This week on Top Chef Masters, we had a Quickfire Challenge that involved monochromatic food (honestly, I don't remember this one from the original series). Chef Ludo Lefebvre cursed almost as much as Wylie Dufresne did last week, but I thought his dish had great potential. Red beet gazpacho? Yum! And while Rick Bayless' symphony in green was "complex," it was Wilo Benet's orange dish that won over the judges.His lead was not to last, however. Did the "street food" challenge seem like a gimme for someone like Rick Bayless, a man who made his fortune with tacos, quesadillas, and sopes? And he got tongue, for goodness' sake - I've eaten tongue tacos. They're delicious.
The most disadvantaged in this challenge was poor Ludo, the chef who came from a cuisine with no tradition of street food. Quesadillas were a good idea, but they did not show off the pig ears as much as the judges would have liked.
So what did you think about this week's episode? Please tell us in the comments.
