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Re: Interview [Re: JUSTMEAOD]
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HA! I used to play this game, too, when originally posing on another name. You almost scored a deca-fecta on the main Top Chef index just now. Wooo.
YOUR POST CG
AND YES I DO NOTICE YOU LIKE TO PLAY GAMES
END OF LINE
As you well know, the game I was referring to was having posts on different boards at once when you pull up the main index page due to simultaneously participating in conversations on several boards at once. The most I ever did was three at once, because the action was fast and furious on each of the PR boards. It was hard to keep up with multiple fast-paced conversations at once. Everybody was doing it, until somebody mentioned that we should just stick to a single board to save our collective sanity.
You, however, have lately hit every single board on the Top Chef page, even though some of those episode boards have languished for months without any action. To me, this is total-building, which is why I asked you if there is yet another title beyond Afficionado. You certainly seem in a hurry to crack the record for most posts, especially because you are posting where nobody else is talking much at all.
I did notice your heavy activity today and commented on it. Then, the light bulb went off and I tracked your posts to see if the mystery leaker was you, perchance. Only you and the mystery leaker have posted on so many inactive boards, and by an unusual "coinkydink," all on the very same day, and during the same hour.
It wasn't an entirely loopy scenario.
BY THE WAY CG
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YOUR POST ONCE AGAIN
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Re: Interview [Re: JUSTMEAOD]
#164883 - 01/29/07 05:28 AM Edit Reply Quote
HA! I used to play this game, too, when originally posing on another name. You almost scored a deca-fecta on the main Top Chef index just now. Wooo.
ADD THAT TO ALL THE NAME GAMES
YOU HAVE ACCUMALATED IN THIS THREAD ALONE
PLUS THE ABILITY TO "COLOR" YOUR QUOTES
SHOWS YOU HAVE CLEAR KNOWLEGE OF THE WORKINGS
OF THE BOARD AS WELL
ADD THE REPLIES YOU HAVE GIVEN BRILLK
ABOUT ANOTHER IDENTITY
YOUR KNOWLEGE OF TWOP
BRINGING STUFF FROM THERE TO HERE
AND THE FACT YOU LIED ABOUT THAT POST
SHRUG
YOU'RE JUST BUSTED
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OK, little birdie told me one time that one of the original developers of Blogging Top Chef...you cook, we Roast, was someone named FoodFan1, who was escorted from the premices for being a problem type person...if so, and you are that person, YOU would have the ability AND knowledge to put this spoiler out...hmmmmm
YUP SIZ
YOU SAID IT IN A NUTSHELL
ALSO ALL THE KNOWLEDGE I HAVE ON THIS FORUM
HAS BEEN CONTRIBUTED BY ALL OF YOU
SWISS AND ZIP THE COLORS AND THE LOC HEADING
THE FACES ETC
SHRUG CG HAD IT ALL DONE
HEY ANOTHER FACT IN BLACK AND WHITE
TAKE CARE OVER THERE
ALOHA
HAVE FUN
Did I tell you I like nutshells???? LMAO
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Oh, BTW, No, I didnt know you were FF1 for sure. Not until you came up with your theory, that is. I swear the second you posted it and the way you did it, it reminded me of you, FF1. I knew youd been lurking at the least but didnt know who "you" were until you told,
brillke
Really? You replied to the same post that I disclosed it in, without any comment, and I took that as meaning that it wasn't news to you.
While here doing a semester in the Big Apple, my niece Lizzie stuck this name on my computer and did some comments. I occasionally snickered over her shoulder and, although I had planned never to come back on these boards, it got me interested again. She's back at her regular college now but doesn't get Bravo in her dorm, so she's ceding the name to me if I want it. I've been using this name temporarily for a few weeks while trying to get my old name back, but this website evidently cancels a login name if a guest on your computer uses a different one. So I fear my old name has been extinguished for good. Since I can't think up another name that I like any better, I've decided to stick with this one, and "came out" last night.
THat's just not true. This website accepts any number of usernames from the same computer...i can do as many as you want to prove it.
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Hey JMe...ever heard of toasted COCONUTS!!! Bet those hurt too. LOL
Well NUTS is in that sentence!!!
Like has everyone GONE nuts????
Good morning y'all....I can't even believe what I'm reading here.
OK Let me just say there are 10 thousand reasons why it would NOT be JUSTME....And I'm pretty sure everyone would agree with that here just on one of those reasons.
(Mostly because he is not THAT guy)
But the MAIN reason it's not JUSTME is because.......sob.....I must ummmmm confess..I know who it was
it was I.......
Yes it was me.......I....moi.
I just couldn't help myself and I wanted the fame and glory and now I come before you all and beg for forgiveness.
OK????? .....Well that should quell that conspiracy theory right quick.
OK sooooooo........ next game????
All I can think about is pie....I want PIE!!!!!
Thanks AI!!!......lol
Me too Kristl...and must admit, Banana Cream and Coconut Cream are my two faves...imagine that!! lol
I swear to GOD if I don't get a piece of pie soon I'll beat someone till their mother doesn't recognize them.....lol
Edinboro PA..Little corner diner.....the only place I have ever found that actually made homemade pie...REAL berries and crust....OHMYG....To DIE and LIVE for...I make REALLY good pie...I love them ALL but right now I want coconut....Peach is actually my fave....Pretty soon I am gonna do a Bubba from Forrest Gump.....Pie.I love pie.I love all kinds of pie....Peach pie...apple pie....lol
Oh YES I will have pie tonight.
I'm gonna keeeeeeel AI!!!
OOOOOOOOO K
NOT SURE OF WHAT YOU'RE GONNA BE DOIN TO AI
BUT THANKS FOR YOUR NICE WORDS
SOMEONE GAVE ME A TIARA LAST NIGHT
I THINK IT WAS OT OR WAJ
IN ANY CASE IT REALLY DOESN'T SUIT ME
I SAW YOU LOST YOURS SOMEWHERE
SO IF YOU WILL
ACCEPT THIS TIARA -00<O>00-
(SORRY HARD TO DRAW ONE OF THOSE LOL)
TAKE CARE OVER THERE
ALOHA
HAVE FUN
Hey JMe...ever heard of toasted COCONUTS!!! Bet those hurt too. LOL
O8~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~D
STAY AWAY FROM MY COCO BA......NUTS
DARN IT SIZ
MUST HAVE BEEN FATE THAT THIS WAS THE FIRST PAGE I CLICKED ON
BUT I AM SOOOO GLAD
IF THE FOUR HORSEMEN CAME TO GET ME
I WOULD DEFINITLY RIDE AWAY WITH A SMILE
AND SORE RIBS FROM LAUGHING SO HARD
TAKE CARE OVER THERE
ALOHA
HAVE FUN
LMAO...then I can go do some housework now...my mission for the day has been accomplished...make JMe cry with laughter. (Damn I'm good!!) (as if there were any doubts, that is. ) (O: Have a great day JMe!
O8~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~D
STAY AWAY FROM MY COCO BA......NUTS
DARN IT SIZ
MUST HAVE BEEN FATE THAT THIS WAS THE FIRST PAGE I CLICKED ON
BUT I AM SOOOO GLAD
IF THE FOUR HORSEMEN CAME TO GET ME
I WOULD DEFINITLY RIDE AWAY WITH A SMILE
AND SORE RIBS FROM LAUGHING SO HARD
TAKE CARE OVER THERE
ALOHA
HAVE FUN
LMAO...then I can go do some housework now...my mission for the day has been accomplished...make JMe cry with laughter. (Damn I'm good!!) (as if there were any doubts, that is. ) (O: Have a great day JMe!
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Ok, everyone....it was KRISTL!!! SHE DID IT....SHE IS THE SPOILER....GET THE TORCHES....GET THE WHIPS....oh my, you look like you are gettin excited Kristl....what it the whips????? lol
BUt "MrsRuggles"??? couldn't you have been a little more clever Kristl??? maybe "NatashaFatale" ...you know, Bullwinkle's favorite nemesis.
Do we need to break into "FAME!...I'm going to post forever...."
LMAO...that "fame...Im going to post forever" almost slipped under my radar....excellent!!
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Me too Kristl...and must admit, Banana Cream and Coconut Cream are my two faves...imagine that!! lol
Key Lime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but a coconut cream sounds delish rightnow too!
Now that does sound good too!! My father in law LOVED coconut cream...and I LOVE Key Lime...all very tropical, doncha think??
WELL LADIES
THERE IS A GREAT BAKERY HERE
THAT MAKES A FINE KAHLUA CREME
THINK I WILL HAVE TO GET SOME
AND INDULGE
TAKE CARE OVER THERE
ALOHA
HAVE FUN
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Oh, BTW, No, I didnt know you were FF1 for sure. Not until you came up with your theory, that is. I swear the second you posted it and the way you did it, it reminded me of you, FF1. I knew youd been lurking at the least but didnt know who "you" were until you told,
brillke
Really? You replied to the same post that I disclosed it in, without any comment, and I took that as meaning that it wasn't news to you.
