Top Chef New York

[senorcorazon]

Anyone else think it's a little nervous-making that Mrs. "Cougar" has gotten on the winning sides just for cooking meat properly a couple of times? I fear for when she has to make her own plate of something.

Oh Tom, how I would love to see you and Fabio have a fish cookoff.

[Martin]

Indeed I do.  I commented on that bite then, and you obliged by posting this very picture.

Ah, the good old days.

This particular circle is complete.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

i watched this in its entirety last nite and was perplexed to hear Danny use a bogus referee call in football as his analogy for his bad taste (literally) and why he was voted off- completely oblivious.

[Sarah]

Note:  For anyone mourning the absence of faux hawks this season. Fabio's got a mini one going on.

[samir]

it's a good thing radhika doesn't want to be known as "the indian girl"

mitigation: it was jamie's idea.

[Come on, Jason]

"For something borrowed we borrowed from Radhika's culture, cuz she's from India."

I like Jamie but that was one of the lamest things I've ever heard.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

i enjoyed both Leah and Hosea admitting they are strictly platonic because they both have their respective boy/girlfriend back home since i wondered how well the scenes of them flirting went over as they watched it with their special someone. 

[Kim Kelly]

"[T]he proof's in the pudding — and her pudding sucked."

Best exit interview ever??

[samir]

mad props for him using "malarkey".

[Sarah]

"They thought I didn’t do that much. But I made a barbecue sauce from scratch. I’m not taking Peter Luger’s sauce and pouring it out of a bottle. There’s a lot of steps involved and a lot of technique involved in making a barbecue sauce. I was kind of shocked."

?!

[Martin]

"Pickling is an old technique, and basically to make something new you have to start with old first."

[iAmBaronVonTito]

i was trying to figure out if that was sweat on his shirt...?

[jbissell]

i was trying to figure out if that was sweat on his shirt...?

Either that or grease.

[senorcorazon]

i was trying to figure out if that was sweat on his shirt...?

Either that or grease.

Pickling brine?

[samir]

Pffft. Cop out!

Also, I'm sure filming the Christmas special in July was awesome.

Eugene getting passive-aggressive, too.

And the Europeans have - finally - formed a bond.