Top Chef Las Vegas

[Scot]

Two more things (there were three, but I've forgotten the other):

1.  Wouldn't it have been way better if instead of following the chefs on their stupid field trips to the casinos more time had been spent showing them making the food?

2.  Wouldn't it also have been way better if Robin had done something with colored gelatin to mimic stained glass rather than attempting to work with sugar? 

Sarah -

Stained glass can be made with sugar. This is some my wife did ... And sort of what Robin was shooting for? I saw the fail coming midway through.

[Sarah]

Of course, it can, Scot.  But obviously not by Robin, who just might have been able to come up with something prettyish if she'd used gelatin.  Which was my point.

As for you, Martin, oh ye of little faith.

[Scot]

Many apologies, Sarah. I misread your sentence. My wife just finished watching the episode, and wondered where the color in Robin's stained glass was.

[Trotskie]

Not a big deal, but I thought it was kind of uneven of Colicchio to criticize Jen for mis-interpreting her inspiration by not over-spicing as Medieval people would have to disguise rancid meat (which I think is a myth actually) and then let Micheal skate for making chicken wings, a dish most commonly associated with Buffalo, NY.  Not NY, NY.

[Sarah]

Many apologies, Sarah. I misread your sentence. My wife just finished watching the episode, and wondered where the color in Robin's stained glass was.

Apparently Robin thought a dull beige captured the essence of Chihuly's work.

[Kim Kelly]

Can I just say that Chihuly is kind of a douchebag?

[Sarah]

Didn't you already?  (Or was that somewhere else?)

[Kim Kelly]

It was probably elsewhere. Well, he is. A grade-A douchebag.

[Sarah]

I trust you. 

[Sarah]

One more thing:  "Shit on a shingle" is such a misleading sobriquet.  Creamed chipped beef looks much more like vomit than shit. 

[Omar]

One more thing:  "Shit on a shingle" is such a misleading sobriquet.  Creamed chipped beef looks much more like vomit than shit. 

Duly noted!

[Sarah]

Have you never had it?  Oh my heaven, it is awful.  My mother used to make it from time to time.  I tried it because I had to.  A mistake.  I don't know what Jen was thinking of.

[Martin]

Speaking of food in general, I was in London over the weekend and had strips of duck in a thick, super-sweet lemon sauce at a simple hole-in-the-wall type Chinatown places. Best thing I've eaten all year. So... shout-out to that I guess.

[dave from knoxville]

Can I just say that Chihuly is kind of a douchebag?

Hey, AFK got to sit in on a Chihuly workshop for children. AFK was maybe 11. Chihuly treated him like a king, even painted his deck shoes Pollack style. He was really cool with those kids.

[jbissell]

Chihuly is Tonya Harding's ex-husband, right?