Gothamist: An Open Letter to Ted Allen and 'Top Chef'

msk

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:00:29 -0500

Don't they all know by now that you need to include bacon in everything to win Ted's approval? :) Seriously, the man loves his bacon. Mmmm... bacon.

MFer

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:52:17 -0500

That was the sound of my choking on the word "cheftestant".

Toby von Meistersinger

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:14:26 -0500

Mr. Hamilton: I want a Waldorf Salad. Basil Fawlty: I beg your pardon? Mr. Hamilton: Get me a Waldorf Salad. Basil Fawlty: Well, I think we just ran out of Waldorfs!

Mike D

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:31:08 -0500

The Blini thing was insane -- I mean, *I* know that, and I mainly eat frozen pizzas and take out.

dkstar1

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:56:25 -0500

seriously. I mean come on Ted Allen. I learned where the Waldorf Salad was created in my 6th Grade Home Economics class (and learned how to make it too...and which happens to be where I got my love of cooking from). M.

janelle

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:49:58 -0500

mmm, waldorf salad.

Rocknrope

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:44:07 -0500

So far I'm unimpressed with this year's lot. C'mon, you're a chef and you don't know that fried foods that sit around for 2 hours in their own heat are going to get soggy? The same thing happened last week with the girl's chips that softened up. And you know you're going to be in Chicago, and you don't familiarize yourself with deep dish pizza? It was unfortunate to see the chef from Dos Caminos not even place well in the TACO challenge.

Jen Chung

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:24:52 -0500

I felt bad for the block party participants.

danno

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:13:35 -0500

The Waldorf Hotel, of course, was not at the site of the current Waldorf-Astoria. Rather, it was on 34th Street, where the Empire State Building now stands, next door to the Astoria Hotel.

CR

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:51:12 -0500

p*wned!

Mike D

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:46:12 -0500

Thank you for this. Last night's episode seemed to have been based on the "plot" and not on the actual food produced. Top Chef is hard -- with Project Runway you can see the clothes, but until we have Taste-o-Vision, we're sort of SOL.