Archive for the 'Top Chef' Category
PADMA LAKSHMI LIKES MEAT
I always get Padma mixed up with Freida Pinto from Slumdog Millionaire – ’cause they’re both Indian and attractive. Padma Lakshmi is an author and judge on Bravo’s Top Chef, and just like any food critic will tell you – they love a good cheeseburger. I actually don’t know any food critics or if they would say that, but I can imagine eating dinner with a food critic would be a nightmare. If I had a friend who criticized food for a living, I’d never hang out with him if food was involved.
Padma makes love to a cheeseburger in this new commercial for Hardee’s. You may want to watch this a couple or thirty times.
COLICCHIO BACKS HOSEA AS TOP CHEF
In an interview with People.com, famed New York City chef and Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio 
admitted to having no regrets in giving the Top Chef award to Hosea Rosenberg, arguably the worst chef and least liked of the 3 finalists. “If I had to do it all over again, reading what I’m reading, I’d still say Hosea wins. He made a better meal,” Colicchio revealed to People this week.
Hosea (right) was without a doubt the worst chef of the 3 finalists and had no business winning the title. Creating the best meal in the final competition completely wiped out the stench of mediocrity he was resonating all season, as Colicchio says, “It’s fortunate for Hosea that he put together a better meal than Stefan … simple as that. We don’t care about personalities. We don’t care about who was making out. We simply care about who put together a better meal from start to finish.” By “making out”, he’s referring to Hosea’s relationship on the show with fellow chef, Leah (right). Who’s hot.
Bravo is starting to become the best network on television. Top Chef, Real Housewives, Millionaire Matchmaker. It’s damn hard to turn that channel off.
I’M PISSED
The accompanying picture wasn’t what you expected with a title like “I’M PISSED” … am I right? No, I’m not pissed about these pictures that have surfaced of newest American Idol contestant, Casey Carlson (right). I mean, it’s really sick how young women think they need to express themselves these days. Racy photos where they’re one step away from showing their breasts to eager young men on the internet. It’s appalling. I just wanted to show you guys how sick these photos are and that I hope this young lady learned her lesson.
Yeah, you would click these pictures to make them bigger. You sick, sick person.
Here’s Casey’s audition in case you decided to do something productive last night:
She can’t sing, but she does have a tan, breasts, and cowboy boots.
No but really, the actual reason I’m pissed this Thursday, January 15th, 2009, is my disgust in last night’s American Idol and Top Chef. Not that American Idol had any dignity left, but the “talent” they are letting through this year is painfully average. A bunch of assclowns who think they can sing because their dumbass families instill in their brains that they have talent. There’s nothing like some good ol’ tough love and some parents, brothers, sisters, second cousins, and fuckin’ uncle charlies need to understand this. Percent of people who saw the pictures and moved on to another website: 100.
Top Chef last night was the worst episode I’ve seen in the show’s four year run. Not that I care it’s a popularity contest, but it’s unauthenticity was more than evident in last night’s episode. The Top Chef judges (via their producers) chose to send home the 40-something housewife who’s a badass over the 20-something chick who can’t cook and has a fling with this other dude on the show, thus “making for better television”. No, they didn’t admit that, but it was obvious. Why I’m expressing this much anger for a reality show to a blog seen by potentially – at least – three or four people, I have no idea.
TOP 5 TV SHOWS OF 2008
TSF’s BEST OF 2008 AWARDS
Compiling a list of the best TV shows of 2008 is pretty difficult given the amount of time one must devote to an entire season of a TV series. I didn’t have that much time in 2008, but I did get the chance to check out the following 5 shows and pronounce them the 5 best of 2008.
A few of these shows weren’t new in 2008, but they did have great seasons that either started or ended this year, which makes them eligible for the list.
5. DEXTER
Dexter stars Michael C. Hall, formerly of HBO’s Six Feet Under fame, who is one of the best television actors of the 21st century. The main character, Dexter, works in the crime lab of the Miami police department by day, but a killer by night – killing the very serial killers that he hunts during the day. A great plot with a likable cast make this show one of the best of 2008.
4. MAD MEN
Mad Men is the best television drama series of 2008. The show follows the lives of prestigious New York ad salesmen in this perfect time piece. Addicting and fun to watch, this show is very unique and has some of the best writing of any show over the last few years.
3. TOP CHEF
Bravo’s Top Chef first crossed my radar in 2008 and immediately became the staple of my Wednesday nights. Rarely do I enjoy reality television as much as this cooking competition between amateur chefs from all over the country vying for the title of “Top Chef”. Professional chef Tom Colicchio and the beautiful model/TV personality Padma Laksmi make the perfect judges on a show with plenty of drama and great competition.
2. 30 ROCK
Equally as funny as Californication, although not as risque, this show is hysterical. Laughing out loud at Alec Baldwin is commonplace and the star-studded cast makes every episode of 30 Rock a must see. Tina Fey and Tracy Morgan round out a cast of comedic geniuses. 30 Rock did not disappoint in 2008.
1. CALIFORNICATION
Californication’s first season (2007) was one of the best debut seasons in television history and it’s only fitting that the show’s second season would start where the last left off. This show is outstanding and one of the best comedies of the last 10+ years. Raunchy, guiltless, and unforgiving writing brings the best out of this extraordinary cast that leads TV’s best of 2008 list.
