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marigold:
An interesting article:
Former Bayonne resident is under fire in 'Hell's Kitchen'
Former Bayonne resident Giovanni Filippone is cooking up a storm these days.
He's among the final chefs competing for the top prize of $250,000 on the FOX-TV show "Hell's Kitchen," which airs tomorrow night at 9 p.m. on Channel 5.
"We started out with 16 contestants and now we're down to seven," Filippone said. Tonight's show will be the ninth episode in the countdown to cooking fame.
The shows are taped in California and Filippone knows if he survives tonight's cooking contest. But he is pledged to secrecy.
Filippone, a 38-year-old bachelor, moved from Bayonne to the Florida Panhandle six years ago, after he "fell in love with the sandy beaches and blue water."
Filippone is the product of an Italian family who emigrated to France where he was born. He came to Bayonne in 1980 and graduated from Bayonne High School in 1990. His brother Pietro, niece Laticia and his cousins, the Trainas, still live in Bayonne.
"I grew up in a family where you had to be home for dinner. All our meals were home-cooked. We didn't eat fast food," Filippone said.
Filippone learned the rudiments of cooking as a teenager and enrolled at the Culinary Institute of America in New York, completing the chef program in 1997.
"I've just finished paying off my student loans," he said.
Today, he's the executive chef for Destin Chops 30A in Panama City Beach, in northern Florida.
He ended up auditioning for "Hell's Kitchen" at a South Florida location as a sort of lark. "I went down to check out the area and look around," he said. And, learning about the TV shot, "I went there as a sort of 'ha, ha.'"
"They look for a personality, someone who can talk on camera," Filippone said.
On the show, contestants work as a team to prepare and serve a meal. It's not a walk in the park.
It's a matter of condensing a typical work day of 16 hours into a one-hour show, Filippone said. Plus, the standards of the show's star, chef Gordon Ramsay, are sky high.
http://www.nj.com/bayonne/index.ssf/2009/04/former_bayonne_resident_is_und.html
TARAsia Fan:
Chef got rid of the right person tonight. I will say I'm fed up of Danny's "I'm the best here" attitude because he's not. I hope Chef yells at him next week because I haven't seen him get it as of yet.
marigold:
That wasn’t sweat those were tears :funny: omg so funny
Danny rocked in the kitchen love his assertiveness
Carol :'( I’m gonna go cry now
TexasLady:
--- Quote from: TARAsia Fan on April 02, 2009, 09:11:58 PM ---Chef got rid of the right person tonight. I will say I'm fed up of Danny's "I'm the best here" attitude because he's not. I hope Chef yells at him next week because I haven't seen him get it as of yet.
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I'm so tired of these people who spew that "I'm the best here" attitude. Let's see how Danny does when Ramsay turns his attention to him. He hasn't had the Ramsay screaming and nitpicking attention yet. Can he be calm and cool under pressure. It's coming! :snicker:
I have to say that Andrea is getting on my nerves as well. I don't think she's the best chef there, we know already that she can't take intense pressure and since she's so happy that Carol is gone, it's going to be her turn yet again. It remains to be seen how that goes.
:hellkitchen
What do we make of the tease for next week? Shutting down Hell's Kitchen? Why? ???
puddin:
--- Quote from: TexasLady on April 03, 2009, 09:48:24 AM ---
What do we make of the tease for next week? Shutting down Hell's Kitchen? Why? ???
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I'm thinking he shuts down the kitchen and has them cook at a restaurant somewhere else?
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