A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

A GAME OF HORSESHOES? A GAME OF HORSESHOES! No lessons from this week's Top Chef Vegas, because I think we already understood these three (1) it's hard to cook cactus well; (2) in an outdoors grilling challenge, you probably ought to apply open flame to your food; and (3) if Tom spits out your food, that's a bad sign. And yet despite how many competitors we've still got left, I felt like this week's episode took a leisurely pace in which every chef (save Somerton's Jennifer Carroll, surprisingly) seemed to get a solid amount of face time. Not the world's most innovative cooking -- and lord knows Tim Love was among the more bitter judges we've had -- but I'm still quite happy with our season.