Next Food Network Star – Episode 2

Last week, we learned that catering a party for 75 people in five hours was not an easy task for anyone. No surprise. This week, we witnessed how difficult it is to prepare a recipe for the male readers of Esquire magazine and present that recipe on camera. Not easy either. Even more difficult is to be assigned a holiday and have to design a meal around that holiday and present it to be the selection committee and reps from Good Housekeeping. What could be worse on the nerves? Having Giada De Laurentiis as a guest judge. She is nasty! Giada’s attitude is getting bigger than certain other parts of her body.

Luckily, Brett’s food was not really good and he bombed on the presentation so it was his time to go. But it was not soon enough. Brett and Teddy manage to throw Melissa under the bus by blabbing to the judges that they helped Melissa plate her dishes. What nerve! They offered to help her, she did not ask. Due to creative editing, the viewer could not really get a good idea to what extent they helped Melissa, but it was probably only less than a minute. They both could have just kept their mouths shut. I think Brett knew he was on the way out and thought that by making Melissa look bad, it would help his chance of survival. Guess not Brett.

One final note about last night’s show. I am still up in the air about who I think will win, but at this point my top picks are Jeffrey, Michael or Jamika. Creepy is the only word that I can think of to describe Eddie and I think that Debbie is prasied too much, she will eventually fall. What do you think about who got voted off?