Did anyone see Iron Chef last night between Cat Cora and the young guy? I forget his name. I fell asleep and didn't see who the winner was. The secret ingredient was coffee. Aaaargh! I have a feeling it was the young guy, though. Please. Who was it?
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Did anyone see Iron Chef last night between Cat Cora and the young guy? I forget his name. I fell asleep and didn't see who the winner was. The secret ingredient was coffee. Aaaargh! I have a feeling it was the young guy, though. Please. Who was it?
Mary, it was the young guy that won as I recall. Anybody else remember for sure?
Yep, the kid won.....
I Have to laugh because GF doesn't cook with coffee!
I firmly believe that there are two kinds of cooks on the planet.
Ones that have made a dish where they put something like watermelon, bourbon, potatoes and oatmeal together, laughed about it, then tossed it out.
The second type, who cannot deviate from grandmother's recipe file, are the kind that don't have the confidence to try something kooky.
I fall somewhere in between!:D
Did anyone watch 'Dinner Impossible' on Wednesday!
I was riveted to it. Same fun stuff to worry about.;) Don't care much for his helpers though. Where are the "Georges" when you need them.:confused:
Doggone it, I missed it. I hope they rerun it. I wanted to see how Robert is doing. :)
The Next Food Network Star begins June 7th ... same three judges as last summer.
Saw this week's Iron Chef challenge - did anyone else catch it? The secret ingredient was butter - so it was particularly interesting to me, as I could actually have eaten many of the offerings! And it was an interesting outcome ...
I can't hold out on this any longer. I have to mention it.
Complaint Number 1
Chopped: I like this show but I'm really put off by the obvious nastiness of some of the chefs. I can't get past how they handle the food. It's all hands and some of them seem unclean.
The show with the guy double dipping bothered me so much, I'll think twice before going to a restaurant again. It was a rerun on Sunday. I didn't like that guy at all because of his attitude but the DD really put me over the edge.
Complaint Number 2
Ace of Cakes: I have the same problem with this show. They treat the cakes like they're not going to be eaten. Unfortunately, they are usually eaten. I can't believe some of the things that go on in close proximity to the cakes on the shelf or in progress.
I also look at some of the workers and wonder when they last washed their hair, etc. None of them are wearing hair nets or any other protective gear.
The business caters to alot of wealthy people. I wonder if they actually watch the show?:eek:
Karen: What do you think of the new Aaron MsCargo shows? Anybody else watch it? He has gotten a bit theatrical on some of them.:rolleyes:
Did anyone see the insert in the Sunday paper? It's the USA WEEKEND advert..
On the second page they do a little Q&A thing and someone wrote in about Robert Irvine. THey asked why he disappeared for a while and it explained what happened and how the fans the show got him to come back!
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What is the matter with AG from Chopping Block?
One of the chefs dropped a piece of meat on the floor......He then served up the meat and after the judges sampled it, she asked if he did serve the meat that was dropped on the floor!
He did and they ate it!
Here comes the NFNS and the commercials with the contestants are a hoot.
Gosh, they all want to win so badly!;)
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I saw a part of the Sandra Lee 'How much does this meal cost' show.
Ugh, enough with the penny pinching. Every thing she touched was broken down to the cent. Very obnoxious to ring up every ingredient and total it up after the meal is cooked.
"This meal cost 7.85 to make and each person eats for......"
Enough! Cook and look good!:D
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I watched part of the Hamburger Cookoff the other day.
I wish I had time to dream up something like a Peanut Butter/Licorice hamburger with green tomato/black olive salsa. Oh, did I mention the pepper jack cheese?
EWW, some of those concoctions were vile!:eek:
I did see the Robert Irvine thing. It said the fans brought him back. He's doing a good job.
What is wrong with Alex Groanacelli on Chopping Block?? Hmmmmmm......she's got serious personality disorder issues. She scares me. One minute she's smiling broadly and the next minute she looks like a serial killer. That is one weird lady.
That segment where the meat gets dropped and the chef uses it, really shows me that that was all theatrical and rehearsed. Why on earth would the guy drop meat and use it? In any setting, I would hope he would just throw it away. Especially when people are watching him and it's on camera!! It's all part of the show.
I am really looking forward to NFNS this Sunday. YAY!!
