You can accuse me of becoming a snob about this since me and Gordon and BFF now, but after almost nine years together I am officially breaking up with the Food Network. If you've noticed, and I know you have, I've removed it from my links. Back when I started watching it was great chefs demonstrating how to make great food. And no, "great" never meant "fancy." Now it's new show after new show of "Look at my tits!" wherein we learn how to open a package of Toll-House cookies. The nadir being this fucking "At Home with the Neelys" show, where a fat black couple try to out-sass!/out-black! each other, showing us how down home! they are while making sweet potatoes over and over; apparently their contract states they cannot go longer than 4 minutes without remarking that something they're making is gonna make everybody wanna slap their mammas. Great. Also big offenders: Paula Dean's sons who slimed their way into taking over her show. Wow, yet another "let's drive around and look for the best cotton candy!!" show. Thanks, total fucking assholes.
There's way more better shit on PBS nowadays anyways; just right now there's a 3-hour run of BBQ University/In Julia's Kitchen/The Complete Pepin/America's Test Kitchen (super-slice!)/Simply Ming/Lidia's Italy, for instance. Sara Moulton's got a show there now. And with YouTube, you can look up anybody/thing you want anyways.
What started out as a wonderful thing ended up turning itself into MTV. Is this now an inevitability for every thing that starts out great?
3 comments:
between the hands with the jewelry in the food, and the voice of that woman who needs to clear her nasal passages...just disgusting, and worse when they start sampling everything. watching people put food in their mouths is one of the most disgusting things EVER. it is.
Is there anything worse in the whole culinary world than "semi homemade with sandra lee"??? I really didn't think anything could top Rachael Raye's awfulness but I was wrong. The only thing about Sandy that I sort of appreciate is that she'll take any opportunity, including a pancake breakfast for a bunch of 4 year olds, to whip up a signature cocktail. Glug glug!!
ha! that is true bout her cocktails.
as for RR Im telling you, compared to the shit theyre rolling out now she looks like freakin Allen Ducase. unreal.
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