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In last week’s tumultuous, fight-filled, contestant-judged double elimination, we said goodbye to Dakota and Nyesha, and hello to a ragey-beyond-compare Heather Terhune. In her casting video she recounted laying some poor prep cook out for using the wrong utensil; her no-nonsense attitude seemed awesome at first, but her attacks on Bev were so relentless that she managed to make Bev seem… sympathetic. In related (things I never thought I’d see myself write) news, Grayson eked her way into my good graces by producing solid dishes and being the voice of reason as the chefs deliberated over which of them should be sent to judges’ table (and also RT'ing me). The dirty dozen became the top ten, and Padma told the chefs to back up and head to Austin.

The announcement was made in the 110 degree shoebox-sized kitchen at San Antonio’s Lonesome Dove, but it’s only when Paul Qui hears he’s headed to his hometown that he starts “sweating balls.” 

Source: CultureMap Austin

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01.01.70

I know, I know. This would have been a lot more helpful two weeks ago, and I apologize. While I know I am almost unforgivably late in offering Part Deux of my gifting dos and don'ts for 2011, perhaps you can still make last minute corrections if you bought anyone anything from www.smashinggadgets.com (particularly, the Corn Kernel Cutter...it's just...well...disturbing). Or, maybe you are so hopelessly behind in your holiday gifting that you have not even begun.  In which case, my advice is a lifesaver in a gifting crisis.

Onward, then, with vigor.

In Part One I of my 2011 Gifting Guide , I suggested that cooking knick-knackery was the trending gift of 2011. Hip Americans seemed to have embraced food preparation as their newest religious expression, and where there is faith, there is consumption.  But as someone named Rob Jones blogged : "The industrial revolution brought with it many machines and inventions that took formerly tedious tasks and made them easy.

Source: SanJuanIslander.com