Quickfire Challenge: Create a dish with the contents of a mystery box. The cheftestants start with one box, and then more mystery boxes arrive as they continue cooking, and the ingredients must be incorporated. The first box contains rockfish, fava beans and an unlabeled can of hominy. The box arrives containing squid and black garlic. The third box arrives, and it contains ramps and passion fruit. The fourth box has jicama. In the end, judge Wylie Dufresne decides that Alex and Amanda had the least successful dishes. The tops are Tiffany and Kevin, and the ultimate winner is Tiffany, who gets $10,000.
Elimination Challenge: Cook at the CIA and create a new identity for a classic dish. In addition to Tom, Padma, Ripert and Wylie, they are joined by a bunch of CIA people, including director Leon Panetta. And then Panetta is passed a note in the middle of dinner and has to leave, which is the all-time pimp move. Here's what they did:
Angelo had Beef Wellington, and he made tartlets topped with slivers of beef. He talked about making it look like a mini-pizza, but I don't see it. The big scandal was that he used premade puff pastry instead of making his own. The judges take note.
Kelly had kung pao shrimp, and made spicy shrimp broth with rice and Szechuan shrimp tempura. Tom likes the flavors, and the CIA people like it as well.
Tiffany had a gyro, and she made roasted leg of lamb with smoky eggplant, tomatoes, and pickled onions. Eric Ripert thinks it's elegant.
Kevin had Cobb salad, and he made romaine lettuce, tomato, bacon, Roquefort, avocado, cucumber and turkey. So he basically just took all the ingredients and served them kind of separately. It's sort of deconstructed, I guess?
Amanda had French onion soup, and she made consommé with oxtail marmalade, caramelized onions and shaved gruyere. It seems a bit obvious, and while they like the idea of the marmalade, the execution is far too sweet.
Alex had veal Parmesan, and he made veal and Parmigiano cheese tortelloni with tomato sauce and tempura cheese. Everyone immediately discovers that the meat is really tough. Ripert remarks that there should have been less disguise and a better dish.
Ed had chicken cordon bleu, and he made roasted chicken breast, ham and cheese croquette, and a spring onion soubise. The judges like the flavors but don't think it's disguised well enough.
The top three are Tiffany, Kelly and Ed, and the winner is Tiffany for making a tasty dish while still disguising the original dish. Tiffany wins a trip to Paris, and is excited to have her honeymoon.
The bottom three are Alex, Amanda and Angelo. The judges tell Amanda that she didn't disguise her dish enough and her marmalade was too sweet. Angelo knows he didn't do his best work, and he's ashamed that he bought puff pastry. And Tom just destroys Alex's dish, saying that every part of it was terrible. So finally, Alex is sent home. Whew!
It's morning time! Wakey, wakey, eggs and bac-y! Kevin is still holding a grudge over Alex not putting up a dish in the last challenge, probably because he doesn't think it was Kenny's turn to go home. Well, if that were the case, maybe Kenny should have cooked something that didn't suck. Just a thought. Alex, meanwhile, doesn't really get why Kevin went off on him in the Stew Room, and chooses to believe that Kevin was just frustrated about losing the challenge and losing a teammate. Which was part of it, and probably the most emotionally healthy way for Alex to look at it, but also not really the reason. As Kevin explains, he thinks Alex needs to step it up and prove that he deserves to be there. Which should kind of be the criteria every week, right? And part of the problem is the poorly designed challenges this season, which have eliminated some more talented people while letting some less-talented people slide by. Unless the editing is particularly egregious this season, and people like Alex and Amanda are actually the most talented. HA HA HA.
Angelo says that he's exhausted by Restaurant Wars. Amanda is apparently so exhausted that she can't even hold her cup of coffee, since she just spilled it all over the place. She sucks.
The cheftestants walk into the kitchen and find Wylie Dufresne there with Padma. Is this going to be another egg challenge? Or molecular gastronomy? Ed interviews that he sees a lot of black boxes with question marks on them around the kitchen and has no idea what might be under there. I'm going to guess...food? Just a theory. Padma explains that the Quickfire Challenge is to cook a dish using a mystery ingredient common to all contestants. As they cook, more mystery boxes will arrive with more mystery ingredients.
