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Sportygirl
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06-14-2005

Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 12:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sportygirl a private message Print Post    
Sea, I agree with you. I thought Ariane should have gone this week especially when the judges pointed out that NYC is in her backyard and she should visit all the ethnic areas to grow as a chef and she said she has her cookbook. Patrick while green showed the eagerness to learn and try new things that he should have stayed at least one more week.

I like pretty much everyone so far except Stefan, Fabio and Jeff (the one worried about his hair).

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 2:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
DH and I want to know what cooking school Patrick and Lauren went to - they were both eliminated, so it must not be one of the top schools! LOL

LOVING the show, though, and was a little bummed to see Patrick go...his Rainbow club was a riot. I was cracking up over Richard's "assessment" of Chef Tom!

My only very minor complaint - I do think the text question (like Rainbow Club or Euro Club better) was a bit unfair. They definitely edited the Euro group to appear snooty and the Rainbow group's edit included mainly their funny quips. Yes, they all said the things they were shown saying, but w/it being the first episode, we didn't see anyone talking at length, so I'm sure neither group was *only* snooty or *only* funny.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 5:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
LOL, well I'm not the genius behind getting the pictures up or designing the great banners.. that is Jimmer. I just help out if possible and find the links and info, but I love the banners!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 5:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Lauren:

Culinary Education: B.P.S. Culinary Arts Management, C.I.A.

Patrick:

Culinary Education: A.O.S. Culinary Arts, C.I.A. working on BPS Culinary Arts Management


I think CIA is Culinary Institute of America, which is quite legitimate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culinary_Institute_of_America

landi if you are watching/reading this thread, isn't that where Holly goes, to the branch in Napa Valley?

Tess
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04-13-2001

Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 6:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tess a private message Print Post    
The CIA is incredible. I used to watch a PBS show many, many years ago where the master chefs there taught classes on various techniques and then made dishes highlighting that technique. I loved it!!

Sea, I agree about the cookbook comment. If I were one of the judges, I probably would have hit her upside the head with one of her cookbooks but they are nicer than I am. I'm betting she goes soon. Very soon.

Lexie, trust me. I will not rest until I find seasons 1 and 2 on DVD.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Friday, November 14, 2008 - 5:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Slightly OT, I used to live on Governors Island back in the late 1960s (where they had the Quickfire Challenge). I was soooooooo excited to see where I grew up on TV!

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Friday, November 14, 2008 - 7:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alisons a private message Print Post    
I don't like the fact that they eliminated someone right away with the first Quickfire - it is bad enough that someone gets eliminated in the first episode, but to not even make it to the end of the first episode? Horrible!

A good friend of mine went to CIA and was 1st in her class in the pastry area. SHE can COOK. I have often said she should be on this show, but she has twins under the age of 5, so I'm thinking it won't happen.

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Friday, November 14, 2008 - 2:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
The CIA is where my DD's boyfriend went this past year. He was doing an externship this summer. I "think" Gail Simmons went there as well. If you go to their web site you'll see a HUGE list of their alumni - many very famous chefs!

I didn't like the double elimination either. I sort of liked Patrick and would have liked to see him last at least a couple of shows.

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Friday, November 14, 2008 - 2:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
Ooops, I was wrong - the BF went to Institute of Culinary Education. I think that's where Gail Simmons went as well as other previous contestants. I remember they had a big thing on their site last year about contestants on the show who were alumni. Actually, I just looked again and they have alumni on the show again this year.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Friday, November 14, 2008 - 2:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
My cousin graduated from CIA many moons ago. He worked in and around the Vegas area for years (actually, it may have been primarily Laughlin). Now he's the Director of Food Operations at Club Cal Neva's Pasta Shoppe. There was a write up of it in the local paper HERE. I've always wished he'd go on a show like this. But he's said he's quite content with his life and not interested. Oh well.

Anyway, on to the show....too early to have favorites/non-favorites for me. But what stood out was two of them talking of being located in Boulder, CO (a hop/skip/jump away from me). So of course I had to look them up. Melissa and Hosea must know each other, cause the two restaurants they work at are related somehow (didn't see exactly how, but I can tell by their websites). Both websites are designed exactly the same, and both have links to mentions of Top Chef, where both of them are mentioned on each website. And, looking at the restaurant's addresses, they look to be next door to each other (same street, one street addy is 928 and the other is 950). Melissa works at Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace, and Hosea at Jax Fish House.

Anyway, I don't think these two let on knowing each other. And I wonder if they will let us know that on the show.