I also saw the hamburger show. I can't imagine where those people get those ideas. What's wrong with a good old fashioned burger with normal toppings?:confused:
I saw the commercial where Sandra Lee talks about feeding our children. She mentions that sometimes she didn't know where her next meal would come from. I don't remember her bio mentioning her family had it that bad.
I saw her FN bio and it left me with more ???? than answers.
Now, I was obssessed, for all of three seconds about her being married...and I finally went in search of the answer.
I noticed that she wore a nice gold band-I find that the HUGE platinum hoops with giant pieces of carbon on a hand while a person cooks as being totally ridiculous- and thought, "Hmm, I wonder who she is married to?
I came across this article - funny because I too find the part where she gets all silly about the drinks a hoot.
http://www.ask.com/bar?q=is+sandra+l...-or-treat.html
I have always thought that she'd walk out to ask the pool boy if he wanted to share a pitcher of Bloody Marys..."Don't worry about getting drunk, my husband is out of town!";):eek::D
She is/was married and apparently her hubby is very well off. There was another particulary vicious article that was pretty critical of her and her marriage. I'll pan my faves and have fun with it, after all, they are my entertainment!
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Normal hamburger, normal toppings?
Come out to Cah Lee Fun nee Ah- YOu can find some vile crap on some of our menus.
LOL, remember we GRILL our lettuce out here!:rolleyes::eek::o
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I found a pic of her hubby..
It's about halfway thru the article...
I don't watch Bizarre Foods, but have seen enough clips to make me think, whenever I encounter some weird food, what would Zimmern think?:D
You have to watch it!
It's a total gas. The only time I was grossed out was the by the wood worms in the Phillipines..
But then there was balut....and the stinking tofu..but, There WAS the tanantulas. And, I am not too fond of scorpions.
And the donkey in China!
BBQed grubs sounded and looked nasty!!!!! Wow, what about the.....:eek::D
Last I heard, Sandra Lee was living with Gordon Elliot. He's the producer of her show and Paula Deen's, etc. I don't know if it's true.
That article is a hoot. I never realized she was married. Between what she's earned and what she got out of that marriage.......WOW!!! She's worth a bundle. I have to say I like her alot more than I used to. She stopped rolling her "L's" so much and her show isn't too bad. I really enjoy the shortcuts she takes and I think she has some great ideas.
The AZ show>>>>YUCK!!! That guy eats anything and everything. It repulses me.:eek:
Richard: I saw Pat and Gina Neely grilling lettuce the other day. Everybody picked it up from you guys!!:)
New season of "Next Food Network Star" starts tomorrow!
I said this before, see if it fits this time around.
Do all the cooking/competition shows recycle thru the same personalities for every season?
The Eurasian gal, a black chickie babe, the nerd, the fat guy with the idiot hair cut (tattoos?), the slight blonde mouse, the high class twit, the southern dude with the accent and alligator recipes....do I go on?
Oh, I forgot the idiot that 'talks' to/about food -remember the guy from last year that BF didn't like because he was the 'Food Whisperer'?
Can't wait!
I watched NFNS last night. I thought this group was a little more talented than the last few seasons but I had to take it back as the show progressed.
Brett was on my nerves from the beginning. I think the big guy with the glasses could be entertaining at times, the good looking guy is too much with the attitude, the black girl seems sweet, the girl that made the apple tarts is a little flaky but ok so far. I can't remember anybody else. Oh yea, Debbie, the Korean/American girl. Why was she acting the way she did after they got back from shopping? Her way of shopping was ridiculous. Just fill up the carts and forget about what you really need?
That FN group was at their very arrogant best. Giada seemed bored. Why didn't she just stay home?
Did anybody else watch last night? What did you think?
That pound cake dessert was so lame, I know this show is all made up. Nobody in their right mind would serve that with a straight face. $1200 to spend and you can't get a decent dessert out of that?
We watched last night - I do think they could have come up with something better for the dessert - it looked, seemed and was an afterthought. A whole kitchen full of cooks and no one could do better than that?
It does seem like an interesting group of people - the apple tarts didn't look that great, but everyone loved them, so they must have been better than they looked. The woman who made them does seem a bit too highly strung to last long. I don't see the 'nutritionist" lasting long either unless she does better with her food than a salad and just plain Swiss Chard.
