Lisa from “Top Chef” isn’t too happy with the blogosphere’s opinion of her, firing back with the following quote (I added the footnotes):
Oh no, I don’t read the blogs—you couldn’t pay me to read the blogs1. I don’t want to know what people who can’t even afford to eat in my restaurant2, let alone know how to cook have to say about me3, and the few comments I did read on Eater.com a few weeks back because my job asked me to read ‘em4. The best they could come up with was that I was ugly5.
1 - Correct, I couldn’t pay you. I don’t make a lot of money.
2 - E.G., bloggers, the bourgeoise, individuals under 40, the guys from Rent, non-landowners, most minorites; you know, people whose opinions don’t matter.
3 - I never said I was great at cooking. What I am pretty good at, though, is seeing experienced, professional chefs rip on your cooking week after week after week and using my rational blogger-mind to deduce that this probably means you are not a very good at cooking.
4 - Did the conversation go anything like this? EMPLOYER: “You may want to read what a bunch of people who are interested enough in food to write/read food-related blogs and therefore make up a significant portion of your customer base are saying about you, cause it’s pretty universally negative.” LISA: UGHHHHH, FINEEEE, but the comments on Bandana.com are almost 100% postive.
5 - Maybe the comments about you not being a good cook and not deserving to be in the Final 3 over Dale or Antonia aren’t the best comments that they came up with, but they said that too. Semantically, though, you’re correct on this point.
