1) Rick Bayless isn't fazed by anything! Offal, vegans, bring it on. Very impressed by his consistency.2) Anita, on the other hand, woke up on the wrong side of the bed or something. What an ill-conceived Quickfire dish. And she was swearing while she was making it! Also, I don't buy her statement about liking eggplant really oily. (I disagree with James Oseland that grilling eggplant "isn't rocket science" - it's a tricky vegetable to cook. When you start, it seems to be just begging for more oil. Then when it's almost done, it crosses a line and starts to extrude all the oil it sucked up before. It likewise consumes all the seasoning you throw at it, but then ends up tasting like a spice rack because it doesn't have any native flavors for the seasoning to interact with. Quite tricky indeed.)
3) Two nice saves by Michael. I thought his "hamburgese enorme" (sounds dirty, doesn't it?) would be a disaster but he pulled it off. Ditto, that unpredictable quinoa pasta.
4) Art's dish was a mess - like a strawberry ice-cream murder scene. His and Hubert's styles of cooking were probably the most negatively impacted by the restrictions, but still...
5) I love how Gael Greene (and some of the chefs) kept saying "vegans" with the kind of tone usually reserved for "Martians" or "convicts" or maybe some unholy combination of the two. "God knows what they get to eat," Gael exclaimed. HA!! Poor Zooey Deschanel, gnawing on raw vegetables. That right there, my friends, is a life half-lived.
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