Elizabeth Falkner didn’t fare so well on last night’s episode of Top Chef Masters, but even though the Citizen Cake and Orson chef-owner didn’t advance to the next round, we believe she held her own against Wylie Dufresne (wd-50, New York), Graham Elliot Bowles (graham elliot, Chicago), and winner Suzanne Tracht (Jar, LA). Falkner isn’t the type to “unravel” in a flurry of F-bombs, as Grub Street points out happened to Dufresne. She’s not the type to oversell her image, as Graham Bowles seems to have done with his whole punk thing. She’s very composed in her exit interview, though pretty disappointed. She seems to really regret the Yam/papaya pudding she made for the Lost-themed challenge, not because it wasn’t good but because she “doesn’t like being in the middle of the road,” which is where her three-and-a-half-star diners’ score placed her. Perhaps she’d have gotten farther if she’d used more Dr. Pepper in the vending machine quickfire (Tracht and Dufresne both did), but we’re glad she stayed away. Braised beef jerky was enough. [Via Grub Street]
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