Jennie Kelley has become the latest chef to be eliminated from the MasterChef kitchen. Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich and Graham Elliot sent the musician home on Tuesday night after she lost an elimination challenge that involved recreating a dish from the first-ever MasterChef winner Whitney Miller's cookbook. The chefs were instructed to recreate Whitney's crispy catfish with fragrant purple slaw and sweet potato fries, a recipe taken from her Modern Hospitality: Simple Recipes with Modern Charm book. Whitney, who previously told Digital Spy that winning MasterChef was a "dream come true", appeared on the show to help announce the challenge. Jennifer Behm was the chef responsible for choosing the catfish dish over other the alternative choices of barbecued chicken or shrimp and grits after winning the vegetarian mystery (more)...
- 7/6/2011
- by By Lara Martin
- Digital Spy
Alvin Schultz has become the latest contestant to exit MasterChef. The 28-year-old retail manager from Houston, TX, was sent home by Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich and Graham Elliot on Monday night after an elimination challenge that involved cooking a coffee-based dessert. Alvin - who practises molecular gastronomy - fell into the bottom three alongside Jennie Kelley and Max Kramer after serving coffee filled beignets with coffee chicory pudding. Gordon had called his coffee sauce "extraordinarily bitter", describing it as a "coffee blood clot". Graham added: "Things like this give what I do day in, day out a bad name." Following his elimination, Gordon told Alvin that although he is courageous, he needed to understand the basics before he became adventurous: "Get that right and you could be an amazing cook." Alvin (more)...
- 6/28/2011
- by By Lara Martin
- Digital Spy
MasterChef continues Monday, June 20, on Fox After scouring the nation for the best amateur cooks in the nation, the judges of MasterChef have chosen this season.s Top 18 finalists: Jennifer Behm, Erryn Cobb, Christian Collins, Christine Corley, Esther Kang, Jennie Kelley, Tracy Kontos, Max Kramer, Angel Moore-Soukkay, Giuseppe Morisco, Adrien Nieto, Derrick Prince, Mark Raffaelli, Alejandra Schrader, Alvin Schultz, Anthony Scruggs, Suzy Singh and Ben Starr. Our favorite three? Alvin Schultz, Suzy Singh and Christian Collins!! Only one finalist will walk away with the $250,000 grand prize. On Monday, June 20 (9:00-10:00 Pm Et/Pt) on Fox, these finalists compete in the first challenge. The contestants have one hour to prepare a dish using only the...
- 6/15/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
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