tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930710315732568255.post5282241340914510449..comments2024-02-01T09:24:06.521-06:00Comments on The Karmic Kitchen: Can This Marriage Be Saved?Big Shamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297361034783510191noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930710315732568255.post-80001630042646481582010-09-03T14:36:47.380-05:002010-09-03T14:36:47.380-05:00Well, I'm glad to hear you say it too, Shamu. ...Well, I'm glad to hear you say it too, Shamu. Like Making Space, I had to read this a few times. Great ideas all, although I must agree with you heartily on the regional idea, brilliant. Besides the location, I never thought they really made use of the city they were in from a food point of view. I like your idea of a local regional chef judging too. And I like the idea of the challenges based on restaurant reality, working with ingredients to show a profit. Great ideas, someone has been doing a lot of thinking about this!<br /><br />I am so bored with the show that I now tivo it and get around to watching it days later! Even hubby groaned when I put it on last night. That's bad.<br /><br />And worse, even Padma's wardrobe mishaps has not been enough for me to come by and snark about...although that waiter's coat she was squeezed into and that dress with the strapless, blouson tube top really, really took the cake.<br /><br />I love the baby crack monkey at the end.LaDivaCucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06000430029590301972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930710315732568255.post-8797055583298722322010-09-02T20:47:42.616-05:002010-09-02T20:47:42.616-05:00Less is more--a LOT less of Padma and Tom is way m...Less is more--a LOT less of Padma and Tom is way more show for chefs. <br /><br />Why haven't they hired ya Shamy? I like yore story board best.Aunty Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13868780211706866610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930710315732568255.post-45118458644193416632010-09-01T22:53:25.240-05:002010-09-01T22:53:25.240-05:00Great post and great ideas. Past seasons I couldn...Great post and great ideas. Past seasons I couldn't WAIT to get 20 minutes into the recording so I could start watching and FF through the commercials. I'd even save it and watch again before the next show. Now, I forget it's on and don't remember until AFTER I see your blog, and then watch it while making dinner--thereby missing a lot of it. <br /><br />Something's gotta give.Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16253555059755669254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930710315732568255.post-87125151872443231062010-09-01T22:51:23.677-05:002010-09-01T22:51:23.677-05:00Season All-Star is still at rumor stage, but enoug...Season All-Star is still at rumor stage, but enough leaks/sightings to make me think it's likely. Sorry 'bout your stomach, Shamy (Ass Hat Spike has been mentioned . . .) At least an All-Star Season sounds more interesting than this one. Jeez, when Bourdain is boring, like tonight, somebody needs to mix it up.Sharon Ruddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00598263732896925616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930710315732568255.post-50398426147115007002010-09-01T21:18:25.906-05:002010-09-01T21:18:25.906-05:00Sorry Eggy, production ain't easy no matter ho...Sorry Eggy, production ain't easy no matter how you cut it. But hey, shooting the finals in Singapore? Not exactly easy either. If they can do that, they can certainly shoot regional.<br /><br />As to an All Star Edition, it all depends on who you define as an all star. If that includes doofuses like AssHat Spike, I'll be sick to my stomach.Big Shamuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15297361034783510191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930710315732568255.post-59068493667616420022010-09-01T18:36:14.853-05:002010-09-01T18:36:14.853-05:00I got a little cross-eyed contemplating all these ...I got a little cross-eyed contemplating all these shake-up possibilities, Shamy. I would like to see them go more regional with your Top Chef Winnebago concept, but methinks the productions costs and complexities would preclude the producers from going that route.<br /><br />Meanwhile, have you heard the news about next season of TC? Sounds like a shake-up of a different sort an all-star edition. Eater.com has had several posts about it today. Although it could be a little spoilery as to what happens the rest of this season, depending on whom you believe . . .Sharon Ruddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00598263732896925616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930710315732568255.post-6058431960327779942010-09-01T09:43:12.296-05:002010-09-01T09:43:12.296-05:00I, too, am bored out of my gourd. I'd hate to ...I, too, am bored out of my gourd. I'd hate to see the show go, because the concept is sound, but it's become so complacent. I like your idea about taking it regional, though. That would be a most excellent shot in the arm. Challenges built around chefs putting their personal spin on local cuisine.<br /><br />Padma can stay if she learns to dress herself.moihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930710315732568255.post-81143369600825241612010-09-01T05:42:13.253-05:002010-09-01T05:42:13.253-05:00I hope they can do something with it. You are my f...I hope they can do something with it. You are my fave blogger and I would miss your take each week of the show.Danihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04038703319667640641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930710315732568255.post-82865377868406339382010-08-31T10:52:20.895-05:002010-08-31T10:52:20.895-05:00Masters One has Bayless. Negative on Padma bus dr...Masters One has Bayless. Negative on Padma bus driving.....unless certain tests were passed if you get my...drift.Big Shamuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15297361034783510191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930710315732568255.post-30738289878229181742010-08-31T10:41:33.834-05:002010-08-31T10:41:33.834-05:00Oohhhhh - got it! Dagnabit now I'm gonna haft...Oohhhhh - got it! Dagnabit now I'm gonna hafta watch a TC Masters. Which one has my Big BoyCrush Rick Bayless?<br /><br />Still want Padma to drive the bus.Making Spacehttp://makingspacethejourneyout.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930710315732568255.post-19509868870917404022010-08-31T08:05:26.799-05:002010-08-31T08:05:26.799-05:00Actually they've kinda taken the step of round...Actually they've kinda taken the step of rounds competition with Top Chef Masters (which I know you haven't had a chance to watch) they just do it all in one city. I want to build on our regional variations. How much fun would it be to have Atlanta host a round and actually have a judge with experience with Southern food? Or Seattle with it's incredible seafood? All I know is that the series Top Chef needs to be bitch slapped.Big Shamuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15297361034783510191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930710315732568255.post-33666696493726982752010-08-31T01:51:41.798-05:002010-08-31T01:51:41.798-05:00Wow. I had to read that three times. Kids. Shee...Wow. I had to read that three times. Kids. Sheesh. OK I finally got through it now they're asleep.<br /><br />I'm glad you said that thing about how it's all the same!! I'm watching Seasons 1, 3, and 7 all at the same time, and I'm so surprised at how the elements of the show are pretty static. It seems like by Season 7 the contestants (cheftestants? eeeehhhh ok if I must) can just watch all the previous seasons and plot out all their basic menus already. I keep thinking this group is phoning it in, but I think it's probably more true that they just planned ahead.<br /><br />I like your ideas about shaking up the show but I do have one question -how do you build momentum/support for, say, one favorite over another, if you spend the first eight episodes switching from chef group to chef group? I'd be interested in some way to keep the top chef (harhar) from each two-episode segment in the viewer's mind as the next group is whittled down. <br /><br />The Winnebago thing could be fun. But the potential for drunk shenanigans is still going to be there, I am sorry to say. Could we have Padma drive, since I don't really want to see less of her, sniffle?<br /><br />I would be all for muuuuch less product pimpage. The damn show is a big commercial.<br /><br />Finally, those monkeys are nasssty. The last one is sorta ickily cute though.<br /><br />Excellent article. I think your last two subject labels should be combined to make Top Chef Winnebago. And there you go! Last one in's a rotten egg!<br /><br />Nice ZING at the end there, you sad li'l monk-ey.Making Spacehttp://makingspacethejourneyout.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com