Word: boulud
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...Doug burger, which won the People's Choice award, the night's biggest honor. Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto won critical raves for a Kakuni burger topped with Japanese pork belly and served with a house-made pickle so good, it could put Ba-Tampte out of business. And Daniel Boulud served what I thought was the most perfectly constructed burger of the night, a DBGB number that included very small amounts of pulled pork placed upon the beef that was nestled under a featherlight brioche bun. For all that flair, though, none of the hamburgers was really new. They were...
...didn't have time to prepare, but Hung almost won the qualifer two years ago. Still, Top Chef and its ilk are roundly mocked by actual top chefs (no matter how many appear on the show as guest judges.) So why would culinary demigods like Thomas Keller, Daniel Boulud and the great Paul Bocuse himself, who created this monstrosity, be so invested in what is basically just a bigger, more elaborate version of the show? (See pictures from Bocuse...