Harold Dieterle Wins Top Chef, but Has a Losing MySpace Profile
Yessss! I was so devistated when Dave was eliminated last week and Tiffani remained in the final, so you can imagine how happy I am that resident Top Chef hottie Harold Dieterle has won the title of “Top Chef”.
As much as I loved Harold on the show, his MySpace profile leaves me a bit…disturbed. Under his favorite music he lists the Beastie Boys, which is awesome, but then he continues on by saying “anything really……just keep the country away from me…”
ARUGH! I hate when people say stuff like that. Seriously, what’s wrong with country music? Fight it out with Jack White and Loretta Lynn.
It is what it is…I guess.
1. TR | 2:01 am on May 25th, 2006
You’re right. It’s so completely idiotic when people say that they listen to “anything but country”, since:
1. Country music isn’t always terrible and,
2. “Anything”? Really? So you like Phil Collins, Yanni, and Scandinavian Death Metal Bands?
Ugh. People.
2. juliette | 6:37 am on May 25th, 2006
Tiffani got such a bad deal - I must be one of the few who has actually worked in a kitchen and know how hard it is to be a woman in a male dominated field. And her crew was completely drunk/hung over and didn’t give her any help at all for her final task - that was so nasty of Dave and Stephen. I though her menu was much more interesting and what you might find at one of the top restaurants in this country. I knew they would choose Harold, who I do like, but I think Tiffani outdid him in the final with very little help.
3. Henry | 8:06 am on May 25th, 2006
Lost finale wuz so Good. omgz.
4. Jen | 10:12 am on May 25th, 2006
He’s from Long Island. Holla!
5. mike | 1:21 pm on May 25th, 2006
i hate when people say that about country. when they say country, i think they mean mainstream “nashville” country. because it’s impossible not to like hank williams, johnny cash etc unless youre biased.
6. Anonymous | 11:11 am on May 26th, 2006
what’s wrong with scandivaian death metal?
7. Anonymous | 11:12 am on May 26th, 2006
err…i meant scandinavian
8. Anonymous | 6:19 pm on May 26th, 2006
leave him alone
9. Anonymous | 6:55 am on May 27th, 2006
I Loved Watching Harold, hes the Man!
10. granola grey | 8:19 am on May 27th, 2006
Katie Lee Joel is gay. What the hell is a truffle?
11. granola grey | 9:25 am on May 27th, 2006
can he cook rump steak? how about armpit truffles?
12. kristin | 10:04 am on May 27th, 2006
I found his MySpace strange. Seemed very teenaged.
13. Not important | 6:39 pm on May 27th, 2006
Harold is a HOTTIE! I can hardly wait to try his new restaurant in NYC, and are so happy that he beat Tifffani’s round red rump! She is one nasty witch. It would have been nice to see Dave and Harold work together — maybe now that Dave’s restaurant closed, Harold would consider hiring him at HIS new place?! Does anyone know what the name of the new place will be???
14. sarah | 6:58 pm on May 27th, 2006
I think if that how Harold is on t.v. then he will do GREAT as a top CHEF!!!
15. jopachats | 6:27 am on May 28th, 2006
It wasn’t very respectful or professional for D&S to get ripped and come in hung over, but still Tif didn’t get such a raw deal. Dave might have been hung over but he BROUGHT IT. Geez, the women were just about having a screaming O over his desserts. If any thing I wonder about Stephen. They made a comment about perverse wine parings. I wonder if S did a little sabotage or if Tiff had her menu already planned and S did the best pairings he could with what he had. The other team seemed to approach it from the other direction - this is the wine, what food would go well (since there were more possibilities with food than with wine that just seems smart)
16. Jeff | 12:07 pm on May 28th, 2006
I am so glad Tiffani got her come-uppance. That self-satisfied little smirk she had on her face whenever the judges had something negative to say about Dave or Harold just made me want to reach throught the TV and SMACK her. And then the nerve of her, trying to take the credit for the dessert when Dave had already let the judges know they were his from start to finish. Augh! What a piece of work. Also, Harold is entitled to his opinion of country. I never used to like country, until the so-called “new country” or “young country” started coming out. It just all sounds the same anymore, like a pop song with a steel guitar and a southern accent thrown in just to make sure you know what genre it’s supposed to be. Give me a break.
