holy lord you guys are great! my HB hates watching food shows but i LOOOVVVEE the food network!
Alton Brown i will watch over any other show on TV (except if it conflicts with a Real Sex on HBO). i love how he explains everything and why it all works the way it does! he reminds me of Taco the Octopus at
www.8legged.com
Rachel Ray is so yummy i could just eat her! (pun intended). that chick is HOT! plus i really like how her personality doesn't change between 30 min meals and $40 a day- i find it cool that she's being herself on the show. she seems like the kinda gal i'd like to have for a best friend. i don't really like her recipies tho... they're too... well, i dunno, they just don't appeal to me.
i like Iron Chef (the original) because i like to see the crazy ingredient of the day. ever see the squid battle? where they're wrestling the squid from the tank? THAT was entertainment! plus they come up with all this crazy stuff! and it's fun to hear the voice overs!
i also love Great Chefs of the World, which used to be on the travel channel but i've not seen it on in a long time- i LOVED the chick who translated and the stuff they made on the show was so varied!
Martha Stewart i think is great, yeah she's contraversial but i think she's totally cool, i wanna be the type of woman who can cook duck a la orange AND make a festive centerpiece AND have a prize winning rose garden AND be organized as hell!
alright, the good having been said, we come to the bad and the ugly:
Emril is wayyy to cliched... i mean, when you've got a cartoon parodying you (Elzar on Futurama) then its time to get a new stich
Paula Dean- is way too southern for me... she reminds me of a counselor at my HS boarding school...
Barefoot Contessa is always having a party, let's have a party, i cant bear to be alone with my fat self another minute, let's eat food together at my house in the hamptons so i don't feel bad about scarfing it by myself... it's like she wants to be Martha but realizes she'll never get there
holy god Bobby Flay- have you ever seen the BBQ show he had where he's had at least two of his GF's on "helping" him cook? he's like "hey! get your bitch ass over there and do dishes! i'm cooking!"
and the episiode of Iron Chef where he lost and got all pissy cause he said it wasn't fair and did a remach and was all like "yeah, take that you little chineese communist biaotch!" SUCH an ass!
the Calorie Commando guy- not only is his theme music totally and completely STUPID he is such a total washed out personality. and you can NEVER EVER make something JUST AS GOOD as the original by subbing in things that are "healthy" poaching will never be as good as frying, and no fat will never be as good as full o fat!
the guy who does "Unwrapped"- way way way too fake!
---I *heart* food network!!---