It will be entertaining, anyway.
I could not watch it to the end.
So, I do not know who got bounced!
Alex G has to have some kind of weird vibe going on......She looks like she was on a real bender and just showed up on a whim...the rest were uninspired and boh-ring!!!!! I had to laugh at DG talking to the people about serving him cake. Everyone knows that if it's not a Charm City Cake, it ain't poop!
Let them eat cake?:D:confused:
Like last year, Giada don't do 'spunky', Morimoto is understandable-the captioning is unnecessary, I am starting to really dig Anne Burrell-LOL, it's the freaking hair, it's always perfect. I found AB's comments about watching the contestant's show and being all wired up really funny...she don't watch her self on TV?:D
I got to the point in the show where the BF was roaming thru the kitchen doing a "tom collichio" and checking out the recipes, Ya think he wanted to get paid more to do that?
I tuned out when the judges started with the "GO BIG/Big personality" speeches. They'll be asking them to tone it down later on.
I'll watch the rerun an write a more 'cutting' review later on?:eek::rolleyes::D
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DUDE,
I just saw a blurb about Kelsey from NFNS has a show with Spike from Top Chef. It's on the FN website - I think it's a web show...
I forgot to mention Anne Burrell. I absolutely love her!! Her hair is the best. That's the hair I want. She looked great last night too.
Alex Groanacelli.......Aye yi yi! Who does she think she is? I don't care if it was her restaurant. Maybe the facility wasn't that great. Anyway, who was talking "smack" about "her restaurant? It was all too theatrical. Alex seemed to have possibly had her meds last night.:eek:
I think Booby Flake is trying to take over the network from GF.:rolleyes:
The nutritionist wasn't very creative. Although, I loved the first picture of the salad she made. I just roasted some beets over the weekend for the first time. They were beyond delicious!! Her salad wasn't bad but too easy.
The gal that went home--uh oh.....I'll save this until Richard sees the show.
Richard, have you ever heard of the BLAST bowl in CA? All new to me. Interesting and I thought it would be tasty. The FN people said all they could taste was bacon. I guess the chef failed to season the rest of it.
DG and the cake. Puh....leasseeeee. I can't believe how arrogant he was acting. Or, maybe that's just his way of trying to be funny.:confused:
NOOOOOOOOO, I absolutely find the Cal Fusion styles of food to be ridiculous.
Some bobo hollows out a tomato and it's a 'new wave' food sensation? There is an elitist ideal that goes on here in Lost Angeles.
Quarter a tomato,seed it, chop up some lettuce and bacon, then serve it as a some 'deconstructed' comfort food staple?
I noticed that it was touted as a B.L.A.S.T. bowl?
I thought it was C.R.A.P.
Can't Really APpreciate it?
LIke the grilled lettuce, everyone has a idea as to what belongs on a grill,
Because we live in an area that promotes grilling almost year round....
In the Land Of The Easily Amused, there is only so much to the standard BBQ fare. The "creative" ones get ideas and that is why you see grilled lettuce.
I apologize on their behalf.;)
Grilled lettuce? Ild probably punch the chef in the throat for serving me that.
And I plan on grilling a pizza soon.
Its to bad Squeeze Bacon was a hoax.
C.R.A.P. is hilarious!! I figured it was standard CA cuisine. I'm glad I asked.
I see the grilled lettuce on other shows but I can not imagine that it's good at all.
We grill year round here too but I don't think I ever heard of the lettuce thing at all in Florida.
Booby Flake is into grilling anything and everything. It makes no difference what it is. As long as it's grilled and filled with chilies, he's fine with that.
Tell me you haven't taken a sip of beer and thought about grilling cantaloupe?:eek:
Ewww!:D
There is quite a bit of food that makes me wonder about what prompted the originator to do it! The grilled lettuce thing is probably a Nor Cal invention. You can go on some nifty winery tours, they will feed you a grilled lettuce at a tasting, You are so drunk you don't realize what you are eating until someone asks,;)
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We have tons of different people and cuisines out here. The Pacific Rim is a wonderful place. (We just have to get N Korea to behave). There are some stores in the 'towns'-China, Korea, Thai-where you have the cooks out on the sidewalk with a smoking BBQ.
