Snarklepuss

That is so stupid. Well, duh, a guy has to be into whatever it is you are for you to be his type! It would be ridiculous and self defeating of me to insist on only dating guys that only like tall skinny blondes when I'm a short shapely brunette! My husband only likes short shapely brunettes, should I be offended? LOL

It's probably been mentioned to death, but I finally got a Vitamix for Christmas and need to find some great smoothie recipes.

I know, me too. There's such a thing as "thinking like a chef". Almost anyone can take an artist's light box and trace a perfect picture but the true talent is in being able to draw the picture yourself without any instruction. I am one of those artistic people that doesn't need the "rules" or recipes but I seem to be able to intuitively understand them anyway just from cooking a lot and watching cooking shows. Time and time again I get "taught" to do things I always did just because it seemed like the "best" thing to do. I guess I expect chefs that ascend to his level to have that gift, but I guess it doesn't always work that way.

I know, she's one of the more talented chefs this season too. I'm keeping her in my thoughts and prayers.

That's exactly what I thought too about Rogelio but even then a classic French omelet is not exactly uncharted culinary territory and anyone that has the title of "chef de anything" should at least be able to improvise and understand something as basic as a French Omelette. Even I know what one is and basically how to make one and have known that since his age and I'm just a home cook. I could perhaps be more forgiving if the guy never went to culinary school or never ascended to any positions of note at any acclaimed restaurants, but geez!

I thought the same thing. Are some of the chefs not culinary school graduates this season or if they are WTF are they thinking? I couldn't believe Rogelio - he worked at the French Laundry forchrissakes! This should be culinary school 101!

Fatima Ali has been diagnosed with cancer: http://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/top-chef-season-15-contestant-fatima-ali-diagnosed-with-cancer

I think Tyler actually played it safe in this episode because it was also something he's served at his restaurant, and I've had it. I knew that the judges would question serving soup from a food truck but then like it so much it wouldn't matter. Even before TC I have always said that soup is one of his strong suits. I knew Laura was a goner because her eyes were red and teary in her talking heads and her entire persona was full of regret. I didn't even base it on what she said although that also contributed! This may be an unpopular opinion but I'm already getting the vibe this season that the show is catering to millennial tastes and thought this guy was representative of that (which shows you what they probably think of those tastes if they think this guy represents that). I'm also getting the impression that several of the contestants so far this season are more comfortable with serving stuff like rustic ethnic food truck fare than with high-end stuff. I'm starting to feel like my favorite Tyler is a little out of place this season and would have been more in his millieu a few years ago like in the Voltaggio's season. He is 40 years old and his style of cooking is more high-end French inspired stuff. So while he has done OK so far I am worried about how he can hold up if the challenges continue to go outside his comfort zone. Already in the promo. for next week he is complaining that he doesn't have an ethnic POV because he's a "white guy from California". He is a very versatile chef so I am hoping he'll be able to overcome that, though. And maybe that's actually an advantage for him, that he has more experience than some of the others.

Hah, me too! I couldn't take the ten zillion commercials Comcast chose to force us to suffer through. And that's on top of suffering through the Twit and how I always feel a little queasy when I watch her anyway. This thing with Todd taking over the dance class - Didn't they have a similar conflict last season? I thought that was already in the past. They've taken up with it again like it never happened the first time. I suppose that's an indication of how "real" it is. Buddy - The way they dance around WTF is wrong with him makes me think it's drugs and/or alcohol. He just looks so unhealthy. He makes the Twit look healthy and that's not saying much! Somehow I've never bought into the reality of his and Heather's relationship despite the photos posted online of them together. They all went to high school together. It's all just a little too convenient. OK, that's all I got for now.

Thanks, I didn't know they were related but it seemed logical to me that they would be!

I think people get hung up on their family surname as being their family, not being able to visualize that their family tree has many surnames on it of people that they're all equally as descended from as anyone else on the tree. And every generation you go back you get exponentially more names too! I agree with @biakbiak that they don't pan up the tree to see the lineage in order to save time to concentrate on select stories. But I kinda sorta wish they did let us see that stuff online if not on the show itself. One thing I did like about this episode is that he did the admixture tests with them. I'm old so I remember Minnie Riperton, so this episode fascinated me. I even knew she married a Jewish man. Also, when Skip told Amy that she was related to someone well known, I thought it was going to be Chuck Schumer, LOL. I totally didn't see that coming at all!

Considering how insufferable Jamie is this wasn't really as bad as I thought it would be. The baby is beautiful. I skipped over the first hour and it was still too long. 2 and a half hours? Are they serious? I was working on my computer so it was like background noise. I feel kind of sorry for Jamie that her mother hadn't even met her own granddaughter after 3 months. Randomly, Doug doesn't look like either of his parents. This does look like a series but the next 2 episodes are only a half hour each.

I think the Questlove segment was my favorite ever on this show. That had to be the ultimate grand slam/home run of African American genealogy right there. He was in a state of shock when he first learned of his lineage and I wonder what he would say about it after he had a chance to process the news. Watching the clips over again brings a tear to my eye every time. Another reason this is the best genealogy show on the air.

