<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Jumped The Snark]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://jumpedthesnark.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[skeim01]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://jumpedthesnark.com/author/skeim01/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Last Week on &#8216;Top Chef:&#8217; Take the Primi, Leave the&nbsp;Antipast]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Continuing our tradition of quickly recapping the last <em>Top Chef </em>just before the new episode airs, here are a few quick thoughts on last week&#8217;s Italian-themed entry:</p>
<p>&#8211; Angelo has a crush on guest judge Issac Mizrahi and literally says &#8220;Two of my most passionate things are definitely food, first and foremost, and then fashion.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; Everyone definitely thinks Angelo is a joke (including Issac Mizrahi)</p>
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<p>&#8211; Carla <em>finally</em> gets to mention how she used to be a model and got to go to France.  Good for you, Carla!</p>
<p>&#8211; We get it, Dale.  You have a girlfriend.</p>
<p>&#8211; Professor Ricky Blaise wins the quick fire!  For making black ice cream!  Looks good enough to eat!</p>
<p>&#8211; The elimination challenge is to cook one of the three main courses at the legendary NYC Italian restaurant Rao&#8217;s.</p>
<p>&#8211; Mike Isabella, who&#8217;s an Italian from New Jersey is like, &#8220;I got this.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; Antonia, who&#8217;s an Italian from Los Angeles is like, &#8220;No, I got this.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; Fabio, who&#8217;s an Italian from Italy is like, &#8220;Um, guys, I&#8217;m from Italy.  Is this even fair?  It is?  Really?  Okay, well I&#8217;ll just make this chicken dish that&#8217;s my grandmother&#8217;s recipe and is on the menu on my restaurant and I probably make it a dozen times a night.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; Lorraine Bracco is a guest judge, because of course she is.</p>
<p>&#8211; Then the food is served.  The antipasti is loved by all.  But the pasta course is a disaster:</p>
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<p>&#8211; Mike, who was like, &#8220;I&#8217;m an Italian from New Jersey,  I got this,&#8221; under-cooks his pasta to the point that it&#8217;s inedible, somehow managing to screw up the one thing that literally any college kid can make.</p>
<p>&#8211; The old Italian guys love Fabio&#8217;s polenta, but it&#8217;s polenta, and he&#8217;s Italian, so he&#8217;s disqualified.</p>
<p>&#8211; And Tre goes home because he made risotto, and everyone knows you don&#8217;t make risotto.  Apparently risotto is impossible to cook properly, even if you once made it perfectly and won a challenge in a previous season.  It&#8217;s like cooking chicken feet or using pre-made dough.  KISS OF DEATH.</p>
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<p>Just don&#8217;t make risotto, okay?  DON&#8217;T.</p>
<p>And so ends a completely boring, forgettable, milquetoast, bland, unmemorable, were you even trying competition for Tre.</p>
<p>TRE YOU ARE THE WEAKEST LINK PLEASE PACK YOUR KNIVES AND GO WE HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT YOU ALREADY GOODBYE</p>
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<p>Okay, onto tonight&#8217;s episode with Jimmy Fallon AKA the most important episode of <em>Top Chef</em> ever.</p>
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