The Mexican supermarket up the street pulls out a GIANT BBQ into the parking lot and starts grilling chickens. The grill surface holds about 20-25 whole birds, they also do marinated skirt steak for tacos and burritos.
When I walk to the store and the wind is right, you can smell it about 2.5 blocks away.
I have to go on about the grilling thing. One of the most special things about So Cal grilling, is that where there is a will......
The huge steel barrel BBQs are VERY popular- You can find one on every block. I have seen people put together some wild contraptions in order to make a grill.
I passed by a GF program where he was doing a seaside party in Mexico. He was 'laughing' at the grill he was using.
In typical Mexican fashion, someone took a steel tire rim, welded some rebar legs onto it and voila! Instant BBQ! It was really cool -I wish I knew how to weld! I have seen everything from a paint can, with holes punched in the sides and a scrap piece of chicken wire for a grill,s to someone taking a steel barrel, splitting it lengthwise and adding a grill made of steel screen door
material.
I love my heritage.:D If it holds hot coals?
The other thing that cracks me up is around the summer holidays you see guys with giant BBQs in the bed of their trucks, heading for the park.
They don't mess around with the small stuff!
Back to the grilled lettuce, when you see someone with a 'Cah Lee fuh Nee Ah' accent and they try to pull one over on you by giving you something that we eat out here, do not believe them.
Oh, people do pay 15 dollars for one shrimp, 12 toothpick slivers of mango, two olives and a squirt of Sriracha sauce and swear that it's the best thing on the planet.
They are the ones to blame for grilled lettuce.;)
LOL at the grilled lettuce!
Andrew Zimmern could not choke down the stinky tofu!
Pineapples are good on the grill. We've done grilled pizza..yummers!
Top Chef Masters?
I didn't much care for the hostess..she irks me in a strange way.
She was at some kind of a press/food gathering here in Hollywood/Lost Angeles last week.
She was walking the area where people were eating and someone noticed that she wasn't tasting anything. When asked she said something like, "If I eat I'll just throw it up".
Nice to know.
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I haven't gone back to watch the first NFNS, I have to catch up!
Richard, what would I do without your stories?:D
I loved the show in Mexico you mentioned. That grill was really cool.
Yesterday, on "Grill It" with Booby Flake, someone was grilling watermelon. She made a salad out of it with onions and a couple more ingredients. BF loved it. I can go for the grilled melon but she lost me with the onions. Onions are just too savory for me to mix them with fruit. I can't stand to eat chutney because it's usually fruit with onions. Yuck! :(
I watched NFNS on Sunday but I have forgotten the whole show. I guess I was busy doing other things. I'm sure I can catch a replay of it.
If I accidentally turn the FN on and see GF "Off The Hook" again, I'll probably hurt myself turning the channel. What is with this guy? I'm seriously afraid he's going to blow a gasket if he doesn't calm down.
I watched "Chopped" last night. I think it was the season premier. The ingredients were the worst I've ever seen. What in the world are sea beans? I lived by the ocean most of my life(still do)and I've never heard of them.
Does anybody know what they are and have you ever eaten them?:confused:
I love to to talk about food, it's fun to swap stories with other people about what they eat, how they cook and what spices they use!
I hear you about the chutney and onion/fruit combos. Blech.
I know that it is a 'taste' thing....I just do not like the sugary sweetness of some foods. Example? A few years ago my brother was cooking a T-giving day turkey, with oyster stuffing.
I had to get past my gag reflex when I tasted it. It tasted like bread with oysters, raisins and carrots and brown sugar, It was soooooo sweet I had to push it over on the plate so I could taste the rest of my meal.
I can do the apple/berry/walnut/sweet styles of stuffing, but anything that is too sweet just turns me off. I just don't get it.
I was trying to find a reference to the "I'll throw up" story, but I have to check the old newspapers.
http://www.seabean.com/what.htm
Again, it's a catchall-dare I say politically correct?- term for anything that washes up on the beach????:rolleyes:
I would have puked over the oyster stuffing too. :eek:
Interesting story about the sea bean. That is the only sea bean I've ever heard of in my life. I've seen those on the beaches here. It's been a long long time but I do remember those.
On "Chopped" last night, they must have had the plant that they come from. Very interesting.....
