Top Chef Recap
Happy Thursday!
1. Thoughts on last night’s episode
-I couldn’t be less excited to see Toby return to the show. I used to daydream that I had an awesome British cousin who would visit my family every summer. During those visits we would be regaled with cheeky British humor and maybe, if I was lucky he would share with me the tricks of being a gentlemen.
In the Fall, when he would leave for home, I would feel incredibly sad and anxiously await his return for months.
I feel exactly the opposite about Toby.
"I tried to deconstruct Paella, but in the end it deconstructed me..."
-It’s sad, but it was time for Ron to go. Don’t get me wrong, if we were friends and he cooked for me on a regular basis, I would be crazy excited as I’m sure his food is great. I would say in groups of people things like, “I hope Ron made some sort of seafood” and surely most of my friends would agree. But he just seemed a little overwhelmed in this competition. Some people just aren’t meant to cook in front of millions of people.
-Jennifer seems to be the exact opposite of Ron. Sure, she was convinced she was going to fail, but she just rises to the challenge. I wonder if she’s into 32 year olds who run blogs that are updated on a semi regular basis.
-Apparently everybody hates Robin and I get that. She does seem annoying. But if you’ve had cancer, I think it’s ok to play the cancer card every once in a while. You’ve earned it. You know…BY HAVING CANCER. I seriously doubt that her mentioning her cancer was the reason she won the quick fire. And even if it was, the other contestants should have licked their wounds, and taken solace in the fact that they’ve NEVER HAD CANCER. Sorry. That was a bit of a rant. Accusing her of playing the cancer card seemed…tacky.
Anyhoo, not the greatest episode ever, but one that was necessary. Mainly because they shot it, and had it never aired, America never would have know what had happened to Ron.
