are all tv chefs totally obnoxious twats?

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my wife and I occasionally amuse ourselves discussing various horrible ways to sexually abuse RR.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

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― milo z (mlp), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Clearly the correct answer to that is "with a spoonula full of EVOO."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I do like Ham on the Street.

― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

STOUPS AND SAMMIES, PPL

― any cop (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

"occasionally"

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Alton really is the only one I find likeable, and even then his schtick reminds me of a BBC reporter (in terms of how his phrasing of things is always the EXACT SAME)... Iron Chef America is pretty good for what it is, def. the best American adaptation of it, very faithful to the tone and spirit of the original, and Alton is hands down the best Food Network guy for the role. However I hate Bobby Flay and his stupid sauce bottles, and Morimoto is always getting the shaft for being "too weird" (ie, too Japanese)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i used to like 'the frugal gourmet', but then he raped that kid or whatever

― gear (gear), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

'yan can cook', is he still around?

― gear (gear), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, he's gone way veggie these days, though.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

and it's not called Yan Can Cook anymore - "Martin Yan Presents" or something

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i stand by the basic thrust of this thread

― davina q (dubplatestyle), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i was forced to watch an episode of anthony bourididiaianaians show on saturday night while waiting to go out to eat and it was interminable

― davina q (dubplatestyle), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

The Frug and Yan Can Cook both kicked so much ass! Yan got me saying "very simple, very simple." Best catchphrase ever.

Jeff Smith's (frugal gourmet) books are pretty damn great, especially the one about immigrant cousine, which has a lot of interesting history of people and their foods. However, the man is fucking obsessed with garlic, though, and is a chimo, both of which make him suspicious. It makes all those Elmo episodes seem creepy in retrospect, too.

PBS cooking shows are the best, fuck a food network.

― Abbott (Abbott), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I will kill that Iron Chef twat with an Insinkerator.

― Abbott (Abbott), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I loved Yan Can Cook, and his crazy aprons. He was one of the judges on Iron Chef America awhile back, totally hilarious, best judge ever.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Monday, 25 September 2006 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

The wife and I were talking the other night about Ming Tsai... I was of the opinion that he used the Food Network to build some national fame and then went back to doing what he preferred, cooking in his own restaurant, but maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. Did the network get rid of him, or did he walk away while the walking was good? Is Blue Ginger still in business? Have any Boston-area ilxors eaten there?

Does Jamie Oliver have any current tv exposure in the UK, or is he busy with his restaurant?

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't understand how Giada de Laurentiis' cameraperson can resist the urge to constantly toss garlic cloves/sticks of butter/etc down her cleavage.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Monday, 25 September 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe i should just food network on mute

― davina q (dubplatestyle), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Giada

http://www.meninaprons.net/images/giada/giada03.gif

oh shit, xpost

― PappaWheelie says, ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

my wife and I occasionally amuse ourselves discussing various horrible ways to sexually abuse RR.

you're a weird dude.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

dude, she washes dishes with her feet! She expects this form us?

― PappaWheelie says, ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

giada is saying she will feed this starving child with her overripened bosom

― davina q (dubplatestyle), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

She better hurry, it looks like it's going to go bad in a day or two.

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Giada's like a bobblehead, her head is weirdly out of proportion with the rest of her body.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, that's it Shakey. Keep up the good work on the weird sexual fantasies with TV cooks

― PappaWheelie says, ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.allserialkillers.com/Fred_RoseSHOP.jpg

― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

eh I don't find Giada attractive (and it wasn't me who suggested throwing cloves of garlic in her cleavage!)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought Ming was on PBS.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

bored-ain amirite?

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Just because I want to chuck foodstuffs through her boobs doesn't mean I find her attractive!

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Monday, 25 September 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I do though.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Monday, 25 September 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

that said i liked the bourdain show on the texan/mexican border. the politics were good and the food looked fucking great too. plus i like his unafraid, democratic schtick even if he does come of like a righteous asshole a bit.

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, he may be, I don't ever think to watch it. I thought he was away from tv entirely right now. (xpost, referring to Ming Tsai.)

