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Season 12: Spoilers

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Bastet

Bastet

Bastet - every time I see your name my brain converts it into 'the cat Bastet'.

 

Amelia Peabody fan, are you?

 

I used to travel to Boston annually, but it has been many years since my last visit.  It will be fun if they have challenges at restaurants I've been to, but regardless of where the show is set I hate when they get bogged down in location-themed challenges.  Local chefs as guest judges, challenges set at local restaurants/events, etc. are all fine, but not when they start stretching to relate everything back to the city.

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Lamb18

Lamb18

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Possible challenges/locations: a Boston Tea Party challenge, they have to throw tea off a boat, then jump in and rescue the tea and use it in their dish.  There will probably be something with 4th of July (if they're still taping).  I don't know when they started filming but I wonder if there's something with the Boston Marathon/Patriot's Day.  Maybe a Boston baked bean Quickfire.  I've only been in Boston once - almost 30 years ago - and I remember the north end being Italian. I wonder if it still is.

Of course they'll go to Plymouth Plantation and do a Thanksgiving dinner.

 

P.S. I'm an Amelia Peabody fan, too.

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MortysCleaningLady

MortysCleaningLady

I can also see a clambake themed event on a beach (Cape Cod?) and I've heard they are going to Plimouth Plantation -- Thanksgiving anyone?

 

For a Chowder throwdown, they could bring in Jasper White -- he was one of the fore-runners of foodie cuisine in Boston and now manages a casual, but excellent seafood restaurant The Summer Shack: http://www.summershackrestaurant.com/Jasper-White-Biography.asp

 

Ming Tsai owns Blue Ginger in Wellesley -- he's been a guest judge before: http://www.ming.com/about-ming/biography.htm

 

Boston is also home to Barbara Lynch, who was on Top Chef Masters.  And Jody Adams, too!

 

I know Julia Childs is gone, but perhaps her kitchen set will be visited. She did film at PBS in Brighton for decades.  Maybe recreating one of her dishes?  No idea who would be a fit judge there!  PBS fundraiser?

 

They could also do a filming during the Scooper Bowl -- more ice cream per capita is consumed in New England.  Surely there is an appropriate challenge to be had with ice cream!

 

Dare I suggest a maple syrup challenge as well?  (Just don't tie it into the Molasses Flood.)

 

Apples, cranberries, blueberries, and lots of lobstah and clams.

 

While I love having moved out of Boston (cost of living!), I wish I were there to be a restaurant wars guest!

 

 

Bella

Bella

I will be in Boston soon at a conference, and DH will be wandering around trying to entertain himself while I'm busy. Maybe I can set him on the trail. "You don't have anything to do today, dear? Why don't you go visit every Whole Foods in the area and see if you can spot some chef-looking people running around frantically and buying things in large quantities?"

 

Except I think he'd rather do other things that actually interest him. Oh, well. I can tell him what kinds of activities to look for in case he does stumble across them.

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LuckyBitch

LuckyBitch

Bella, just tell him to look in the Whole Foods parking lot for a bunch of Toyota SUV's.
 
Interesting Boston themed ideas, everyone. I don't think this has been posted here yet from Bravo's Top chef website (emphasis mine):

 

'Top Chef' Season 12 Is Heading To…
The host city is revealed! 
 
April 30th
 
 
It's time to pack your knives—Top Chef is headed to Beantown!
 
Bravo is thrilled to reveal that Season 12 will be taking place in Boston, Massachusetts in the latest quest to discover the next great American chef.
 
In partnership with the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau, Cheftestants will battle it out knife-to-knife to see if they have what it takes to earn the title and culinary bragging rights.
 
And who will they be cooking for in the latest edition of our James Beard Award-winning series? Padma Lakshmi returns as host; Tom Colicchio returns as Head Judge and Gail Simmons returns as Judge. We'll also be featuring several guest judges, including Boston-based chefs and top celebrities. Production for Season 12 kicks off this Spring and the show will premiere on Bravo this Fall.
 
