Good Morning, Swiss Chard

Published on Thursday, April 3, 2008, by The CHOW Editorial Team / Edit Post

Good Morning, Swiss Chard

One chef is deemed too meek for the Top Chef kitchen

Manuel Trevino, a.k.a. Memo, explains how resources are divvied out in the Top Chef kitchen: Parsley is at a premium. Plus, he weighs in on the high-end Mexican food controversy. In the elimination challenge, which requires that the chefs cook up dishes themed to a film, he's paired with Spike, who has never heard of Like Water for Chocolate—and goes instead for Good Morning, Vietnam. But Swiss chard doesn't strike the judges as a particularly good pairing with Vietnamese spring rolls, and the Chilean sea bass is deemed cheap: Manuel takes the fall.

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  • Haven't listened to the interview, but Like Water for Chocolate would have been such a great idea for this challenge.

  • Manuel did strike me as a tad passive. He and Spike made a dull-looking plate that may have been delicious. Still I'm thinking Colicchio knows whereof he judges.

  • I wanted to point everyone over to the great conversation happening about this episode on Chowhound: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/505499. I always read the boards before I do the interviews. Check it out for lots of interesting perspectives, speculations, and insights.

    Meredith