Comments on: Top What? http://www.saltshaker.net/20060405/top-what Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:53:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Top Chef #5 http://www.saltshaker.net/20060405/top-what#comment-332 SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Top Chef #5 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:08:00 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/20060405/top-what#comment-332 [...] Buenos Aires - Continuing on last week’s post on the new reality series Top Chef, with episode #5, Blind Confusion - a headlong jump into the world of exotic flavors. First, the quickfire challenge - a blindfolded attempt to identify twenty different offbeat ingredients, most of them Asian. Surprisingly, my fave Asian contestant, Lee Anne, didn’t do well at all. And I don’t say that to be ethnically prejudiced, but as Tom Colicchio pointed out, taste is very tied into childhood memories (or, for an even more interesting look at taste memory, Heston Blumenthal’s “Philosophy” section on the site for his restaurant, The Fat Duck), and none of the ingredients were likely to have been childhood memories for at least seven of the contestants. [...] [...] Buenos Aires - Continuing on last week’s post on the new reality series Top Chef, with episode #5, Blind Confusion - a headlong jump into the world of exotic flavors. First, the quickfire challenge - a blindfolded attempt to identify twenty different offbeat ingredients, most of them Asian. Surprisingly, my fave Asian contestant, Lee Anne, didn’t do well at all. And I don’t say that to be ethnically prejudiced, but as Tom Colicchio pointed out, taste is very tied into childhood memories (or, for an even more interesting look at taste memory, Heston Blumenthal’s “Philosophy” section on the site for his restaurant, The Fat Duck), and none of the ingredients were likely to have been childhood memories for at least seven of the contestants. [...]

]]> By: Paz http://www.saltshaker.net/20060405/top-what#comment-323 Paz Fri, 07 Apr 2006 05:25:23 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/20060405/top-what#comment-323 I haven't seen this show but I'm watching a very similar one on the Food Network station called The Next Food Network Star. Contestants compete to become host of their own cooking show on the show. Like the one you've mentioned above, they come from different backgrounds and have different experiences and personalities. Some are low key, others are vicacious, while others are pretty obnoxious. Out of the eight contestants, the judges kick each off till there are 2 participants left. Then the viewers vote for the winner. I like to watch the show and other shows like it. Paz I haven’t seen this show but I’m watching a very similar one on the Food Network station called The Next Food Network Star. Contestants compete to become host of their own cooking show on the show. Like the one you’ve mentioned above, they come from different backgrounds and have different experiences and personalities. Some are low key, others are vicacious, while others are pretty obnoxious.

Out of the eight contestants, the judges kick each off till there are 2 participants left. Then the viewers vote for the winner.

I like to watch the show and other shows like it.

Paz

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