaking Salmon Tartare, you dildo. What is this? A nursing home soiree?
Cliff and Sam are doing "a scallop and a fois". When I don't know what they hell the Chefs are talking about, I deem them brilliant and assume they will win. My money's on Cliff.
Trouble over at Camp Betty. When Michael has something half intelligent sounding to say about how sucky your dish is, you're in trouble. No one seems too enthused over the whole puff pastry savory napolean idea, but Betty is determined to prove them all wrong. Craaaaaaaacccckkk.....
Josie and Marisa are going all out to prove themselves, too. They are attempting one of the most difficult recipes in all the fine dining cookbooks ever....drum roll....FRUIT SALAD. Call it palette cleansing apple and citrus all you want, girls. Fruit salad is fruit salad. Cliff explains to us that the fifth course is traditionally a protein, and the girls are preparing an Intermezzo, which is "unsuitable". To make things worse, they're planning on making a basil drink on the side, but hear that Elia and Carlos are making a basil shot for their dessert trio, which means there will be two basil drinks going out in a row. Luckily these girls thought on their feet and changed their drink to a pink goopy liquid served in a big plastic spoon. After eating their plate of fruit acid following the other four courses, the Judges might actually appreciate a shot of Pepto Bismol.
Judge Tom is flabbergasted that the teams didn't discuss the menu before they planned, but he doesn't offer any guidance. There's no Tom spin on "make it work". Instead, he walks around with this look on his face that says "what the f*** are you thinking!?!". It's priceless.
After last week's calorie counting nightmare, it's refreshing to see that Jennifer Coolige packed Social with people who love to eat. It looked like the Camp Glucose thirty year reunion in there.
Happy 30th Anniversary, Camp Glucose kid!
As is typical on this show, all of the Chefs felt they did an excellent job. You have no idea how great or terrible you are until someone tells you. I dreamt of being a model until I walked into Ford Modeling Agency and had a ham sandwich thrown in my face. Who knew?
The only hitch in the service came when one of Carlos and Elia's dishes was returned to the kitchen with two shot glasses on it instead of one. The editors tried to make a big drama out of this. Close up on clock at 00:00. Tom says "time's up! It can't go out!" He has the "WTF" look. We cut to Carlos saying he will take the blame and go home if he must because it was his mistake. He won't be able to deal if Elia gets sent home. The telenovela music swells and they hug and....yawn. Otherwise, everyone got fed and Jennifer gave a gracious thank you speech.
When the Judges convene in chambers, they look pretty pissed.
Michelle and Tom don't understand how twelve chefs can walk into a fine dining kitchen and NOT use so many delectable ingredients. Michelle says that they ignored food featured heavily in her Social menu, and she's upset. Then Padma pipes in and I realize what her schtick is. She's one of those people who takes what's already been said and restructures the sentences. "This should have been a Chef's paradise!" Oh Padma. You'd be in clearer context if you were under the table.
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Comments (19)
Um... what?
1 of 19 | Posted by MalloryS
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Posted on November 20, 2006 1:41 PM
uhhh.. Flipit? Next time, you should just break the pill in half. Cause, see, this was under the Top Chef recap banner, and it was your notes for TAR. Sounds like it will be funny, though. 'Puters! who can figger 'em out? :-)
2 of 19 | Posted by WDWBelle
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Posted on November 20, 2006 1:44 PM
haha... looks like someone copied and pasted the wrong thing. it's like seeing behind the scenes at tvgasm with all those TAR notes.
3 of 19 | Posted by yaytv
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Posted on November 20, 2006 1:51 PM
Wow - doesn't it suck when you screw up on your first day at work?
Congrats on winning the contest, Flipit! We all look forward to reading your recaps.
But not your recap notes.
4 of 19 | Posted by dagnytaggart
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Posted on November 20, 2006 1:52 PM
ouch. Well it is monday, and your first day on the job....
5 of 19 | Posted by Laurie
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Posted on November 20, 2006 2:06 PM
I hate the single moms, especially the littler, nastier one. Couldn't they have informed the Chos at some point that they didn't want to feel obligated to team up anymore? The moms sure took advantage of the brothers up until they left them in the dust. That said, the Chos were total chumps and deserved to lose. Nice guys, but total chumps.
6 of 19 | Posted by Whore With No Name
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Posted on November 20, 2006 2:46 PM
OKay that was all MY FAULT!!! SORRY!!!
Haha, I don'ot know why it's so embarrassing to have my notes exposed to the world, but I feel like you all just saw me naked! How awkward!
