Top Chef Season 4: Meet the Cheftestants-Lisa
February 16, 2008 by Tracey Thompson
Filed under Recipes
Meet Top Chef competitor Lisa, a Canadian who worked and went to school in Florida then headed back North to New York City to concentrate on her passion, Asian Cuisine.
Lisa is 27 with an A.A.S. in Culinary Arts and a B.S. in Food Service Management from Johnson & Wales University. From Bravo:
Being drawn to the flavors of Asian cuisine since a young age, Lisa moved to New York City where she decided food was her passion and career choice. At only 17, she attended Johnson & Wales University and received a B.S. in foodservice management. She moved to south Florida to diversify her cooking palette, absorbing the local flair of Latin food. With Asian cuisine still in her heart, Lisa moved back to New York to get involved with more Asian restaurants, working at Asia de Cuba, Rain and then Public. Lisa says she always exercises Asian flair in her dishes and has taught herself as much as she can about the cuisine. Lisa hopes to open an Asian influenced restaurant in New York in the years to come.
Season 4 of Top Chef premiers on March 12.
I know this isn’t an original comment at this point, but I cannot believe what a foul person Lisa is. Her language and attitude are both abysmal. I have watched every season, but another contestant with Lisa’s persona will totally turn me off Top Chef. Dale is a sweetheart in comparison.
The downfall of this season of Top Chef is LISA. It’s no secret that this program loves to bring the drama (i.e. with people like Marcel and Hung) but this Lisa chick is over-the-top. She’s got no class, can’t handle criticism, cannot engage socially with her fellow chefs, and is all-around disgusting. And with her 6 appearances in the bottom, and her continuous refusal to listen to the judges’ advice, I really have no answer as to why she stayed to the final. Bravo sold its sold for drama, and I won’t be watching next season.
Lisa is consistently in the bottom, and her attitude actually rots away the happiness of others. I think she must be sleeping with a producer. The fan-vote voted her off by 91% That’s astounding! Top Chef, this sucks. Lisa sucks. Bring back Dale. Or Antonia.
What a dumb bull-Dyke that can’t cook. Face only a mother could love…
Unlike Marcel and Hung, I have NEVER felt any sympathy nor identified in any way with Lisa. Once in awhile you’d see Marcel start to tear up -he really wasn’t that tough – just less socialized than the others – and pretty easy to pick on. Although it was pretty transparent, Hung TRIED to win you over with his comments about his mother and cooking with love. He recognized he wasn’t coming across as a sympathetic contestant and wanted to change it – he just didn’t know how. When Lisa is on screen, it ALWAYS feels bad. She is just a horrible human specimen. On top of everything else, nothing she has prepared yet has been appealing to me in any way.
i hate lisa! I can’t believe she is still in the show! The last episode where she asked stephanie and Richard to congratulate her was so ridiculous of her!
How many challenges has Lisa been on the bottom of this season? Almost all of them right!
How many quick fires has she won?
She is awful! If anyone can answer these questions for me it would be a big help.
MS
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Lisa won 1 elimination, no quickfires, was one of the top dishes during the quickfires 3xs, during the eliminations 3x and was on the bottom during the quickfires 6 times and at the bottom in front of the judges table 7xs….why she was even in Puerto Rico is completely beyond me!