I haven’t watched Cooking Channel much at all, but a commercial for Cutthroat Kitchen caught my eye.
Host Alton Brown is always good for a laugh.
If you haven’t seen the show, four professional chefs compete in cooking challenges while Alton Brown sabotages them.
But there’s a catch.
He actually gives each chef money at the beginning of the game so that they can bid to sabotage each other, making the timed competition even more challenging. The eventual winner keeps whatever money he has left at the end of the game.
As the episode comes to an end, I realize it’s not for me.
It reminds me too much of hazing…or those degrading initiation days that some of my high school clubs subjected new members to freshman year. The folks in charge are laughing, but it’s more mean-spirited than funny.
Just ask Jon Hamm. That stuff comes back to bite you in the butt.
The Sticky Egg 
Back to school
While The Egg has spent almost six years (!) pondering all things trivial, my friend John McCoy dares to discuss books from your high school reading list in his new podcast Sophomore Lit.
Wait for it.
I am a guest on the third episode, where John and I discuss a favorite book of mine, The Great Gatsby.
I invite you to listen to the episode and others in the series. You may learn something. (I certainly did.)
And, yes, I did make a few* references to the movie versions of Gatsby.
* Okay. Quite a lot, actually. As my mother would say, ‘you can’t escape your raising.’
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