In an interview, Angelo stresses the importance of keeping your vision for your dish open to incorporate the new ingredients. Wylie commiserates that mystery boxes are tough all around, and adding in new ingredients on the fly is particularly diabolical. Tiffany admits in an interview that she doesn't like the idea of this challenge, because she doesn't like surprises, and she is feeling anxious. Padma adds in that it's a High Stakes Quickfire, so the winner gets ten large. Angelo's interest is piqued because his fiancée lives in Russia and he wants to bring her to the US. So a lot of money will help grease the skids? Is that what he's essentially saying? And is his fiancée a mail-order bride? It's just weird that we've heard nothing about this fiancée before, particularly when he was drooling over Tamesha. Oh, Angelo. You just get sketchier and sketchier.
The cheftestants get to open the first box, and inside they find, a fish, some fava beans, and an unlabeled can. Not everyone has a can opener, so people are trying to seek one out. Tiffany claims she doesn't have one when Alex asks, but then she totally has one. She finds hominy inside the can. I would be so out of this challenge already. I could deal with the fish and the beans but the hominy would have me stumped. I would probably just make a soup and throw shit in there and totally lose. Not that I wouldn't lose every challenge on this show, but I would lose this one especially hard. Ed explains that the trouble with this challenge is that you might set off in one direction and then get a new ingredient that doesn't fit in with your original concept. Alex's solution to this struggle is to just cook each ingredient separately (and "in an interesting way" -- like blindfolded?) and then compose the dish at the end. I see where he's going but it also seems like he will end up with a plate that looks like it was put together at Old Country Buffet or something.
Kevin notices that Angelo seems frazzled. He interviews that he can't decide whether his dish should be hot or cold, and he doesn't have a vision. Angelo being frazzled seems to equal Angelo wiping down his cutting board every five seconds in lieu of actually cooking anything. Amanda notes that a guy dressed like the Agents in The Matrix has just entered the kitchen with another mystery box and she's freaked out since she hasn't even developed a concept for her dish. Kevin is first to arrive at the box, and he finds squid and black garlic. Kelly isn't familiar with black garlic, so she tastes it and finds it both smoky and sweet. She's worried about muddling the flavors of her dish. Alex still isn't quite sure what he's making. I don't think he's alone in that.
Another agent arrives with another mystery box. This one contains ramps and passionfruit. Well, they are not making this easy. This reminds me of a game a childhood friend and I used to play where we would mix up something from some combination of whatever my mom had in the fridge and/or pantry and then dare one another to drink it. Surprisingly, we never puked. Tiffany is really unsure about the ramp situation, to the point where she doesn't even know which part of the ramp to use. I thought ramps were one of those trendy foodie ingredients of last year? Meanwhile, Angelo is still freaking out, scooping the insides out of the passionfruit and talking to himself. He still hasn't decided whether his dish should be hot or cold, with about fifteen minutes left.
And then another mystery box arrives. Kevin is right there waiting for it, bouncing on the balls of his feet like a prize fighter. It contains jicama, which Amanda explains that she juliennes it and just tosses it in, and suddenly there are ten minutes left. People are running around, and sweating. Angelo admits that he sweated into the food. Yum! Salty. Everyone starts plating and Angelo is taking a torch to his plated food, so I guess he decided to go with hot food after all. Time is up! Everyone is panting and sweating. It's quite sexual, actually.
Alex serves first; he made rockfish with fava bean puree, ramp fondue, and sautéed squid. So he really kept the elements separate, and probably dumped the jicama and passionfruit and hominy into the sauces. Alex interviews that his dish is all over the place and he's horrible at Quickfires. And everything else, frankly.
Tiffany made fish stew, which seems like a cheat. Her fish stew has hominy, fava beans, saffron, and black garlic. You know what would have been interesting? If the cheftestants had been allowed to discard one of the mystery ingredients, but they had to decide immediately. So they could discard, say, ramps, but they would be taking the chance that the ingredient up would be usable. I'm just spitballing. Anyway, Wylie likes her broth.
Kelly made Yucatecan seafood stew with black garlic, fava beans, and grilled ramps. Padma and Wylie comment that it's good and spicy. Amanda made crispy skin striped bass, squid fricassee, and leek and mushroom fondue. Wylie just wants to know if she used butter or oil; she used both.
