1.

Has Ms. Schrambling ever written anything worth a damn?
Also: LAT late to ANY party? SHOCKER!

I effin' HEART Eater LA. Period.

2.

God this woman sounds like a miserable bitch. She clearly needs to just stick to watching the Victory Garden and Lidia's Itlay on PBS, so she shouldn't have her retinas seared by evil advertising.

And just so she knows, Glad Press'n'Seal is a really great product.

3.

Top Chef is complete drek, as is all "reality" television. It's time for this genre to die. *Especially* the competition variety.

I can't believe people actually waste precious minutes of their lives actually watching this crap.

My opinon.

4.

Oh, please. Dissing any kind of reality tv is SO 2000. Wake up and smell the zeitgeist, LAT!

5.

Phht, whatever, LAT. We're talking cable reality television here, lady. Top Chef is what it is and it's disingenuous to criticize it for being a commercial success. Thinly-veiled corporate sponsorship and lame product placement is what makes the show profitable. It's not like that's lost on its viewers.

Plus, Schrambling (is that really her last name? Rambling Schrambling? That's too easy!) doesn't seem to realize what a jump in quality Top Chef has made this season from its last two. I'd be more inclined to agree with her criticisms if they were of the previous two seasons. The show, for all its guilty-pleasureness, has come a long way. And it's worth pointing out that Collichio and Bourdain's blogs, in addition to the other fodder on the Internet (including Eater LA) add rather than subtract to the show's entertainment value.

Give me a break, Schrambling. Do you even like to cook? Eat? What a miserable woman.

6.

I would love to say something really bitchy in return to the lovely Regina Schrambling but I am far too busy recreating TC in my basement with biblical finger puppets for all my imaginary friends.

I am not obsessed with Top Chef!

7.

After reading that stupid article by Regina Schrambling (what was the point of it anyway???) and the rather snide inclusion of eater's ongoing coverage of Top Chef, I've come to a conclusion. Me thinks the LA Times really is threatened by eaterla.com and they proved it today. Congrats! I mean, you read the LA Times food section and then read the NY Times food section and you just hope that one day, the LA Times will get it and diversify their coverage. How many Bastide freaking articles can there be in a city that is a self-proclaimed melting pot of ethnicities and has food to mirror that. I suspect you will see an article in the LA Times about Maitre 'D's/hosts being the new VIP's of the restaurant business in the coming weeks. It was in the NY Times Dining Section today.

8.

Well said...We couldn't have said it better ourselves....We love you!

9.

Schrambling famously hates everything--except sucking down free food at the latest Fiji Water event or restaurant opening. Her inadvertently hilarious blog, gastropoda.com is a window into the soul of the embittered bag lady of food writing. She extensively chronicles the every flaw of her former employer, the NYT, like a rejected girflriend obessively googling an ex and telling her imaginary friends about the latest signs of unhappiness . Her loathing for chefs,particularly when they have the temerity to become successful,is legendary. She's all the worst features of food writing in one person: A food writer who hates food, hates the people who make food, hates herself. She hangs on at the LA Times writing tuna salad recipes--a charity case.