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I'm watching No Reservations (which is great) right now and it's reminded me how much culinary crap there is on television. Especially the reality/contest shows that have become so pervasive.

I was watching some show last night about the next star on the Food Network. They have people on there that are just terrible. Some girl that won't pick up a dead fish apparently wants to be a celebrity chef. All these shows are like that.

Every time I watch one of these shows they have people just messing up simple [expletive]. There are culinary grads all over the place that aren't going to screw this stuff up. It's offensive that they set all these shows up for contrived Real World drama instead of showing good cooking. Not surprising, just disappointing.

So for every time you catch No Reservations on the Travel Channel, an old school Iron Chef, or Mario Batali doing something awesome, you turn right around and it's Mailing It In with Bobby Flay version 7, Acting Like You Have Tourette's with Emeril, or The Next Show That's Already Decided But We're Surrounding This Person With 9 idiots for 6 Weeks Anyway.

It reminds me of poker. They've ruined a good thing.

Anthony Bourdain is my hero and No Reservations is one of the best shows on TV. Other than that and getting sucked into this season of Top Chef, I avoid food shows like the plague.

The ORIGINAL Iron Chef is one of the best cooking shows I've ever seen. It really broadens your culinary horizons in a way watching Bobby Flay make the 5,000th variation on tamales, blue corn somethingorother, and spicy soup.

Also, if you haven't seen the handful of episodes of the ORIGINAL Iron Chef USA, you HAVE to watch them. Not because of the good cooking, or because of good food. No, it's because instead of Alton Brown (who I admit is really awesome) doing commentary, you got two guys in MNF on ABC-style yellow blazers doing play by play, and instead of random Asian man as chairman, you got the ONLY person who could be more over the top than Chairman Kaga--WILLIAM [EXPLICATIVE] SHATNER!

What time is "Mailing It In With Bobby Flay" on?

That was really damn funny.

Diners,Drive-ins and Dives is a really good show.

Hudler wrote:Diners,Drive-ins and Dives is a really good show.

Guy Fieri either had prior experience to winning the Next Food Network Star or he is a natural. He's like the Neil Diamond of the Food Network. Campy, but [expletive]'.

Hudler wrote:Diners,Drive-ins and Dives is a really good show.

Most definitely! He visited Fast Eddie's in Alton, IL a while back.....I just caught one of his shows the other night where he visited Iron Barley in the Dutchtown area of STL. Looked like a very unique/cool place.....

Hudler wrote:Diners,Drive-ins and Dives is a really good show.

agreed, along with Good Eats and anything Paula Deen..

I watch the next Food Network Star. Yes, it is corny, and they weed out the crappy ones as they go along..

Hudler wrote:Diners,Drive-ins and Dives is a really good show.

Guy was just in omaha and went to 6 places..
should be seeing them in the next couple weeks..

GatewaySnayke wrote:What time is "Mailing It In With Bobby Flay" on?

That was really damn funny.

Agreed. That was "haltz gold". I mean, good lord, Rachel Ray takes some frozen Gnocchi, some marinara sauce from a jar, mixes it together and calls it a [expletive] recipe.

I wouldn't mind the Food Network crap so much if this country didn't have a serious problem with food. Too many fat asses who can't eat right... hell, too many fat asses who don't know how to eat right. Parents don't know how to cook anymore, so kids grow up disliking perfectly good things like seafood, onions, tomatoes... but shove some "high-sodium saturated-fat-injected brought to you by the Kraft Corporation" turd down their throat and they scarf it down thinking they've got a seat at The French Laundry. Welcome to a lifetime of dealing with diabetes and obesity, kid.