You want a drinking game for this show that will get you really drunk really fast? Drink every time one of the cheftestants describes their ingredients as "a little bit of..." whatever. Seriously. Every time. A lot. Anyway, Kevin made pan-seared rockfish, hominy puree, and jicama and passionfruit salad. Wylie asks where the heat is coming from, and Kevin says he used red pepper flakes in the squid marinade. That was a good way to get a different flavor profile from the others, since they all used common ingredients.
Ed made rockfish sashimi with hominy-basil puree and grilled squid marinade. Wylie says that it's excellent. And finally, Angelo made smoky hominy pot-au-feu, squid, rockfish tataki, and passion fruit gel. Angelo tries to explain that he was going to serve the dish cold, but then he didn't, so the gel didn't set, and started to melt, perhaps because he blasted it with a kitchen torch? He's stammering and sweating all over the place. Tiffany interviews that she doesn't know Angelo's problem, but he's losing his confidence.
Wylie starts out by saying that they had "some unusual pairings" in their mystery ingredients and he doesn't envy their task. Padma is all business, asking him which cheftestants were the least successful. Wylie chooses Alex, whose components didn't come together. Kevin uses this as further evidence that Alex sucks. He is founding the He-Man Alex-Haters Club and he is also the President. Wylie's second choice for poor performance is Amanda, whose dish was a little too oily. Ah, that's why he asked if she used oil or butter. Note that she didn't get marked off for not incorporating the ingredients; she got marked off for poor technique.
Then we move on to the best dishes. Tiffany integrated the ingredients and had a lot of flavor. Kevin's fish was well-cooked and he balanced the dish well. Kevin explains why he needs the money from winning this challenge (baby on the way, moving), but the winner is actually Tiffany. Sorry, Kevin Baby! It's back to the dresser drawer for you! My brother slept in a dresser drawer as a baby. You'd think he was born in the Depression or something. But nope. It was 1969. Anyway, Tiffany is excited to apply the money towards her wedding, just like all of the other money she's won.
Padma announces this week's Elimination Challenge. Her script is super corny, so I'm not going to use her words, but basically each chef has to take a classic dish and "disguise" it somehow, and then serve it to members of the CIA, including director Leon Panetta. And by CIA, I mean Central Intelligence Agency, not Culinary Institute of America. They draw knives to find out their assignments.
Amanda: French onion soup
Ed: Chicken cordon bleu
Angelo: beef Wellington
Kelly: Kung Pao shrimp
Tiffany: gyro
Kevin: Cobb salad
Alex: veal Parmesan
Amanda is thrilled to learn that Leon Panetta will be eating her soup, and jokes that she might get recruited to "seduce some secrets out of the KGB." She really likes herself, doesn't she? I gather she tosses her hair around a lot and kind of gets what she wants. Interesting. Padma announces that the winner of this competition will win a trip to Paris. Ed says that his girlfriend (girlfriend?) has been bugging him to go on a vacation with her. Wow, he sounds like a great partner. Flirting with Tiffany and now has to be nagged to go on vacation? Sign me up!
The cheftestants head to the grocery store. Alex interviews that he's only been a chef for six years, and he used to be a videographer. He thinks this is an advantage because his lack of training makes him open-minded. How in the hell did he get on this show? Seriously? There are actual professional chefs sitting home right now, punching the couch pillows in frustration.
Kelly is trying to figure out how to cook Asian food, since that's not her area of expertise. She finds the Asian aisle at the store and looks at the list of ingredients in a bottle of prepared sauce and learns the flavor profiles. That's actually really smart. Angelo explains that traditional beef Wellington is beef encased in puff pastry. His concept is to cook puff pastry and put the beef on top like a pizza. I don't know how well puff pastry will work as substitute pizza dough. We'll see. Angelo decides to buy frozen puff pastry, which was enough to send people home in the past. Ed interviews that he wouldn't mind seeing Angelo go home, because he's a threat. At this point, who's not a threat? Oh, that's right. Alex. And Amanda.
The cheftestants head to the kitchen for their two-and-a-half hours of prepping and cooking. Tiffany interviews that she likes spy stuff, and her favorite spy show was La Femme Nikita. Not Alias? Even the first few seasons? Tiffany's goal is to make a deconstructed gyro, with everything separate, but when you put it all together, the flavor is familiar. Isn't that the definition of deconstruction? That's what Mike Voltaggio taught me last season anyway. And he won! So he must be right.
