Had it with the Food Channel...

[RICHARD]

Just flashed by the Martha Stewart Show and am watching her with A Bourdain and E Ripert.

I am losing all respect for AB- Don't care for Ripert-He seems to me like he's a Franco snob who's here in America, making fun of our food.

Martha Stewart is a know all-be all nag that has to interrupt every guest on her show to make sure they know she knows a bit more than we think.

AB is becoming the media whore that fame turns people into.

He's always bagging on the food network, but will align himself with the evil witch?

[RICHARD]

http://www.slashfood.com/2010/02/26/...-food-festi%2F

Notice that Guy Fieri has bodyguards now.

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Who invented "Umami"?

It's been promoted as the 'fifth' taste and I was wondering when people would to jump on it as a 'food fad'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami

I was watching a news/lifestyle report on the local TV station and a woman was doing a report on a hamburger joint that opened with the name "Umami".

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/around-...-70574947.html

Here in El Lay you can find almost anything to eat...If it's on the Food Channel, we have already seen it here.....I find umami to be a gimmick, not a real kind of food, but more like a concept towards food and it's prep.

The word, because of it Japanese roots, kinda grinds to a halt when I hear abouts chefs tweaking it and using it to sell hamburgers.

The burger pictured in the link was the star of the news clip. I tried to find the clip on the news web site, but could not.....

The reporter, who was an Asian woman, went to Umami to taste the burger!

The chef showed her what is in it - he did not cook it in front of her, rather it was made, taken apart and reassembled at the table- You could see where the roasted tomato was smeared on the cheese part of the burger.

It's a six ounce meat patty, a 'slice' of cheese that was grated and put onto a tray and melted, then cut into a square. Roasted tomato slices, a whole mushroom and the top of the bun finish it out.

She starts to bite into it and describes it, "I can taste the meat, the mushroom, but I don't taste the umami!" The cook tells her, "The umami is in there!"

I started to laugh.....

Is it a soy sauce or a enhancement of the food by using the sauce? And would sending an ethnic reporter make her better suited to tell us what this umami is?

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Tweeting tacos trucks?


I'll save the Korean BBQ taco truck for my next post!

[Daisy and Delilah]

Ole GF has bodyguards? I wonder if somebody is after him??

Umami is the most complicated thing I have ever tried to understand. Mainly because there is nothing I can use to describe it in terms I can understand. [That even sounds confusing]

Richard, are you watching the little Mexican girl that's on on Saturday morning? She sounds like Mickey Mouse. Cute as a button. She looks like a little kid but seems to have some cooking skills.

[RICHARD]

Umami is the most complicated thing I have ever tried to understand.

Richard, are you watching the little Mexican girl that's on on Saturday morning? She sounds like Mickey Mouse. Cute as a button. She looks like a little kid but seems to have some cooking skills.

I have been taking a break from the usual TVFN stuff, it seems like they take a theme and schedule it across all the programming.

I noticed that pot pies were 'hot' last week? After I saw Tyler F gush over his ultimate recipe, I felt dirty and lost the taste for any kind of pies....

I try to put alarms/warnings for the programs on my cable channel, then I have the TV off during that time.

I did catch the premiere of the LMG when she first came out.

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Tweeting taco trucks?

This is almost two different topics.

Taco trucks...there are the Mexican version of a roach coach. We have had a problem with trucks that are not licensed to serve food, stay in one area and the neighborhood complains about them being there for various reasons.
Too many people parking on the street, littering, loitering and stuff like that.

Recently the owner of a empty car lot had the idea of inviting the trucks to go there and serve food. I guess he was charging rent to them-THAT idea ran afoul of the city laws and ended rather quickly. So, some of the more popular trucks will post their location on the internet.


In the same clip there was a truck that served Korean BBQ on tortillas.
The sauces in KBBQ are rather sweet and have wonderful spicyness to them.

I think I know what they would taste like....

[RICHARD]

Right in the 'bread basket'?

http://www.slashfood.com/2010/03/05/...up-for-800k%2F

[Daisy and Delilah]

Right in the 'bread basket'?

http://www.slashfood.com/2010/03/05/...up-for-800k%2F

Oh Boy!!! Booby has more money than........

I'm guessing he has no idea who these people are or that he has time or desire to care. It is typical Booby Flake.

[RICHARD]

Oh Boy!!! Booby has more money than........

