Is it possible that our unending infatuation with celebrity chefs has gone too far?
There I sat with a sold-out audience in the Merriam Theater in Philadelphia. The tickets were priced in excess of $200, and we had the unique privilege of watching and listening to two celebrity chefs talk to each other.
The chefs in question were Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert. Chef Bourdain might be the most interesting chef in America, and Chef Ripert might be one of the nicest chefs known to mankind. It promised to be a very interesting evening.
My worst prediction materialized when the audience(myself included) had little or no idea what the the great French chef was saying. It just didn't work. We did hear the F-bombs and almost everything else from Chef Bourdain, so all was not lost.
Maybe it was the sound system in the theater to blame, but the experience was somewhat of a disaster. The theater experiment just didn't get it done, and maybe the celebrity chefs should stick to what works the best. Trust me when I tell you that it's not two chefs talking to each other in the Merriam Theater in Philadelphia.
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