Amanda has always wanted to be a spy named Natasha who carries a .22 in her garter. I can't make too much fun of her. My favorite thing to do in a parking lot is to lock my car using the remote on my keychain without looking back, and pretend like I'm a spy setting off an explosive device behind me but I'm so cool that I don't even look back at it. Try it. It's fun. Anyway, Amanda is supposed to be disguising French onion soup. She's disguising it by making...soup. Kelly interviews that her concept is really obvious. Instead of a crouton, she's making a tuile. Wow, they will never know what they are eating! Good thing she's not a spy.
Kelly is taking kung pao shrimp and using the flavors but making it into a soup. The problem is that she's not familiar with the flavors, so she doesn't know if she has them right. Alex tells her to make it her own. Is she really taking advice from Alex? Kelly pretty much says that she would never take advice from Alex. Just when you start to feel bad for Alex, Amanda of all people says that she likes him and respects his cooking. Kiss of death. Alex's concept is to take the flavors of veal Parmesan and wrap them in a tortellini. He made his own pasta, so this is actually a decent idea. I am impressed. Now he just has to execute it well.
Angelo justifies his decision to buy puff pastry because it's not the main ingredient in the dish. Well, it's probably second, after the beef. And if he doesn't know how to make puff pastry, he should have reimagined it some other way. Kevin reminds us that John was eliminated in the first week for buying his pastry instead of making it. The cheftestants talk about their spy names, and I think Ed has confused the whole stripper name meme with spy names, because he says that his would be Muffin Winthrop. Which is kind of awesome. Alex interviews that his favorite spy was Get Smart (not the name of a spy, but I guess he means Maxwell Smart) because he had a phone for a shoe. Actually, it was a shoe that was a phone, but you know. Alex never gets anything quite right, does he?
Ed is making chicken cordon bleu, which is one of the few dishes that I could probably make in this challenge. Probably the French onion soup, but I could make the chicken without a recipe. Anyway, normally it's chicken wrapped around a small packet of ham and cheese, so Ed is doing it inside out, with the ham wrapped around the chicken. Which isn't a great disguise, but it's better than disguising soup as soup, and as long as the flavors are good, he should be fine.
Kevin has Cobb salad, and he plans to take the basic ingredients and just change the textures. He's not sure that he's making enough changes for the dish to be truly disguised. And I think he's putting green onions or leeks or something in a blender, which seems scary.
The cheftestants arrive at the CIA, which is formidable indeed. There is a hall of oil paintings of past directors. Here's a shocker: they're all old white dudes. Anyway, once they arrive, they have one-and-a-half hours to cook. Ed reminds us that "major shit goes down" at the CIA, and he's looking around for cameras and microphones. Ed, you're not that interesting. Also, there are cameras and microphones all around you.
Angelo explains that his dish isn't very complex or creative. So that sounds like a winner. Kevin interviews that he can tell that Angelo is bothered by his lackluster performance in the Quickfire. Kelly starts to make her rice in the rice cooker, and she feels like she has a lot of time, since most of her prep is done.
Amanda realizes that disguising soup as soup might not be a great disguise. Alex decided to make a dish that he's never made before. He explains that has been his philosophy all along, and it's worked out. If by "worked out," you mean, he's skated by and gotten lucky, then fine. He only won the one challenge, and Colicchio has convinced me via his blogs that Alex didn't steal the puree, but still. He's hardly been a standout.
Kelly asks Tiffany if the rice cooker will turn off automatically, and Tiffany says that it will. Tiffany has her own shit to worry about, because she's making a fairly simple dish, and she's worried she will screw up one component and throw the whole dish off. Kelly hears her rice cooker start beeping. She tastes the rice, and it's complete mush. She complains to Tiffany. I'm guessing she put in too much liquid? Because it seemed like the timer was preset, and when I've used rice cookers before and had things go wrong, it's usually because my rice/liquid ratio was off. Anyway, she dumps the rice and worries that she won't have enough time to redo it, because she's used to high-altitude cooking, where it takes an hour to make rice. Tiffany advises her to make it on a stovetop, where it won't take as long, and Kelly does just that. This rice works out, and she starts plating.
Tiffany helps Kelly finish her plating, because she has extra time. Tiffany says that she wants to win by beating someone at their best, not because someone made a stupid mistake like running out of time. I like when they help one another out. Kelly and Angelo are serving first. Angelo is still in a tizzy and claims that he's still not sure about his dish. Their food is served to Leon Panetta and his underlings, along with the judges.
