“Top Chef Las Vegas” became the darling of the Twitter world last night based on Eli Kirshtein’s unfeeling ignorant comment about Robin’s cancer. For the Quickfire Michelle Bernstein who we are told by chef Kevin, who knows her, that she prefers SIMPLE clean dishes, judged the teams. Robin prepares simple clean dishes. The chefs were asked to prepare a duo of dishes based on something personal in their lives. One dish was to represent the angelic side and the other the devilish side. Most of the chefs chose to prepare one diet dish and one fattening dish. Robin related the story of surviving two separate lymphomas and how she had to readjust her relationship with sugar because of its link to cancer. Eli also finished in the Top Three. Robin has not been an extraordinary performer, but her dish won the Quickfire.
Eli immediately calls foul and in his confessional style interview tells us in a very nasty condescending tone that Robin had played the Cancer card. The immediate reaction by all is that he is a total jerk. He went on the Bravo website to explain that his grandmother and some aunts had cancer so he felt that gave him the right to insult a woman who endured hideous chemotherapy. It was weak at best, but Bravo has also turned it into a “Hot Topic” on their website.
For the Elimination Challenge, the chefs had to deconstruct a traditional dish. Most of the chefs had no idea what the term deconstruct meant and some of them didn’t even know what went into their traditional versions of their dishes. Mean chef Toby Young was a welcome sight and Judges Penn and Teller offered comic relief.
The usual suspects Michael V. Jennifer and Kevin finished at the Top with Ashley thrown in to try to make us think that there could possibly be a Dark Horse in this totally predictable season. Kevin is the winner. He was due for a win.
Laurine, Ash and Ron were at the bottom. All three of them have been completely underwhelming, but Ron seems the most out of his element and he is eliminated. But he’s not sad, he’s going back to work and enjoying the American dream, he’s a happy guy and appreciating what life has to offer, perhaps Mr. Kirshtein could take some lessons from him. |
