It was with mixed feelings that I watched Joey get eliminated on Top Chef last night. His hometown is two towns away (about 5 miles) and he now lives in my hometown - NYC. Like most folks, I try to root for the home team when possible. He even comes across as a fairly likable guy for the most part. Apparently he was an audience favorite as well based on all the comments about his elimination on Bravotv.com
On the other hand I was not totally impressed by his performance on the show. His food and cooking knowledge is substantially more than I ever aspire to, but he seemed to lack poise in the kitchen - at least on camera. The cameras seemed to portray him as a sort of bungling guy that just gets by, but who knows how real that is. As we all know they are editing out a lot of stuff and in reality only showing what they want us to see. Based on his recent employment, I have to assume he is much more competent than they have portrayed him to be.
On an unrelated note, what’s with Bravo’s web site? I understand wanting to come across as avant garde , I just don’t understand how that translates into cluttered and confusing. The Top Chef home page has 19 video links (more than the video category page), blog links with a very distracting rollover, and a host of other clutter. Some links try to open a new window for no apparent good reason, and worst of all is some of the video clips load a commercial which crashed my browser when I tried to close it. I like your show, but don’t expect me to spend much time at your web site.
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