7 of 19 | Posted by B-Side
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Posted on November 20, 2006 2:50 PM
Great recap, once it was really posted! It's okay B-Side, we'll pretend we didn't see.
8 of 19 | Posted by yaytv
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Posted on November 20, 2006 3:28 PM
Josie doesn't just have talent. She has PASSION!!
Glad to see Marisa go - she was total dead weight.
And I love that Elia wanted to bring out the flavor of the kidney. I'm not huge on human anatomy, but don't kidneys filter WASTE from the system. Yeah, please - bring out that flavor. Yum.
9 of 19 | Posted by Barfly
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Posted on November 20, 2006 3:32 PM
LOL
Bside, I think I have a crush on you. Thanks for your support on the first recap guys. Me love this site long time and I am proud to be a part of it.
Heart,
Flipit
10 of 19 | Posted by Flipit
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Posted on November 20, 2006 4:21 PM
I was going to individually point out all the comments that made me laugh, starting with "PimplePuss" (!) but by the time I got to the end the list was too long. Awesome recap.
11 of 19 | Posted by Strock9
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Posted on November 20, 2006 5:40 PM
Has anyone brought up the Marisa Churchill calendar yet? Yeah, because I love you all, I'll put the link right here.
http://marisachurchill.com/calendar.php
I particularly like the shot where she's holding the cupcake right in her crotch.
12 of 19 | Posted by sugarshane12
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Posted on November 20, 2006 5:54 PM
Marisa looks like Shelley Duvall's uglier baby sister. She should spend more time learning some recipes.
That picture of Josie is just...ugh. Too much sniveling about talent from her mediocre ass.
I thought the guest judge was a huge bitch. I think Sam is full of shit and is a bigger dick than Marcel who's supposed to be the villain. I can't wait for Mia to get the boot either.
13 of 19 | Posted by LaSexorcisto
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Posted on November 20, 2006 6:32 PM
Wow, maybe I should have voted on these. THIS is who you guys voted for. It reads like a crackhead's parody of a typical TvGasm recap. Why would you have a Top Chef recapper who knows barely anything about gourmet food and doesn't even seem to like it? At least with EdHill and Project Runway he can appreciate the clothes even if he admits to not knowing that much about them.
FoiE Gras is not that mysterious of an ingredient. It's used all the time in good cooking. Also, while I can understand being repulsed by the idea of offal, there is a very good reason that people pay through the nose for most of them: they are delicious. I admit to not being a very big fan of chicken feet, but everything else on there that I have tried has been amazing. I know I am being really pretentious, but I really cannot stand it when people make good food out to seem ridiculous because they think its gross. I guess this is why Top Chef has to include all those TGI Friday's challenges and the like.
14 of 19 | Posted by chasgoose
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Posted on November 20, 2006 11:18 PM
Great recap. I have to say that I laughed out loud many times. Congrats on winning the contest and I look forward to reading more of your recaps. This one was too funny.
I thought not knowing about foie gras (or so Flipit says) led up to the great line about choosing Sam and Cliff for the win. I don't expect our recappers to know about every single thing that happens in an episode and sometimes (as in this instance) it leads to a funny.
15 of 19 | Posted by g3
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Posted on November 21, 2006 3:43 AM
Oh, and the guest judge was ANGRY? Angry?
How about disappointed? Surprised? Annoyed? Irritated?
I'd hate to see her reaction to something that would actually make a reasonable person angry.
16 of 19 | Posted by g3
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Posted on November 21, 2006 3:49 AM
Flipit, I really liked the the recap. Don't listen to the haters.
BTW - Elia is Mexican. Sorry to nitpick, but an otherwise hilarious recap. Great start.
Oh, and since B-side said it was like seeing him naked, I'm sorry I missed the TAR notes being posted.
17 of 19 | Posted by tiffgasm
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Posted on November 21, 2006 7:43 AM
And I'm glad Marisa got sent home. For a pastry chef, she seems to have effed up most of her desserts so she spends her time trying to compensate by trashing the other chefs.
18 of 19 | Posted by tiffgasm
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Posted on November 21, 2006 7:50 AM
Love it Flipit.... CONGRATULATIONS ON THE JOB!! I am so fine with these two going home this week......as soon as they partnered up I expected two would go. Tom (whom I love on this show) did seem a little put out having to miss the party while he babysat in the kitchen, kinda like sitting at the kids table at Thanksgiving... speaking of Thanksgiving, I need a recipe for the pretzel, cream cheese, strawberry jello salad!
19 of 19 | Posted by GIFFORDSAZ
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Posted on November 26, 2006 6:22 PM