Top Chef Season 22

Culture, Media, General
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Yes. I googled it. I knew she looked familiar.

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I think that was a season that I watched the first few episodes and gave up.

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When he started talking about that dish I turned to LLD and said “a little curry flavor doesn’t make it Indian”.

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106

She was very Glammed up, and looks different. I liked her on her season and follow her on Instagram.

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107

Yeah, sometimes I think a chef comes into this and decides to be a big personality with the hope they can monetize their schtick.

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108

It makes sense that she looks more polished as a better-rested guest judge than as a contestant. During the recent all-star season where she was a finalist, she still had an infant at home, too.

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I did too. And I liked her very much.

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I was very bummed by this episode: the outcome, not the challenge. But Massimo is just cementing my view of him as an a-hole to work for.

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Another recap, but some parts of his are now behind a paywall

Memorable quotes

“Wow, all this humblebragging about multiple Chinatowns only for Chinese to get snubbed in the end? I don’t know if you guys thought this one through.”

and

“Cooking Your Food” has now officially surpassed not going there to make friends as the Top Chef mantra."

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112

Indeed!

113

OK, so I’m not the only one who thought that was weird.

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Also, this partial quote about Chef Baily…

“… she always… starts… talking… very slooowly at the beginning of all her phrases? And… then… less an accent than a lilt, like she turns every sentence into a little song that she seems very pleased with.”

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115

It drives me batty.

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Lots of uptalking and vocal fry with that one. She had a good bounce back from LCK, but her talking heads are v. annoying.

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117

Yes, she make my ears hurt.

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118

Ah! I’ve heard of vocal fry, but not uptalking! For some reason I associate it with “House Hunters”. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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119

Note to self: Never participate in a reality cooking show unless you can make Mother Theresa seem like the leader of the Mean Girls.

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I don’t think I completely understand that comment, but I believe the elves could give Mother Theresa what I now call “a bad edit”.

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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

But I still think Massimo is a jerk :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Eh, we all have our peccadilloes, and I assume this one betrays the relative age/generation of most of us.

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