[Blarg]

I agree that Amy's food didn't look that good. Part of it was this gray glop that looked very unappetizing, and part was half in the bowl, half out. Just because you are the gourmet for the backyard doesn't mean you have to aggressively slop your sh*t around. That almost seems passive-aggressive toward the concept of simplicity -- "let's really mess it up for you hicks, you oughta dig this ...." Also, although her work with the camera on the Ray show was mostly quite good, she did seem to retreat into babbling about the complexity of her food, which I took as a sign of building up a protective wall between her and an instant communication with the audience, which she is still a bit scared of. The judge made a good call in pointing that out.

I still think she is probably the best cook there, and shouldn't have been given the boot. Jag's spiel about really loving food seems to have carried him through not just one but two episodes, despite still not stepping up to the plate on the cooking side. I have a feeling it would have won him the job if he hadn't been caught lying. Which is kind of a shame, because if he got his own show, he wouldn't be able to make it watchable by periodic heartfelt crying.

Plus, I'm tired of calling him "Jag" and hearing him refer to himself in the third person.