Comments on: Professional Chefs: What will become of them?

By: Stephenano

Stephenano — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

Wait, intellectual rights to a recipe, menu? Oh now that’s too freaking hilarious!

By: ruhlman

ruhlman — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

girlMD, thanks. walk on water is the book i’m most proud of. appreciate your taking the time to comment.

best,
m

By: Claudia

Claudia — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

Oh, and getting back to an earlier discussion of chefs and intellectual property (i.e., copyrighting their recipes, etc.), from today’s New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/nyregion/27pearl.html?ex=1183608000&en=9d8b7914099475a5&ei=5070&emc=eta1

By: Stephenano

Stephenano — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

Sorry, Chefs come and go like most they’re easily replacable.

I have dealt with a few chefs in my time, most over season their food and for some strange reason it all smells like spent garlic.

By: girlMD

girlMD — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

ruhlman,
i just found your blog and wanted to say that i _loved_ walk on water. i read it in medical school. i’m now a 3rd year peds resident and have to say that your book really rang true. for all those reading this blog who have not read this book, check it out. it is riveting.
(i haven’t yet read reach of a chef, but it’s on my list for this summer, along with heat. what can i say. if i weren’t a doctor, i think i’d be a chef!)
i’m from maine and have eaten at primo’s many times with my family. amazing restaurant. i can’t recommend it enough. who knows, you might just see patrick dempsey in the parking lot!
girlMD

By: Skawt

Skawt — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

And on THAT note…

http://skawt.org/pics/adamhelpme.jpg

By: Claudia

Claudia — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

Skawty, my fine lad, once again, you’re killing me with the Walrus – cryin’ into my cappuccino!

By: "Chef" Suzy

"Chef" Suzy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

SKAWT: I forwarded you walrus to Jamie’s best bud. I’m sure that if Jamie hadn’t seen it before, he surely has now %^)

I have often wondered why: Did a relatively normal looking guy go “Mirror, mirror on the wall…” one day, and the mirror said “You must grow an enormous walrus-like mustache and always cover your bald head with a tam o’shanter”?

It’s the same kind of mystery as, say, Donald Trump’s comb-over.

Why?

By: ...you can call me "Chef" Suzy

...you can call me "Chef" Suzy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

Claudia/Sorcha: Mythbuster groupies: Check this out!

Shhh! Don’t tell anyone, but I am on Match.com, and (ohmiGAWD!) they shoot Myth Busters like, a 1000 yds from my houseboat near Oakland (I can hear them blowing stuff up)…

…and so this guy emails me offa Match, and his profile says something about “pyrotechnics” and “Burning Man” and so I run that through the ol’ Wiki…
…and sure enough, he’s the “Explosions Coordinator” for MB and Burning Man, and he is like, Jamie’s best guy friend…(pant, pant..)…

…so they (him and JAMIE!!!) do these little private party “pyro events” to practice for the big blow-ups at BM and on MB, and so like now I am TOTALLY SOOO invited to the next one!!!!

Ohmigawd! I am SOOO gonna get Jamie’s autograph, and like HANG with him and…%^O

By: Claudia

Claudia — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

No way did Fox’s TV KC come close to (a) Tony’s book or (b) any of Tony’s other material that someone like Chase could really have a field day with. Can you imagine the bland, yuppie-ish, uber-vanilla “Jack Bourdain” dealing with, say, a horse head in the pasta e fagioli (or cassoulet, if you prefer)?

The fact that Fox turned down The Sopranos script twice just proves they lack true vision. Tony’s kitchen/crime genre books would really need a big, outside-the-box story crafter of Chase’s caliber to do them justice.

Oh, and NOT a dirty blond WASPy looking lead, this time. Please. Eric Bogosian, at least.

By: sorcha

sorcha — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

Well, no, it’s true it wasn’t perfect. But it was good. The ep where the low chef on the totem pole tries to get a leg up on it by messing with the dishwasher was a thing of beauty.

By: LLP

LLP — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

Another article on this sad phenomenon.

http://www.sfweekly.com/2007-06-06/news/burnt-chefs/

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By: RI Swampyankee

RI Swampyankee — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

FOX is the network that turned down the Sopranos script not once, but twice.

By: chefwannab

chefwannab — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

OMG, was just planning our Sunday “Sopranos” finale party and read your comments about a Bourdain/Chase combo, Swampyankee. Too funny! (I will dearly miss The Sopranos, *sigh*)

By: sorcha

sorcha — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

Tony cooking with a plotline was already done, but those bastards at Fox cancelled it early. *pets shiny Kitchen Confidential dvds*

By: sorcha

sorcha — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

And of course all I can think of now is the LOLrus. “Nooo, they be stealin’ my bucket!”

By: Skawt

Skawt — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

Just for you, sorcha:

http://skawt.org/pics/adamhelpme.jpg

By: fiat lux

fiat lux — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

lolrus 4tw!

By: Claudia

Claudia — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

OMG, it’s Jamie from MythBusters! He really IS the Walrus! Quick – exhume John Lennon! LOL!

By: sorcha

sorcha — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

Oh, dear God, that’s hilarious. *dead*