What they had looked like long, skinny, asparagus. I think I'll research further. Thanks for the link.
No prob, we all learn here!
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Have you seen the commercial with the Top chef host, Padma in it?
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/marc...rss_topstories
I found it to be a turn off.
While the thought of a nice looking gal eat a hamburger on your front porch is kinda appealing, I don't want her to smell like "secret sauce" or red onion, or wiping her greasy fingers all over my pillows, later on.....:confused::rolleyes::eek:
And if she's eating a burger with a bun littered with those little balck poopy seeds, I don't want her to stand up and spill them all over MY FLOOR.:(:D
Food is sexy, Spending a few hours with a SO in the kitchen is way better than a sloppy hamburger on some gum encrusted sidewalk.
An old college t-shirt, sweats cut into shorts and a pair of flip flops is my kind of dressing up for dinner.
Seriously, I have seen the commercial about 4 times and I still don't know what kind of hamburger it is.
The only thing I think about is the greasy clump of ketchup soaked meat, dropping off the burger and having to hear the moans and groans all night long...
"OHHH, this is my good dress!", "That will never come out!", Quick get some club soda!" "See what you made me do?"
If you can't pull the spoon out of the pot and hold it for your SO to taste?
It ain't sexy.;)
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I have to toss this in.
If I see food on TV, I'll stop there and see "what's cooking" (pun intended):rolleyes:
Today I stopped at the QVC channel when I saw something being cooked.
They were selling tilapia filets-each 3.25 ounces- 14 for $44.95.
I checked the price per pound and it came out to 15 bucks a pound.
I bought a bag of four, gutted tilapia, individually wrapped- I have to check the price per pound and the weight of the packaging- I wrapped them in foil, tossed them on the outer edge of the grill. After they cooked I put them in a plastic bag for later in the week. I steamed veggies and tossed the fish on top for the last 5-7 minutes to heat.
Even thoough it's a spiny fish, it is one of the best eating fish you can have.
It's white, tasty meat that only needs salt and pepper as seasoning.
I know that boning fish for filets is an art, but I just can't see paying 15 dollars a pound for less than three lbs of fish! Half the fun is puling apart a fish with a fork and a piece of toast.:eek::)
I can't get the commercial to load but I'll keep trying. It sounds pretty gross. Not sure if I want to see it.:rolleyes:
I don't know why but I never get to see Top Chef much. I watched it a few nights ago and I enjoyed it. I've noticed that these chefs on tv are on all the shows. Some of them at least. I saw a blond lady on Top Chef that was also on Chopped last season.
I have a picture of CA, in my own mind, of all residents out on their patios, grilling around the clock.;) There is just not that much grilling going on in Florida, as far as I can tell. Not in my neighborhood anyway. Usually, if they're grilling, it smells like the cheapest meat you can buy. I think it's too hot to go out and cook. It's just unbearable. People are stuck inside the house or shopping in the cold AC.
Richard, for years, all the restaurants here have served tilapia. It's real common here. I love it. I buy it all the time and cook it too. It's really delicious. Grouper was a big staple here but it got so expensive, many restaurants went to other fish like tilapia.
I also love mahi mahi but I haven't had any lately. I agree--$15 a pound for fish is ridiculous.
Tomorrow nights NFNS looks like alot of the contestants are in tears. I think someone is in tears every week so far. I would love to see Jamika win. I think she's delightful. I read somewhere that Debbie is probably going to get it. Let's face it, Giada likes her so she must have something going for her. I think she might be the first person Giada has ever liked.
What does everyone else think?
LOL,
You have to live in a Mexican neighborhood. Out here people find any reason to fire up the grill. The worst possible thing to happen is you walk outside your house in the middle of the week and you smell someone cooking! You can smell the citrus, onion and chile in the air, after I identify what the neighbors are cookling, I head indoors and open up a can of soup:rolleyes.:;)
Out here, the main meat is marinated skirt steak, it's cheap, not too thick and you can feed an army with a few bucks. You can buy pre marinated meat, a few dozen corn tortillas, Someone will make the salsa, A pot of beans, someone makes rice.
One guy grills the meat and heats tortillas, the meat is tossed onto a butcher block where someone takes a cleaver to it! It gets dumped into a bowl and everyone goes buffet!