17. torchy | 12:11 pm on May 28th, 2006
Tiffani is and was a B—–. Having worked in the “male dominated” culinary world myself, I understand the importance of dimplomacy and keeping my ego in check. Being teachable and humble–as Harold so beautifully demonstrated–is an important part of making your team want to work for you! Tiffani got EXACTLY what she deserved……especially for trying to make Dave’s dessert her own! And yes, Country sucks, EXCEPT for the Dixie Chics, you redneck!
18. Jeff | 12:11 pm on May 28th, 2006
Sorry, I just read back what I wrote about country music and realized it could be taken to mean that I like the “New Country” I like the old school country more and more because of the blandness of the “New Country”. Nothing wrong with a bit of Death Metal either. Yanni has always sucked ass.
19. p | 12:41 pm on May 28th, 2006
Congratualtions Harold. Well desreved. I just wish it would have been Harold and LeeAnn in the final 2.
I totally agree about the country. No country, no hip-hop. Ugh.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
20. GladHeWon | 1:16 pm on May 28th, 2006
For Tiffany to say that she could feel Harold’s knife in her back was ridiculous and unfair. Harold had nothing to do with what the others expressed or felt and said nothing to that would cause anybody watching to think that he had stabbed her in the back. He was a class act the whole time and never had to resort to belittling or dissing anyone. His talent and integrity spoke for itself. For Tiffany to take credit for Dave’s dessert was duplicitous and dishonest and I’m glad it came out. (Watch the finale show, Tiffany and then start back peddling!!) . Like so many others, I think she got what she deserved. And I, too, wish it had been LeAnne and Harold going head to head in the finale. What’s the name of Harold’s new restaurant in NYC? Anybody know?
21. Jen | 1:48 pm on May 28th, 2006
I really want to know the name of Harolds new restaurant. Anyone have any idea yet? Harold was amazing.
22. jason | 2:38 pm on May 28th, 2006
COUNTRY SUCKS BIG DONKEY BALLS!!!!
how bout that.!!!!!!!!!!
23. jopachats | 6:05 pm on May 28th, 2006
Personally, I took Tif’s comment about “my back just ran into your knife” to mean “I feel like I’ve been stabbed in the back [by the other four saying Harold should win] and yet it is all my own damn fault” Or for you fans of the Bard, “Hoist on my own petard” BTW some country sucks and some rocks. Just like any musical genre. Except I’ve never heard a Baroque piece I didn’t like. Hmmm, the exception that proves the rule? Oh, rambling. Shutting up now.
24. Jeff H. | 8:57 pm on May 28th, 2006
I hate country too, can’t stand it, ANY OF IT. And that certainly includes Johnny Cash and Hank Williams. I would much rather listen to Phil Collins or Yanni than any country music, so Harold was right on the money with that comment.
25. Fiona K | 2:13 pm on May 29th, 2006
CONGRATULATIONS HAROLD!
YOU WERE THE CLEAR WINNER TO ME FROM DAY ONE FOR THERE’S NO DOUBT ABOUT YOUR TALENT AND PASSION. YOU ALSO SHOWED THAT TEAMWORK, KINDNESS AND HUMILITY GOES A LONG WAY AND MAKES A REAL DIFFERENCE.
LOOKING FORWARD TO THE OPENING OF YOUR RESTAURANT.
WELL DONE,
FIONA K from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
26. Fiona K | 2:18 pm on May 29th, 2006
As for Dave–You’re a Fantastic Chef.
Do your best to keep the emotions and nerves in check under pressure and everything will just flow, trust me.
Tiffani–You’re a good chef, however, learn more about teamwork, kindness and humility–without those elements or should I say “ingredients”, you’ll go No Where.
