On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:25:58 -0500, Kate Connally >
wrote:

> Actually, they did. The chef erased it from the blackboard a short
> while after they started preparing the dish. If they had copied it
> into their notebooks at the beginning they would have been okay. But
> they weren't told the recipe would be "taken away" so they would have
> assumed they could continue to refer to it as they worked.

I didn't see that one. In the episodes I saw, each person had their
own recipe on their own recipe card and it wasn't taken away... they
just didn't refer to it as much as they should have. IMO: the erased
recipe was an object lesson in "you can't make the dish if you haven't
memorized the recipe and you never refer to it. I guess the chef's
should have articulated the concept behind why they erased the recipe
better so the audience wouldn't feel so sorry for the contestants.

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I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.