I’m a huge fan of the Bravo TV show “Top Chef”.  This season they’re doing “Top Chef All Stars” which features chefs from previous seasons who didn’t win the big prize but came close.  One of the chefs on the show is an Italian transplant by the name of Fabio Viviani.  In addition to being known for his culinary skills, he’s also known for his entertaining butchery of the English language and generally saying exactly what’s on his mind at any given time.  In addition, he’s a generally nice guy with a big heart and loves what he does. 

It shows.

Why do you care?

Well…

Fabio’s web site ran a contest over the past few weeks.  It was pretty simple.  Find a picture of Fabio on the internet and find a quotation of his… mix them together… the funniest one wins.  Simple.  With Fabio’s wealth of extremely funny sound bites ranging from discussing “bunky beds” and suicide by ice cream sandwich, it wasn’t hard to find something funny.

I took the following quotation, “It’s not cooking, it’s rushing… If they’re gonna give me monkey ass filled with fried banana, I’ll come up with something anyway. It’s not a problem.”, shortened it, and dropped it into a picture of Fabio presenting his team’s dishes during the very formal, very serious Restaurant Wars to the judges (including food miser Anthony Bourdain). 

Here’s my submission.

Italian Cooking Has Never Been the Same

I found out last night that my submission came in 4th place.  That’s pretty awesome considering the volume of competition.  Anyway, Fabio is going to send me an autographed picture as my prize.

This might be a new strategy for me.  Instead of waiting for people to come to the blog to be entertained… I’ll go to theirs.  It might work.

You can view all 10 of the winners here.

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