No one mentioned Paula or Rachel! I love Paula's southern recipes and yes that lovely Georgia accent. She reminds me of my mom and the way she cooked, looked, and talked. I have never had one of her recipes to fail. She can cook, bake, and do it all with finesse.
Rachel has some quick ideas , but too spicy for me. I do get a lot of good ideas from her though.
Giada? You've got to be kidding or a man. Every man at work says they only watch her to see her low cut blouses and peek at her girls. She is so phony with that grin and nose. And when she was a judge on the Next Food Network Star, she said one should not be phony and be themselves. How funny!! Guess it's good we all like something different and have the freedom to do so..
I used to be a big fan of Rachel (I don't think I'm spelling that right) but good grief... besides a lot of heat, she uses so much salt! Doesn't anyone on that network have to worry about cholesterol levels?
Have to agree about Giada. I really like some of her recipes, but they should call it Cooking With Giada's Breasts Show. Her shirts keep getting lower and lower. And yes, what a phony smile! And to put her on food network star to give advice, when she was so awful when she first started! But her chicken tettrazini is the best I've ever tasted!! She can really cook! As for Paula, I have tried several of her recipes, and never liked a single one. They are not bad, but not that great either. Very plain-I guess I cook all that stuff already and like mine better . Watched her & her crew in a cooking contest, can;t remember where, & they did not even win an honorable mention...& she was the only famous name there!
Let's remember that several of the "chefs" on the network are not. The marketing department has done a good job on Giada. She can work the camera. And I can bet she doesn't come up with the recipes. She is reading a script and following directions. She has a staff. Martha Stewart had over 100 of the top staff working for her. Yesterday she separated eggs. Used the yolk and dumped the shell with the egg whites in the garbage. No trained chef would do that. Now if Giada could only talk without the hands. And yes she has had some very good recipes.
ImissTexas52...Your right I don't think health is an issue on some shows. Diners,Drive-in and Dives with Guy. That man will be dead in a year or two with the amount of fat, grease, sugar, salt he consumes. One dish he was raving about the cook had used 2 cups of bacon fat! He needs to watch Eat, Shrink and be Merry to get a grip on reality.
I like RR. She is lighthearted, pleasant and cooks easy stuff. She has given me lots of great ideas. Paula is very good, too. Her shows are comparable to sitting with a very good friend in her kitchen while she teaches you a ton of new things. I like her cooking.
No your right, in both cases. There are chefs and then there are chefs. Like any profession those that excel and those that are marketable. I am just a foodie but have seen her (or her staff) make many technical mistakes in her presentations. That must be the technical writer coming out in me.
I know what you mean--I find myself talking back to the screen, saying such things as "WHAT???" "That's not how it's done!" "Are you crazy?!?" "Oh pleeeeezz..."
That would be all my years of restaurant experience coming out in me! I guess like in so many other things we just have to weed out the gibberish and take it all with a grain of salt (no pun intended!) but sometimes it really is just too comical watching people blundering their way through these shows.....
Could you be any more catty. Giada obviously knows what she is doing, who cares if she doesn't come up with the recipes, I bet she does contribute heavily. Who cares if she threw away the whites? You sound like a jealous whiner. As far a DDD goes, GET A LIFE! That show does exactly what it intends to do, find interesting, out of the way, places to eat. Again, who cares if the foods are fatty, DON'T EAT THEM IF YOU DON'T WANT TO. Do they try to hide the nutrition data, or lack thereof, of the food he eats? NO. There are too many self-important know-it-alls like yourself trying to make things better for the "vast unwashed". GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR LIVES. IF WE LIKE A DISH WITH TWO CUPS BACON FAT, SO WHAT. IT IS MY LIFE AND I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR IT, AS GUY IS FOR HIS LIFE AND YOU FOR YOUR OWN. Pass judgement somewhere else and mind your own business.
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. Watched her & her crew in a cooking contest, can;t remember where, & they did not even win an honorable mention...& she was the only famous name there!