27. Anonymous | 9:39 pm on May 29th, 2006
country SUX, hip-hop SPEAKS, and everything in between is WEAK! (like this rhyme)
28. Julie | 10:32 pm on May 29th, 2006
Harold’s restaurant (not yet opened):
http://www.perillanyc.com/
29. Leigher | 4:09 am on June 4th, 2006
A truffle is a mushroom…..very rare and expensive…..usually found in France and rooted (by specially trained sniffer dogs and pigs)……how appetizing….
30. Missy | 5:15 am on June 9th, 2006
hahaha i understand people having their own opinions but it’s the ones who pretend they don’t like country and then “walk the line” comes out and all of a sudden they’re huge Johnny Cash fans.
I try to stay open minded to most music b/c last thing I want to do is get caught with my foot in my mouth.
Harold, however, is a hottie. He can like or hate any music that he wants and I’d still want a piece of that pie. Yummy!
I was secretly hoping he would lose very early on so I could seek him out and use my womanly wiles on him but alas now he’s too darn popular. Damn you Harold!
31. Tony | 12:53 pm on June 19th, 2006
Harold’s new restaurant will be named Perilla after the herb used in a lot of Asian cuisine. He hopes to open in late fall, but a early next year grand opening is more likely. It’ll be in Manhattan and he intends to ask a few of his cast-mates if they’d like to join his staff. Let’s all wish Harold good luck !! I know he’ll succeed.
32. Jennifer | 12:15 pm on July 29th, 2006
All I can say is that I’m VERY, VERY, PROUD of my big brother Harold. That’s right I’m his baby sister…… He did an incredible job and has always been a hard worker. He deserves nothing but the best in his career and health…
Ladies he’s single… Let me know I can put in a good work for you.
33. Lin | 11:34 am on August 29th, 2006
I am so glad Harold won Top Chef, a great cook clearly, and such a true gentleman; true humility and grace shown always. Harold could be the perfect man! Thankfully of course Harold is not a saint, he likes to party hardy I gather; may he truly enjoy his well earned victory. I look forward to your new place opening, along with many others; congrats, Harold. Best that life has to offer.
34. michael dominici | 2:04 pm on September 4th, 2006
Harold was the deserving winner; however, Dave should have been in the last leg of the challenge: Elegant VS Rustic. Tif rubbed me the wrong way and her food never really shined. Did she win ANY of the challenges??? Good luck in your career, Harold.
35. leona | 5:22 pm on September 4th, 2006
harold was awesome but dave shoulda been in the top 2 also…it sucked that they disqualified him for forgetting a dish…if i order room service & they forget a dish…do i honestly care if the rest is the best i’ve ever eaten???—absolutely not…but bring me 3 dishes of mediocrity…& u can take it back…
cant wait for him to open….
36. leona | 5:24 pm on September 4th, 2006
btw….i couldnt even stand to look at tiffani’s smug face…sooooo glad that she lost. & quite amused that it took her so by surprise.
she deserved to be humiliated after the way she treated everyone.
37. Maitre de Cuisine | 6:06 pm on September 4th, 2006
hey!
I’ve watched my first reality TV show todaya 38 years! WOW> And itr happened to be “Top Chef” As European chef, I have cattered in the greatest venues abeoad,and yes… for a very famous Prince, once. I found the show somewhat funny. The general level of competition was low (to my judgment). I have missed the “cooking” part, those moments when the Chef talks/communicates with ingredients, the process of creativity. I guess tV can’t really bring all these to the screen. Those who have been in the Kitchen know, what I mean.
Nevertheless, I have to congratulate the Winner, who to me was the closest to what we consider overseas as a good chef: solid, creative, with this “psycho-episodes”. Good guy with a lot of room to improve. Once your restaurant is open, i’ll try it and rate it…
Congratulations from a Senior chef!
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39. Emilie | 9:32 am on September 6th, 2006
hey, jennifer. when is your bro’s restaurant opening? i wanna be the first customer.
40. Evan | 2:52 pm on September 6th, 2006
Hank williams is great. Johnny Cash is fantastic. There are several other decent country singers. Most blow yes. But I cant think of anyone who doesnt like Hank or Cash.
