One of my guilty pleasures is watching chef competitions. Even if I know they are fixed. I don't know why I enjoy the food porn that is food network (and friends) but, ah well, it could be worse- it could be real porn!
Top Chef's winner for season 3 was a real surprise for me. I never would have guessed, from the beginning of the show to now that Hung would have won. Not to say he wasn't a very talented chef (even if they did try to throw him into the bad guy spot from day 1). I really expected Casey to win. And not because she does or doesn't deserve it but just on the buzz that everyone wanted to see a female top chef. I think if I had been in the same situation, I'd always be wondering if I'd won it on my own merit or if my breasts had won it for me.
I do think it's very interesting how easily the female chefs do seem to get eliminated. I don't think there is any prejudice on the part of the show in regards to sex, but is it that females have a harder time getting into high class jobs vs men? Especially important when you think of all the high priced ingredients that are introduced during the show (hehe, purposefully juxtaposed against the other end of the food spectrum they like to play with...the junk food from the supermarket/vending machines). I'm wondering also what the ratio of classically trained vs self trained is for the chefs...both men and women separately and together.
Anyway, congrats to Hung. I kind of didn't like him at first (a feeling I'm sure that was manipulated from the clips they decided to show), but he really won my respect when he got the shitter aisle in the supermarket challenge and instead of giving up (like "bad guy" Howie), he decided to just have fun with it, knowing there was no way he could win.
Monday, October 08, 2007
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