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Is Kenji going to do a Food Lab on his breast milk cheese process? ;)

I haven't caught many episodes this season so I just sort of keep up by reading your weekly recap, which is always great. Anyhow, I caught last night's episode and Bravo/Top Chef-endorsed-half-the-episode-Target advertisement aside, what is the deal with the commercial breaks on this show? It seems like four minutes of commercials and then a 30 second focus on a contestant followed by another four minutes of commercials. It's ridiculous!

Oh yeah, and Richard should have won.

I think this season is definitely lower in entertainment and talent than previous seasons. I was excited for the season to start because this time around there were James Beard award nominees and Angelo even has a Michelin star but it just seems like the level of the food is lower than was expected. I think Kelly and Tiffany are great on the show because, despite Kelly crying her eyes out a few weeks ago and the fake budding affair for Tiffany, they are drama free. It's the first season where I haven't minded missing an episode here and there though, just doesn't seem to have the pull of seasons of the past.

I adore Cook's Illustrated but all of the whining about the internet killing magazines/newspapers is getting ridiculous. Granted there is a ton of crap online but it's much more fun to weed through it there than in a magazine that you're paying for. Gourmet was a decent magazine for many years but Conde Nast didn't do much to keep it up to date with a changing market. The fact of the matter is that Mr. Kimball and others like him are slowly realizing that they need to change with the times. While there is a ton of crap online there are several well written food blogs, many of which are written by people that have full time jobs doing things other than recipe testing and food writing. I think it's kind of funny that some of the people that are being paid to do it are having issues figuring out how to adapt. Set aside some time in your day for constructive brainstorming to save your brand and stop wasting your time complaining about that dern technolergy they call the internets.

One word - suya.