41. Karla | 5:17 pm on October 9th, 2006
harold is the best, and his looks help make everything seem even more delish
42. Karla | 5:18 pm on October 9th, 2006
ps i LOVE JOHNNY CASH, so totally bad move on the country
43. Laura | 12:11 pm on October 17th, 2006
Jennifer! your brother is awesome. If he’s still single i am completely interested!
44. cowgirl | 6:14 pm on October 19th, 2006
I love country music. Keith Urban “My Bluejeans”
Just saw Harold as one of the judges on Season 2.
Harold really knows his stuff. He gave those newbies
a good talkin to.
What is Tiffini doing? Where is Dave now?
45. Laurel | 5:04 pm on October 25th, 2006
Harold was the clear winner throughout. Which is why, Jennifer, if he’s still single, I’m interested. I have respected and admired his character throughtout the past season (but I’d really like to just get to know him without the cameras).
46. Nicole | 5:06 pm on October 25th, 2006
Why does it matter what people listen too? Does it really matter what someone’s prefrence is to . . . anything?? I like Harold and he so deserved the Top Chef. Tiffany - she was okay but you reap what you sow.
I would have loved to see Dave and Harold go up against eachother!!
47. Edie | 7:44 pm on November 1st, 2006
I can guess why he’s still single: he’s incredibly rude. I sent him a brief email on myspace to express admiration for his skill and inquire about the opening of his restaurant and he not only unceremoniously deleted my request to add him to my friends list, but wrote back a dismissive and rude reply to my email. Yuck. I hope he stays in the back of the house IF he ever does open a restaurant, because he is sorely lacking in congeniality.
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49. Julia | 8:54 am on December 16th, 2006
I think that Harold’s probably been overwhelmed with friend requests and emails. He probably just wants to keep his myspace profile strictly for friends. As for the email perhaps he is under a lot of pressure to get it started.
50. Campanita | 12:42 pm on December 19th, 2006
No sè si sea el mejor chef, pero està guapisimo! y me diò mucho gusto saber que ganò èl, aqui en mexico aun la temporada no termina y no sabia quien ganaba, pero que gusto saber que harold se llevò el primer lugar!!!
felicidades!
51. Carolina | 8:39 pm on December 23rd, 2006
OMG, I’m glad to know that harold was the winner of top chef. here in brazil the show is still in the middle and I was dying to know who was the, err, top chef.
52. DJBoogie | 9:01 pm on December 27th, 2006
couldnt agree more with him
Country music for the most part, is
Female singers saying how great they want treating and what a**holes guys are
and guys singing about women, cars and beer
its awful!
Ive dj’d in 4 coutnries, I now DJ in southern US, most of the people that want country, like the songs that sound the same
I say, Im with ya Harold
Country music sucks
53. DJBoogie | 9:02 pm on December 27th, 2006
hmm, a comment saying the guys didnt give tiffani any help for the final task?
youre wrong
the desert she CLAIMED to make, was the best of her 5 dishes..made by……….Dave!
54. laury | 9:58 pm on December 27th, 2006
everybody, Dave Martin (i’m not your b …. b…..) is opening a restaurant in NYC (LOLA) february 2007..
cant wait to taste harold’s and dave’s food
55. L. | 1:06 pm on December 31st, 2006
Hey, come on now, we are free to like what we want to like…lol…I think he is hot to death anyways.
56. Mike | 6:06 pm on January 4th, 2007
Thank you TIVO for the suggestion of Top Chef. I was watching the second season reguarly, when I was lucky to get all the first season recorded automatically! Hurray! I just watched Harold win the whole thing - awesome and well deserved.
57. Mary | 7:44 am on January 8th, 2007
Leave him alone! I don’t have anything against country music but if he don’t like that kind of music it’s his problem…and you’re doning the same things when TR talk about death metal bands!
58. Shokaste | 12:56 pm on January 11th, 2007
Hm. dave isnt opening cafe Lola, its already there, hes just working there. I read somewhere Exec Chef but I dont know for sure, just that he works there.