I'm guessing he has no idea who these people are or that he has time or desire to care. It is typical Booby Flake.

Just like his "I am going to steal that!" lines about the recipes, from the shows he does?

He seems to mostly take recipes and modify them to his own use. The more I see of him, the more I think that he has never "invented" his own recipes.

It's always about 'taking' recipes/concepts them adding ancho peppers. I see he's drifted away from mango salsa the last few years.

I was surprised about the article, I figured he'd steal recipes and that was it.

It just reinforces the idea that he's not the nice guy that people think he is.

[RICHARD]

http://www.youjustmademylist.com/?p=...1#comment-7357

I saw this and thought it was funny.

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Dude, what is it with the Food Channel and their habit of tossing food away?

I passed by the BFC and she was making something with eggs. She separated the yolk from the whites-the whites went into the her trash bowl.

She made up some kind of excuse for tossing them.


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The Chefs of Beverly Hills really sucks. The cooks want to be on TV, the people throwing the parties want to be stars and the parties are way too stupid. What a car wreck!



The TVFN is startin the "Cooking Channel" soon..

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/dining/21network.html

[RICHARD]

Doh!

Didja here about the TVFN chef busted for soliciting some bums to kill his wife?

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=499704&GT1=28102

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I watched part of the Beverly Hills/chef program. Hmmm....

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I was watching PBS and caught the America's Kitchen program.


The hosts were bbq-ingand were using a charcoal/Weber grill.

Just like Booby Flay?, the gal cooking put the lid of the BBQ on the FLOOR..I have BBQed while camping in the dirt, but I refuse to eat food that's covered with the lid of a BBQ that was just on the floor.....

[Karen]

The Beverly Hills program was kinda interesting, I now have it on "record series," just young professional chefs in various real situations. I do like that the segment with the "Foodies" not everything went as planned, and they had to cope with real situations, like the equipment not working, simple things like each thinking the other was responsible for something ...

Did it show whether she put the lid down upside down, maybe so the bottom of the lid didn't touch the floor?

[RICHARD]

The Beverly Hills program was kinda interesting, I now have it on "record series," just young professional chefs in various real situations. I do like that the segment with the "Foodies" not everything went as planned, and they had to cope with real situations, like the equipment not working, simple things like each thinking the other was responsible for something ...

Did it show whether she put the lid down upside down, maybe so the bottom of the lid didn't touch the floor?

LOL, me and my 'OCD' watched the lid go on the floor!


I watched the BH chefs most recent episode.

The chefs catered a party for an insufferable 17 year old punk, another event for some people who were really into wine and a dinner for a couple.

The 17 yo was a rude little twit. I wanted to punch him. The wine party was so over the top that I had to watch THAT and the couple's dinner party was VERY irritating.

The husband was a macho jerk with absoloutely no redeeming qualities, what so ever. He was a b@st@rd to his wife-he cut her down every step of the way. He complained about everything she did - the woman went into the kitchen and ended up helping the chef cook, so that was the all the ammo the hubby needed to make her look like a fool, and he never backed down, even when the chef went to the woman's defense.

I could really see all the belittlement turning into a steak knife to the forehead if the woman snapped later on in the marriage...but, this is a food thread?

[RICHARD]

Hell's kitchen begins tonight.

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It "grilling week" on TVFN.

I saw a Weber grill with the lid hanging on the hook on some commercial.

I was pleased.

[RICHARD]

I don't get the cooking channel. Which may be a godsend.

I spend way too much time talking to the cooks on TV.

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Is is me, or are the contestants getting more and more full of themselves?
I have to laugh when I watch the interviews and these guys start to pump themselves up as passionate/training all their lives for this moment.

The disadvantage of not being able to taste or smell the food is huge, But I cannot take these people cooking a peanut butter, salmon and pineapple quiche and trying to sell me on it.

I think i just made myself sick.

Hell's kitchen is on tonight and after the game I should be ready for a cooking show!

[RICHARD]

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/375919...ine/?gt1=43001

Oops!

[cassiesmom]

Is anyone watching Worst Chef? I missed last night's episode!

I love that show.

I was a little surprised and disappointed by this week's outcome. I think Jenny's move from red to blue will work to her advantage. She is the recruit I am pulling for.

I'm also following "Chopped" -- but the one that was on last night (chicken wing appetizers and John the firefighter/chef) was so one-sided I couldn't get into it.