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" This week&amp;#039;s Top Chef started with one extreme \u2013 canned, preserved pantry staples \u2013 and ended with the other: a seasonal, from-the-farm meal prepared at Dan Barber&amp;#039;s Blue Hill at Stone Barns, in Pocantico Hills, NY. Stefan, self-proclaimed, &amp;quot;very smart guy,&amp;quot; won immunity in the Quickfire challenge with a dish made from (am I really about to say this?) Velveeta and Spam.* The next morning, three teams of cheftestants (pork, chicken, and lamb) headed 30 minutes north of New York City to Blue Hill Farm, where they were taken &amp;quot;shopping&amp;quot; through the fields by three Blue Hill farmers. Ariane, stuck on team lamb with the &amp;quot;lovebirds&amp;quot; Hosea and Leah, is the grumpiest of the bunch, feeling as if they&amp;#039;re ganging up on her. Stefan and Jamie aren&amp;#039;t getting along, as usual, but this time it seems like Stefan is purposely getting under her skin. &amp;quot;When Jamie is pissed, she is so freaking cute, I love it!&amp;quot; he says, as cameras cut to him leisurely lounging on the balcony, smoking a cigarette. Ah, the pleasures of Velveeta-and-Spam-induced immunity. &amp;quot;Any time a chef can get to the farm and use the fresh produce, it&amp;#039;s positive,&amp;quot; says Tom, as the teams of three prepare their family-style dishes. It was inspiring to see the chefs combing through tomato plants, walking through chicken coops and pigpens \u2013 menu planning in its purest form, really. I enjoyed watching them think of creative substitutions for unavailable ingredients. After serving the food, which was mostly well-received by the guests (farmers and their families), the crew returned to NYC for judges table. Jamie, Stefan, and Carla, a.k.a. Team Chicken, took home the win for their Chicken Cutlet with Mizuna, Corn, Onion, and Tomato, Lemon-Herb Roast Chicken with Tomato Salad, Chicken Ravioli Soup, and not-to-sweet dessert tart. Team lamb \u2013 Leah, Hosea, and Ariane \u2013 ended up on the bottom this week. From Ariane&amp;#039;s poor butcher of the lamb, to Leah&amp;#039;s ambivilence and Hosea&amp;#039;s I&amp;#039;m-staying-out-of-it attitude, the group could not get their dishes together. In the end, a disgruntled Ariane was sent home. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I like Leah. I think she is quietly talented and could do quite well. That said, if she continues to distract herself by focusing more on Hosea than on her food, her time on the show may be short lived. *What are your feelings on Spam? I know it&amp;#039;s big in Hawaii, but I&amp;#039;ve never eaten much. Actually, that&amp;#039;s not completely true... if you ask my mom, she&amp;#039;ll tell the story of yelling at my babysitter when she found out that I, at age four, was eating spam in macaroni and cheese and scrambled eggs during the day. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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