Had it with the Food Channel...

[cassiesmom]

New season of "Next Food Network Star" starts tomorrow!

[RICHARD]

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!

[Daisy and Delilah]

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?

[Karen]

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.

[RICHARD]

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?

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?

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?


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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...

[Daisy and Delilah]

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.

I think Booby Flake is trying to take over the network from GF.

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.

[RICHARD]

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.

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.