My Little Sister's Transfer Recruitment!
 

A few years ago I went through recruitment as a junior transfer. This year my younger sister is a junior transfer at the same school and I have convinced her to sign up for recruitment. We're both big "foodies" so the codes are based off famous chefs. I've told her to keep an open mind and I'm trying to not be too biased towards my own house. :p

1. Andrew Zimmern
2. Giada de Laurentiis *legacy
3. Alton Brown
4. Anthony Bourdain
5. Paula Deen
6. Bobby Flay
7. Masahiru Morimoto
8. Emeril Lagasse
9. Alex Guarnaschelli
10. Aaron Sanchez
11. Geoffrey Zakarian

The updates will be delayed by a couple days. I'm excited to share the experience of being in a sorority with her, regardless of the affiliation!

Eek. Giada looks like a living bobble head. Go Morimoto. Morimoto's in Philly is a fabulous restaurant.

I'm a big Chopped fan so I'm rooting for Alex Guarnaschelli!

I'll root for Alton Brown and Bobby Flay. Fans of both of them!

I'll root for Alton Brown because of what he says about kitchen utensils: Everything in your kitchen should do more than one thing. Except 1 item: your fire extinguisher.
Being a good cook (if I do say so myself), but not a believer in fancy gadgets, this really spoke to me. And justifies NOT stuffing my cabinets.

But back to the game!

I'm assuming he thinks it should be used for putting out kitchen fires to which I say, "Yeah, Alton, tell that to my husband." He once used ours to try and kill a mouse. I came home from a banquet to find ....whatever chemical powder is in a fire extinguisher all over my kitchen, in the cabinets, drawers, etc....AND we still had the mouse.

Sorry for that tangent-back to the story - Bobby Flay all the way!

Yes. That is his stated reason for owning a fire extinguisher and keeping it in your kitchen. I'm a fan of all of the Food TV chefs, much like being a fan of all NPC sororities!

Bourdain!

Geoffrey Zakarian!!! Love, love, love him! I'm a Chopped fan, and he is fantastic. I would have gone with Scott Conant (because I have a mega-crush... when he smiles, I melt!) but he didn't make the list.

I'm not gonna root for Andrew Zimmern! I saw him catch and cook some very cute puffins on his show.

The yellow is quite hard to read. You might want to switch to a different shade for Alton Brown.

I'll go with Emeril. "Bam!" would be a good door chant. And Carnation, help! What's a puffin (other than a bird)?

It's this cute arctic bird that looks kind of like a parrot. They were flying along and he scooped them out of the air with a long-handled net. I had just walked in and had never heard of him and thought he was rescuing them. In the next scene, he was roasting them over a fire! Ballerina and I screamed but we couldn't unsee what we'd seen.:(

Oh no! That's what I thought -- adorable seabirds. I feel sad.

DAY 1 - My sister texted me afterwards that she LOVED her first day of recruitment and had a lot of fun.

Geoffrey Zakarian - At her first house she felt that they talked about themselves and their house a little more than they wanted to learn about her. Even though she thought they were friendly, she also thought they came off as robotic.

Anthony Bourdain - She thought these girls were very friendly and cool. One of the girls mentioned during the bump to the other girl that my sister had a really good attitude towards recruitment. That made her feel really special.

Alton Brown - My sister really didn’t like this house and couldn’t see herself fitting in. The girls all had the same look and were very sporty. She didn’t feel like they truly wanted to get to know her. To top it off, the inside of the house was cramped and didn’t feel inviting.

Emeril Lagasse - She really loved this house. She hit it off with all of the girls she spoke to and got to talk about really random topics like their food obsessions. She felt that all the girls were so friendly and genuine. She also liked talking outside and not cramped like the house beforehand.

Aaron Sanchez - She thought the physical house was the most beautiful so far. She had good conversations with the first and third girl and got to talk about networking, which is important to her. However, the second girl was really not into it and gave her one word answers and chewed gum while they talked. Despite it all, she still liked this house.

Alex Guarnaschelli - This was her last party of the day and she was really tired. When their doors opened she instantly woke up. She loved this house’s decorations the most and felt they really fit her personality. She met another transfer from her hometown and instantly connected. This was the only house where she remembered the girls names. She was sad when the party was over.

Although she didn’t have to rank this day, her order would have been:

1. Alex Guarnaschelli
2. Emeril Lagasse
3. Aaron Sanchez
4. Anthony Bourdain
5. Geoffrey Zakarian
6. Alton Brown