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Monday, October 30, 2006
Top Chef: Lycheegate
Wednesday night's Lycheegate on Top Chef goes way beyond whether Otto Borsich was the only one to blame on Team Korea for the grand theft lychee from a LA Korean grocery store. (And by the way, he TOTALLY wasn't!)First of all, one issue is the correct pronunciation. Some of the cheftestants pronounced it "lie-chee," while others favored, "lee-chee." Merriam-Webster offers both pronunciations, so perhaps there's an end to that debate. Also hotly debated topic is the definition of "larceny." As in, "Did Otto commit lychee larceny?" A poster in the swelling Top Chef episode thread at Television Without Pity references text from the California Bar Exam: This is not an authoritative source, but it reflects my memory of the continuing trespass doctrine: I'll tell you what's certain, San Francisco pastry chef, Marisa Churchill, just pulled way ahead of Marcel "Teen Wolf" Vigneron in the Top Villain race. Her extreme pointing of fingers and frantic insistence that Otto was totally to blame for the purloined lychees was a clear attempt to keep the judges' fire and brimstone from raining down on her rock-hard panna cotta. Plus, she twisted her face up into all sorts of nasty expressions that put Tiffani's original bitchface to shame. Lee Anne Wong -- one of last year's cheftestants and my personal season one favorite -- has her own blog at Bravo. Regarding Marisa's so-hard-you-could-bounce-a-quarter-off-it panna cotta, Lee Anne comments:
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1 Comments:
i really must get a tv! can't believe i am missing all this!
11/07/2006 2:11 PM
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