Top Chef Season 4 quotes

Tom

What bugs me is, how do you come here and compete and not know what a piccata is? And he didn't know that and I still don't think he knows.

Anthony Bourdain

I really find it worrying that I had absolutely no idea what was coming out of his mouth.

Let's just say it wasn't just his gnocchi that were dense.

Tom

[trying not to laugh] That's just mean!

[on his souffle] It rose, but then I dumped a bunch of tortillas and stuff on top of it that made it drop.

Anthony Bourdain

I gotta say, you were clearly way out of your comfort zone and scrambling around for some way out of a bad situation right out of the gate. But the last thing a souffle needs is more weight on top. Tough, tough, tough..

[shrugging] I made glorified nachos. I'm not proud of it.

[to Mark] Nice sideburns.

I read the diet of the vulture, and it's not boots and road tires. Turns out that they eat little fish, rabbits, and lamb.. which is very similar to my diet.

Gail

It looked like something a bear would produce, not eat.

[to Mark] Nice sideburns.

Can you guys smell it?

What?

Success!

Aww, little girl dropped her s'more!

Padma

I dropped it on your shoe.

You dropped it on my shoe? You're gonna get the bill for that!

Padma

[before introducing Daniel Boulud] If you guys don't know who he is, you should just leave the kitchen now.

Of course, I have two young chef here who has previously work in my restaurant before, Richard and Ryan. And that will not affect the work of anyone else, be reassured for that.

I wanted to do a cucumber where you run your knife across it and you rotate the cucumber so that you have like a thin.. almost like a wrapper. And then I look over and Dale is doing the exact same thing, and just whizzing through them like soft butter. So I decide, maybe not.

Is anybody else's hand shaking?

Padma

Your challenge is to create a dinner where each course is inspired by your favorite movie.

I love movies, I'm a total movie buff. This is an opportunity to be really creative.

I start thinking, I have seen 2 movies in 3 years, so.. great.

[talking head] I draw knives, and I get Mark. This guy's fucking.. New Zealand, New England.. where the hell is Mark from? We're not going to have anything in common!

Why don't we just put down a bunch of movies?

Yep, so what are your movies? I love Dumb and Dumber. I think it's funny as shit.

To Kill A Mockingbird.

Right, old school..

Crazy Bad..

Crazy Bad? What's that?

[talking head] "Like, what movies do you watch?" And he starts naming this stuff, and all I hear is "blaaaah blaaaah blahhhh."

[talking head] He has not seen Once Were Warriors or Mad Max or Bad Boy Bubby.

What about the Christmas movie?

Which one?

Oh, oh, oh.. What's the one with the kid that gets shot with a B.B. in his eye and they go get Asian food instead? You know what I'm talking about? He takes the glass light for his mom's Christmas, and he puts it in the window..

I don't know.

And they go and have Chinese food and have duck instead of normal turkey because the turkey got fucked up? It's a normal Christmas movie.

Do you know what it is? I don't know.

It's a Christmas fucking movie..

Yeah, what's it called?

And they sit down at the table.. [goes to Spike and Manuel] What's that Christmas movie, you guys? "You got your eye shot out.."

A Christmas Story.

A Christmas Story. Got it. Duck.

[talking head] A Christmas Story is something that, you know, all the families, everybody's seen it. It's, um.. it's.. I believe it's a comedy.

I have no doubt in my mind that the people that will be eating this food will culinarily crap in their pants when they see what we have for them.