Maybe this is taking the easy way out. After a long afternoon and evening of cooking yesterday, I didn't feel like doing much tonight, so Ruth and I just snacked more than anything. We also had a chance to catch up on a little television on the DVR, and so we watched this week's episode of Top Chef, which happened to be my favorite of each season: restaurant wars.
I found myself a bit disappointed, as I have been with most of this season. It isn't that the chefs aren't talented; they are. I just find that I don't really have a rooting interest. While certainly there are contestants I DON'T like (generally for personality things - there is never a cause to belittle another chef), there is nobody whose food and personality inspire me to cook better and more interesting food. At no point this season have I really looked at an episode, or even a dish, and said, "Wow. I have to figure out how to make a pescatarian version of THAT."
To top things off, while the Texas theme is fun, please producers, enough with it. We have had a steak challenge, a chili challenge, a BBQ challenge. What about those of us who don't partake in meat? Don't we matter? Maybe not in Texas, I guess.
I suppose the only real way to look at it is that at least this will make nine champions when this season is done, and I am hopeful that after ten, we will see a Tournament of Champions. (If we do, you heard it here first, and I want some props!)
I am rooting for Sarah and Justin is rooting for Paul. I really liked the cute Chris, but alas he is gone. I agree that I didn't find the food inspiring, though I like how often they have used brussel sprouts and beets...there have been better seasons, no doubt about that.
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