While here doing a semester in the Big Apple, my niece Lizzie stuck this name on my computer and did some comments. I occasionally snickered over her shoulder and, although I had planned never to come back on these boards, it got me interested again. She's back at her regular college now but doesn't get Bravo in her dorm, so she's ceding the name to me if I want it. I've been using this name temporarily for a few weeks while trying to get my old name back, but this website evidently cancels a login name if a guest on your computer uses a different one. So I fear my old name has been extinguished for good. Since I can't think up another name that I like any better, I've decided to stick with this one, and "came out" last night.
THat's just not true. This website accepts any number of usernames from the same computer...i can do as many as you want to prove it.
Then how come I can't make it work? When I try to log in as FoodFanOne, the site doesn't recognize the name. And I will probably drop dead of old age before Bravo answers my emails on this. So, if you have any suggestions, here, I'd appreciate it.
Sooooo, you can post under several names, eh? Are you the secret leaker? SORRY, SORRY, the Devil made me say it!!! I just coudn't resist.
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Me too Kristl...and must admit, Banana Cream and Coconut Cream are my two faves...imagine that!! lol
Key Lime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but a coconut cream sounds delish rightnow too!
Now that does sound good too!! My father in law LOVED coconut cream...and I LOVE Key Lime...all very tropical, doncha think??
WELL LADIES
THERE IS A GREAT BAKERY HERE
THAT MAKES A FINE KAHLUA CREME
THINK I WILL HAVE TO GET SOME
AND INDULGE
TAKE CARE OVER THERE
ALOHA
HAVE FUN
OH MY!!!! Now THAT sounds like a sinful treat!!! I bet it is so smooth and creamy it just melts in your mouth!! sigh...
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Oh, BTW, No, I didnt know you were FF1 for sure. Not until you came up with your theory, that is. I swear the second you posted it and the way you did it, it reminded me of you, FF1. I knew youd been lurking at the least but didnt know who "you" were until you told,
brillke
Really? You replied to the same post that I disclosed it in, without any comment, and I took that as meaning that it wasn't news to you.
While here doing a semester in the Big Apple, my niece Lizzie stuck this name on my computer and did some comments. I occasionally snickered over her shoulder and, although I had planned never to come back on these boards, it got me interested again. She's back at her regular college now but doesn't get Bravo in her dorm, so she's ceding the name to me if I want it. I've been using this name temporarily for a few weeks while trying to get my old name back, but this website evidently cancels a login name if a guest on your computer uses a different one. So I fear my old name has been extinguished for good. Since I can't think up another name that I like any better, I've decided to stick with this one, and "came out" last night.
THat's just not true. This website accepts any number of usernames from the same computer...i can do as many as you want to prove it.
Then how come I can't make it work? When I try to log in as FoodFanOne, the site doesn't recognize the name. And I will probably drop dead of old age before Bravo answers my emails on this. So, if you have any suggestions, here, I'd appreciate it.
Sooooo, you can post under several names, eh? Are you the secret leaker? SORRY, SORRY, the Devil made me say it!!! I just coudn't resist.
SECRET LEAKER????? Sounds like someone who pees in chairs and then moves to the couch...they need some depends me thinks!! lmao
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BUMMER SIZ
I WOULD HIRE YOU
HAVE A OPPERATIONS PERSON WITH SIMILAR PERSONALITY
SHE ALWAYS GETS IN MY HAIR
NEEDLESS TO SAY WE HAVE FUN
HER HUSBAND IS MY PARTNER
BEEN IN BUSINESS CLOSE TO TEN YRS NOW
HAVE A GOOD CREW
NO COMPLAINTS
ILAN MARCEL NO DIFFERENCE TO ME
IT'S THE JUSTIFICATION THAT I WANT TO SEE
NOT WHO
JUST WHY
THEN IT'S FINE FOR ME
TO LET IT BE
JUST ME AOD
TAKE CARE OVER THERE
ALOHA
HAVE FUN
Thank you JMe, if you were closer to CA or I was closer to HI then I would take you up on the job. (O: Hard to keep positive some times. I do my best though.
I too will watch to see WHY Ilan wins. All I can say is that I hope next year it is actually a reality show about a cooking contest, NOT romper room! Was very disappointed in most of the chefs (and I use that term loosely!)
Curious, what kind of business do you have JMe? If too much info for boards, understand. (O:
Just snaggin in here... keep a positive attitude (I know its hard) and the right job will arrive. I ahve been raelly stressed for the last few months about my job to the point I actively started applying for similar positions around town; last Monday in a moment of boredom I filled out an app for a new large used car retailer moving into the Fresno market. I no sooner hit "submit" on the web page and my cell phone was ringing and this same retailer wanted me to come for an interview. I did so and this week I start my new job. What I am trying to say is that somtimes you will find what you want when you are not looking.... hang in there.
Thanks Fordman, and congrats on the new job!! Deep down, I know the right job for me just hasn't come along. I am a firm believer that everything happens FOR a reason and the right thing happens WHEN it is suppose to...just like your job. How funny is that!! Timing is everything. Fortunately, I have a very supportive hubby, and that helps. SOO, I keep putting out applications and resumes and waiting to see what happens. Good luck on your new job!! I know it is the right one for you, afterall, they were smart enough to grab you right up!! (O:
Thank you... I am really excited (and scared ) about this whole thing. I know it sounds corny but it really is an answer to prayer the way it happened. My old job was starting to cause physical stuff with me .. carpal tunnel, bursitis etc and now I think I will be able to avoid all of the medical stuff that goes with that. I hope so.
OUCH SIZ
HAD THAT TOO
SOMEONE SAID GET SURGERY
DECIDED TO TRY A DIFFERENT TECHNIQUE TAUGHT TO ME
WHEN I WAS YOUNG
MY SENSEI TAUGHT ME A HOT COLD SHOCK THERAPY
FOR MUSCLE ACHES
DID IT FOR A MONTH
AND THE PAIN IN MY WRIST WENT AWAY
(KNOCK ON WOOD)
YOU KNOW SIZ SURE WOULD BE INTERESTING IN THE OFFICE
WITH YOU AND MY ASSISTANT
PROB BE FIGHTING OVER THE CROWBAR
SO SENSE COULD BE KNOCKED INTO ME
CAN'T IMAGINE THE MESS AFTER CORRECTING ALL MY TYPOS EITHER LOL
BEST OF LUCK SIZ
YOU'RE IN MY MIND
AND HEART
TAKE CARE OVER THERE
ALOHA
HAVE FUN
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Then how come I can't make it work? When I try to log in as FoodFanOne, the site doesn't recognize the name. And I will probably drop dead of old age before Bravo answers my emails on this. So, if you have any suggestions, here, I'd appreciate it.
Sooooo, you can post under several names, eh? Are you the secret leaker? SORRY, SORRY, the Devil made me say it!!! I just coudn't resist.
LOL. i only WISH I had spilled the beans and spoiled Ilan's party...but even I use spoiler alerts.
I suspect that the problem is the password....are you sure it is the same as the one you used as FF1? If you are absolutely certain it is the same password, try re-registering it with a new password...if that doesn't work, Bravo may have "retired" the username.
But, whatever the case, you really need to re-examine your accusations against JUSTME...not only would it go against everything we have experienced of JUSTME"s character, but if you look at the older episodes, JUSTME has a habit of posting several times after the episode is finished...he's just quirky that way...and it completely undercuts your "evidence."
You really have done him wrong.
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OK, little birdie told me one time that one of the original developers of Blogging Top Chef...you cook, we Roast, was someone named FoodFan1, who was escorted from the premices for being a problem type person...if so, and you are that person, YOU would have the ability AND knowledge to put this spoiler out...hmmmmm
Well, I was not "one of the originals," as the board was already shaping up when I became associated with the site for a few weeks. I quit over experiencing a frustrating lack of communication and focus during that period in their development and also vowed not to come onto these boards any more, either, I was so mad. My re-appearance here is relatively recent, just a few weeks while I have been trying to get my own name back and dump this one. Apparently once somebody else logs in from your computer under a different name, however, your name is extinguished. It's very frustrating.
