To be fair he never denied that he lost to her. Saying that you choked after everyone watching you on TV saw you choke isn't slighting Stephanie, its admitting that you were a fuckup.

Would that stuff have been around in June or whenever this was filmed?

Like CJ?

Low or not its still more experience than eating.

"no culinary experience beyond eating"

He had a cooking competition on Bravo 3 or so years ago called "Rocco's Dinner Party". He now has a show that is a combo of business repair and competition on food network called Restaurant Divided.

Angelo from Top Chef DC won a challenge with a fish/white chocolate pairing.

There was no if. Sara was shown removing the lemongrass from the cart. As for why Travis didn't notice, I don't know.

According to the wiki they were originally called Bio-Marines since they were soldiers created in a lab by humans to fight the Votan during the war. I guess it was decided that the general populace needed a shorter, albeit dumber, name for them.