Angelo had Beef Wellington, and he made tartlets topped with slivers of beef. Padma asks if anyone can guess what it is, and Director Panetta immediately knows, making a joke about how poor the disguise was. And then he laughs REALLY hard at his own joke, and the underlings all laugh too, because wouldn't you? Who knows what this dude could have done to you? Panetta thought the dish was salty, and the pastry was hard. Ripert points out that Angelo took a shortcut with the pastry, and beef Wellington should be more challenging.
Kelly had kung pao shrimp, and made spicy shrimp broth with rice and Szechuan shrimp tempura. Wylie immediately knows what it's supposed to be, and Panetta doesn't, and they have a good laugh over Wylie knowing something that Panetta doesn't. A couple of people guess that it's pad thai, but Tom says that it's kung pao shrimp. He thinks the flavors are great, and Wylie admires the disguise, although there was a bit much of the broth. One of the underlings loved the flavors.
to serve are Tiffany and Kevin. Tiffany had a gyro, and she made roasted leg of lamb with smoky eggplant, tomatoes, and pickled onions. Panetta guesses that it's a gyro, and Padma tells him that he's right. Ripert calls it "the most elegant gyro" he's ever had. I thought it was pronounced HEE-ro, not JEYE-ro. Have I been saying it wrong all these years? Or just pretentiously?
Kevin had Cobb salad, and he made romaine lettuce, tomato, bacon, Roquefort, avocado, cucumber, and turkey. One of the underlings guessed it immediately, but Panetta admits that he thought it was a Mexican dish. I can see that, due to the ingredients listed. Tom is not impressed that he just sort of took the ingredients and plopped them on the plate, which isn't much of a disguise, but he still liked the dish all right. In the kitchen, Kevin says that he didn't want to make the dish so complex that they couldn't figure it out.
Between courses, Padma is making small talk with Panetta when he gets a note. He excuses himself, saying that business calls. She asks the underlings if they are used to Panetta "having to dine and dash" and they say it happens all of the time. That is the coolest move ever. time I'm out somewhere, I am totally going to hire someone to come in and quietly pass me a note that says "Eyes Only" on it, and then excuse myself. Come on. How cool is that?
Amanda is still trying to convince us that Alex is talented, but just has execution problems. So he doesn't know how to cook? Amanda thinks of Alex as "the wise old Jewish uncle," and doesn't want to see him fail. My theory is that Alex is kind of pervy, and he's the only male left on the show that gives Amanda male attention, so she digs him. Just a thought. Anyway, Amanda had French onion soup, and she made consommé with oxtail marmalade, caramelized onions, and shaved gruyere. Everyone knows right away that it's French onion soup. Tom likes the idea of marmalade, but says that it was too sweet. One of the underlings compares it to honey and cough syrup.
Alex had veal Parmesan, and he made veal and Parmigiano cheese tortelloni with tomato sauce and tempura cheese. Everyone takes a bite and kind of recoils at how tough the meat is, which is never a good sign. Someone guesses that it's lasagna, but all of the chefs know that it's veal. Tom jokes that "the veal was as tough as pulling a post in Yemen." Tom Colicchio, ladies and gentlemen! He'll be here all week! Don't try the veal if Alex cooked it. Wylie tries to be diplomatic and say that the dish was well disguised, but Ripert says that he would have liked less disguise and a better dish. Yikes.
The final person to serve is Ed, who had chicken cordon bleu, and he made roasted chicken breast, ham and cheese croquette, and a spring onion soubise. He thinks it looks good and makes sense. People immediately comment on how big the portion is, and Ripert thinks it's obvious that it's cordon bleu. Everyone has compliments for the flavors and the seasoning, even if the disguise is pretty poor.
The judges excuse themselves to deliberate. In the kitchen, Kelly tells Amanda that her marmalade tastes good, although she allows that it's a little sweet. Angelo interviews that he's disappointed in himself, and it would be very traumatic for him to go home. I would not be that traumatized, and it would be kind of funny if Angelo and Kenny both went home before Alex and Amanda.
I just saw the commercial for Top Chef: Just Desserts and it says, "You adore Gail Simmons" but I thought it said, "You endure Gail Simmons" and I was like, "Who wrote this copy, Padma?" I amuse myself.
