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i'm sorry, i had to! i'm so bored since dave is at his internships!

AND TALKING ABOUT CHEFS IS THE BEST WAY TO STOP THE BOREDOM!

does anyone have any favorites? who do you respect for changing things or for doing an amazing job or for creating amazing menus?

or is it just me that cares about this stuff...

this isn't exatly on topic (since I know nothing about chefs), but reminded me of a story:

i was at a yosakoi meeting the other day and we were bored so we were flipping through tv channels. someone stopped on the food network, and one girl said "hey look, it's Rachel Ray" and I made her change it specifically because you hate her.

nora, that warms my heart very much.

and it would say it was totally on topic BUT SHE'S NOT A CHEF.

oh how i hate her. very very much. and it irks me so much that one of her shows is exactly what i wish i could do with my life but SHE HAS IT. bitch.

she makes me feel yucky.

but if anyone ever is interested in any chefs or their work i can give you things to read or fun facts!

i'm a loser.

I don't know much about individual chefs, but the trend of combining science and cooking into one glamorous entity really appeals to me. Especially when they do things like redefine how to boil eggs to perfection.

pbd, let me tell you this now: you love joel robuchon.

OH! THIS COULD BE FUN! i could match you all up with your personality or interest twin chefs!!

(or you could be wylie dufresne is you care less about it being really french.)

Lily, that's awesome. It'll be like a personality test but instead of getting a personality type we get a personal favorite chef.

Also, I am looking those chefs up right now. Thanks. Smile

Aha, I've heard about Dufresne before. And yes, his stuff sounds pretty cool.

It's slightly mystifying that Robuchon's website is in Japanese.

yeah, but i favor the french because i favor french cooking so i'd have to branch out. like i did with wylie who is probably your real match.

I'm looking at the wd~50 menu and it seems a little exotic for my humble suburban tongue...but I would love to try it.

well that's his whole thing, he's a crazy scientist really.

Yeah...the whole concept of molecular gastronomy really appeals to me. And it produces more delicious results than your typical chemistry lab.

much more. it's not my thing at all but i like to read about it and i'd love to experience it with one of the masters.

Heh. I first read about molecular gastronomy in Discover magazine. I'm waiting for when it stops being so much the province of high-end chefs and comes down into everyday kitchens.

it's going to take a while. home kitchens are just getting into fusion.

dave's chef would be tom colicchio because craftsteak + 'whichcraft = steak and sandwiches done really well = dave's heaen.

i love this game.

-l

do mine!

actually, since we're cheese twins, it'd probably be the same.

so who's your favorite chef, lily?

i can't answer that!! it's too hard!

tell me a little about your other food preferences and i'll do you. then i'll come up with a list of a few of my favs.

-l

(i'll do this for anyone as long as you tell me a bit about your favorite foods, etc. but there will probably be some repeats because who doesn't like sandwiches?)

ooh ooh do me! my food preferences are mostly anything asian. i will take any asian noodle dish over anything else mosttimes. mmm i could go for some koran bbq right about now..

i'd say hidekazu tojo who is a chef in vancouver that i think is just tremendous. he's legendary for using all the fabulous fresh seafood we have around us and for creating amazing sushi combinations. he's hard to beat for asian food, in my opinion.
-l

Every time I read any thread in this forum I get hungry. And all this talk of chef-ing makes me wish I could spend money with abandon and go sample the arts of everyone Lily keeps talking about.

Any good Italian food chefs around?

there are a billion good italian chefs. a billion. mario batali is classic. and originally from seattle!

and trust me it's not spending money with abandon. i have to save all the money i don't spend on dave and my loans and my cell phone bill, etc for this. it''s all very careful.

Argh, now I'm torn. It's either save money to go to Comicon someday...or save money to eat at wd~50 or some other high profile place.

FOOD FOOD FOOD.

i might take myself to lunch tomorrow at an amazing restaurant because dave has class.

-l

Food is good.

But I must restrain myself from eating right now or DDRing tomorrow will be rendered ineffective.

Still, wd~50 is now going on my list of things to do before I die.

i'm very much trying to decide how to spend what little money i have in my food budget.