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[kippee1]

Season 3 starts tonight. A sail-away party in Alaska.

[yosemite209]

I love Robert & this show. Today I caught the Alaska cruise one (would've loved to been able to try all of those yummy things!) Then after that was the Graceland episode. Priscilla Presley is almost unrecognizable at this point; she looks like a gargoyle. I was dying to try his pork chops, chicken, & banana pudding. Think I'll go over to the FN site & do some searching...

[anneofcleves]

Priscilla Presley is almost unrecognizable at this point; she looks like a gargoyle.

She does look odd - kind of like a painted, porcelain figurine. I was mortified by the banana pudding when he mixed the Nilla wafers into the pudding mix, but I give him credit for just continuing on. Interesting, though, when you look at the recipe on FN it is not the same as what he did on the show.

[Ima Pilgrim]

Did you notice how when she ate she couldn't use her top lip? She is incredibly freaky, she needs an intervention to have surgery to yank all those implants out of her face.

[Cgr]

Did you notice how when she ate she couldn't use her top lip? She is incredibly freaky, she needs an intervention to have surgery to yank all those implants out of her face.

She and Elvis were beautiful people and they both ruined those looks with lifestylye. His food and drink and hers plastic surgery!!

[yosemite209]

Plastic surgery & botox, for sure. Very sad to see her so disfigured.

I thought Robert's adding of the Nilla wafers to the banana pudding kind of turned it into an ice box cake type of thing. I love ice box cake! Maybe that's why I was nearly licking my TV screen!

[jazmyne]

I've noticed that often Robert is a little perplexed at the American version of "pudding." Mrjaz is a huge fan of bread pudding, though, so Robert's banana bread pudding is on our list of things to try.

I love how supportive Robert is of the military. I could watch military challenges week after week, honestly.

[Enigmatics]

Much love for kilt wearing Robert in the last episode.

[yosemite209]

Loved Robert cooking at the Ren Faire in Maryland. I've been there several times, & to ones in other states, & I think Maryland's is the best. If he is truly cooking on-the-fly, he did a fantastic job with what was there.

[Xuewi]

While it was a fairly good representation of cooking with Tudor equipment, and Robert did an excellent job there. However;several things stand out. One is why did they put him in a Royal Stewart kilt? First off, it wouldn't be invented until the 18th century and secondly Scotland was considered a sworn enemy of England so no way would someone working in a royal kitchen have worn vestments of a hostile, foreign power (nor would a Scottish servant have worn them in Scotland). If they wanted Robert to look authentic, they could have easily had him wear the smock, tights and cloth shoes that men servants would have worn at that time.
Another thing is while the idea of having Robert flee from a jousting tourney in full armor was a funny stunt, in Tudor times they would have never allowed a servant to have participated in this sport of nobles and royalty. I mean just a century earlier, it was considered more scandalous that Joan of Arc was a peasant than that she was a woman who took up the sword.
Yeah, I'm really into history and had fun with this ep even with the flaws!
Lastly, FN dropped the ball by displaying Robert's finished courses without the usual letter graphics to tell what dish was what!

[theWoebegone]

My complaint was how the show was more about the fair than it was about the cooking. If I wanted to go to a fair, I'd go to a fair. I want to watch a chef cook excellent food, instead, I get to see a chef running around in armour.

[Chrissykin]

Here's an interesting article on Chef Irvine. It appears he has fluffed up his resume.

http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/17/Southpin...ed_up_his.shtml

[FlufferNutter]

It appears he has fluffed up his resume.

To say the least..wow! What a dishonest wanker! Color me disappointed. I guess he really isn't anything more than a glorified casino/cruise ship chef. I've lost all respect.

[mmeginger]

Really? I'm not surprised*: the last time I watched Dinner: Impossible, I really listened to the intro and started thinking, Boy, he's a relatively young man. If he's really done all those things, he must not have spent much time doing any one of them. And it made me wonder. People in this country sure will roll over for a british accent.

ETA: *I don't mean to sound all snooty and 'aren't I smart' - it's just coincidence that I did happen to start thinking about it recently and started wondering.

I think the bottom line is that he seems to be a good chef. You can't make that up.

This post has been edited by mmeginger: Feb 18, 2008 @ 10:10 am.

[Ima Pilgrim]

I think the bottom line is that he seems to be a good chef. You can't make that up.

If you are a good chef, you shouldn't need to make up any other hogwash to embellish or outright lie about your accomplishments. Keeping up with the Joneses? Can't talk about it because it's "it's the White House"? That just sent my bullshit meter off the charts. How sad.