Well, even though I am an afficionado, I have been on the boards a very short time. (Just happen to have a lot of extra time on my hands right now) So, have not tried or needed a different name. And, the first time I posted, knew how all the reply/quote buttons worked, so that is not that difficult. AND, I have never been on any other board. Only thing I haven't gotten the hang of is color and smiley faces. So it did not have to be an experianced person to do the posting, just someone who had a lot of extra time on their hands and wanted to be a poopie head...and that is NOT JMe. However......I have a lot of spare time, figured out how to manuver around here, and there are no colors or smiley faces on the F&W article...maybe it was me. (O:
YOU KNOW SIZ
SAME HERE
EVERY FORUM KNOWS ME AS ME
I EMAIL FRIENDS JUST LIKE THIS
SHRUG
TOO MUCH BOTHER
WEAVING WEBS
TAKE CARE OVER THERE
ALOHA
HAVE FUN
There is a marathon going on right now of last season's episodes and even with the glazed over Katie Joel, it was so much more fun...the chefs were much more colorful and interesting or maybe it's just Dave washing over them all with his neon glow. Dang, I miss Dave. Can't Bravo hire him for a role in this show? Please???
Ok, they are really [censored] over at F&W....
They JUST posted this on their website (NO JOKE):
Bravo’s New Top Chef Tells All
How did Marcel Vigneron, the 26-year-old with the big hair and the controversial personality, beat out 14 other contestants to become Top Chef on the Bravo reality show? And why is he so obsessed with xantham gum anyway? Kate Krader finds out.
By Kate Krader
Reality TV competitions generally follow a formula. There’s the villain who makes it very far—generally to the finals—before losing to the hero. It happened in the first season of Bravo’s hit show Top Chef, with tough-girl Tiffani Faison and adorable Harold Dieterle. But in season two, the scenario was slightly different. In the finals on Hawaii’s Big Island, the competition came down to two complicated and talented men who were more difficult to typecast: Marcel Vigneron, the pariah of the group, and his arch-rival Ilan Hall. Few thought Marcel would win. But when it was time for one chef to pack his knives and go, Ilan was sent home and Marcel was the surprise winner.
What will Marcel do with his Top Chef winnings, which include a fully-loaded Sears Kenmore kitchen and $100,000? He plans on taking a year to apprentice at restaurants around the world before opening up a place of his own, on Bainbridge Island near Seattle (where his parents live) or, more likely, San Francisco. "For the style of cooking I do, I need to be in a big city," he says.
Throughout the competition, Marcel created some of the series’ most memorable dishes—both successful and not. Viewers might remember him from an early QuickFire challenge in which contestants invented an ice-cream flavor. Marcel had the brilliant idea to serve scoops of avocado ice cream on a Los Angeles beach. (Needless to say, it bombed.) He did come out on top during an episode in which the chefs were challenged to create a recipe using a Kraft product. Marcel chose mayonnaise, mixing it with curry to make a beautiful, elegant sauce for lamb kebabs. But this was one of only two QuickFire challenges he won throughout the entire season.
"We were all surprised that Marcel made it to the finals," says Top Chef judge Gail Simmons of Food & Wine magazine, describing the showdown in which the chefs created riffs on classic Hawaiian recipes. "But his pineapple poi with hamachi poke bound with xantham gum and his deconstructed salmon lomi lomi topped with tomato foam made him a shoo-in to get to the last round. The dish was modern and very molecular gastronomic, but it was also delicious."
Marcel’s obsession with molecular gastronomy grated on his fellow contestants’ nerves throughout the series, but it ultimately helped him stand out in a very competitive field. Molecular gastronomy, the application of science to cooking, has been one of Marcel’s passions since he was a student at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York (the same cooking school, incidentally, that Ilan attended), using ingredients and equipment typically found in science labs—think methyl cellulose and immersion circulators. Marcel also has a penchant for topping his dishes with foam, a favorite of the culinary avant-garde—a habit the other contestants mocked.
For a chef who idolizes the techniques of the science lab, Marcel has a very down-home background. Though he was born in Kansas and lived for a while in Southern California, he spent his teenage years on quaint Bainbridge Island. He became interested in cooking at a young age, when his mother took him to a bakery where she worked; his earliest food memory is making his own pumpkin pie from his mother’s leftover dough.
Marcel eventually made his way to the Culinary Institute of America, but his most eye-opening experiences may have come from backpacking around Europe for four months. "It was the first time I saw culture interacting with food," he recalls. Surprisingly, the places that made the biggest impression on him weren’t the avant-garde restaurants. "I loved the tapas in Spain," he says, "and the simplicity of everything in Italy."
Marcel was working at Jöel Robuchon at the Mansion in Las Vegas, living in a bachelor apartment with a few other young chefs similarly fascinated with molecular gastronomy, when he heard about the Top Chef audition through a local newsletter, Eye on Vegas. "My video was totally improv," he says. "I shot half of it in the Robuchon kitchen and half of it in my kitchen at home. I made coffee caviar with sodium alginate and calcium chloride." His application form wasn’t quite so scientific. "Chicken wings are my favorite snack," he confides. "When I was auditioning for Top Chef, I wrote ’chicken wings’ all over the application forms." He makes chicken wings at Robuchon, but an haute version, deboned and filled with forcemeat (an elegant meat stuffing).
To win the title, Marcel had to endure one of the more harrowing experiences on the show. Late one night in the Top Chef dorm, Elia Aboumrad, the Mexico City-born chef who made it to the final four, announced that she’d always wanted to shave her head. Then, giggling madly, she did it, and Ilan followed suit. Caught up in the craziness of the moment, contestant Cliff Crooks decided to shave Marcel and dragged him off the couch where he was napping, pinning him to the ground, while the contestants, including nice-guy Sam Talbot, looked on and did nothing. "I think it looked worse on TV than it was in real life," says Simmons. Still, Cliff was promptly kicked off the show.
Hair, oddly, was a big motif of this season’s Top Chef. Indeed, in person, the thing you notice first about Marcel is his hair. The dramatic swoop is easily the show’s most recognizable ’do. Marcel is short and intense with big eyes, and he’s fond of using surfer phrases like "dude" and "gnarly" that don’t jibe with his looks. Although he spends the majority of the time in Robuchon’s kitchen, however, he’s surprisingly outdoorsy and likes mountain biking and rock climbing at nearby Red Rock Canyon. "I knew I was going to like my job, but I was surprised at how much I like Vegas," he says.
"Marcel can come off as a know-it-all, but he doesn’t take cooking for granted," says Simmons. "He’s a big nerd, while the other contestants are like the cool kids. But he’s passionate and just wants to learn."
Although Marcel’s competitors often accused him of arrogance, he can be quite modest. When asked early in the competition about the chefs he thought would make it to the finals, he answered, "Elia, because she’s so focused. Her station is always clean and her technique is great. Ilan, he’s got a lot of talent and will focus on his capabilities. And, lastly, it’s a toss-up between Sam and Cliff." Interestingly, he didn’t choose himself.
This article originally appeared in March, 2007
They JUST posted this on their website (NO JOKE):
Bravo’s New Top Chef Tells All
How did Marcel Vigneron, the 26-year-old with the big hair and the controversial personality, beat out 14 other contestants to become Top Chef on the Bravo reality show? And why is he so obsessed with xantham gum anyway? Kate Krader finds out.
By Kate Krader
Reality TV competitions generally follow a formula. There’s the villain who makes it very far—generally to the finals—before losing to the hero. It happened in the first season of Bravo’s hit show Top Chef, with tough-girl Tiffani Faison and adorable Harold Dieterle. But in season two, the scenario was slightly different. In the finals on Hawaii’s Big Island, the competition came down to two complicated and talented men who were more difficult to typecast: Marcel Vigneron, the pariah of the group, and his arch-rival Ilan Hall. Few thought Marcel would win. But when it was time for one chef to pack his knives and go, Ilan was sent home and Marcel was the surprise winner.
What will Marcel do with his Top Chef winnings, which include a fully-loaded Sears Kenmore kitchen and $100,000? He plans on taking a year to apprentice at restaurants around the world before opening up a place of his own, on Bainbridge Island near Seattle (where his parents live) or, more likely, San Francisco. "For the style of cooking I do, I need to be in a big city," he says.
Throughout the competition, Marcel created some of the series’ most memorable dishes—both successful and not. Viewers might remember him from an early QuickFire challenge in which contestants invented an ice-cream flavor. Marcel had the brilliant idea to serve scoops of avocado ice cream on a Los Angeles beach. (Needless to say, it bombed.) He did come out on top during an episode in which the chefs were challenged to create a recipe using a Kraft product. Marcel chose mayonnaise, mixing it with curry to make a beautiful, elegant sauce for lamb kebabs. But this was one of only two QuickFire challenges he won throughout the entire season.
"We were all surprised that Marcel made it to the finals," says Top Chef judge Gail Simmons of Food & Wine magazine, describing the showdown in which the chefs created riffs on classic Hawaiian recipes. "But his pineapple poi with hamachi poke bound with xantham gum and his deconstructed salmon lomi lomi topped with tomato foam made him a shoo-in to get to the last round. The dish was modern and very molecular gastronomic, but it was also delicious."