59. melly | 9:47 am on January 17th, 2007
Tiffani made 9 dishes, and she clearly wanted to win. So the dessert was Dave’s recipe, and if you’re a chef in a kitchen and your staff made the dishes but when a customer asked who’s the chef, it has to be the chef, not the staff no matter whose recipe it is. And why the hell did Dave has to come forward with the dessert when it’s obviously the final between Harold and Tiffani. That being said, Dave is a total **shole, and Tiffani was treated like,well, a hated contestant in a reality show. And to think that she was stucked with Dave and Stephen. Just imagine if she had the help that Harold had.
60. Diana | 8:06 am on January 18th, 2007
Harold rocks!
And Tiff: he’s definetly not your bitch, BITCH!
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62. Roger | 10:38 pm on January 24th, 2007
get over it. it’s an opinion. would you hate him because he didn’t like your favorite TV show? or because he doesn’t like his hair long? it’s just an opinon. … a difference of opinion. no one is going to agree with you 100% of the time.
63. Sulemy | 9:32 pm on January 27th, 2007
Harold, eres el mejor, me gustaria estudiar gastronomia
, soy latina, eres el mejor!
64. andré | 4:03 pm on January 31st, 2007
the problem with country music it is that it really sucks! he got more points just after saying that!!! i’m sure that tiffany’s music s country!!!
65. andré | 4:05 pm on January 31st, 2007
the problem with country music is that it just sucks! it’s the kind of music tiffani listen to!!!
66. smalls | 7:41 pm on January 31st, 2007
hey my sister went to high school with him!
67. gv | 12:03 pm on February 2nd, 2007
well you’ve got to admit he made a good work on to chef…Didn’t he win? well I think he’s a nice guy and a great future is coming for him… God blees you all
68. aletsis | 9:51 am on February 5th, 2007
aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
love soooo muuuch!
u’ re hot!
69. UNKNOWN | 7:46 am on April 28th, 2007
I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo HAPPY that Harold won. He is FINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
70. UNKNOWN | 9:55 am on April 28th, 2007
i am really glad that Dave didn’t win
71. beatrice | 9:58 am on April 28th, 2007
I Like top chef because I like it
72. diva4life | 3:00 pm on April 29th, 2007
tiffinay really get on my nerves. i’m really glad that Harold won top chef and i am glad dave didn’t win either because i don’t like dave. when dave started crying i found it funny but i think tiffinay is a snake i am really glad that miagul was speaking the truth. dave went to my high school and i really hated him and tiffinay went to uni with me and she can’t stp complaining it was unbelievebly then i saw harold when i was going to buy some hicubma
73. beatrice | 3:20 pm on April 29th, 2007
I like tiffinay from top chef because she is so rude i like it sometime because tiffinay say rude thing to just harold it so sad to harold
74. beatrice | 3:22 pm on April 29th, 2007
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII hate dave and harold
75. Anonymous | 9:42 am on June 7th, 2007
umm whats wrong with phil collins? and maybe he really does like almost anything besides country.stop tryin to sound all music snobbish.dork.
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77. SusanCoyote | 7:32 pm on June 19th, 2007
People write “Anything but Country” because it’s white-trash hillbilly music!
Harold is great and I too like everything buy Country. I’d rather listen to nails on a chalkboard.
Harold is clearly the best chef.
78. Marie | 11:55 pm on July 26th, 2007
Country music sucks. That’s why he said that.
79. ~ | 7:48 pm on September 13th, 2007
Harold’s restaurant is called Perilla and is located is the west village.
80. Susan M. | 3:31 am on December 1st, 2007
Just returned from a “ladies night out” with Harold’s mom’s co-workers. Harold’s mom was able to secure us 3 table reservations. Thank you! We embarrassed ourselves with requests for pictures, autographs, etc. No worries…John the (hot) general manager graciously handled our requests…and Harold came to the table to grant us our mid-life fantasies…lol…and he never even knew what a thrill he gave us! The wait staff was wonderful…OK - you want to know how the food was too—wow—awesome meal from start to finish—we will definitely be back for more!