Me too, and my husband, on cilantro. It doesn't taste like soap to me, just bad. I've tried and tried, but just can't develop a taste for it. As for the others, I find it's all about m...

I found a lot of drama in the finale. I was surprised and impressed to see Lisa show us the chef she could be--not only getting along with her sous chef, but psyched to work with a pro, doing thing...

I was surprised and bummed that Lisa got a pass, but found the clip of Nikki saying that Antonia wasn't on her game interesting in retrospect. While I think both Antonia and Dale are...

I prefer that Spike is gone to Lisa, though I like neither and think both their cooking is way below the others', and below Dale's. Yes, Dale should be there instead of Lisa, but he still wouldn't ...

I'm from Minnesota, where Spam is from, so it's slightly more accepted here. A Minneapolis Japanese restaurant, Midori's Floating World, serves a Spam roll. My husband likes Spam; I don't, though t...

I can't help but compare how many times Dale has been in the top to how many times Lisa and spike have been in the bottom. They're around because other people choked. I agree that the...

I thought it was interesting how Richard missed the mark on both challenges last night. His self-proclaimed cleverness was not doing him any favors. A triple elimination would've been ...

I thought it interesting how negative Dale was when that was what he'd criticized Lisa for before. But I still think I like him better than Spike, who is plain unpleasant. I can empathize with Dale...

I think Mark deserved to go. It was an ill conceived and ill executed dish. Stephanie's looked bad, but at least she had a variety of ingredients, even if they ended up badly. She cou...

Spike got redeemed by making a perfect squash soup like the one Antonia vetoed 2 eps back. He was in the top, she was on the bottom. While Lisa and she had a deplorable aversion to the challenge, I...

I made this last night, and did a few things differently. I pureed it in my blender since the reduced soup was pretty shallow in the pot for an immersion blender. It made a pretty, yellow-green sou...

I thought there was an interesting contrast between Zoi's disdain of the complicated dish and Manuel's defense of wanting to learn something else. Given how well Richard's doing, I think a lot of t...

Again, not classic, but I loved the popcorn flavors that Lionel Shriver details in The Post Birthday World. And one of the classic food in books is Heartburn, by Nora Ephron.

Classic, but not old, the Weetzie Bat novels by Francesca Lia Block have fabulous descriptions of food in them. Weetzie Bat has a great sushi scene where they get a protein buzz, and Baby Bebop had...