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

good god, we've moved onto chucking breasts, bobbling head, righteous assholes, fucking food; mod, can we get one of those "warning adult content - do you accept" pages for this thread?

― PappaWheelie says, ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

ihttp://www.garciamalloy.com/uploaded_images/giada-700027.jpg
take a shot nick u fkn loser!!!1

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

oh you're kidding. my img jokes never pan out!

anyway, sorry abt the potty mouth.

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

For a thread with the word "twat" in the title? Oh yes, absolutely. (XP to PappaW)

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway, sorry abt the potty mouth.

no no, the damage has been done and we've gone there.

so let's start with the "fucking food"

http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/fs/food/images/cucumber.jpg

http://www.dawnfoods.com/ideas/Angel%20Food%20Cake.jpg

http://www.vegiworks.com/butternut.jpg

http://www.pretzels-inc.com/images/cheese%20balls.gif

― PappaWheelie says, ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Is Blue Ginger still in business? Have any Boston-area ilxors eaten there?

I haven't eaten there, but Ming Tsai has gone online: http://www.simplyming.org/

His podcasts are pretty great...

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 25 September 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i doubt i would've cared much for him otherwise, but goddamn seeing ming on that "i wanna be a chef" pbs show or whatever it was called made me wanna punch him in the throat.
pepin puts me in a trance. so soothing. i wouldn't ever cook many of his recipes, but they do look good.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 25 September 2006 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, I guess I need to watch more PBS -- I didn't know Ming was doing any tv now.

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Monday, 25 September 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

My new town means I get THREE PBS stations, one of which just shows cooking and crafty type shows all day (at night they show terrible newscasts by communications and broadcasting students). I also have cable and therefore Food TV for the first time in years. To top it all off, I have no job so I watch a lot of cooking shows.

And yes, most of the hosts are obnoxious twats. Lidia and Jacques on PBS are pretty great, even if Lidia seems like she's going to lose her shit and just start yelling at times. Martin Yan, who along with the Frugal Gourmet was a huge influence on my love of cooking, is still alright, kind of corny, but he makes good shit. Alton Brown is great as well, and non-live Emeril and Mario Batali, though kind of a dick, really knows his shit.

Fuck a bunch of Daisy Martinez though - maybe because I'm not a big fan of latin/carribean food, or maybe because she's fucking annoying as hell. I was never a fan of Tyler Florence, but I saw him pimping Applebee's on a commercial today so he's totally dead to me now. Rachael Ray I've only watched for like five minutes - the food was lazy and she annoyed the hell out of me. Bobby Flay can fucking choke on his honey and ancho chilis.

But what happened to Jamie Oliver? I was kind of impartial about the guy, but last time I had the Food Network he was all over the place, now he's been purged from the channel, like he never existed and some sort of 1984 rewriting of history covered it up.

― joygoat (joygoat), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 04:29 (seventeen years ago) link

My mother and my younger son used to watch Julia Child together when he was a tot. You know how she'd end each show by setting the table? My son's response: "She cooks dinner and nobody ever comes!"
I reassured him that the camera crew ate with her.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

My friend was a big Julia Child fan. While at Disney World together circa 2000, he spotted her on her Rascal/Hoveround/motorized wheelchair dealy, so he just went over and acosted her on Mainstreet USA.

― PappaWheelie demands you to ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

Nigel Slater is my boy. I love the massive undercurrent of "If I wasn't abused as a child I couldn't cook this well" that runs throughout his shows.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:35 (sixteen years ago) link

you and him both

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:35 (sixteen years ago) link

You're determined to reach 3,000 this month, huh?

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:38 (sixteen years ago) link

in it to win it

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:38 (sixteen years ago) link

I've never watched a Slater show. I like his writing a lot. He writes about food like I do when I write recipes out for friends (doing this is how I ever got to read him; a friend I wrote a recipe for said I reminded him of Slater), basically "put some more butter in, it's fucking great".

I like Hugh Curly-Whittington and Gordon Ramsay. Jamie Oliver's grown on me over the years; he's still a fat-tongued cunt with no eyes, though.

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:40 (sixteen years ago) link

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