"Boston has always been at the top of our wish list as a location for Top Chef, not only because of its rich historical significance, but also because of its robust and ever-growing culinary scene," Shari Levine, SVP of Current Production for Bravo, says in a statement. "Top Chef will showcase the many facets of the city which in turn will bring its fresh, unique flavor to Season 12."

Bella

Bella

From the article:

 

 

Over on Chowhound, at least one Lakshmi sighting has been documented — she was apparently at the Copley Square Farmers Market on May 16.

DH and I were walking down Boylston Street, across the street from Copley Square Farmers Market, on May 16, and we did see evidence of something being filmed (specifically, someone holding one of those anti-glare (?) panels that they use to get the lighting right). However, it was raining and extremely windy, and we were seeking beer and munchies, so I did not suggest that we investigate.

Fukui San

Fukui San

 

On another note, for some reason, they are filming an episode of "Top Chef" with Gordon Ramsay behind a half empty building across the street from my office in Woburn.   Got tents set up out back and cops blocking off the entrance way.

An intriguing Top Chef sighting from a non-TV or food board.

Woburn is a really random location. Office parks and malls.

Fukui San

Fukui San

Well, now I can say that Padma Lakshmi has been in my backyard. The food truck gathering seen at the top of this link is literally in shouting distance from my back window.

 

http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2014/06/16/take-a-look-at-where-top-chef-judges-have-been-dining-in-boston/

 

She's seen eating with Kristin Kish, but since she worked blocks away at Stir I'd assume that she's been at the food truck gathering plenty.

 

I don't think any of the photos pertain to challenges. Just the judges doing the culinary tour of Boston.

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Wings

Wings

I wish they would go back to the original formula.  The venues force chefs to cook outside of their style.  New Orleans was a mess.  They did not have gumbo in their repertoire so we watched them stumble though that challenge.  I watch because I want to see good food in their personal style, not something they are learning to cook for the first time. 

 

Didn't they do Boston on a previous season?  I lived there and I am very familiar with the food.  It is not all about chowder and baked beans.  The city has excellent restaurants that could be found in any sophisticated city.  I never saw baked beans on a menu, ever.  I am sure they are somewhere, but certainly not prevalent.  

 

I like Antonia, very much.  Richard, eh.  This is my favorite TV show so I will gladly sit through his guest judging and not allow it to bother me. 

turbogirlnyc

turbogirlnyc

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He is listed as one of many guest judges.  

 

This may be true but why would they feature Richard so much as opposed to other, much more impressive guest judges? He can't be that much of a favorite. The previews I see on Bravo are portraying Richard as a judge. Like Toby on Top Chef NY (S5).  I'd be more inclined to watch the new season if Hubert Keller was being touted as a guest judge.

 

Now if it were Harold, I'd get it. I love Harold. He's still Top Chef in my book.

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AriAu

AriAu

Not sure where to put comments about the little preview we got last night, and this is the only place talking about Season 12.

Thought it was pretty funny that the guy doing kosher Mexican in a food truck got into trouble shucking clams! Then again oysters and lobsters were not much better since he doesn't have a lot of experience with any shellfish.

Interesting to see if these people have as much attitude as it looked or if they were just edited that way to draw some interest in the 15 minutes we had.

Julia

Julia

I thought it was funny that the guy who fought with the blond girl over lobsters (Blue team) ended up prepping them badly, while the girl whizzed through her clams. I'd rather see Colicchio stand next to Padma rather than Blaise. Tom is not quite so "Look at me!!" as Blaise is.

 

I thought it was her fault for caving - if she watched last season's Carlos follies, she knows better than to appease the selfish toddlertestant - but I really wanted to see him slip on a wet patch and bruise his pride when he told her to use her anger over him insisting on the lobster he fucked up, as if his bad behavior was somehow responsible for her skills.

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