Planes, Knives, and Automobiles

Published on Friday, June 29, 2007, by The CHOW Editorial Team / Edit Post


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The latest cheftestant eliminated from Top Chef 3, Micah Edelstein, takes Meredith Arthur on a tour of her culinary, personal, and familial development. Along the way, she discusses a difficult upbringing and why running away can be cathartic. When the conversation turns to the show, she reveals that she’s made meatloaf before, that Hung and Marcel (from last season) know each other and are friends, and that she didn’t ever really want to be the Top Chef.

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Hung Huynh
Dale Levitski
Casey Thompson
Brian Malarkey
Sara Mair
CJ Jacobsen
Howie Kleinberg
Tre Wilcox
Sara Nguyen
Joey Paulino
Lia Bardeen
Camille Becerra
Sandee Birdsong
Clay Bowen

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  • Fast Forward FTW!!! ROFL!

    Plueeze! Micha, you are *such* a fraud!

    She put roasted ass in her meatloaf.

  • Could she possible ramble any more? So glad she's gone.

  • Don't worry Meredith... I think it was pretty clear the fast forwards were there for a reason. That seems to have been lost on some though.

  • Hi Filmgirl,

    Thanks for your comment. In fact, we heavily edit everything on FinalCutPro. The original interview was over 30 minutes long, and from that we cut to 9 minutes. The fast forward was supposed to give you a sense of how long some of the answers were without having you sit through them all as listeners. Sorry if it was confusing--it was just supposed to make it more fun to listen to.

    ...+READ

    Hi Filmgirl,

    Thanks for your comment. In fact, we heavily edit everything on FinalCutPro. The original interview was over 30 minutes long, and from that we cut to 9 minutes. The fast forward was supposed to give you a sense of how long some of the answers were without having you sit through them all as listeners. Sorry if it was confusing--it was just supposed to make it more fun to listen to.

    Thanks for writing,

    Meredith-COLLAPSE

  • I totally get that she was difficult to interview - that she couldn't focus on the topic at hand (the show), and that she seemed to use this whole thing as a therapy session instead of a post-show discussion, but come on CHOW, that doesn't mean you can get around editing the audio by just audibly fast-forwarding to the pertinent parts. Were you using a single track microcassette to record AND...+READ

    I totally get that she was difficult to interview - that she couldn't focus on the topic at hand (the show), and that she seemed to use this whole thing as a therapy session instead of a post-show discussion, but come on CHOW, that doesn't mean you can get around editing the audio by just audibly fast-forwarding to the pertinent parts. Were you using a single track microcassette to record AND edit this thing (and if so - WHY? - even old school linear tape editing where you press record and play, pause the recording tape until you cue it up to the next mark, then resume, would have been better than audibly fast-forwarding). But this is all transmitted digitally anyway -- I mean, Garage Band for Mac, Audacity for Windows/Linux -- even obvious splices (meaning you can hear when the audio changes from one segment to the next - no clean transition) would have been preferable to fast-forwarding through the podcast.-COLLAPSE

  • Oh honey, go resolve your parent/baby daddy issues with a shrink and spare us.

  • Micah said "...it was far too long for a 3-1/2 year old to be without their mother" - then WHY did she even bother going on the show? What did she expect - this would all be done in a week?

    This woman only thinks about herself and has no clue how to act in an interview...the interviewer probably wanted to reach through the phone line and choke her to shut her up about her upbringing and every...+READ

    Micah said "...it was far too long for a 3-1/2 year old to be without their mother" - then WHY did she even bother going on the show? What did she expect - this would all be done in a week?

    This woman only thinks about herself and has no clue how to act in an interview...the interviewer probably wanted to reach through the phone line and choke her to shut her up about her upbringing and every single place she lived (I know I would have felt that way!)THANK YOU, Chow, for doing the fast-forward in the middle!-COLLAPSE

  • She is not a good listener because she is too busy trying to paint a picture of herself. She is a fraud. She lived in Massachusetts and graduated from high school so for her to act like American food is new to her is a big fat lie. I am assuming most of what she says is a huge exaggeration. I am surprised TC didn't do more due diligence on their contestants.

  • Whew, she's not a good listener, is she? And boy does she have issues. Renaissance woman? Er, no.

  • Over the three seasons, Micah has been my least favorite contestant but after this interview I think she may be my least favorite human being. What a solipsistic twit.

  • "she didn't ever really want to be the Top Chef."

    ...and she was on the show--why?

    Being publically humiliated on national TV for failing to make an edible meatloaf doesn't seem the kind of P.R. a food professional would want.

  • She's so boring. I wanted to fast forward as well.

  • What's up with the fast-forward sound in the middle of this interview...quite distracting.

    She still comes across as a bit of a fake.

  • ummm, what was that? an interview?

    seems like Chow was so embarrassed that they tried to hide it by not linking it off the homepage. nice.