Great title. I guess that means that Lisa, they "really, really didn't like you."

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I'm so pleased! He was incredibly appealing on camera, and while he might not have the cooking chops that the rest possessed, I can easily see him filling a Marc Summers-style food culture role.

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Isn't this already a show on another channel? I distinctly remember watching a show where the host works at various food industry jobs.

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nice! I was hoping that he would win but when he nor lisa won i was so bummed.Its nice to see that the food network could use him on a show in some fashion. lisa was to upscale for me to relate to..to polished..adam was more relate able to me and i enjoyed watching him.arron, if that was his name,the other guy who won,was just so uncomfortable in front of the camera and that made me uncomfortable to watch him. I was so surprised that he won.

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Food network doesn't care about foodies, unless Alton Brown is involved (Good Eats, ICA), I'll pass.

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That's interesting. You'd link Lisa would have some kind of recourse now, as it does seem the littlest bit unfair to her that two people got their own shows. I liked all three of them in different ways - at least you can't accuse Lisa of dumbing down her food.

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That show sounds like it belongs on Discovery not Food network. I guess they need to compete on multiple fronts, but it doesn't sound like a show I'd watch. I think I would have enjoyed watching the more complex food that Lisa was cooking. Despite her Vulcan haircut, and lack of eyes while smiling, I wouldn't have held it against her food ;-)

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One thing that became clear during his stint on TNFNS is that Adam oozes with personality. The Food Network has had some pretty lackluster hosts in the past and casting Adam in a Hosting capacity makes a lot of sense.

He'd be great hosting a re-launch of Ready, Set, Cook. Assuming any of you are old enough to remember it.

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Excellent! He should have won the Next Food Network Star to begin with. He is easily the most watchable of the 3. I dont know how Lisa even made it to the finals. She was annoying and always looked like she ate something sour. Aaron is too hard to understand and NOT good in front of the camera.

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FN has learned that they can screen for new, young (cheap!) talent, and fire the expensive old talent. Except for Rachael Ray, who has a no talent.

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The interesting thing is that Adam actually got a better deal than he would have had he won TNFNS!

Aaron's show is on Sunday mornings/early afternoons--a time when FoodNetwork tends to run repeats of their more popular shows OR shows that no one has heard of.

Adam, on the other hand, has landed in Primetime! It looks like his show will follow Food Detectives, which I think is one of the better shows on the Food Network (especially considering that it doesn't actually involve *cooking*. Of course, more and more Food Network shows are food documentaries and not actually cooking shows).

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So... Food Network has really given up on the cooking shows, huh? They now have a food mythbusters and a food dirty jobs. Why not just rename themselves Discovery Food?

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Lisa was just a really odd case... She seemed to have more skills than Adam or Aaron, but she just seemed unlikable. Even at the end with her "If I can master this at 13, then you can now" just seems condescending. Then she tops it off by saying she's so happy for Aaron because "he and his family really needed this". She's just strange...so much so that I can't help but wonder if she's a made up character!

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Agreed with Michael about Lisa - it just didn't click (too bad). While Aaron may have been more knowledgeable about food, Adam's concept was much better. Question though: did they take Adam's concept show and move it to Aida (which sounds very similar) or did they already have that one in the bag?

If the latter, then they pretty much already had their mind made up on Aaron.

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Food Network up here in Canada has some awesome shows that Food Network US would do well to copy.

Our Cooking with Chefs series totally rocks for cooking. Chefs make 3-4 dishes in a 360 studio, giving tips and tricks. All dishes revolve around one basic concept or ingredient.

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