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Bobby Flay.
A few years back, Bobby came to Houston to film a segment on crawfish in Texas. The show finished up with a crawfish boil in my back yard as Bobby and I talked about crawfish etc.
This guy is definitely a man in a suitcase. What I learned is that he has this exceptional production crew that comes in a few days earlier and does all of the background filiming at various locales, that becomes the part of the show where Bobby does the voice over. They do the set-ups for the on screen interviews and cooking portions so that Bobby can basically just show up and do his thing and then head off to the next portion. These guys are so good, and they've done it so many times that everything comes together like clockwork.
Information is provided to his production people ahead of time by email. Bobby does a bit of a read up on the information and when the cameras go on he just starts talking and interviewing. Very professional.
When he showed up at my house, he just kind of kept to himself, reading the USA
Today, talking on the cell phone to chefs at his restaurants back in New York. If someone came up and talked to him, he would talk to them, but he didn't go out of his way to socialize. And I let him keep his personal space.
So, he is stand offish.
But, I can't imagine juggling everything he has to juggle. Appearances, overseeing restaurants, producing tv shows, Iron Chef. How can he manage all of this?
Going in to the show, I didn't know much about him, except that I hadn't really been impressed by his tv shows. I even used to call him Bobby La Flaye.
After seeing him recently on Iron Chef America, my respect for him has increased. Also, seeing how they turned all this raw footage into a 30 minute tv show that made sense (including the part that I was featured in), I am more impressed.
Still, Alton Brown is my god.
And I would gladly have sex with Sara Lee or Giada Di Laurentiis. Rachel Ray if I could duct tape her mouth.
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