Weird interstitial. The cheftestants talk about all the secrets that Leon Panetta knows, like who killed JFK and whether there are aliens. This leads to Angelo claiming that Alex is an alien. Alex doesn't deny it. It would actually explain some things.
Judges' Table. The cheftestants sit in the Stew Room and discuss their dishes. Angelo is sure that he hit the concept right on, in terms of disguising his dish. He kind of sounds like he's trying to convince himself more than anything else. Padma comes in and asks to see Tiffany, Kelly, and Ed. Once they file out, Padma congratulates them for having the winning dishes in this challenge. First, Kelly says that she was trying to think outside the box and make her dish into something different. Ripert tells her that he liked the broth, and also that the rice counteracted the spiciness. Colicchio says that she captured the flavors of her assigned dish and also disguised the dish well.
They move on to Tiffany. Wylie, who's been kind of a non-entity this week, says that he liked Tiffany's dish because she took something that is normally eaten with your hands and made it a dish. Ripert enjoyed it and says that it reminded him of a gyro immediately. Finally, Ed says that he turned his dish inside-out. Ripert tells him that all of the parts of his dish were perfectly executed, and Wylie says that he knows how to cook chicken. Those are two big compliments coming from those two people. So who was the winner? Tiffany! She jumps up and down, and proclaims that she now has a honeymoon. Okay, I like Tiffany but this is about the last week I want to hear about her wedding. Thanks.
Now comes the hard part where they have to call back some of their colleagues. They call back the A-Team: Alex, Amanda, and Angelo. I will not be sad to see any of these three go. Amanda starts out by saying that she was aware that her dish was not disguised, but she was going more for flavor. Wylie wanted more disguise, since her dish gave her a lot of opportunities. Tom gives her some ideas, and concludes, "You took a soup and made a soup!" He also tells her that her marmalade was way too sweet.
So why is Angelo there. Tom says that they immediately knew it was beef Wellington, and there really wasn't anything interesting about it. Angelo thinks he should have pushed the envelope, and Tom tells him that the pastry was dried out and obviously store bought, when he didn't even have to include puff pastry in the dish. Wylie tells him that even his plating was sloppy. Ripert was surprised that Angelo didn't put more creativity into it. And finally, what's Alex's problem? Wylie says that Alex's plate was the first one where he couldn't tell what the dish was immediately, but his "disguise was merely poor execution." Ouch. Alex admits that his execution totally failed. Wylie tells him that this late in the competition is not the time to experiment. Tom lays down the death knell when he says that the meat was tough, he's had better mozzarella at a street fair, and better frozen tortellinis out of a box. Damn. How did Alex screw up that badly? How do you mess up tortellinis? Was his dough bad? Did he cook them too long? Was the filling not up to snuff? Tom thinks that these three have done their worst work to date this week, and he wonders if they each want to go home and be seventh best.
Back in the Stew Room, Amanda says that it's an embarrassment. Wouldn't you be embarrassed to be in the bottom this many times? Doesn't she feel outclassed? Angelo bitches that he knows he did poorly and he knows he should go home. He's kind of waiting for someone to go, "No, dude! You are awesome!" No one does. Kelly interviews that she doesn't feel bad for Angelo because she wants to win, and if he goes home, that puts her one step closer to the end.
The judges discuss the food. Padma thinks that all three of them failed on two levels: they didn't do a good disguise, and their food sucked. Ripert thinks that Alex put a lot of time into his dish. Tom thinks that Alex had a good idea but couldn't execute. Wylie thinks that Alex should have gone with what he knows at this point. Amanda just failed all over the place. Ripert wonders what she did with her four hours. Good question, dude. Ripert thinks Angelo was uninspired, and Wylie adds that he must have froze, because he can do better. Ripert thinks anyone could do better. Ouch. I wonder how it feels for the cheftestants to watch this back. It probably depends on how far they got in the competition.
The bottom three are called back in. Tom tells each of them why he or she is there, harshly telling them that their only disguise was that of a poor cook. Is that an insult really? He's saying that they are really good cooks, disguised as poor cooks. Right? Anyway, Padma tells Alex to get the hell out. Thank God. Alex interviews that there is no margin of error at this point. He holds no grudges about the pea puree conspiracy or Restaurant Wars, which is actually classy. That was a nice exit from a weird guy.
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