I enjoyed this tournament and was OK with any one of the finalists winning although I was rooting for Damaris. I agree that she was a little outclassed by the finalists, though. I have to admit I enjoy the tournaments with chefs most of us know better than the shows featuring unknowns. I often only watch the tournaments and skip over the unknowns.

Thanks, duh, I didn't make that association but given the episode they aired I can see the connection.

Thanks for the explanation. Movie release? Can you explain?

I hope someone can settle my confusion. I stumbled on a Mythbusters Holiday Special tonight that was flagged as "new" from Season 20 in 2017 in my Comcast guide that had Jamie and Adam making a Rube Goldberg machine. There also was another 2 hr. episode called "Star Wars: The Myths Awaken" also flagged as new from Season 20 with Adam and Jamie. Were those just Comcast mistakes or were these new episodes? I confess I don't watch the show often enough to know, and neither one was familiar to me. I haven't watched 2.0 yet. I wonder how the ratings are doing compared to the original version.

I guess they're just secure in their sexuality, LOL. Actually, women have been using that term for their men of that body type for a long time independently of the gay definition. I started calling my hubbie that almost 40 years ago before the term even existed in popular usage among gays. And I haven't stopped, despite knowing the gay usage of the term.

I could have predicted this. I'm sure the inn is a dream of hers but there's no way it wasn't also financed with money from the family for the purpose of having a plot to keep their boring show on the air, so I doubt very much it will be her ticket out of the family any time soon. I refuse to believe they're all not still business partners with the show as their venture and this little inn is another "creative" idea to pitch to TLC as plot fodder for the show, so I vote for Kody and possibly other family members somehow being involved financially even if their names are not on the property records. So much for this being a "real" business venture for Meri and a step toward independence....Sorry to be a "Debbie Downer" on this....She has more money to gain from staying in the family and doing things like this to help keep the show afloat than leaving, unfortunately. I hate to say it but I think this may just be another half fake endeavor she does in a half assed way like "My Sisterwife's Closet" and unfortunately qualifies as mostly a TLC storyline.

The problem I have with Blue Apron is the reviews indicate a lot of problems with wrong orders and spoiled food, plus difficulty cancelling. Plus I personally like to be more in control of what I eat. It's like when I went on Jenny Craig years ago and after a few weeks got tired of the food. Also my life is not always that predictable in terms of whether we are together at dinnertime and I'm sure on a plan like this I'd often feel tied down to cooking stuff at least one of us didn't feel like eating on days neither of us felt like like cooking. And that's in addition to the high price compared to just doing it yourself. I think it's an idea that works better in theory than in practice.

I know about the Good Eats episode, but Jacques Pepin has always claimed that washing mushrooms is OK as long as you do it right before cooking and dry them if you want them to brown. He is the only TV chef I have ever seen do a little carved design on mushroom caps. I have seen it in restaurants a couple of times but rarely and decades ago. I will! I confess I am developing a little fan girl crush on him as a result of this show, which is baffling me because I have known the guy for years and that's never happened until now! And that's despite the fact that I get to hear stuff about him 3rd hand from my friend's daughter so I am aware he is a human being and not perfect.

See? I told you guys they'd be back! TLC does this all the time - waits until less than a month before a show starts to announce its return. Same thing happened with "My Big Fat Fabulous Life".

I think that's just a function of Tyler's unique sense of humor. AFAIK he's a straight guy married with kids so I think he was just engaging in a bit of humorous hyperbole.

At his Julia Child dinners, chef Tyler always talks about being heavily influenced by her since he was a kid, so seeing that photo was a big kick for me. I split my sides as I didn't know his devotion to her was THAT intense, LOL! I guess it shouldn't surprise me as any chef that has a commemorative dinner in honor of Julia every year has to be pretty devoted to her. Yet another reason I'm a Tyler fan as I've been a big fan of Julia's since I saw her very first show when I was 5 years old in 1963. I am LOL at Tyler's sense of humor. I have seen it in person but it is especially funny on-screen. I just made a reservation for New Year's eve dinner at his restaurant. Me too. They had done away with that for several seasons but they've brought it back in a nice way. Go bears! Hubbie would fit right in with that crowd, LOL. I've been calling him a bear since 1979!

I was thinking about this episode and realized that there was a profound sense of needing to feel related to someone in "crying sperm daughter". I think that in addition to possible abuse, that comes from having felt on the outside and not "being related" to her father. The fact that the two siblings are so close makes me think they clung to each other because they weren't getting a certain loving feeling from their parents for reasons already discussed above. In that light I can see how an especially sensitive daughter could be so "life or death" fixated on finding a father figure plus be hung up on her brother being a full sibling. If he's not a full sibling in her mind that's just one less way she can feel that sense of "belonging" with him that she never got from anyone else. I was fortunate in that my step grandfather was a loving person and by the time I was old enough to understand that he was not related to me by blood it didn't matter at all to me because I had no reason to fear the loss of his love and I wasn't told to keep it a secret. Despite having a brother that loves her, this woman is afraid of that relationship being diminished or lost as a result of finding out he's less "related" to her by blood. After all, that's exactly what happened with the father that raised her. It's really a fear of abandonment, IMO. Given how young she was when this sense of loss first occurred as a result of finding out her father was not her real father and the distance between them it caused by being forced to keep that a secret, her irrational feelings cut very deep and are very hard to get beyond.