TOP CHEF is a Traveshamockery, at least for an epispde...

Okay, so Top Chef is most certainly Tom Colicchio's gift to food porn, and generally, a pretty entertaining form of entertainment (one of the only things i try to watch close to when it airs, thank you DVR). But the episode I just watched, where Kathy Lee spits out surfer-Jeff's shrimp dish, kinda made me sick. Not sick because of watching Kathy Lee Gifford and her old leather/ vinyl hybrid skin gag on shrimp on the today show, but that it seemed to me to be a complete sham. I mean, a little impartiality would be nice Tom. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for giving a Jersey-girl some business at her little CulinAriane, but to feed those hags from the Today Show, with their seemingly unsophisticated pallates all sorts of exotic flavors in the morning and then allow them to pick a winner? Really Meridith Viera, and friends? How refined are your pallates, because tv is tv, but none of you seem to have any taste. My guess is the send the pencil -pushers (i know who uses pencils anymore, except carpenters) in to crunch the numbers and the Today Show demo just made the most sense....right, Dick?

And unfortunately for the poor blond boy who cooks at Dildo grill in MeeYami, most people will always remember him for being the guy whose food made crazy ol' Kathy Lee Gifford gag (wouldn't be the first time, would it Frank?). Notwithstanding the fact that she probably eats a warm chicken salad for every meal of the day, like most boring old women on the Upper East Side.

Way to go Colicchio, you're a superstar, but your show just lost some serious credibility in my mind... What do you think? Again, big up to CulinAriane in dirty jerz...It's really a fantastic name for a restaurant in New Jersey. Really?

Oh yeah, and did anyone else find it ridiculous that they draged them all the way up to Rochester last episode? Fuck you Dave Grohl. You killed Cobain, took all his good ideas, and turned them into schlock rock, way to go... What does Rochester or the Foo Fighters (aside from foo's proximity to food) have to do with judging a cooking competition set in New York City? Oh yeah, and the smart moneys on Fabio, the swarthy Italiano. Okay, I'm done...
traveshamockery i say!