Food truck chef, Food Network's Great Food Truck Race winner, irascible restaurant owner who famously told a Yelp reviewer to “burn in hell”, and OC Weekly cover boy Jason Quinn will need to add yet another title to his résumé.
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According to this article in Variety, the Playground chef will play a Simon Cowell-like role as a judge in a new MTV show called Snackdown, which will feature amateur chefs competing in snack-inspired challenges. The winner will get a cash prize and be published in a cookbook based on the show. The equally irascible Eddie Huang hosts the program. Jason Quinn will be one of three judges along with model Chrissy Teigen.
The lesson: Being irascible can get you places.
A hat-tip to reader JB for the heads-up.
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.