Mark Peel's return Top Chef Masters
Okay, I kind of forgot to warn you all my husband was back on Top Chef Masters Wednesday night. If you watched it you might know why. He did not move on to the next round. I appreciate the capricious nature of reality TV competition, but this is my guy.
I now what a good person he is and what a caring, careful, exact chef he is in the kitchen. His palate is far more refined than my own–by a country mile, and whatever flaws he has as a human making bad or incomplete food is NOT one of them. So, that he was sent packing because he had to cook in a broke down pub kitchen where the oven wouldn't work galled me.
He and the other chefs work very hard on those shows for NO MONEY. Not so much as a complimentary saucepan. It 's done just to publicize their establishments. And they take a risk as Mark did because they don't want prospective new diners to get the idea that if they come to their eateries they are going to be served elimination worthy food. Mark is an award winning chef who has built successful food establishments. I'm a little irked about how it played out. He is not a sore loser, but I can be one for him.
I'm sure they will repeat it 45 times if you missed it and they will show it on hulu.com. Word to the wise, reality shows are scenario shows, made up circumstances. Not real life.
But, I bet you knew that.
To have tried and failed is better than to have never tried at all.
very nice Jessica, thanks.
I agree with Jessica on this one.
I saw Mark on Top Chef on Weds and I wanted to comment about how cool and collected he appears, a good foil to some of the other larger than life personalities who can be annoying.
I completely understood what happened to his dish. Sorry that he didn't advance, but I still enjoyed watching.
Wanted to know if you could give any inside skinny on how real the "conflicts" are that air? Or on anything else on that show…
He still got his publicity in, Daphne, I heard the Tar Pit mentioned several times!! Best wishes.
I'm sorry he didn't move on to the next round…my husband and I watched Mark on last season too, and we think he's the coolest, most level-headed chef to be on the show. I hope his participation pays off anyway!
ah, thanks all. I'm going to tell Mark to read these.
I visited Mark and the chefs on one of the days they were shooting and they looked very friendly to me. Chef's are, in general, pretty nice to each other. We were on a trip years ago with Rick Moonen in British Columbia. An environmental group wanted to show chefs the devastation to the environment caused by farm salmon. It was horrible. I've eaten only wild salmon since.
anyway, Rick is a very nice guy and Jonathan Waxman and Mark are old friends. Not hard feelings here.