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DD&D with Guy........It makes up for the 20-30 vegan healthy shows.
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They just had the "Great British Baking Show" here on PBS and you really have to notice a contest show like this that was human-affirming and didn't involve either an uppity Brit chef screaming at people or some contrived back stabbing calculus involving voting people off the stove or oven instead of "the island".
If the cooking show ( of any stripe ) has value and you learn from it versus some idiotic drama then I like it.
If the cooking show ( of any stripe ) has value and you learn from it versus some idiotic drama then I like it.
Originally Posted By: Vuflanovsky
They just had the "Great British Baking Show" here on PBS and you really have to notice a contest show like this that was human-affirming and didn't involve either an uppity Brit chef screaming at people or some contrived back stabbing calculus involving voting people off the stove or oven instead of "the island".
If the cooking show ( of any stripe ) has value and you learn from it versus some idiotic drama then I like it.
That's another one of our favorites too.
They just had the "Great British Baking Show" here on PBS and you really have to notice a contest show like this that was human-affirming and didn't involve either an uppity Brit chef screaming at people or some contrived back stabbing calculus involving voting people off the stove or oven instead of "the island".
If the cooking show ( of any stripe ) has value and you learn from it versus some idiotic drama then I like it.
That's another one of our favorites too.
Originally Posted By: Vuflanovsky
They just had the "Great British Baking Show" here on PBS and you really have to notice a contest show like this that was human-affirming and didn't involve either an uppity Brit chef screaming at people or some contrived back stabbing calculus involving voting people off the stove or oven instead of "the island".
If the cooking show ( of any stripe ) has value and you learn from it versus some idiotic drama then I like it.
I agree 100%
They just had the "Great British Baking Show" here on PBS and you really have to notice a contest show like this that was human-affirming and didn't involve either an uppity Brit chef screaming at people or some contrived back stabbing calculus involving voting people off the stove or oven instead of "the island".
If the cooking show ( of any stripe ) has value and you learn from it versus some idiotic drama then I like it.
I agree 100%
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Originally Posted By: Doog
DD&D with Guy........It makes up for the 20-30 vegan healthy shows.
I don't have cable. Long ago I enjoyed the Cajun/creole/Louisiana one with ustin Wilson on PBS.
But I have seen DD&Ds on airplane TV a few times. I've actually gone to a number of places shown there, including a restaurant in Nevada just this week. I've always been very satisfied.
DD&D with Guy........It makes up for the 20-30 vegan healthy shows.
I don't have cable. Long ago I enjoyed the Cajun/creole/Louisiana one with ustin Wilson on PBS.
But I have seen DD&Ds on airplane TV a few times. I've actually gone to a number of places shown there, including a restaurant in Nevada just this week. I've always been very satisfied.
Anthony Bourdain.
Originally Posted By: mpersell
Good Eats with Alton Brown
Agree 1000%. AB is just awesome.
First degree was in cinematography, then when he started cooking, and looking into the science behind it, he wanted to make a show equal parts Mr.Wizard, Juila Child, and Monty Python. With this in mind, convinced his wife to move to NH so he could attend culinary school. Then back to Atlanta, sets up his own production company, makes the Good Eats pilot on his own, took a couple years to sell to food network, and then rolled all the $$ food network sent him into production.
The first 4 years or so, they shot in his mother in law's kitchen. Then at a crew couples house, then when that house sold, they built a replica of that kitchen in a studio.
Good Eats with Alton Brown
Agree 1000%. AB is just awesome.
First degree was in cinematography, then when he started cooking, and looking into the science behind it, he wanted to make a show equal parts Mr.Wizard, Juila Child, and Monty Python. With this in mind, convinced his wife to move to NH so he could attend culinary school. Then back to Atlanta, sets up his own production company, makes the Good Eats pilot on his own, took a couple years to sell to food network, and then rolled all the $$ food network sent him into production.
The first 4 years or so, they shot in his mother in law's kitchen. Then at a crew couples house, then when that house sold, they built a replica of that kitchen in a studio.
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From 15 years or so ago, when The Food Network was a young pup, my favorite food show was the Original Iron Chef from Japan. My favorite Iron Chef was Chen. Of the newer shows probably the new Master Chef(?) with the kids.
I vaguely remember sometimes watching Chef Prudhomme way back in what, the '90s? Or was that Dom DeLuise?
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I liked Good Eats, doesn't seem to be on for quite a while now. My all time favorite was Justin Wilson, but he died years ago.
Am a big fan of Heston Blumenthal...he's a clever savant in a lot of ways. Will experiment with concepts ideas, and science to get what he wants...very clever.
Rick Stein has a good approach. River Cottage is another grass roots one.
Gordon Ramsay is entertaining, and I've worked for quite a few of his type...would love to see a Ramsay exposed, where he displays some of the off screen behaviours typical of his type.
Nigella Lawson saves ringing certain pay per minute phone services.
And the "two fat ladies" on BBC was really good at wholesome "peasant" food.
Iron Chef was rigged...
Gave away nearly all my celebrity cook books to a mate with a second hand book store who wants an air fare to be with his Canadian wife at the birth of their child.
Cooking shows (and books) IMO shouldn't be like reading a Hayne's Manual, they should be giving you ideas to adapt to what you are trying to achieve on the night.
Rick Stein has a good approach. River Cottage is another grass roots one.
Gordon Ramsay is entertaining, and I've worked for quite a few of his type...would love to see a Ramsay exposed, where he displays some of the off screen behaviours typical of his type.
Nigella Lawson saves ringing certain pay per minute phone services.
And the "two fat ladies" on BBC was really good at wholesome "peasant" food.
Iron Chef was rigged...
Gave away nearly all my celebrity cook books to a mate with a second hand book store who wants an air fare to be with his Canadian wife at the birth of their child.
Cooking shows (and books) IMO shouldn't be like reading a Hayne's Manual, they should be giving you ideas to adapt to what you are trying to achieve on the night.
I gave up on cooking shows long ago when "The Galloping Gourmet" rode off into the sunset. Now (because of another family member) I regularly get subjected to "The Chew" for which I have no words.
Originally Posted By: UncleS2
I liked Good Eats, doesn't seem to be on for quite a while now.
it's ...on an extended hiatus... after making 14 seasons in 10 years, AB burned himself out a bit( it pretty much Consumed the majority of his life for a Decade). He's said He's Not Done with Good Eats, but needs an extended break from it.
I liked Good Eats, doesn't seem to be on for quite a while now.
it's ...on an extended hiatus... after making 14 seasons in 10 years, AB burned himself out a bit( it pretty much Consumed the majority of his life for a Decade). He's said He's Not Done with Good Eats, but needs an extended break from it.
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