Am I the only one addicted to this...my favorite shows.."Good Eats"..."Diners,Drive ins and Dives"..."Dinner Impossible"

I love "Iron Chef America", "Dinner Impossible", the cake show with Duff, "Semi Home Made with Sandra Lee", and the shows with Giada.....

damn..i totally spaced Iron chef

love the food network..love to watch iron chef (i really miss the original japanese version), diners drive-ins, and dives, emeril, and ace of cakes.
Becca

Alton Brown rules!

Food Network is my favorite channel. I like most of the shows, but here are my top 5...

1. Good Eats
2. Iron Chef
3. The Next Iron Chef
4. Throwdown
5. Anything with Giada

*sneaks in and yells BAM!!!*

E V O O

Puffins!

I hear Rachel Ray is going to take over when Oprah retires. Hmmm....

My favortie is definetly Paulas Party . It is soooooooo funny . I love Paul Deen .

The main reason I watch "Throwdown" is to see Bobby lose...don't know why but I just don't like him

I love Paula
and Good Eats is a funny show

I'll bet Giada never eats her own cooking. After her show, she goes home and eats celery sticks. Paula (2 sticks of butter, a bottle of olive oil and fat from a side of beef)Dean loves her stuff. Emeril likes his oil also. Don't forget a dash of wine(glug, glug, glug, glug). Oh come on a bit more to made this sauce happy (glug, glug,glug).

Love the food network. I especially like the challenges, where they have the wedding cakes, or the pie bake offs, or the birthday cake for the 16 y/o girl, when they do the sculptures out of sugar or fruit. I really like those.

Throwdown is good, guess I like to see Bobby lose too.
Dinner impossible is good too.
Duff is cool, his cakes are amazing.
Iron Chef, but the original Japanese version was better.
The Next Iron Chef is good too.
The Diners guy is good too.
Alton is okay but bugs me sometimes.
Emeril is cool, but that dude has been really chubbing up
lately. He needs to be careful and watch his heart.
Paula is good, but I like her sons better when they travel
around.

bye a cook book and learn at home

I met Emeril (was in his audience for a taping and was on tv for a few seconds). the guy's a jerk.

having gone to culinary school, I can honestly say that Alton Brown is a food GOD.

Noooo, Emeril cannot be mean. I will not hear it. Tell us details!

Love love love Good Eats and Alton Brown.

Adore Miss Paula Deen and her boys. Her trip to Europe was brilliant.

On the boys show once the conversation went like this..

1-What's better than cake?
2-Fried cake?
1-No, whiskey cake!

They were at the Jack Daniels factory.

the details:
my family won tickets to a taping of Emeril Live... so we went to NYC... sat in a waiting room where they gave us M&M's, and then were led into the studio (which is much smaller than it looks when it's on TV).
The stage manager came out and explained to us how things work, basically we were to "ooh" and "ah" over pretty much anything he did... but the funniest thing about the taping is this:
If you watch the show, Emeril will say things about ingredients he's using. There's always someone in the audience on the show going "mmm" or making other sorts of yummy noises. That's the camera man. He goes through the audience getting close-up shots of people and makes yummy noises while filming.

anyway, during the taping everything he made smelled lovely, but there wasn't enough for the 50 or 75 people in the audience obviously, so we were given bags of some crappy brand of potato chips (which we were only allowed to eat between breaks) and if we were under 18 i think the cutoff was, ice cream bars.

Anyway, during one of the breaks, some of us got to meet Emeril... I offered him my hand, and said some stuff to him (i forget what). he pretty much ignored everything I said and wasn't interested in shaking my hand (but begrudgingly did it). He's very particular about what's going on on the set, at one point he was pretty much berating the audience for not being excited enough, if he's got the wrong ingredients, he refuses to cook until he has the correct ones... for example, the wrong type of orange. If he was half as good a chef as he claims to be, he'd be able to improvise, but he refused to do so unless everything is perfect.
Not to mention, he doesn't really do anything. I mean, yeah, he throws things in a pot, but everything he makes is already done by his staff and placed in a holding oven during breaks so he can pull it out and go "lookie how it looks now!" He also doesn't make up his own recipes, he buys them.

I have a friend (also in culinary) who met him on a separate occasion at a book signing and said pretty much the same thing... in general, the guy is a pompus windbag, and is only really good as a camera personality.

I did, however, also get the chance to shake Doc Gibb's hand (the guy who was in charge of the "Emeril Live! Band") and he seemed like a really friendly down-home New Orleans kinda guy.


Emeril is also a joke in the culinary community. One of the first things we learned in culinary school was "there is to be no BAM-ing in the kitchen."

I've really got nothing against the guy except to say that when I met him I wasn't impressed. I would chalk it up to distraction of wanting to make a decent tv program if it weren't for the other people I know who have met him and said the same things. Either way, I wish him a long and prosperous career, I'd kill to have his job.


On a similar note, a friend of mine is going to meet Rachael Ray in a couple weeks. I'll let you know how that goes, she seems like she'd be friendly, though I'm pretty vastly sick of seeing her advertising everywhere.

I've also met Chef Tell on 2 or 3 different occasions, if anybody knows who he is... he was more popular in the 80's I believe. He's friendly, but very particular and even comes off as a little standoff-ish which is kind of the German personality I've become familiar with in the past.


I forgot to mention that one of my FAVORITE TV chefs is Jamie Oliver (The Naked Chef.)