Month: February 2011

Top Chef: Honor the Fish

This week’s episode was all about Southern cooking. The guest judges were Paula Deen and Josh Besh. They actually carried the theme from the quickfire, where they had to fry up something for Paula, to the elimination challenge, where they had to cook using Southern seafood that benefited the...

Amazing Race: No Time for Dilly Dally

Amazing Race is back and for once we don’t have to be confused by all the new teams because we all know them! Except for possibly Amanda and Kris who are still not very memorable. The first leg started out crazier than normal. They were told there would be...

Amazing Race: Unfinished Business

There is other new television debuting this week, like another boring round of America’s Next Top Model, but the most important thing that is debuting is the next round of Amazing Race. The show had done an all-star cast previously after season 10, but that was ruined by Boston...

Top Chef: Muppets!

The muppets were on Top Chef! They were on just for the Quickfire, but I really hoped they would have been part of the elimination challenge too. I love Cookie Monster and it was just over way too quickly. Even though I did not grow up on Elmo, I...

The Social Network

I was reminded right when the movie began that the screenplay was written by Aaron Sorkin. In the first scene, Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend talked very quickly while also having multiple conversations with one another at the same time. I felt like I was watching the early years...

Top Chef: Beef Tongue

It was all about the beef tongue on the last episode of Top Chef. It didn’t win, but it was in the final three. What made it memorable, besides that it is apparently one of Jimmy Fallon’s favorite dishes, is that the chefs created a little song for it...