I knew this would be Howie's week to pack his knives and go. In fact, I was surprised when Tre was asked to leave at the end of the last show, and Howie remained.Howie. The man I'd expect to see cooking at Rib Crib or Ruby Tuesday's. The man who would keep me away from those places, not because of his culinary skills, but because of the way he poured his sweat into every dish he made. Literally
Anthony Bourdain's weekly blog on each episode of Top Chef is always a great and entertaining read. Tonight he put Howie on the psychiatric couch and I suspect he's spot on with his analysis, but still. I wasn't asking Howie to confront and battle his inner demons, or go within and nurture his hurt inner child, all I was asking was for him to buy a sweat band.
LOL. Yeah, Watching his is pretty disgusting. Beau has been waiting to see Howie's departure as well. I think he may have some decent potential underneath it all. Personally I think Hung should have been "hung" a long time ago. when things go well for him, it's because "he is a superior chef". But when he f*&#'s it up (because he sucks ass in reality) it is always because "the guest judge must not have understood what he was going for, or even better yet, he is ignorant and wouldn't know good food if it jumped up and smacked him in the gob."
ReplyDeletePretentious, over-confident arrogance is all OK, if you have the skills to back it up. Hung has proven time and time again, that he is really just a common cook, that can only produce the most common and overdone dishes possible. He only does good when he plays it safe, which, to me, screams lack of imagination.
Just my humble opinion of course.
Oh, and that Dale, can you say 'skating through'.?
I would like to see CJ win this one, but he has got to hone his leadership skills a bit. Sara on the other hand, can command a kitchen well, but needs to turn down the 'I'm your momma, and you will do what I say' factor a bit.
I'm not a fan of the show, but why isn't that chef wearing a hat and a scarf? They're there for a reason: namely that vile sweat. He needs to lay off of the substances, the abuse of which is a fact of life for a lot of chefs.
ReplyDeleteMy humble opinion is that they already axed the only real chef the show had, namely, Tre. There's not one of the remaining contenders who deserve the title of "chef".
ReplyDeleteThis season is a joke.
I'm starting to build a groundswell, grass-roots movement for Sara as the dark horse. I think she's been in the top more than a few times now and - unless I'm mistaken - has the best track record going through all the competitions.
ReplyDeleteI'll be surprised if Sara wins. A woman hasn't won yet.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you turn out to be right, I'll buy you a drink!
Although she suffered from some intense character flaws, I felt Tiffany from Season I was the most talented of any of the chefs on any of the seasons. Unfortunately her character flaws hindered her leadership abilities and because of that, she lost to Howard.
ReplyDeleteI don't even count Season II. They were all a bunch of sophomoric whiney babies. I thought at first that Season III was going to turn out to be the best of all, but they've proven me wrong. Thus far, Season I was the best group.
Yeah, Tiffany and Lee Anne were the best in the cooking department. Howard deserved his win. Ilan? Meh. And whoever wins this one, well, I'm still not impressed.
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