Rock Shrimp has been casting the second season of the Food Network's Grill It! with Bobby Flay for more than a month now. The New York-based production company is now specifically looking on Craigslist for local African-Americans (who "appear to look between 21 and 45") with the ability (and recipes) to slay the taste buds of the veteran TV host, restaurateur and Iron Chef Flay. The deadline to submit a three-minute video pitching yourself for the program is March 2. Rock Shrimp is also looking for prospective contestants with original burger recipes, regardless of ethnicity.
Name: Soyer Chocolate Soy Protein Snack
Brand: Lotte
Origin: Japan
Cost: $2.39
Found at: Sunset Super (2425 Irving)
Ingredients: Sugar, skimmed soybean, whole milk powder, corn starch, cocoa butter, cacao mass, palm oil, lactose, salt, wheat flour, egg, shellac, calcium carbonate, vegetable lecithin, artificial flavor
Calories per serving: 150 Why I bought it: I wanted to know whether chocolate soy protein would be gross or delicious.
Like any great TV show, Top Chef is about more than its apparent subject matter. Sure, there's lots of chopping and whisking and sauteeing and coulis-dripping, but in between all the kitchencraft the viewer witnesses the entire panoply of human behavior, as contestants overcome obstacles or break down under pressure, murmur words of inspiration or scream heavily bleeped diatribes, help one another in times of crisis or (in the show's memorable parlance) throw each other under the bus. But food--the sensuality of it, the mystique of it, the celebration or the desecration of it--is the program's driving motif and obsession.