Marcel’s obsession with molecular gastronomy grated on his fellow contestants’ nerves throughout the series, but it ultimately helped him stand out in a very competitive field. Molecular gastronomy, the application of science to cooking, has been one of Marcel’s passions since he was a student at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York (the same cooking school, incidentally, that Ilan attended), using ingredients and equipment typically found in science labs—think methyl cellulose and immersion circulators. Marcel also has a penchant for topping his dishes with foam, a favorite of the culinary avant-garde—a habit the other contestants mocked.
For a chef who idolizes the techniques of the science lab, Marcel has a very down-home background. Though he was born in Kansas and lived for a while in Southern California, he spent his teenage years on quaint Bainbridge Island. He became interested in cooking at a young age, when his mother took him to a bakery where she worked; his earliest food memory is making his own pumpkin pie from his mother’s leftover dough.
Marcel eventually made his way to the Culinary Institute of America, but his most eye-opening experiences may have come from backpacking around Europe for four months. "It was the first time I saw culture interacting with food," he recalls. Surprisingly, the places that made the biggest impression on him weren’t the avant-garde restaurants. "I loved the tapas in Spain," he says, "and the simplicity of everything in Italy."
Marcel was working at Jöel Robuchon at the Mansion in Las Vegas, living in a bachelor apartment with a few other young chefs similarly fascinated with molecular gastronomy, when he heard about the Top Chef audition through a local newsletter, Eye on Vegas. "My video was totally improv," he says. "I shot half of it in the Robuchon kitchen and half of it in my kitchen at home. I made coffee caviar with sodium alginate and calcium chloride." His application form wasn’t quite so scientific. "Chicken wings are my favorite snack," he confides. "When I was auditioning for Top Chef, I wrote ’chicken wings’ all over the application forms." He makes chicken wings at Robuchon, but an haute version, deboned and filled with forcemeat (an elegant meat stuffing).
To win the title, Marcel had to endure one of the more harrowing experiences on the show. Late one night in the Top Chef dorm, Elia Aboumrad, the Mexico City-born chef who made it to the final four, announced that she’d always wanted to shave her head. Then, giggling madly, she did it, and Ilan followed suit. Caught up in the craziness of the moment, contestant Cliff Crooks decided to shave Marcel and dragged him off the couch where he was napping, pinning him to the ground, while the contestants, including nice-guy Sam Talbot, looked on and did nothing. "I think it looked worse on TV than it was in real life," says Simmons. Still, Cliff was promptly kicked off the show.
Hair, oddly, was a big motif of this season’s Top Chef. Indeed, in person, the thing you notice first about Marcel is his hair. The dramatic swoop is easily the show’s most recognizable ’do. Marcel is short and intense with big eyes, and he’s fond of using surfer phrases like "dude" and "gnarly" that don’t jibe with his looks. Although he spends the majority of the time in Robuchon’s kitchen, however, he’s surprisingly outdoorsy and likes mountain biking and rock climbing at nearby Red Rock Canyon. "I knew I was going to like my job, but I was surprised at how much I like Vegas," he says.
"Marcel can come off as a know-it-all, but he doesn’t take cooking for granted," says Simmons. "He’s a big nerd, while the other contestants are like the cool kids. But he’s passionate and just wants to learn."
Although Marcel’s competitors often accused him of arrogance, he can be quite modest. When asked early in the competition about the chefs he thought would make it to the finals, he answered, "Elia, because she’s so focused. Her station is always clean and her technique is great. Ilan, he’s got a lot of talent and will focus on his capabilities. And, lastly, it’s a toss-up between Sam and Cliff." Interestingly, he didn’t choose himself.
This article originally appeared in March, 2007
Ok so this is some big CYA move they are pulling after the fact or they are just simply playing games with their readers. I thought a publication all about wine would rise above Springeresque tactics. Just way too weird...............wonder if Andy Cohen will blog about FoodandWinogate when it's all over. :shrug:
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Key Lime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but a coconut cream sounds delish rightnow too!
Now that does sound good too!! My father in law LOVED coconut cream...and I LOVE Key Lime...all very tropical, doncha think??
muy tropical!! but the best coconut cream pie i ever had was at the diner in Sparta, NC up near the Blue Ridge....the only good pie is a homemade pie...and i am just no good with crusts!! dayam!
Pie crusts are tricky but you just godda practice.
I found a lot of good tips online recently.
There ain't nothing like home made pie crust .but Ms Smith and Pillsbury ain't bad really. I had a deep dish apple Mrs Smith a few months ago that was soooo good.
My husband made the most delish KLime pie.We lived there and he would use fresh key limes and cream cheese and magnolia milk and reg pie crust..not graham cracker....He also used magnolia milk in his cole slaw..To LIVE for!!!
My mother uses evaporated milk in her potato salad and mashed potatoes and cole slaw too. A really good trick....creamy!!!
And YES .......Hellmans ONLY!~
WELL BEEN TO HELL
AND BACK
THINK I SAW THE DEVIL
DOES THAT QUALIFY
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Ok so this is some big CYA move they are pulling after the fact or they are just simply playing games with their readers. I thought a publication all about wine would rise above Springeresque tactics. Just way too weird...............wonder if Andy Cohen will blog about FoodandWinogate when it's all over. :shrug:
This is just damage control IMHO...it reads like it was written rather quickly. NIce try F&W...still not watching Betty again.
The damage control is clever though...i'll give em that!
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LMAO...Good, was afraid you had given up fighting!! Afterall, the best thing about the fight is making up, right? LOL
RIGHT O SIZ
DO LOVE THE FIGHT
BUT ONLY IF THERE IS A CHALLENGE
AND MAKING UP
WELL
THAT'S ANOTHER ROMP IN THE JUNGLE
NOW
WHERES THE TAT???
YOU GOTTA BE PUNISHED FOR FORGETING ABOUT ACTOR
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PS GMORNING SIZ
GOOD MORNING JUSTME!! Been busy this morning, catching up and spoiling fun...been fun for me too!!
Now, that tat is here, at the end of my leg, sitting under my desk waiting for its punishment. LOL
MORNING SIZ
ROWR ROWR
GIMME
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Is it Wednesday yet?
BTW: F&W did profiles for both Marcel & Ilan
How did Ilan Hall, the 24-year-old with the Tintin ’do, beat out 14 other contestants to become Top Chef on the Bravo reality show? And what’s he planning to do with the $100,000 he won? Adam Sachs finds out.
http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/bravos...-tells-all-ilan
BTW: F&W did profiles for both Marcel & Ilan
How did Ilan Hall, the 24-year-old with the Tintin ’do, beat out 14 other contestants to become Top Chef on the Bravo reality show? And what’s he planning to do with the $100,000 he won? Adam Sachs finds out.
http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/bravos...-tells-all-ilan
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SO, starting to look like ANYBODY could have posted this, including a newbie! I think it is what it is....just a spoiler done by someone on a mission to ruin everyones fun. Maybe someone who was recently fired from Bravo or F&W did it.
Sheeeesh...I can't get no recognition..it was ME!!!!!
JUSTME.........What kind of biz do you have???
I do so love a man who is in charge...lol
WELL KRISTI I DID GIVE YOU THE TIARA THAT WAS GIVEN ME
IT'S THERE SOMEWHERE
MY BUSINESS ???
WELL SIZ ASKED AS WELL
BUT I DON'T THINK THIS IS THE PLACE TO SAY
IT IS CHALLENGING
I ENJOY IT
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Is it Wednesday yet?
BTW: F&W did profiles for both Marcel & Ilan
How did Ilan Hall, the 24-year-old with the Tintin ’do, beat out 14 other contestants to become Top Chef on the Bravo reality show? And what’s he planning to do with the $100,000 he won? Adam Sachs finds out.
http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/bravos...-tells-all-ilan
You only do two profiles when the winner is still in doubt, not when it was decided a month and a half ago. Just doesn't happen. It's a red herring. Ilan won.
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Is it Wednesday yet?
BTW: F&W did profiles for both Marcel & Ilan
How did Ilan Hall, the 24-year-old with the Tintin ’do, beat out 14 other contestants to become Top Chef on the Bravo reality show? And what’s he planning to do with the $100,000 he won? Adam Sachs finds out.
http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/bravos...-tells-all-ilan
You only do two profiles when the winner is still in doubt, not when it was decided a month and a half ago. Just doesn't happen. It's a red herring. Ilan won.
IN ADDITION:
the original F&W article on Ilan (of which I have a PDF) has two additional articles attached to it...a recipe for Ilan's Fideo cakes and an article on "4 places that inspire the new Top Chef."
Both of these links are now missing from the Ilan article and no such additional bonus is attached to the Marcel article.
Red. Herring.
