Christine Dabney wrote:

> Heya all you Top Chef fans,
>
> I have been doing my Serious Eats reading..and found this:
> http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/04/b...neup-list.html
>
> Looks like a stellar lineup of chefs, if you go to the Bravo web page
> for this. Should be some great cooking!! Starts June 10, I think.

I'm starting to get irked at some of the competitive cooking shows.
"Chopped" is the one which set me off, with their screwing around and NOT
stocking the pantry with staple items like eggs. "Top Chef" can be similar,
throwing the chefs into some weird environment and then criticizing them for
not being complete experts in the cuisine of (for example)
fourteenth-century Pskov. It introduces what I consider to be a completely
unacceptable element of luck.

I foresee an episode of "Top Chef Masters" which goes something like this:
"You have this pile of shredded sausage casings, a three-ounce bag of
Cheez-It crackers, and four quarts of vintage-1951 water from the Love
Canal. You have fifteen seconds to make a twenty-course meal for five
hundred of the most discerning diners in the world. GO!"

Bob