Yeah. I can never convince anyone else to watch it with me.

I thought this movie was great! Haven't watched it since it came out, though. Really dug it.

"Hippie Fights" reminded me of San Francisco.

That's a fair point. I also wonder if they told them it was a mole before they ate it. I don't think they told them anything about the dishes, just served them. Because perhaps the sauce had a fruity enough flavor profile that it avoided seeming super Mexican to the judges. I still think Louis's dish was enough unlike…

Even though they didn't bring the chefs out with the dishes, I got the sense that the five could tell whose was whose. That's why Nick (who hates Carlos) shit all over his food.

I rarely go to a fancy restaurant where there is a salt shaker on the table. They'll bring you a little dish of sea salt if you ask for it, but generally they expect that the cooks have seasoned the dishes to the chef's specifications before they come to the table. Seasoning during the cooking process is different…

The finale city never really has anything to do with the main city of the season.

I hate to be this guy (no I don't), but they were on the BART, not a bus.

Yeah, I love that Jenny's Grandma is unable to accept that one of the Liz's is played by a man.

Jacques Pepin's show with Julia Child, Jacques and Julia Cooking at Home, is available on Hulu Plus. I strongly recommend it, as it is two hard-nosed, opinionated, and very skilled people trying (and often failing) to work together. They mostly just do their own thing and get in each others' way, and it's pretty…

Thanks! I also am enjoying Jack Kogod's (similarly under-commented) recaps on Uproxxx.

No recap this week?

I was very weirded out to see this pop up on Disqus, that's for sure.

This.

This is a pretty basic dish to people who watch Top Chef. Would have liked the Top Chef recapper to have heard of it, or at least rewound her DVR to figure out what it was and Google it…

In America, the public is completely uninterested in, nay, hostile to, intellectualism. Why would there be public intellectuals? The era of John Kenneth Galbraith is long past us.

Yep, The Mother We Share.

I compared them because OP invoked "an elaborate and intricate latticework of rules," which applies to both Magic and DnD (and most other pen-and-paper RPGs)

James H. Billington is the Librarian of Congress, not just some employee.

I agree. Arguing about DnD rules in the context of a roleplaying session can be fun (not always). While I love Magic, I love it for the social aspect, not really for winning against other dudes at card shops. It's about interacting with friends in both games. And DnD (or other role playing) does it better these days.