The Murrells Inlet resident was one of the 100 amateur cooks who were shown competing for spots on Fox's "MasterChef" show on Monday and Tuesday.But by the first commercial break on Monday night, Phillips, 62, was being denied the coveted "MasterChef" apron that signifies advancement in the competition.
Few people would choose to begin a new career by subjecting their work to some of the harshest criticism around, but that's exactly what Murrells Inlet resident Alice D'Antoni Phillips has done.
Alice D'Antoni Phillips, a Murrells Inlet resident, was not given the coveted apron signifying her advancement into the next round of the Fox Network's amateur cooking competition MasterChef.
The show's premiere Monday night, where 100 home cooks competed for the chance to advance to the next round and have a shot at $250,000 and a cook book, showed a quick clip of Phillips being told by Gordon Ramsay that her stuff salmon dish was not good enough to earn her entry into the next round of the cooking competition.
The Sun News will catch up with Phillips later this week to find out what she thinks about what Ramsay and the other judges had to say about her food.
Cuisine's role has been transformed from sustenance to A-list celebrity, and that renown represents potential for tourism marketers.
Cuisine's role has been transformed from sustenance to A-list celebrity, and that renown represents potential for tourism marketers.
Paula Deen is as Southern as hot buttered biscuits and skillet cornbread topped with butter. During the show, an announcer said "Not everyone has the recipe for 'MasterChef' success" while clips were shown of a couple of different contestants cooking, including Phillips.
Then Gordon Ramsay, one of the show's judges and a notoriously harsh food critic, was shown saying to Phillips about her dish, "Raspberries, salmon, chipotle, grits. ... It's like you're wearing the wrong clothes and puttinglipstick on your big toe."
Phillips said one of the first things that ran through her head was "What does that have to do with anything?" but she held her tongue.
"I didn't get defensive," she said. "Being the mature, Southern lady I am, I just took a deep breath and said [to each of the judges] I want to thank each one of y'all for this opportunity."
"I should have said 'Yeah, Gordon, and if I were your mom, I'd wash your ... mouth out with soap,'" or "'You know what Gordon, you can kiss my grits,'" she said.
"I was trying to make a complementary flavor," she said, explaining the combination of salmon, cheese grits and a raspberry sauce. "I had field tested the dish with several people and I got really good responses from it. ... Obviously, it didn't work that day."
She said she has already heard from a lot of women and men who are old enough to be Ramsay's parent who were inspired by her short time on the show.
"MasterChef" is "not something most women my age think they can do," she said. "But it opens windows, opportunities, new adventures."
She said she hopes to use her "fame" to attract people to her Facebook page about cooking - "What's for Dinner? Ally's Kitchen" - and eventually to a professional website.
People are "looking for ways to make hum-drum complacent things in their lives just a little more exciting. ... I'll show them how to make their food ramped up and bit more gourmet, from how you prepare it to how you plate it.
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