Hmm, what meat to grill

Isn't it weird that one can enjoy Top Chef, despite not being able to taste any of the contestant's creations? Is it even weirder that I enjoy it, despite disliking most of the ingredients used on the show?

Speaking of ingredients, I am glad we are over last week's opening challenge of bizarro proteins. Anthony Bourdain is a fun guest, but I don't need to see another rattlesnake on this show. If you don't recall, Clay was sent home after the first episode, and Tre won.

At long last, Top Chef is back! Well, not quite. Before kicking off season 3 next Wednesday, Bravo had the genius idea of pitting the top 4 from season 1 against the top 4 from season 2 in a $20,000 single episode cook-off for charity. The host, Mrs. Salman Rushdie (AKA Padma Lakshmi), started things off be reintroducing us to season 1 winner Harold Dieterle, runner-up Tiffani Faison, third place finisher Dave Martin, and...the incredibly annoying Stephen Aspirinio, who finished 5th. WTF?! Turns out Lee Anne Wong, who finished fourth, was ineligible since she's now a Bravo employee who helps plan the challenges for Top Chef, which would've given her an unfair advantage.

So they tried to shave off Marcel's "Wolverine 'do". Big whoop. He should have done it (considering he doesn't wear a hairnet when he's preparing food - anyone ever thought of that? Ewww...) I shouldn't dump on him so much, he is a kid, but I have an aversion to salmon, after I had to eat...oh 40 pounds of it (husband kept bringing it back from fishing trips) and thought his last dish quite lackluster. Don't care though, 'cause my Sammy is going to take home the big prize!

If you haven’t been watching Bravo’s Top Chef, then you’ve missed a whole lot of bitching and backstabbing. The reunion show turned those factors up even more. First off, almost all of the contestants were drunk on the reunion show. Two people cried (well, Dave always cries), everyone hates Tiffany, a Brit (I think he was British) was called white trash, Harold is taken (and may or may not be gay), and there was almost a brawl. Why aren’t you watching this show?