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Thursday, February 19, 2004
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
LIVINGJuan Montier, an ebullient Decatur interior designer and amateur cook vying to be "The Next Celebrity Chef" on ABC's "The View" Wednesday in Las Vegas—was stymied by the most mundane of meat: chicken.
"I thought I did a great chicken dish with pancetta cream sauce and procini mushroom," Montier said. "But chicken to me is predictable. It's not my favorite thing to cook." Then again, he had no choice—that's what he had to cook. The chicken was part of a four-course Italian meal he was required to make for judges Wolfgang Puck, Robin Leach and Joy Behar at Caesars Palace.
In a rushed judging period—about 30 seconds—a dominant Behar preferred Texas rival Susan Reber's chicken dish and tiramisu, a dessert Montier admitted was his weakest link. Leach and Puck barely got words in edgewise.
Though Montier didn't win the $15,000 Bosch kitchen, he did get to cook in the Spago restaurant for six hours: "The kitchen was nirvana. I just requested it, and bang, it was there!"
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