What Are We Googling?

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Endless Simmer has been live for a year and a half now (!) and hundreds of thousands of you have stumbled upon our li’l old blog all sorts of different ways. One thing ya’ll might not realize is that the Google overlords tell us exactly how people are finding our blog and what search terms they use to get here. So gansie, 80p, and I have spent plenty of time over the last 18 months emailing each other and giggling every time someone finds ES by searching “cindy mccain sex bacon” or “giada boobs + fat free brownie.”

I think it’s important that all of you know just what kind of people are reading alongside you, so I’ve decided to invite our readers to share in the fun. Don’t worry, no names will be named. So here are our Top 10 favorite search terms that led readers to ES in November. For each one of these, we somehow come up on the first page of google. Oh, the wonders of the Internets.

PS – you are all perverts!

10. anthony bourdain’s penis – ES Rank: #6

9. gail simmons porn – ES Rank: #9 (although I don’t think it exists)

8. balls in your mouth – ES Rank: #6

7.  nude taco eaters – ES Rank: #7

6. fuck this shit – ES Rank: #6 (well done, gansie..who ever said your dirty mouth couldn’t get you anywhere?)

5. american goat party – ES Rank: #2 (sounds fun)

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Feed Us Back: Comments of the Week

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Leah weighed in on our White House Chef guessing game:  Um, so last night, I was at a restaurant in Chicago and overheard the convo next to me…and I’m betting the chef is coming from Chicago… (or at least that’s what the convo next to me lead me to believe)

Spill it, Leah! Tell us more!

– If any of you Top Chef fans missed our Top Chef season five premiere live blogging, you can check out the whole thing on replay. Don’t miss JoeHoya calling Andrew from season four at Spike‘s request. Although Flamingo has no love lost for the bromancers: Wow, that transcript just reinforced what a complete douchenozzle Spike is.

mariah carey has some interesting soup advice to share:  OH MY GOD this reminds me. Last Thanksgiving my brother made an amazing soup – so amazing I cant remember if it was squash or pumpkin or tomato, but it was to diiiie. Anyway, the consistency was so incredibly thick and creamy my entire family was raving and scared for our arteries – surely it must have been made up of pure lard and cream.

SECRET OF THE DAY: the consistency was made of RICE! He said his trick is to always grind down the rice for any of his thicker soups. You obviously can’t tell it’s rice bc it’s been made into such a fine consistency and takes on whatever flavors you’ve incorporated into the soup.

You’re welcome.

– And ya’ll were all up on it with suggestions for what I should do with my leftover fat and bones:

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Top Chef Live Blogging Starts Tonight!

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Our long summer of discontent is finally over – Top Chef returns tonight!

The reality show is touching down in New York City for its fifth season, and as usual, Endless Simmer will be live blogging this very important breaking news story.

In addition to our always astute analysis, we’ll be sharing some extra gossip from my recent interviews with this season’s cheftestants; we’ll check in with Season 4’s Spike (a live blog fan) who will be twittering his reactions throughout the night; and we’ll have reporters beamed in from around the country via hologram. OK, that last part is a lie, but we will offer tons of exclusive insight you can’t find anywhere else.

ES Sneak Peek: Tonight’s guest judge will be none other than French culinary legend Jean-Georges Vongerichten, which means if any of these youngsters don’t have those classic French techniques down, they could be in big trouble. Looks good for DC’s own Carla, who, as JoeHoya informs us, was trained at Bethesda’s L’Academie de Cuisine.

Make sure to tune into Bravo at 10pm ET, and log on to Endless Simmer as we watch along with you.

Bravo Photo: Michel Lavine

Feed Us Back: Comments of the Week

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Thanks for this even-better Franzia costume, ES reader MonkeyBoy.

Aaron is unsurprised by gansie’s news of the latest from a certain DC restaurant mini-chain:  I hate all of the restaurants that they run – the heights is gross – logan tavern is pretentious.. and gross..somehow, the cunty reception you had at this place doesn’t come as a surprise to me. thanks for spreading the word. i’ll be sure not to go to commissary.

Ouch.

Leah is on board with Radhika, our preseason Top Chef fav: Hmmm…anybody else notice about good chefs coming from Chicago? :) Who says Midwesterners are boring?!?!

– Finally, all of you had a great/frustrating time figuring out what our pun costumes were. Vanessa: Please take me out of my misery and give me captions!

OK, all you spoilsports, the full answers are after the jump.

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ES Sneak Peek: Top Chef Season Five

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Endless Simmer got a sneak preview of the upcoming season of Top Chef at the Taste of the Five Boroughs event in New York yesterday, where we met up with the judges and some chef’testants from the past. (Yes, it’s true, I was that close to Padma Lakshmi.) But most importantly, we got to meet the cast of the upcoming season. They all seemed to be very close with one another, insisted they were all friends, and reported that there was no villain. Riiiiight.

Here are some very snap impressions:

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Melissa is a sous chef from Boulder, Colorado, and the most personable of all the chef’testants I met. She’s super-talkative, comes off as a party girl, and definitely has some drama potential — she seems more like a Real World contestant than a Top Chef-er. I’d say they’ll keep her around for a bit.

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If you’ve been missing the Long Island flavor that Howie and Joey brought to Season Three, than you’ll be excited to meet Danny. He’s the chef de cuisine at the Babylon Carriage House in Fire Island, and I’m voting him most likely to get drunk and start fights in the waiting room while the judges deliberate.

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Radhika is my fav. She’s the executive chef at Between Boutique Cafe and Lounge in Chicago, and I’m already digging her fusiony-y cuisine. She’s way cuter than this photo, and really soft-spoken and sweet. She says she was a religious watcher of Top Chef in past seasons, and has never been more nervous than when standing on the chopping block. I’m rooting for her.

More snap judgements — and Padma’s insight — after the jump.

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Hott Link: She’s Baaaaack

Top Chef NYC starts in just three weeks! If you don’t believe us, just check out hostrix Padma Lakshmi seductively eating a street pretzel in the video above.

And if you can’t wait to find out about the new cheftestants, you can meet them all in person, this Monday at the “Taste of the Five Boroughs” event in New York’s Grand Central Station. Padma herself will be there, along with Tom C. and Gail Simmons. And of course, ES will be there!

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