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'Top Chef Masters' - Watch Your Mouth, Wylie!

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Wylie Dusfresne at wd-50. Photo: Sara Bonisteel.
Now this is more like it. If the paragon of haute cuisine civility that is "Top Chef Masters" isn't going to provide the kind of back-stabbing, dish-sabotaging enfant terrible tantrums its more proletarian cousin offers, the least they can do is give us some righteously fiery, four-letter angst. And who better to unleash a torrent of obscenities than Wylie Dufresne?

Proving yet again that this particular season might as well be named "Top Chef: Comeuppance," this latest installment saw the "don't call me a molecular gastronomist" proprietor of wd-50 -- as well as Citizen Cake's Elizabeth Falkner -- graded by the same Season 2 hopefuls who were once subject to their withering critiques as "Top Chef" judges.

Dufresne's food may have been Vulcan-like in its futurist logic -- eggs poached in an immersion circulator, oozing toothpaste-consistency yolks; squares of crispy-skinned chicken breast -- but his mouth on Wednesday was closer to William Shatner on a bender.
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