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| Tim Love Loving Tequila |
I am fairly certain that this particular Fort Worth connection is not going to be making anyone outside of Fort Worth Green With Envy.
Anyway.
That is Fort Worth Celebrity Chef, Tim Love, standing next to Padma Lakshmi, in the Top Chef Texas kitchen in Dallas.
In the picture Tim Love is shooting back tequila. He seemed well practiced at shooting back tequila. Perhaps his pal, J.D. Granger, has been giving Tim tequila lessons.
This week the Top Chefs had to cook in the kitchen of Tim Love's Lonesome Dove Western Bistro in the Fort Worth Stockyards.
This was to be the only visit to Fort Worth by Top Chef Texas. Next week they head to Austin.
Months ago there were news reports regarding Top Chef's producers shaking down Texas towns for various perks. I assume in exchange for publicity. Fort Worth must have resisted the shakedown, because all we saw of the Fort Worth Stockyards was a fraction of a second flash of the iconic Fort Worth Stockyards sign. And then we spent the rest of the time in Tim Love's restaurant.
One of the judges on this season of Top Chef is celebrity chef, Hugh Acheson. Hugh is a very amusing Canadian. Amusing Canadians are a rare breed. On his Bravo TV Top Chef Texas Blog, Hugh Acheson had this to say about Tim Love...
"Time to get to Fort Worth. Tim Love owns this town. It’s a great honky-tonk town."
So. In the world of celebrity chefs, apparently, it is known that Tim Love owns Fort Worth.
This is the best explanation yet as to how it was Tim Love got his sweetheart restaurant deal for his new Woodshed restaurant, courtesy of the generosity of his drinking buddy, J.D. Granger, the Trinity River Vision Boondoggle and the Tarrant Regional Water District.
You can read the details of why it was that Tim Love was drinking tequila with Padma on my TV Blog.
You watch terrible tv (really, ever heard of Breaking Bad or Mad Men), the weather reports are eye rolling and could skip all the family/friends stuff....BUT when you turn your attention to other topics like J.D or the Love Shack--scathingly funny.
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Don't listen to this anonymous moron. Top Chef is much better TV than Mad Men. And keep the weather reports coming. I like the Durango relative reports.
ReplyDeleteI am anonymous too, as in anonymous #2. Why does the first anonymous feel the need to be so condescending to you? Judging the tv shows you watch, what you say about the weather and your family and friends. What a jerk.
ReplyDeleteI am not a jerk, just discriminating tastes as to tv I've watched since 50's childhood and seen the growth or lack therewith. Who of the two (maybe three) of you have ever watched "The Wire?" Hollywood is becoming more like old hackneyed network tv and good tv is becoming more like what Hollywood used to deliver when character development, nuance, social commentary/justice meant for an experience.
ReplyDeleteDurango watches drivel. Housewives acting badly and badly staged, laughable, artificial faux relationships. Probably because he's too cheap to pay for anything else;
I suspect, like me, you are women, who find Durango rather fascinating and why you so quickly rise to any perceived threat to your fantasy single man love interest. I, on the other hand, ponder he may have a closed-head injury, which explains his veering from the mundane to the profound.... or one cagey SOB pandering to an audience. I can get weather reports elsewhere, like a boring mother-in-law.
Now you can explore those possibilities or remain a chorus of spring peeper frogs.
Looks like you done got yourself a special admirer, Durango. On second thought, I believe it's more than admiration. It's a full blown Texas-sized crush.
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