June 14, 2008

  • Speaking of NFNS....

    Is anyone else watching it?

    It's a rather unnerving thought that these contestants represent the best of the bunch...the cream of the crop...the pick of the litter...out of thousands of entries.  If these are the best, it gives one pause to reflect on what the rest of those thousands must have been like.  You'd have to pay me a lot of money to sit and watch those entry videos for hour after hour.

    BTW, what was up with that Lisa person and her "three C's of cooking!" culinary viewpoint, one of which was "community outreach"?   

    Community outreach?  I was glad to see Bobby Flay and everyone else look as totally baffled as was I.  When I think of "community outreach" and "cooking", I think of peanut butter sandwiches being given to the homeless, and Thanksgiving dinners for the poor...the sort of thing where politicians are careful to be seen volunteering.

    Apparently Lisa finally accepted that she's surrounded by cretins, so dumbed her POV down to "beautiful basics", which is okay.  That has promise.

    Then there's the Indian woman, who thinks very, very highly of herself and doesn't take criticism at all well.

    And the nineteen year old boy.  Mind, I'm positively agog with admiration for a teenage boy who can cook at all, never mind well enough to snag a spot on NFNS, but still....nineteen?  That's awfully young.  He puddled up on the first show, for pity's sake.  Come back in a few years when you're all grown up, sweetie. 

    It makes one realize how unusual it is for this type of contest to actually find a gem such as Guy Fiori.  

    Two episodes in, and so far I've not seen any potential "Guy"s in this group.