Some of us love the Food Network. Some of us want to hate it, but can't. I am of the latter group. I want to ban the channel from my television for some of the things they have done to my viewing pleasure (Iron Chef! Bring back Iron Chef!), but I can't. I just can't do it because there are a few things that still capture my attention:
- I love watching Michael Chiarello throw together some seriously delicious looking Napa-terranean meals; better yet, I love watching him stroll through the vineyard in his jeans, caressing his grapes. (Oh my, did I blog that second part out loud?!?!)
- Tyler Florence is hot. I'd like to be Tyler's Ultimate.
- There is a rumor that the original Iron Chef is coming back (it is on the schedule at 4 am right now). Not confirmed, but a rumor is better than nothing.
- Paula Deen's food scares my fat cells, but she is too adorable when she is cooking with her sons.
- Alton Brown is good eats.
- They will have Nigella Lawson some time this year
- By some glorious semi-homemade alignment of the stars, every time I turn the television on, Sandra Lee is not scheduled (unfortunately, Rachael Ray is, but that's a different post).
- Even though I am not a fan of Giada de Lauentiis, I like her taste in kitchens and clothes.
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5-15-2006 @ 9:44PM
taylor said...
I love Giada! So beautiful and her food is great too (maybe a little overboard on the Nutella sometimes but she loves it so much I couldn't deny her that pleasure).
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5-15-2006 @ 10:13PM
Camille Bauman said...
I'd like to know why Giada and Sandra Lee stay so slim...is it because their entire diet consists of licking their fingers and taking only one bite of the delicacies they prepare?
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5-15-2006 @ 11:57PM
Dave said...
I'm pretty sure Michael Chiarello bats for a different team. :-)
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5-16-2006 @ 3:52AM
moonablaze said...
camille, keep an eye out for the "chefography" on Giada. She wasn't always such a little thing.
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5-16-2006 @ 8:15AM
Jim said...
Love Giada's show and food, but it's difficult to concentrate on what she's doing. Does she have to show so much cleavage all the time?
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5-16-2006 @ 9:45AM
Cyn said...
sorry but I don't get the Food Network bashing...I love Food Network!
Cyn
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5-16-2006 @ 10:31AM
eric said...
This is a joke, right? I mean, I would hope that a site devoted to the glories and mysteries of food wouldn't post this sort of teenaged crap seriously:
"Tyler Florence is hot"
"I like her taste in kitchens and clothes."
"I love watching him stroll through the vineyard in his jeans, caressing his grapes."
Yuck. So embarrassing. I've gone off food thanks to that.
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5-16-2006 @ 10:38AM
LENA said...
I agree with Eric. Save that kind of nonsense for your all-girl slumber parties, Sarah.
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5-16-2006 @ 10:45AM
Alice said...
I agree with poster #7. So, you have a either are attracted to/share clothing and kitchen tastes with some of the hosts. Are there any culinary reasons that you watch the Food Network for?
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5-16-2006 @ 10:53AM
mike said...
I know she's not so popular any more but I'd like to see the Martha Stewart shows again. I really liked her cooking segments.
I also miss Iron Chef and only can stand to watch the American version with Morimoto or Cora are on. The only redeeming quality of the American version has to be Alton Brown, but even he seems out of his element compared to Good Eats. Or, rather his dialog seems forced and doesn't come across as naturally as on Good Eats.
I miss a lot of what the Food Network used to be. I wish they'd air old Emeril, Flay, Taste, Two Hot Tamales and other shows from way back over nights/early mornings.
Maybe someday the older shows will be available for purchase.
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5-16-2006 @ 11:59AM
angela said...
Chiarello is straight - didn't you see the show where he cooked all the food he prepared for their wedding on the 1yr anniversary for his wife? But...I thought he batted for the other team before that too. I cannot stand Giada, but I really do like her food. And lighten up posters #7 and #8... a site that calls good looking food "food porn" has a sense of humor. You should too!
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5-16-2006 @ 12:36PM
sarah said...
eric, lena, and alice: i guess that i've made my point. alice, you asked, "Are there any culinary reasons that you watch the Food Network for?" that's a great question.
the point of this post, and the answer to you question, alice, is that the food network has very few shows now that are actually about cooking.
i still watch because i do enjoy some of the shows, but it's disheartening to see some of the food network's choices in programming.
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5-16-2006 @ 1:37PM
druchyun said...
Right, and this is soo apparent in the "Next Food Network Star" reality show which was full of underqualified, unproven yet extremely boisterous nobodys. Flay, Batali, Emeril, Moulton (and more) all have proven reputations as chefs before entertainers. So is it purely about ratings now? I sometimes catch cooking with the CIA on public television and find it refreshing to have that monotonous French chef show you the "correct" way to cook. I feel it's a little more... enlightening than RR teaching me how to use a garbage bowl... but I won't go there.
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5-16-2006 @ 1:51PM
Al said...
The Flay episodes of Iron Chef America are totally watchable, if you make a drinking game where you take a shot every time he does or comes close to injuring himself or his sous-chefs. This includes but is not limited to careless knife handling, trying to touch too-hot things (in one episode he actually tried to reach into a pot of boiling water), dropping heavy items, and his trademark electrical shocks.
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5-16-2006 @ 1:56PM
Charley said...
I thought Tyler was hot too . . .until Dave Lieberman got a show. He's sooo much hotter.
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