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Friday, November 14, 2008 - 4:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
Tess, they filmed that show at the CIA in the Napa Valley, not the Hyde Park CIA

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Friday, November 14, 2008 - 10:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
The caterer contestant is kin to one of the people I came to know on the "Discover Nashville" program I participated in this early fall. Way OT, but this program kept me - a life-long resident of the city - saying "Oh my gosh, I didn't know that!"

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 12:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Wow, that's saying a lot, TNT, because I know you know Nashville!

Tess
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04-13-2001

Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 1:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tess a private message Print Post    
All of them, Landileigh? I knew the grilling ones were in Napa Valley. I didn't know the earlier ones were as well. Way cool.

Tnt, way cool to you, too!

Tess
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04-13-2001

Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 1:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tess a private message Print Post    
Oh, btw, I saw several commercials for next week's program (I think it's next week) where Padma looks as if she's about to hurl and then spits out the food into her napkin. She told whomever cooked it that it was the first time that's ever happened on Top Chef. All the contestants were in shadow so I have no clue for whom that remark was intended but Padma was NOT a happy snacker.

Beth4freedom
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10-24-2003

Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 4:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beth4freedom a private message Print Post    
I would swear that I have seen a judge spit out foot before....anyone else remember?

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 5:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Sorry Beth, I don't ever remember a judge spitting out the food.

Lilfair
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07-09-2003

Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 6:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lilfair a private message Print Post    
Ramsey is famous for spitting food out...maybe that is what you remember.

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 1:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
tess, they did the grilling ones right outside the entrance to the CIA Greystone restaurant where you wait for your table. By watching them I can tell you that they did them in the VERY early AM, and it's funny how you don't see the parking lot below them. The inside ones were done in the main teaching kitchen.

been there too many times to know this, and ohhhhhhh my gawd, but the food is EXPENSIVE but EXCELLENT there!


Tess
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04-13-2001

Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 4:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tess a private message Print Post    
That's way cool. As many times as I've been to Napa Valley, I've never managed to drop in on the CIA.

Danzdol
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04-21-2001

Monday, November 17, 2008 - 10:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Danzdol a private message Print Post    
enjoying this cast a lot.
Thought it was unfair to judge who went home "knowing" who cooked it. Should have been a numbered dish taste test. Very easy for them to eliminate someone based on personality and benefit of the show versus the actual show. Or I can trust that they really did it on taste..hmmmm

Like the ITalian guy, German guy, not so much.
Also rooting for the Hawaiian not trained chef.

DId not think there was anything wrong with the cookbook comment because it was targeted towards cooking "Russian" (or whatever nationality it was).As a first step, she can take a look at how ingredients are traditionally used, of course go out and taste it and then give it your own twist. HE made it sound like she would be using a book for everything!

Annoyed by Rhadika and by Jill.

the blonde with the bangs reminds me of Mena Suvari. The blonde Miami guy reminds me of the Aussie from House! lol

Hosen, Gene and Leah are my faves for now.

Want to see more of Alex.

Jodie75
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08-26-2004

Monday, November 17, 2008 - 8:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jodie75 a private message Print Post    
I'm really annoyed - this was a two-hour premiere? My PVR is Canada (Toronto) didn't tape it all, just one hour. Can someone please tell me which region the two chefs who didn't make it were cooking for?

(did that question make sense?) I need to find a written summary of this episode...I'm so mad...

ETA - I just realized that it wasn't two chefs that were fired from the region (neighborhood) challenge, it was just the guy who went to school with the first 'evicted' chef. So please remind me - what kind of food was he preparing, and why was he told to 'pack his knives and go'?

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Monday, November 17, 2008 - 9:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
As far I know it was only an hour. Why do you think it was 2???

My VCR (how old fashioned am I!!) is still set for the 2 hour block of Project Runway and something else--Top Design maybe--so I didn't even notice...

Bonzacat
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07-08-2003

Monday, November 17, 2008 - 9:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bonzacat a private message Print Post    
The premier episode was 1 hour & 15 minutes.

Vegaschris
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10-13-2008

Monday, November 17, 2008 - 9:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vegaschris a private message Print Post    
Jodie, Patrick was cooking Chinese for Chinatown. He cooked black rice (?) noodles, something that he had never cooked before. In addition, his dish was not inspired. Tom gives a great review of the episode and why Patrick didn't do well in the comp. I'm including the link to Tom's blog below.

Hope this helps.

http://www.bravotv.com/Top_Chef/season/5/blogs/index.php?blog=tom_colicchio