Thursday, February 9, 2012
Food media Internet voting: Vote for the best/hottest/least smelly chef!!
Posted by Besha Rodell @BeshaRodell on Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:07 AM
Eater Atlanta is currently holding a competition to find the hottest chef in Atlanta. I'd make fun of the idea if it weren't bad timing for me to do so, seeing as our own annual Lust List hit the streets today. But if you take a look down the list and see some of the winners...well, let's just say that in a world where certain people can be deemed that much hotter than certain other people, it's obvious that the internets have broken our collective brains.
Food & Wine has added a new category to their popular Best New Chefs issue, including now Best New Pastry Chefs. Cool for them - I'm all for giving props to the sweeter side of the industry. You can also vote for your favorite pastry chef in the People's Choice portion of the awards. Atlanta's Pamela Moxley of Miller Union is in the running, as is Cynthia Wong of Empire State South. Last year, during the voting for People's Choice for regular chefs, I got quite a few phone calls from local chefs (not in the running) bitching about the system, saying how it was just a cynical way for the media outlet to get tons of pageviews, nominating folks and then getting those people to do a bunch of work pushing people to the publication's website to vote for them. It makes Yelp look like a scientific study in quality by comparison.
All that said...make sure to join in this summer when we put up our extra special Best Of Atlanta online voting page!!
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