Cutting Dale from Top Chef

[G. Keenan]

Thank god it wasn't Lisa!

I'm glad Stephanie won. I don't think Richard was that much better than her. They had the same number of wins for the season and Stephanie did beat him tonight.

Yeah, but to me it's like the Pujols-Howard MVP Debate of 2006. I just thought Richard was more creative and had more appetizing (looking, since I can't eat them) dishes.

He used a lot of the same tricks over and over. He made that banana scallop like three times these season, for instance.

[BenNX74205]

He used a lot of the same tricks over and over. He made that banana scallop like three times these season, for instance.

He made three different banana scallop desserts.

Scallopped banana with banana guacamole
Chocolate banana scallop with chocolate ice cream
Banana scallop with bacon ice cream

[G. Keenan]

He used a lot of the same tricks over and over. He made that banana scallop like three times these season, for instance.

He made three different banana scallop desserts.

Scallopped banana with banana guacamole
Chocolate banana scallop with chocolate ice cream
Banana scallop with bacon ice cream

How the hell do you remember that?

[haltz]

College dropout waiters all over this country are remembering 10x that information every night after looking at it or just hearing it once.

But seriously, Ben's a smart kid. He probably just took a mental snapshot and there you have it. This doesn't come as easily to some people I know who make their living that way. If that's from different parts of this season and not last night then I'm impressed as well.

[BenNX74205]

College dropout waiters all over this country are remembering 10x that information every night after looking at it or just hearing it once.

But seriously, Ben's a smart kid. He probably just took a mental snapshot and there you have it. This doesn't come as easily to some people I know who make their living that way. If that's from different parts of this season and not last night then I'm impressed as well.

It was from different parts of the season, but it wasn't totally random that I remembered them. I got the Top Chef cookbook for my birthday, and it has Richard's recipe for Banana Scallop and banana guacamole in there. I remember that one because it's in there, but when I first looked at it I only said "Hey that sounds good--when was this from?" because they hadn't aired that episode and I didn't look to see who the chef was. Later that evening was the episode where Richard made it.

He also made it slightly differently for Restaurant Wars, which was on recently.

But yeah, I have problems re-watching reality tv shows because I remember who goes home and like half the things people cook or make or whatever the point of that series is. It's a gift....and a currrrse.