Silver Fox Alert: Laying Over in Atlanta #Spoilers

While I’m honestly the last person to care about celebrity sightings, I can make an exception every now and then.  Case in point: the mythical Silver Fox has been spotted in Atlanta.  Anthony Bourdain, known to his friends and cohorts as Tony Bourdain, is in Atlanta right now filming for the soon to be defunct …

Andrew Zimmern Just Did An IAmA On Reddit

Celebrity chef/TV personality Andrew Zimmern just wrapped up his IAmA over on Reddit.  For those of you with better things to do than yours truly, you may not know what that means.  Here’s the deal: Reddit.com is a heavily trafficked website mostly reserved for sharing videos, pictures, internet memes, and so forth.  The community occasionally …

Top Chef Texas: Restaurant Wars – What Was That Ingredient? [Buddhacation]

The pain that is this season of Top Chef Texas continues, and with it comes another edition of What Was That Ingredient?  While the show struggles to keep my attention, I still watch with some anticipation, hoping to see and hear something that will turn my creative juices.  If things don’t change, WWTI will be …

America’s Best New Mixologist: Andy Samberg

America’s hottest new mixologist/bartender/alcohol concocter or whatever you want to call it is actually Andy Samdberg, who’s been spotted working at Mint in Portland.  Dude knows how to use the egg shells to get that taste just right.  Thankfully, the awesomeness that is Portlandia (it’s a TV show y’all) decided to feature a bit with …

Top Chef Texas: BBQ Pit Wars – What Was That Ingredient? [Buddhacation]

After a few weeks off from the drivel that has become Top Chef Texas, the show returned last night desperate to find a new villain, but this isn’t a typical review series, so I’ll leave that to others to elaborate on. Anyway, this 80-minute extended edition went through all the hoops of classic reality TV …

The Four Coursemen Back On The Tube

It’s been over a year since I visited The Four Coursemen supper club in Athens, but I remember it like it happened yesterday.  The group actually includes a swat team of chefs (Damien Schaefer, Eddie Russell, Matt Palmerlee, Patrick Stubbers, Randolph Dudley, and sommelier Nancy Lind to be exact) and they’ve done so well for themselves …

Top Chef Texas: Tribute Dinner–What Was That Ingredient? [Buddhacation]

Things we learned on the latest edition of Top Chef Texas: 1) Apparently grandfathers made absolutely zero impact on the lives of their offspring.  2) Bravo TV now relies upon the most uncreative group of twaddlers for their inspiration.  3) Patty LaBelle can still belt it out.  Other than that … not much. Still, the …

Push Start Kitchen Gets Some TV Time

Push Start Kitchen is one of a handful of supper clubs that operate in and around Atlanta.  Trends with Benefits is a TBS TV show that talks about all sorts of trending and hot topics.  So in a marriage of the trendy and those who talk about the trendy, Push Start Got a little airtime …

Top Chef Texas: Game On – What Was That Ingredient? [Buddhacation]

For this weeks edition of What Was That Ingredient?, Top Chef Texas did the whole game thing and once again attempted to assert its badassness.  They first invoked NGT with what basically equated to a 20-minute commercial for Don Julio.  Padma quickly asserted that it was an “ultra-premium” tequila.  Don’t you just love fluffy, meaningless …