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GOOD LUCK ON THE NEXT INTERVIEW
KNOCK EM DEAD
thanks JMe. Be careful and catch ya later
GOTTA RUN SOME ERRANDS
NECESSITIES AND THE LIKE
SEE YA LATER
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LOL
LOOK SIZ
YOU DID A ME LOL
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LOL, yeah, caught it after the post...what a dork!! Fixed it when I saw it too.
YUP I'M A DORK
DID IT MANY TIMES
THIS POSTING WINDOW IS SOOOOOOOO SMALL
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It is an awful small window. I usually scroll past at least once when posting..very annoying!!
WELL SIZ
IT'S KINDA NICE TO SEE LOL
THOSE LITTLE QUOTY THINGIES BECOME INVISIBLE TO ME SOMETIMES
BUT I HAVE CAPS HANDI
WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE ???
NO NEED TO ANSWER
JUST CONVERSATION AS I WORK MY WAY UP THAT
LUCIOUS LEG OR YOURN
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Ok so this is some big CYA move they are pulling after the fact or they are just simply playing games with their readers. I thought a publication all about wine would rise above Springeresque tactics. Just way too weird...............wonder if Andy Cohen will blog about FoodandWinogate when it's all over. :shrug:
This is just damage control IMHO...it reads like it was written rather quickly. NIce try F&W...still not watching Betty again.
The damage control is clever though...i'll give em that!
OMG you crack me up with the Betty aversion...which I happen to share btw. But I'm addicted/obsessed enough to watch the finale.
I just saw the "I'm not your [expletive deleted], [expletive deleted]" episode. OMG how did they all keep a straight face? Dave said that and STILL got selected for Cannes...maybe because of it! LMAO
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Now, what would be REALLY funny would be if Food & Wine mag "accidentally" published the "other" winner article, describing their interview with the winning Marcel. Openly disclose that it was all a ploy.
Boy, we'd really be in a tizzy, then!
Problem is, they've alreadty dissed Marcel in this article...would make the magazine and Adam Sachs look doubly hypocritical.
but, hey! As long as I can avoid seeing or hearing Betty again, I'm happy.
AMEN about Betty!! I can't even watch her on the old shows any more. Like nails on a chalk board!!! scccrrrrreeeeecccchhhhh
YOU SOOOOOOOOO MEAN SIZ LOL
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I CAN be if necessary. (O:
DID I SAY I LIKE MEAN
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SHEESH, another think to add to your list!! I am only mean to people like Betty, need to be muzzled fr sure...she shouldn't be allowed to use that voice for evil, only good. lol
THAT MUZZLE SIZ
NOW WHISPERING...............
IS IT FROM THE PHONE BOOTH?
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HEY GUYS!!! No ganging up on poor ol' Siz, two big guys and little ol' me???? NOT FAIR, NOT FAIR!!! LMAO. Guess there are TWO famous men, Actor and JMe, the conspiracy king! lol...so, you are MrsRuggles huh?????
TO BE HONEST SIZ
WHEN THE NAME CAME UP IN CG'S POST
IT NEVER EVEN RANG A BELL
WASN'T TILL I SEARCHED FOR HER POST
IN WHICH SHE STATED SHE LIKED PLAYING GAMES USING OTHER NAMES
THAT I FOUND WHO RUGGLES WAS
BUT
THERE IS NO REAL SENSE IN DEBATING WITH SOMEONE
WHO HAS ALREADY MADE UP THIER MINDS
IT'S JUST A WASTE OF TIME AND ENERGY
IN ANY CASE HER ACCUSATION WAS CIRCUMSTANCIAL
WHAT WAS BROUGHT FORWARD THROUGH BRILLK'S HELP
WAS ONE OF HER OTHER ALIASS
I BROUGHT UP HER POST WHICH SHE DENIED DOING
NOT TO MENTION IT WAS HER SCENARIO
TAKES A MISCHEVIOUS MIND TO THINK UP THINGS LIKE THAT
MY EVIDENCE I FELT WAS COMPELLING
ALL FACTS
THERE IN BLACK AND WHITE
TO ME IT WAS OPEN AND SHUT
FUNNY I EVEN SAID GOODNIGHT TO HER
SOMEHOW I FELT SHE WANTED ME TO STAY
AS I STATED BEFORE
IT WOULD HAVE JUST BEEN A WASTE OF NAP TIME
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PS I DO ADMIRE HER IMAGINATION
I have no idea who Mrs Ruggles is..heard about FF1 from someone else. Seems to me to be someone who has just too much time on their hands and needed some cheap entertainment. Have seen CG posting for a while, but didn't really see anything kookie about it. Kind of crazy for her to pick you for the great spoiler, since she has been around a long time and so have you. Would think she would know by now that you "ain't that guy" but then again, when the peeps get bored, entertainment is always easy to manufacture. BTW, it is a good imagination. (O:
SHRUG
WE WILL NEVER KNOW SIZ
PERHAPS A NEED FOR ATTENTION
SHE DID SEEM FOCUSED ON MY TITLE AND POST TOTALS
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Is it Wednesday yet?
BTW: F&W did profiles for both Marcel & Ilan
How did Ilan Hall, the 24-year-old with the Tintin ’do, beat out 14 other contestants to become Top Chef on the Bravo reality show? And what’s he planning to do with the $100,000 he won? Adam Sachs finds out.
http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/bravos...-tells-all-ilan
You only do two profiles when the winner is still in doubt, not when it was decided a month and a half ago. Just doesn't happen. It's a red herring. Ilan won.
IN ADDITION:
the original F&W article on Ilan (of which I have a PDF) has two additional articles attached to it...a recipe for Ilan's Fideo cakes and an article on "4 places that inspire the new Top Chef."
Both of these links are now missing from the Ilan article and no such additional bonus is attached to the Marcel article.
Red. Herring.
Well, ain't THAT the dangest thing!
I did get a "Sorry, the page you are looking for doesn't exist" message shortly after reading the original post yesterday, as did others. I swear on a stack of bibles that they yoinked it right after it appeared on Twop. But I just looked again, and you're right, it is definitely back up.. And, if you say they put it back without some of the original links, I believe you.
This does not compute. The last thing they would do, if it was a tragically accidental leak, is PUT IT BACK UP!!!
Last year, in TC 1, Bravo was peeing on forest fires all over the place, canceling posts on the boards that got dangerously close to tipping that Tif didn't win. Notice? No cancelling of posts this year. Not a PEEP from the Bravo Board Boss. We have been running riot discussing this, and Bravo apparently does not care one whit.
I ask you, does this make any sense? Bravo has how many gazillions in ad revenue dependent upon keeping up the suspense until the very last episode airs? Does it make any sense that they would just let this happen? Look how they publicly stomped the Washington Post for revealing the outcome of a single episode. Yet here's the big finale, and no stomping of Food & Wine, no public outrage, not a single PEEP of protest at this info getting out and -- even more bizarre -- being posted AGAIN?
Coupled with the rapid-fire way somebody posted the spoiler link to the article yesterday (six different Top Chef episode boards in seven minutes flat), and it just doesn't add up to "accident."
Do they theeeenk we are zoh stuuuuupeeed that weee would fall for theeeese?
Hoster, you are right. Definitely a red herring.
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Is it Wednesday yet?
BTW: F&W did profiles for both Marcel & Ilan
How did Ilan Hall, the 24-year-old with the Tintin ’do, beat out 14 other contestants to become Top Chef on the Bravo reality show? And what’s he planning to do with the $100,000 he won? Adam Sachs finds out.
http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/bravos...-tells-all-ilan
You only do two profiles when the winner is still in doubt, not when it was decided a month and a half ago. Just doesn't happen. It's a red herring. Ilan won.
Yeah, it's not like they needed to pre-write some obituary for a dignitary who could drop dead in a second. They had weeks to get this thing written before it aired. Do they actually think this will "fool" the viewers/readers? Gad, this does fit though with this ENTIRE season IMO. Bring on Top Design already! (for those who want to follow a great blog on it, check out my buddies Tom and Lorenzo at http://projecttopdesign.blogspot.com/. They are hilarious!
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ROTFLMAO....youse killin' me JMe!! Bout fell out of my chair on that one..gnaw away, I'll hollar when it starts hurtin'
G NAAAAWWWWWWWWWWW
SLURRRRRRRRPPP
G NAAAWWWWWWWWWWW
ROWR
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ROTFLMAO...you are a NOISY one ain't ya? Don't tell me you are a screamer too....lol
AWWWWWWWW I NEVER SCREAM
GOBBLE A BIT
MIGHT BE NOISY
DEF WILL LEAVE A TRAIL
BUT HAVE TO LEAVE SOMETHING FOR ACTOR
AS I'M SURE HE WOULD WANT TO PICKUP WHERE I
MISSED
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SO, starting to look like ANYBODY could have posted this, including a newbie! I think it is what it is....just a spoiler done by someone on a mission to ruin everyones fun. Maybe someone who was recently fired from Bravo or F&W did it.
