TC Fan Chef TrishDish
This week fellow TC fan and chat room buddy Chef TrishDish provides her GBU review of episode 8.
Good
It was great to see Hung back in the Top Chef kitchen! I've met him a few times - he's such a great guy!
Stone Barns is beautiful and I'd love to eat at the restaurant there sometime. My boyfriend and I love to visit the Lancaster, Pa area and when we do we always eat at the Iron Horse in Strasburg. All of the dishes come from product that was locally grown and everything is so bright and fresh! That's what these dishes reminded me of
Ugly
Chicken is my favorite protein so for me it would have been Team Chicken plus Carla's dessert - yum!
Bad
It seems like none of the teams worked REALLY well together, although Team Pork came closest. I also do agree with the judges that several people were left to fail on their own!
Stefan - "I am the only cock out here!" Um, as Bethenney Frankel would say, "Holy inappropriateness!
It really is too bad that Ariane did such a bad job butchering that lamb because up until that point she was on a roll! Good luck Ariane! (Does this mean I can go to her restaurant in NJ and talk to her now that she has been eliminated? LOL)
Ugly
It was tough seeing the live lambs, chickens and pigs on the farm (and I am sure the animal activists are ALL OVER THIS), but hey - sometimes reality is ugly and this is exactly how the process goes!
Wow, the rivarly is really heating up between Stefan and Hosea (good thing they each have their own girl in the house - could ya see them fighting over THAT too?!)
Carla, "I can't work with this tension, friction" Why don't you just come out and say sexual frustration? LOL
Wow, the rivarly is really heating up between Stefan and Hosea (good thing they each have their own girl in the house - could ya see them fighting over THAT too?!)
Carla, "I can't work with this tension, friction" Why don't you just come out and say sexual frustration? LOL
Thanks Trish!
posted by Blogging Top Chef @ 4:17 AM
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"It was tough seeing the live lambs, chickens and pigs on the farm (and I am sure the animal activists are ALL OVER THIS), but hey - sometimes reality is ugly and this is exactly how the process goes!"
Actually, this is nothing like how the process goes for the vast majority of meat consumed in the US. Animals are factory farmed, effectively tortured, pumped full of drugs, denied light and space, etc.
These animals, by contrast, live a fairly idyllic life. If you're thinking of them the next time you eat ordinary meat, you're missing the enormity of the cruelty involved.
I'm not trying to cause any conflict here but I wanted to point out that this is not always how animals are slaughtered. They went to one of the better farms that lets animals walk around. From my understanding the typical farm that mass produces meat keeps animals in poor conditions and give them little space. They usually have their anatomy altered without painkillers and many are slaughtered inhumanely because there are no laws except the Humane Slaughter Act protecting them and even that is very poorly enforced.
When I saw this episode I was disappointed that it was not mentioned that not all farms are like the one they visited but the industry as a whole seems to be very protective of showing what happens on the bad farms.
If you're someone that eats meat, though it can be difficult, I would recommend trying to find out the source of the meat you purchase if you truly care about the animal's conditions. Hopefully they are something like the farm they went to in this episode.
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