“ The universal cry of all the cheftestants, whenever they’ve made one of these dubious, slapped-together dishes, is “I’m willing to go home if the judges don’t like it, but this dish is me.” Dude, nobody cares! It doesn’t matter who you are. It doesn’t even matter if you can think of something new to do with pork belly, which you can’t. At least, it doesn’t matter from the point of view of the poor customer who is going to be eating your stuff once you have been bounced from the show. ”
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Josh Ozersky, on “Why Top Chef is Bad for Gastronomy”.
Touché.
I have Mr. Ozersky to thank for summarizing my overall feelings about reality cooking shows in one extremely useful, pithy, easy-to-understand phrase: “Dude, nobody cares!”
(Source: ideas.times.com)
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