Sheeeesh...I can't get no recognition..it was ME!!!!!
JUSTME.........What kind of biz do you have???
I do so love a man who is in charge...lol
Ok, everyone....it was KRISTL!!! SHE DID IT....SHE IS THE SPOILER....GET THE TORCHES....GET THE WHIPS....oh my, you look like you are gettin excited Kristl....what it the whips????? lol
PSSSSSST HEY SIZ
IS THAT WHIP FROM THE PHONE BOOTH
OR LEFT OVER FROM AI'S PROP STASH
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Well I'm glad as now it isa bit more exciting as we really don't know for sure!!!!
girl! don't make me BettyCliff you! LOL. There is no suspence. Ilan won. TopDesign!
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Is it Wednesday yet?
BTW: F&W did profiles for both Marcel & Ilan
How did Ilan Hall, the 24-year-old with the Tintin ’do, beat out 14 other contestants to become Top Chef on the Bravo reality show? And what’s he planning to do with the $100,000 he won? Adam Sachs finds out.
http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/bravos...-tells-all-ilan
You only do two profiles when the winner is still in doubt, not when it was decided a month and a half ago. Just doesn't happen. It's a red herring. Ilan won.
Yeah, it's not like they needed to pre-write some obituary for a dignitary who could drop dead in a second. They had weeks to get this thing written before it aired. Do they actually think this will "fool" the viewers/readers? Gad, this does fit though with this ENTIRE season IMO. Bring on Top Design already! (for those who want to follow a great blog on it, check out my buddies Tom and Lorenzo at http://projecttopdesign.blogspot.com/. They are hilarious!
Maybe they just want us to digest the info early and get beyond all of our angst about scrappy little Marcel not winning so that we will . . .
. . . be ready to pay full attention to Top Design immediately?
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Is it Wednesday yet?
BTW: F&W did profiles for both Marcel & Ilan
How did Ilan Hall, the 24-year-old with the Tintin ’do, beat out 14 other contestants to become Top Chef on the Bravo reality show? And what’s he planning to do with the $100,000 he won? Adam Sachs finds out.
http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/bravos...-tells-all-ilan
You only do two profiles when the winner is still in doubt, not when it was decided a month and a half ago. Just doesn't happen. It's a red herring. Ilan won.
Yeah, it's not like they needed to pre-write some obituary for a dignitary who could drop dead in a second. They had weeks to get this thing written before it aired. Do they actually think this will "fool" the viewers/readers? Gad, this does fit though with this ENTIRE season IMO. Bring on Top Design already! (for those who want to follow a great blog on it, check out my buddies Tom and Lorenzo at http://projecttopdesign.blogspot.com/. They are hilarious!
Maybe they just want us to digest the info early and get beyond all of our angst about scrappy little Marcel not winning so that we will . . .
. . . be ready to pay full attention to Top Design immediately?
Your choice of apropos verbs is not lost on me!
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Is it Wednesday yet?
BTW: F&W did profiles for both Marcel & Ilan
How did Ilan Hall, the 24-year-old with the Tintin ’do, beat out 14 other contestants to become Top Chef on the Bravo reality show? And what’s he planning to do with the $100,000 he won? Adam Sachs finds out.
http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/bravos...-tells-all-ilan
You only do two profiles when the winner is still in doubt, not when it was decided a month and a half ago. Just doesn't happen. It's a red herring. Ilan won.
IN ADDITION:
the original F&W article on Ilan (of which I have a PDF) has two additional articles attached to it...a recipe for Ilan's Fideo cakes and an article on "4 places that inspire the new Top Chef."
Both of these links are now missing from the Ilan article and no such additional bonus is attached to the Marcel article.
Red. Herring.
Well I'm glad as now it isa bit more exciting as we really don't know for sure!!!!
From TWOP.........On F&W..I buy it!!!!
You forgot to post this paragraph from the main page:
Top Chef, Season Two
Yesterday, an intrepid reality tv fan found a Top Chef story on Food & Wine's server. Food & Wine prepared profiles of both Top Chef finalists in advance of the last episode so that we had a story on the winner ready to publish immediately after the season finale. Now for everyone to see, here are profiles of both finalists, Marcel and Ilan. Watch Top Chef on Wednesday, January 31 at 10PM EST to find out the real winner
Cite for profile of Marcel?
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Oh, BTW, No, I didnt know you were FF1 for sure. Not until you came up with your theory, that is. I swear the second you posted it and the way you did it, it reminded me of you, FF1. I knew youd been lurking at the least but didnt know who "you" were until you told,
brillke
Really? You replied to the same post that I disclosed it in, without any comment, and I took that as meaning that it wasn't news to you.
While here doing a semester in the Big Apple, my niece Lizzie stuck this name on my computer and did some comments. I occasionally snickered over her shoulder and, although I had planned never to come back on these boards, it got me interested again. She's back at her regular college now but doesn't get Bravo in her dorm, so she's ceding the name to me if I want it. I've been using this name temporarily for a few weeks while trying to get my old name back, but this website evidently cancels a login name if a guest on your computer uses a different one. So I fear my old name has been extinguished for good. Since I can't think up another name that I like any better, I've decided to stick with this one, and "came out" last night.
SO YOU GONNA PICK ON BRILLK NOW EH CG
I SURE WISH I COULD GIVE YOU SOME OF MY NUMBERS
AND THE AFFICIANADO TITLE
IF IT WOULD MAKE YOU A HAPPYIER PERSON
BUT CAN'T
YOU'RE BUSTED
AND IT WOULD CLEARLY BE A WASTE TO ADDRESS YOU
ANYMORE
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Just currious...how many people here go on these boards from home AND work??? Wouldn't that make it TWO different URL's and make it possible for two different names??? If that is the case, almost all of us would be able to have two names. OR, cable, dsl, at home AND use the computer at work...that would be at LEAST three ID's. Correct?
I WOULD THINK IT IS POSSIBLE SIZ
QUESTION IS WHY
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Not sure why anyone would, cause hey, ain't my conspiracy theory, I'm just trying to bring some sanity into it. lol (O:
YUP
THE NEXT QUESTION THAT COMES TO MIND
IS
IS IT WORTH THE TROUBLE
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YOUR POST CG
AND YES I DO NOTICE YOU LIKE TO PLAY GAMES
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As you well know, the game I was referring to was having posts on different boards at once when you pull up the main index page due to simultaneously participating in conversations on several boards at once. The most I ever did was three at once, because the action was fast and furious on each of the PR boards. It was hard to keep up with multiple fast-paced conversations at once. Everybody was doing it, until somebody mentioned that we should just stick to a single board to save our collective sanity.
You, however, have lately hit every single board on the Top Chef page, even though some of those episode boards have languished for months without any action. To me, this is total-building, which is why I asked you if there is yet another title beyond Afficionado. You certainly seem in a hurry to crack the record for most posts, especially because you are posting where nobody else is talking much at all.
I did notice your heavy activity today and commented on it. Then, the light bulb went off and I tracked your posts to see if the mystery leaker was you, perchance. Only you and the mystery leaker have posted on so many inactive boards, and by an unusual "coinkydink," all on the very same day, and during the same hour.
It wasn't an entirely loopy scenario.
GIVE IT UP CG
YOU'RE BUSTED
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Sorry you can't read well. I have just explained in an earlier post that I can't manage to post under two different names from the same IP address, otherwise I'd resume posting under my old name rather than having to use my houseguest's substitute. For some technical reason, I just can't have two different people using two different Bravo names on this computer. Or, even one person using two names. Thus, I am not today's mystery leaker.
You, on the other hand, protest too much. I'm guessing you have one computer on a DSL and another on a separate cable service, so that the Bravo program reads two different IP addresses.
BUSTED YOURSELF.
Just currious...how many people here go on these boards from home AND work??? Wouldn't that make it TWO different URL's and make it possible for two different names??? If that is the case, almost all of us would be able to have two names. OR, cable, dsl, at home AND use the computer at work...that would be at LEAST three ID's. Correct?
Acually... I think some routers will "hide " the ID's of computers as part of a firewall so that would be another way... having two different services would be easiest and there are still free dial-up services out there also.
SO, starting to look like ANYBODY could have posted this, including a newbie! I think it is what it is....just a spoiler done by someone on a mission to ruin everyones fun. Maybe someone who was recently fired from Bravo or F&W did it.
ONE OF THE DRAMA WRITERS LOL
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Well I'm glad as now it isa bit more exciting as we really don't know for sure!!!!
girl! don't make me BettyCliff you! LOL. There is no suspence. Ilan won. TopDesign!
Come on honey....Let's hold out a little glint of hope for our boy!!!!
