423766 Mon Jul 23 06:52:39 -0700 2007 12 33 Food Media and News 0 2774051 Apparently FN is adding another Chef to the stable of four that they already have. Of course they turned it into one of the reality TV challenges. Michael Ruhlman was asked to be a judge and he blogs about the initial info on the list of Chefs who are going to be on the list of eight. http://blog.ruhlman.com/ This should be interesting. He promised that there are no drama just exceptional chefs doing what they do best. They don't care who is sleeping with who, they don't had fry cooks pretending to be chefs, they don't have idiots running around a crowded kitchen swinging a cleaver, and they don't have some cockney guy screaming at them. Mon Jul 23 06:52:39 -0700 2007 11826 Phaedrus 1 2775715 Even better is AB's blog from today. Sounds like he nailed a perfect description of last night's TNFNS! LOL Mon Jul 23 13:43:49 -0700 2007 2774051 10532 LindaWhit 2 2776294 Do you have a link to his blog? I'd love to read it. Mon Jul 23 16:01:51 -0700 2007 2775715 85738 libgirl2 3 2776300 Here it is: http://blog.ruhlman.com (he posts on Ruhlman's blog as a guest). Mon Jul 23 16:03:18 -0700 2007 2776294 58039 ElsieDee 4 2776315 Thank you kindly. AFter the disaster NFNS season I am curious what he has to say. Mon Jul 23 16:08:28 -0700 2007 2776300 85738 libgirl2 5 2776318 Don't be drinking or eating - you'll spew it all over the screen. :-) Mon Jul 23 16:10:01 -0700 2007 2776315 10532 LindaWhit 4 2777240 The blog was hysterical! Mon Jul 23 21:15:39 -0700 2007 2776300 67657 Kajikit 1 2775860 Hmmm. I just saw one of the contestants (the guy in the mechanic's shirt) as a challenger on Iron Chef America. He got his ass handed to him by Morimoto. I mean, completely, utterly destroyed in the judging. Mon Jul 23 14:09:56 -0700 2007 2774051 66883 Hamhock 2 2776516 That's Michael Symon, and he's a top notch chef, just wasn't on his game for Iron Chef...Rick Bayless didn't do well in his Iron Chef challenge either and nobody would question his ability! Mon Jul 23 17:10:34 -0700 2007 2775860 109044 Bunson 3 2777248 Symon and Bayless and others aren't used to it. It's a tough competition. I believe this coming Sunday, Ben Ford of Ford's Filling Station in Culver City will be the challenger. Mon Jul 23 21:18:53 -0700 2007 2776516 71206 Barbara Ladden 3 2777558 Fair enough; I wasn't trying to question his ability as a chef, only his suitability as a possible Iron Chef. I would think that the strongest candidates would be ones who had previously defeated Iron Chefs as challengers. Tue Jul 24 04:03:46 -0700 2007 2776516 66883 Hamhock 4 2777660 I think it is all a matter of familiarity with the rules, the kitchen, and timing. I am sure they will have made sure he practiced the timing part long enough to get used to it. Tue Jul 24 05:41:55 -0700 2007 2777558 11826 Phaedrus 2 2899523 Symon was on Anthony Bourdain's Cleveland No Reservations show, with a crazy, annoying laugh. They loved his porky-good food. I think the Iron Chefs are always at an advantage because they have practice at the one hour competition and so do their sous chefs. I am looking forward to this TNICA show, hopefully we will see more about the preparation of the food than we get on Top Chef. Premier is Sunday 10/7/07. Fri Aug 31 06:21:09 -0700 2007 2775860 16728 kenito799