{"id":2361,"date":"2011-04-17T15:11:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T19:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheeseloverca.wordpress.com\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2011-04-17T15:11:28","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T19:11:28","slug":"top-chef-canada-attack-of-the-cheese-top-secret-until-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/2011\/04\/17\/top-chef-canada-attack-of-the-cheese-top-secret-until-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Chef Canada: Attack of the Cheese top-secret no more"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: CLICK TO VIEW EPISODE 2 IN ITS ENTIRETY<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n
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Judgment time at Top Chef Canada: Cheese is up next.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CLICK HERE FOR A PREVIEW OF THE CHEESE EPISODE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Former Susur Lee Sous-Chef Dustin Gallagher\u2019s playful tussle with a large block of fromage in Episode 1 gave Top Chef Canada viewers a heads-up on a key ingredient in upcoming Episode 2: Canadian cheese!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Titled \u201cCheese, Glorious, Cheese\u201d and airing on Food Network Canada<\/a> on Monday at 9 p.m. ET\/10 p.m. PT, the chefs battle with each other in typical Top Chef style with first a quickfire and then an elimination based on creating appetizing cheese dishes.\u00a0 It\u2019ll be quite a challenge for some, particularly Gordon Ramsay prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Chef Dale Mackay who admits to not having much experience cooking with cheese, as well as Calgary Chef and Sommelier Rebekah Pearse who calls the challenge \u201ca little tough.\u201d<\/p>\n

The chefs are given a range of Canadian cheeses from coast to coast. Will they use gouda from Gort\u2019s Gouda Cheese Farm in B.C., Alberta\u2019s Sylvan Star Cheese, or Ontario\u2019s Thunder Oak Cheese Farm?\u00a0 Cheddar from Quebec\u2019s Perron or Wilton\u2019s Cheese Factory in Ontario?\u00a0 Perhaps they will create from a hodgepodge of cheeses?\u00a0 Selecting the wedges they know, the culinary contenders craft distinct plates for a cocktail party of 50 guests who help the judges in their selection of the second chef to be asked to pack his or her knives and go.<\/p>\n

The most watched original premiere in Food Network Canada\u2019s history, Top Chef Canada<\/a> continues to vigorously protect its trade secret: the element of surprise. The cheeses procured and showcased? Guarded jealously. News of a guest judge from the cheese industry? Mum\u2019s the word. We\u2019ll have to watch Monday\u2019s episode to find out!<\/p>\n

\u2014Gabi Gopie-Tree<\/em><\/p>\n

Gabi has a law and politics background but her passion for food, wine, and entertainment developed from nearly a decade in Europe and the U.K. where, she discovered, many still find the time to enjoy the finer things in life. Gabi blogs about food, wine, music, travel, and life at poshbirdgabi.wordpress.com<\/em><\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It\u2019s amazing how tightly shrouded in secrecy the producers of Top Chef Canada like to keep their show before it airs. Witness the scant information CheeserLover.ca was able to obtain for the above report.<\/strong><\/p>\n

No mention of even the basics, such as Dairy Farmers of Canada<\/a> being the sponsor of the episode and provider of the cheese.<\/p>\n

Even cheese and wine expert Julia Rogers<\/a>, a good friend and supporter and presenter at The Great Canadian Cheese Festival<\/a> we\u2019re organized, wouldn\u2019t say boo when we emailed for confirmation about her serving as the guest judge on Episode 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cSorry, but I signed a confidentiality agreement as thick and detailed as could be. I will not be able to comment on anything you ask prior to the show airing, except to say that the challenge involved Canadian cheese,\u201d she emailed.<\/p>\n

But, if the truth were known, Julia did post this tidbit on her Facebook page:<\/p>\n

Top Chef Canada spoiler alert . . . On Monday, watch me judge contestants’ cocktail party cheese offerings with as much integrity as possible, while wearing false eyelashes and losing the microphone down my dress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From other sources, we learned:<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s episode of Top Chef Canada on the Food Network will be all about CHEESE!\u00a0 The episode will be the main ingredient in the two key challenges in the show and will be featured prominently throughout the show.<\/p>\n

The first challenge of the show is the \u201cQuickfire Challenge\u201d that measures specific skill sets of the competitors. For the challenge, a table full of cheeses made from 100% Canadian Milk will be unveiled to the competitors and they will be asked to create a dish using as many cheeses as they wish and then describe the dish and the inspiration behind it.<\/p>\n

In the \u201cElimination Challenge,\u201d the competitors will be divided into teams and will be given a specific Canadian Cheese and a meal course to work within. The chefs must then create a dish around their kind of cheese that works within the corresponding course in the dinner service\u2014which is at an actual function. This challenge will showcase the versatility and variety of Canadian cheese.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We\u2019ve posted the video clip that is posted on the Food Network Canada website at the top of this post. Those who are unable to watch the show Monday night will be able to view it on the website<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u2014Georgs Kolesnikovs<\/em><\/p>\n

Georgs Kolesnikovs is Cheesehead-in-Chief at CheeseLover.ca. He\u2019ll have a tape in the old VCR on Monday night as he and SO will be at the Drake Hotel taking in the Battle of Pat\u00e9 <\/a>organized by Ivy Knight as part of her 86\u2019d series of fun food events.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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