He's come so far since he was a frog leg catching.... crack selling little tyke....Oh no that was Whoopi Mia...lol
Ya nevah know is awwll I'm saying!!!!!
LOL. The fix is in. You know I would like nothing more for Volfy to win, but the writing is on the wall...or screen, as it were.
The fun part will be whoever wins the dinner cooked by Saffron Sadist (pleae be me!!!) can leave the food untouched....or put lots of catsup on it. Or request foam!!! Oh, I couldn't be that mean, but I'd like to. But then, I'd be just like Ilan, the saffron sadist.
Carry on! to TopDesign.
won't.....watch......Betty.
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wait....wait a minute FoodFanOne? as if in F.oodF.anO.ne?
as in FOO....FOO or more aptly...aguynamedwayne!!!! I don't believe it...your JUSTMEAOD too aren't you? and perhaps ohiotoodd. Dang, all this time I thought I was interacting with lots of different people and it's just been one...you got me. I'm just messing with you
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Nope, not FOO FOO. Just plain old FF1.
it was a joke brillke. I don't really think it's foo foo
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Is it Wednesday yet?
BTW: F&W did profiles for both Marcel & Ilan
How did Ilan Hall, the 24-year-old with the Tintin ’do, beat out 14 other contestants to become Top Chef on the Bravo reality show? And what’s he planning to do with the $100,000 he won? Adam Sachs finds out.
http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/bravos...-tells-all-ilan
You only do two profiles when the winner is still in doubt, not when it was decided a month and a half ago. Just doesn't happen. It's a red herring. Ilan won.
IN ADDITION:
the original F&W article on Ilan (of which I have a PDF) has two additional articles attached to it...a recipe for Ilan's Fideo cakes and an article on "4 places that inspire the new Top Chef."
Both of these links are now missing from the Ilan article and no such additional bonus is attached to the Marcel article.
Red. Herring.
Well I'm glad as now it isa bit more exciting as we really don't know for sure!!!!
From TWOP.........On F&W..I buy it!!!!
You forgot to post this paragraph from the main page:
Top Chef, Season Two
Yesterday, an intrepid reality tv fan found a Top Chef story on Food & Wine's server. Food & Wine prepared profiles of both Top Chef finalists in advance of the last episode so that we had a story on the winner ready to publish immediately after the season finale. Now for everyone to see, here are profiles of both finalists, Marcel and Ilan. Watch Top Chef on Wednesday, January 31 at 10PM EST to find out the real winner
The newly posted article on Marcel"
http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/bravos...ells-all-marcel
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Wow, you are sticking by your theory I see. Okie dokie. What was your other name? Just curious, no need to tell if you dont want to.
FoodFanOne.
oh yeah! i remember you!
wait....wait a minute FoodFanOne? as if in F.oodF.anO.ne?
as in FOO....FOO or more aptly...aguynamedwayne!!!! I don't believe it...your JUSTMEAOD too aren't you? and perhaps ohiotoodd. Dang, all this time I thought I was interacting with lots of different people and it's just been one...you got me. I'm just messing with you so please don't take it personally. i have no idea if you are right or wrong about AOD but....I can tell you that once these guys all dressed in black with black shades came to my work and asked me what I was doing at 10am that mornign. turns out they asked my roommate too and searched our house. Apparently that morning at ten am a bomb threat had been called in to the elementary school. they traced it to our number. I had made a call to county clerks or somewhere to ask where to pay a ticket right around that time and....coincidence. it was the closest they could get. it was freakin scary though! that part is true. so I am willing to believe JUSTME was a coincidence. but the person who did it definetly meant to spread the word fast and furious and certainly seemed to be an Ilan fan! haha.
Nope, not FOO FOO. Just plain old FF1.
Yes, somebody did want this article's message to get out like lightning. Now, the $64,000 question: Is it true (the horrible posting mistake of some poor slob about to be fired), or is it a deliberate misdirection (aka, a "plant").
Only time will tell, kiddies.
why do I keep saying brillke when it isn't brillke....sorry AGAIN!
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Well I'm glad as now it isa bit more exciting as we really don't know for sure!!!!
girl! don't make me BettyCliff you! LOL. There is no suspence. Ilan won. TopDesign!
Come on honey....Let's hold out a little glint of hope for our boy!!!!
He's come so far since he was a frog leg catching.... crack selling little tyke....Oh no that was Whoopi Mia...lol
Ya nevah know is awwll I'm saying!!!!!
LOL. The fix is in. You know I would like nothing more for Volfy to win, but the writing is on the wall...or screen, as it were.
The fun part will be whoever wins the dinner cooked by Saffron Sadist (pleae be me!!!) can leave the food untouched....or put lots of catsup on it. Or request foam!!! Oh, I couldn't be that mean, but I'd like to. But then, I'd be just like Ilan, the saffron sadist.
Carry on! to TopDesign.
won't.....watch......Betty.
http://www.bravotv.com/_media/topchef/bios...C_bio_betty.gif
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GOOD LUCK ON THE NEXT INTERVIEW
KNOCK EM DEAD
GOTTA RUN SOME ERRANDS
NECESSITIES AND THE LIKE
SEE YA LATER
TAKE CARE OVER THERE
ALOHA
HAVE FUN
thanks JMe. Be careful and catch ya later
thats better...got stuck in the middle of your post...oops
NO BIGGIES SIZ
DID THAT A FEW TIMES LOL
AND THANKS
ALWAYS TRY TO BE
CAREFULL THAT IS
BUT THERE ARE TIMES WHEN CAUTION MUST BE THROWN TO THE WINDS
TAKE CARE OVER THERE
ALOHA
HAVE FUN
This is true, just have to watch out for the other person out there when traveling...I am kind of a "mini-road rage" kind of person. lol Say a lot of smack in MY car to peeps in THEIR car, even though they can't hear me, but wouldn't dream of actually running them off the road or following them. Besides, good entertainment for Hubby. (O:
I just meant to be careful traveling around on your errands. Glad you made it back safe and sound!!
DID YOU READ THE STORY OF THE PET STORE LADY
DANG SIZ
IF A VISION OF YOU DIDN'T APPEAR AS I HEARD HER SPEAK
DID RUN INTO SOMETHING HERE
SHRUG A STRANGER SELLING SOME RUMOR MAGAZINE
GUESS YOU'RE RIGHT AGAIN
I MUST BE KING OF SOMETHING
BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY WHO WANT THE THRONE
SHRUG
TO ME IF THEY WANT IT THEY CAN HAVE IT
DON'T LIKE TO SIT IN IT ANYWAY
LIKE ENJOYING BEING TOTALLY PLUGGED IN
I REALLY ENJOY RINGING BELLS
TAKE CARE OVER THERE
ALOHA
HAVE FUN
Yes, I did get the story of the pet store lady...glad I have infultrated your mind...now you will see me EVERYWHERE you go..and worse yet, hear me. LMAO
Sheesh, look how famous you are getting here, all that spoilers you posted...LMAO...busy guy you are...who says it isn't CityGirl???? Nobody else would go to all that trouble of checking times and such, BUT if you were the one posting, you would already KNOW that info...correct???
I GUESS SIZ
TO ME IF I DID KNOW ANYTHING
WHY WOULD I WATCH THE SHOW
SHRUG
TAKE CARE OVER THERE
ALOHA
HAVE FUN
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SO, starting to look like ANYBODY could have posted this, including a newbie! I think it is what it is....just a spoiler done by someone on a mission to ruin everyones fun. Maybe someone who was recently fired from Bravo or F&W did it.
Yep. The sudden posting of the Marcel wins article to show that they really did have two versions in the can kind of deflates the whole conspiracy, red-herring thing.
But, guys, know what this means? NOT a slam dunk that Ilan won!!! Still up in the air about Marcel!
Wow. Now THIS is drama. A cliff-hanger, even.
(If it is a conspiracy and we're all being played, it is Bravo's most devious move of all time. LOL.)
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Ok, they are really [censored] over at F&W....
They JUST posted this on their website (NO JOKE):
Bravo’s New Top Chef Tells All
How did Marcel Vigneron, the 26-year-old with the big hair and the controversial personality, beat out 14 other contestants to become Top Chef on the Bravo reality show? And why is he so obsessed with xantham gum anyway? Kate Krader finds out.
By Kate Krader
Reality TV competitions generally follow a formula. There’s the villain who makes it very far—generally to the finals—before losing to the hero. It happened in the first season of Bravo’s hit show Top Chef, with tough-girl Tiffani Faison and adorable Harold Dieterle. But in season two, the scenario was slightly different. In the finals on Hawaii’s Big Island, the competition came down to two complicated and talented men who were more difficult to typecast: Marcel Vigneron, the pariah of the group, and his arch-rival Ilan Hall. Few thought Marcel would win. But when it was time for one chef to pack his knives and go, Ilan was sent home and Marcel was the surprise winner.
