Since this is tv related, I figured it would go in CS over MPSIMS. But I am utterly, hopelessly, completely and without any doubt hooked on the Food Network.
I haven’t been locked into a particular television channel like this since my pre-teen years with Nickelodeon.
But ye-GODS, I cannot NOT watch Food Network. I, who at first mocked and scorned the idea of “Iron Chef” as ridiculous and utterly superfluous now watch it every night (and I root with all my heart for Chen Kenichi…oh Lord, how sad is that…?) I am fascinated by Bobby Flay and Emeril Lagasse, Jimmy O’Connor, Rachel Ray and others…and I have to admit that Giada de Laurentiis is insanely hot…
On the bright side, my interest in cooking has been ignited (although apparently it’s hereditary) and as such the Lady Mung and I get to bond in the kitchen. Admittedly, I’m usually cutting vegetables under her tutelage, but it’s awesome quality time. It’s not just cooking, it’s learning!
Ok…is it just me, or is anyone else stuck on Food Network programming?
And, as a camera guy and a technical director, I have to say I’m completely FAS-cinated by ‘Good Eats’ from Alton Brown. It’s like a cooking show for hopeless nerds. LOVE it.
I’m addicted, too. I know that Rachel Ray annoys the crap out of a lot of people, but I love her. She always looks like she’s on the verge of burning something or some huge kitchen disaster. Since I’ve started watching the Food Network regularly, I’ve purchased a food processor and an insanely expensive (to me) chef’s knife.
Have you watched the dessert competitions; the ones where they sculpt with sugar among others? I never even knew such things existed. I saw a contingent of Korean chefs create a dragon sculpture out of sugar once…it was beautiful. katie1341, I used to find Rachel Ray somewhat annoying at first, but I got used to her. I think she has two fantastic shows.
And were it not for Unwrapped I would never have discovered Ro’s Barbecue in North Carolina. Definitely a treat for me.
Oh, yes, I’ve watched the dessert competitions. They do make some beautiful things. Those sugar sculptures that look like they’re made of glass fascinate me.
I walked into the room one day when my wife was watching Everyday Italian. I was stunned by this woman! My wife told me that she has a crush on her and loves to watch her cook, because everything she does is sensual. I told her that I would watch Giada read the newspaper!
My wife is hopelessly addicted to the Food Network. She started years ago with Emeril, but got sick of him (plus she says his recipes don’t work). Then the Time-Warner bastards took it off in Houston for a couple of years. When it came back, she first got hooked on Rachel Ray, then got tired of her perkiness. Now it’s Alton. I have to admit (though not to her) that even I like Alton.
She’ll watch just about anything on that network except the disgraced Emeril and Rachel, and that annoying southern woman. She also shifts to PBS on Saturday for Jacques Pepin and (especially) America’s Test Kitchen.
This is an addiction that has worked out very well for me, because she’s become a great cook.
Alright, more Food Network fans! We Dopers do have the best, ahem, taste, in TV.
Shows like How To Boil Water have made me the cook I am today. Thanks to Mario Batali, I have whipped up some pasta recipes that have bowled over my family members and friends. Thanks to Alton Brown, I now know the right way to cook a steak. I think I have learned as much watching these shows as a first-year cooking school student.
And yes, Giada is make-a-guy’s-heart-ache HOT! Rachel ain’t bad either, especially lately.
I’m a big fan of AB. We also like Unwrapped a lot. It reminds me of the segments on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood where he’d tour the Q-Tip factory (or whatever).
And Giada? Just put her on a plate for me. Mmmmmm.
We watch it at our house, too, during dinner. We like Emeril and Unwrapped and Good Eats. I think Alton Brown has taken the cooking show to another level. They have lots of interesting shows about cuisine all over America, and elsewhere. I’m still at the stage where I think Rachael is annoying, but she is not difficult to look at, which helps. I haven’t seen the program with Glada, I’ll have to look for it.
I love it! I’ve actually decided to change my career because of this network. I was a high school math teacher, now I’m going to be a Pastry Chef. Here is my new school.
I am also addicted to the Food Network. *Good Eats * is may favorite, but I’ll watch almost anything they air. I even enjoy Cook’s Tour, which they tend to bury at 3AM.
It would be easier to point out the shows I don’t like, which include whichever one has Dave Lieberman and is supposedly about cooking on a small budget. Bullshit, that’s a small budget. Come shop on MY budget, jackass, then show me how to cook something.
I’m a huge fan of Anthony Bourdain and A Cook’s Tour, but they bury it because he has a new show on the Travel Channel, No Reservations, and because he constantly talks shit about Food Network’s more annoying celebrity chefs, particularly Bobby Flay and Emeril.
No love for my favorite Paula Deen and her show, Paula’s Home Cooking? Southen style comfort food at it’s finest. Plenty of butter and mayonnaise to go around, too. Yummy.