Top Chef Seattle Finale Recap: David Rees on Chicken Butts and Washed Scallops
“If collards are the new kale, I’m all for it!”
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Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Unclean Sweetbreads and Kristen’s Baroque Euro-Esoterica
"Hugh enters the kitchen doing his best Michael Ian Black imitation."
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Sourdough Starters and Tom’s Mean Girl Tendencies
"Sheldon plays a ukulele, which is like a 'starter' for people who can’t get their act together and learn guitar. "
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Ships, Icebergs, and Scylla and Charybdis
"Lizzie is adding bacon to her iceberg lettuce. She’s also adding anchovies, which are a type of sea creature. According to my calculations, this means her dish will be salty."
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Naked Sushi and Human Centipede Chicken
"Our gang walks into the kitchen and sees a bunch of fish and sea creatures lying on a bed of ice. Is it a mafia-style warning?"
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Restaurant Wars and Understanding Coconut Flavors
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that raw fish doesn’t look good on TV. But Emeril, who can’t see the dish on TV, loves it.
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Mojo Sauce and Thai-German Fusion Lollipops
This, week, the gang encounters Wolfgang Puck, and their worst fears.
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Healthy Food and Sexy Knives
"The winning dish will, in turn, inspire a new Healthy Choice 'Café Steamer,' which sounds like a sex act from a French frat house. "
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Oyster Bogs and Old Turkey Bones
This week, the chefs go to a Roller Derby match and watch the women slam into each other and use bad language.
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Beautiful Berries and Shredded Jeans
"The chefs drive to an old property called Remlinger Farms. It looks poverty-stricken and dilapidated, like a meth lab with cows."
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Marilyn Hagerty and Missing the 12/12/12 Benefit Concert
"Stefan and Kristin flirt. Somebody burns a spatula handle. Paul McCartney sings with Nirvana, or so Twitter tells me."
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Vegan Sushi and Artisanally Candied Salmon
"I thought Seattle artisans would be young and skinny-jeaned. Am I guilty of artisan-profiling?"
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on a Handsy Padma and Old-Timey Hawaiian Obsessions
"They are reincarnating old dishes! This is going to be a GHOST DINNER FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE."
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Cheese Ball Sophistication and Undercooked Kale
Oh, and it's Thanksgiving in Top Chef world.
Top Chef Seattle Recap: David Rees on Personal Branding and Geopolitical Humblebrags
The teams must prepare their dishes before the Space Needle completes a full rotation. It’s like something out of Dr. No.
Top Chef Seattle Recap: And We’re Off!
Top Chef continues to represent an upper-middlebrow trashy sensibility that purees accessibility, celebrity, and actual talent in a back-stabbery broth of semi-sophistication.
Around the World in 80 Plates Recap: David Rees on the Finale
"The chefs toast their amazing journey and that’s that: 'Around the World in 80 Plates' concludes its first and only season. Yeah, I’m calling it."
Around the World in 80 Plates Recap: David Rees on Empanadas and the Antichrist
"Did you know there’s a very particular way one should attach a goat carcass to an iron cross before cooking it by an open fire? I didn’t — maybe because I’m not an Argentinian Satan-worshipper?"
Around the World in 80 Plates Recap: David Rees on Dim Sum and Demon Chefs
"I can feel them judging me as I grind more pizza into my snark-hole while wearing my second-cleanest pair of pleated khaki shorts."
Around the World in 80 Plates Recap: Fifty Shades of Stone
"Would Curtis Stone enjoy humiliating me? Would I enjoy being humiliated by Curtis Stone?"