What will Marcel do with his Top Chef winnings, which include a fully-loaded Sears Kenmore kitchen and $100,000? He plans on taking a year to apprentice at restaurants around the world before opening up a place of his own, on Bainbridge Island near Seattle (where his parents live) or, more likely, San Francisco. "For the style of cooking I do, I need to be in a big city," he says.
Throughout the competition, Marcel created some of the series’ most memorable dishes—both successful and not. Viewers might remember him from an early QuickFire challenge in which contestants invented an ice-cream flavor. Marcel had the brilliant idea to serve scoops of avocado ice cream on a Los Angeles beach. (Needless to say, it bombed.) He did come out on top during an episode in which the chefs were challenged to create a recipe using a Kraft product. Marcel chose mayonnaise, mixing it with curry to make a beautiful, elegant sauce for lamb kebabs. But this was one of only two QuickFire challenges he won throughout the entire season.
"We were all surprised that Marcel made it to the finals," says Top Chef judge Gail Simmons of Food & Wine magazine, describing the showdown in which the chefs created riffs on classic Hawaiian recipes. "But his pineapple poi with hamachi poke bound with xantham gum and his deconstructed salmon lomi lomi topped with tomato foam made him a shoo-in to get to the last round. The dish was modern and very molecular gastronomic, but it was also delicious."
Marcel’s obsession with molecular gastronomy grated on his fellow contestants’ nerves throughout the series, but it ultimately helped him stand out in a very competitive field. Molecular gastronomy, the application of science to cooking, has been one of Marcel’s passions since he was a student at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York (the same cooking school, incidentally, that Ilan attended), using ingredients and equipment typically found in science labs—think methyl cellulose and immersion circulators. Marcel also has a penchant for topping his dishes with foam, a favorite of the culinary avant-garde—a habit the other contestants mocked.
For a chef who idolizes the techniques of the science lab, Marcel has a very down-home background. Though he was born in Kansas and lived for a while in Southern California, he spent his teenage years on quaint Bainbridge Island. He became interested in cooking at a young age, when his mother took him to a bakery where she worked; his earliest food memory is making his own pumpkin pie from his mother’s leftover dough.
Marcel eventually made his way to the Culinary Institute of America, but his most eye-opening experiences may have come from backpacking around Europe for four months. "It was the first time I saw culture interacting with food," he recalls. Surprisingly, the places that made the biggest impression on him weren’t the avant-garde restaurants. "I loved the tapas in Spain," he says, "and the simplicity of everything in Italy."
Marcel was working at Jöel Robuchon at the Mansion in Las Vegas, living in a bachelor apartment with a few other young chefs similarly fascinated with molecular gastronomy, when he heard about the Top Chef audition through a local newsletter, Eye on Vegas. "My video was totally improv," he says. "I shot half of it in the Robuchon kitchen and half of it in my kitchen at home. I made coffee caviar with sodium alginate and calcium chloride." His application form wasn’t quite so scientific. "Chicken wings are my favorite snack," he confides. "When I was auditioning for Top Chef, I wrote ’chicken wings’ all over the application forms." He makes chicken wings at Robuchon, but an haute version, deboned and filled with forcemeat (an elegant meat stuffing).
To win the title, Marcel had to endure one of the more harrowing experiences on the show. Late one night in the Top Chef dorm, Elia Aboumrad, the Mexico City-born chef who made it to the final four, announced that she’d always wanted to shave her head. Then, giggling madly, she did it, and Ilan followed suit. Caught up in the craziness of the moment, contestant Cliff Crooks decided to shave Marcel and dragged him off the couch where he was napping, pinning him to the ground, while the contestants, including nice-guy Sam Talbot, looked on and did nothing. "I think it looked worse on TV than it was in real life," says Simmons. Still, Cliff was promptly kicked off the show.
Hair, oddly, was a big motif of this season’s Top Chef. Indeed, in person, the thing you notice first about Marcel is his hair. The dramatic swoop is easily the show’s most recognizable ’do. Marcel is short and intense with big eyes, and he’s fond of using surfer phrases like "dude" and "gnarly" that don’t jibe with his looks. Although he spends the majority of the time in Robuchon’s kitchen, however, he’s surprisingly outdoorsy and likes mountain biking and rock climbing at nearby Red Rock Canyon. "I knew I was going to like my job, but I was surprised at how much I like Vegas," he says.
"Marcel can come off as a know-it-all, but he doesn’t take cooking for granted," says Simmons. "He’s a big nerd, while the other contestants are like the cool kids. But he’s passionate and just wants to learn."
Although Marcel’s competitors often accused him of arrogance, he can be quite modest. When asked early in the competition about the chefs he thought would make it to the finals, he answered, "Elia, because she’s so focused. Her station is always clean and her technique is great. Ilan, he’s got a lot of talent and will focus on his capabilities. And, lastly, it’s a toss-up between Sam and Cliff." Interestingly, he didn’t choose himself.
This article originally appeared in March, 2007
So the secret leaker is you!!!! ROTFLMAO
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Well I'm glad as now it isa bit more exciting as we really don't know for sure!!!!
girl! don't make me BettyCliff you! LOL. There is no suspence. Ilan won. TopDesign!
Come on honey....Let's hold out a little glint of hope for our boy!!!!
HA! (OMG, now I'm a conspiracy theorist!)......AHA!! I found the weakest link.
IN the Marcel article, Gail says: "I think it looked worse on TV than it was in real life."
But Gail ackowledged in her gabfest with Cliff and Andy that she had JUST seen the video for the first time...like the day previous. Which means that her quote could not have happened prior to 2 weks ago...NOW,, why would they be writing or changing a "win" article on Marcel in the last two weeks????
Red. Herring.
Ilan won.
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I thought a publication all about wine would rise above Springeresque tactics.
Don't forget about the food, it is called Food & Wine afterall...
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Me too Kristl...and must admit, Banana Cream and Coconut Cream are my two faves...imagine that!! lol
Key Lime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but a coconut cream sounds delish rightnow too!
Now that does sound good too!! My father in law LOVED coconut cream...and I LOVE Key Lime...all very tropical, doncha think??
WELL LADIES
THERE IS A GREAT BAKERY HERE
THAT MAKES A FINE KAHLUA CREME
THINK I WILL HAVE TO GET SOME
AND INDULGE
TAKE CARE OVER THERE
ALOHA
HAVE FUN
OH MY!!!! Now THAT sounds like a sinful treat!!! I bet it is so smooth and creamy it just melts in your mouth!! sigh...
WHAT CAN I SAY SIZ
WISH I COULD SEND YA ALL SOME
THE CRUST IS SENSATIONAL PERFECT
FIRM FLAKEY CRUMBLES WITH SYMITRY AS YOU BITE THROUGH THE FILLING
FUNNY BAKING HAS NEVER BEEN MY FORTE
ALL THAT KNEEDING MASSAGING RISING PUSHING PULLING
WELL
MAKES ME HORNY
TAKE CARE OVER THERE
ALOHA
HAVE FUN
Quote:LOL! brillke late last night I almost felt like I was going insane with this [censored]. You know that Star Trek thing where 'in the insane world, the sane man must appear insane'? lol.
Oh, BTW, No, I didnt know you were FF1 for sure. Not until you came up with your theory, that is. I swear the second you posted it and the way you did it, it reminded me of you, FF1. I knew youd been lurking at the least but didnt know who "you" were until you told,
brillke
Also new 'takes' on names for restaurants:
Mike: 'Doobie'Ludesdaze' (RubyTuesday)
Marisa: the 'Crack-[expletive deleted]-Bare-All' (CrackerBarrel)
Betty: Harridany's (Denny's)
Can anyone come up with any other plays on existing restaurants for some other contestants?
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Well I'm glad as now it isa bit more exciting as we really don't know for sure!!!!
girl! don't make me BettyCliff you! LOL. There is no suspence. Ilan won. TopDesign!
Come on honey....Let's hold out a little glint of hope for our boy!!!!
HA! (OMG, now I'm a conspiracy theorist!)......AHA!! I found the weakest link.
IN the Marcel article, Gail says: "I think it looked worse on TV than it was in real life."
But Gail ackowledged in her gabfest with Cliff and Andy that she had JUST seen the video for the first time...like the day previous. Which means that her quote could not have happened prior to 2 weks ago...NOW,, why would they be writing or changing a "win" article on Marcel in the last two weeks????
Red. Herring.
Ilan won.
Wanna bet?
Apparently Tom was the only one who saw the video before judges' table in that episode, but you're assuming that Gail didn't see it at any time between then and the actual airing of the episode. Is that a valid assumption? Couldn't she have seen it before giving this interview just so she'd be up on what happened? Just playing devil's advocate, here.
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