Bourdain Comments on Top Chef
4:34 pm January 30th, 2007 by Sal Cangeloso
Anthony Bourdain has a guest post on Michael Ruhlman’s blog in which discusses the season 2 Top Chef contestants. Even if you are not a Bourdain fan (I don’t blame you) it is an interesting post with some interesting insights from a professional chef on how the contestans did and how they will do in the future.
From the article, about Marcel:
Any cook who spends that much time on their hair is going to have a hard row to hoe. And any chef will sporting a Wolverine-Do will be the object of behind their back derision and mockery. Marcel has a LOT of growing up to do. A chef needs respect. A chef must be able to delegate. A chef needs to run a kitchen that actually turns a profit. I can’t see Marcel doing any of those things.
There are a lot of comments on the posts which shows us just how popular the show is despite the ridiculous situations it creates and the rag-tag bunch of misfits they brought together. I would have liked him to comment more about Top Chef itself- how the challenges are setup and how to improve it- but he restricted his comments to the contestants. If you can get through the classical Bourdain style of the post, it is a good read.