Maybe you don't want people partying in your hood.
Sometimes we get parties that go until 2-3 in the A.M.:D:eek:
BTW?
Yeah, it does get way too hot to cook outdoors in the summer.:eek:
Sounds like my kind of party. People in Florida aren't nearly as clever. The smell of citrus, chiles, and onion in the air would drive me crazy. I would have to follow my nose to the nearest fiesta.
Skirt steak. Is that the same as flank steak? FN is always featuring something like that. I almost bought some last week but I decided against it. I'll get some when I go shopping.
I was watching a show last night about grilling. They were grilling like maniacs.
The Weber Grill Restaurant is really unique. I didn't catch the location. The kitchen is all Weber charcoal grills. All their food is grilled. I couldn't believe the fire coming up out of those grills. They grill all the desserts too--grilled pineapple and bananas. Those chefs must be burning up through their whole shift. When they go home, they're reeking of smoke. Very interesting. The chef said he tried grilling watermelon but he wouldn't recommend it.
Wasn't there a lady just grilling watermelon on BF's show and loving it?
It was a good show. I think FN was honoring grilling yesterday. Maybe the whole weekend.
And, yes, there was some Romaine lettuce on the grill.:)
http://www.ochef.com/66.htm
The Flank versus the Skirt!
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I saw the Weber program...being a typical male I was in awe of the grills. That is something I'd like to have, just to wow the neighbors.:rolleyes:
Citrus Marinade?
This in not an exact science-lol, my recipe!
Go slow and add or subtract as you go along and TASTE, TASTE, TASTE!
Orange juice, Lime or lemon juice, About .5 cups of each.
You can use OJ and the lemon, lime or all three. You do get a different flavor
according to what you use and how sweet/sour the citrus is!
1/4 cup vinegar.
1 tablespoon of chili powder
1 tablespoon of garlic powder
1 tablespoon of meat tenderizer, like Sazon.
salt to taste.
Slice a small yellow onion or take about 4-5 whole green onions and a pinch of fresh cilantro. You can also toss in a few orange slices to the mix.
Toss it all in a bowl, toss in the meat, onion and cilantro. Let is sit for a few hours, over night is better? I plastic bag is fine, so is a covered dish.
Get a good fire going and toss it on the grill!
Don't leave the onion in huge chunks, do a julienne cut on it-most of it will fall thru the grill, but it already has flavored the meat, Green onions? Grill them away from the hottest part of the grill. You can eat them whole or chop them up to add to your meat.
The meat cooks up pretty quickly so have all your stuff ready to go.
The basic fixings are chopped onion, fresh cilantro, chopped tomato, lime or lemon slices to squeeze on it - or you can toss together a fast salsa with all the above and a jalapeno. Again, this isn't an exact recipe, so go 'thirds' of the veggies, add some lime juice and a jalapeno-to taste!
If you heat your tortillas on a grill be careful about turning them-and don't heat up too many at a time, either kind get hard if you do not eat them quickly. YOu can take a hand towel, folded in half, and put them there as you go along.
Great information, Richard. You Californians are grilling geniuses.
Do you use the citrus marinade for fish at all? Minus the meat tenderizer?
I never realized how many uses there are for cilantro. Eating it alone is difficult for me. Mixing it with other things, it really tastes great. Especially in salsa and guacamole.
Has anybody seen the new shows. "Best Thing I Ever Ate"? I can't stop wondering how all those chefs have been so many places and just happened to take a camera crew with them to get film for the show. I'm being a little sarcastic, of course. So far, I think I've seen three of them. One was for fried food, BBQ, and food in general.
Did they really go to these places and discover these items themselves or did someone else go and discover the item and FN assigned that particular chef to the bit? Where do I come up with these questions?:rolleyes:
Michael Symon's definition of two kinds of people:::people that admit to loving fried food and those that love it but act like they don't.....there is something to that. I know people that tell you that don't eat fried food but it's usually the first thing they pick on a menu.:D Do they not know that certain foods are actually fried?
I almost lost in when Duff Goldman ordered and ate shrimp heads. Has anyone else heard of this at all? Is it popular in the big seafood areas of the country? It was disgusting!!
Giada eating those donuts, holy cow!! I hope she had a cigarette afterward.:eek: