Who’s the muscular Limey in the black t shirt who’s pissed all the time? That’s the guy I can’t stand.
Robert Irvine.
Dammit sparky!, you’re making me miss Julia and her good buddy, Jacques Pepin. We used to watch this show called “Jacques Pepin’s Dessert Circus” which had him making wonderful desserts and had cheesy animations to boot.
And “Yan Can Cook!”…Martin Yan was very funny onscreen.
I really, really like “The F Word”. I love the segments where you see him at home when he’s raising animals and stuff. He seems so real. He’s very nice to the people he’s teaching to cook and the celebs are always fun to watch.
Chef Ramsay on steroids. (Seriously, I think Irvine must use the same writers as the U.S. version of “Kitchen Nightmares”…they have so many catchphrases in common.)
I’m glad I’m not the only one willing to comment on this apparent change in Alton Brown. I used to love “Good Eats”, until he lost all that weight…his persona on that show went from the lovable little nerdy guy to a mean, judgmental, almost bitter individual. This is close to the persona I’ve seen him display on other shows…it’s so unpleasant for me to watch that I can no longer enjoy “Good Eats”.
At one point Gordon Ramsay, when he first started his own restaurant in London, was surreptitiously videotaped by a disgruntled employee who was taping him for a local television show designed to highlight “Bad Bosses.” Ramsay isn’t nearly as over the top as he is in say, Hell’s Kitchen or even some episodes of Kitchen Nightmares but the profanity is legitimate as is his running his kitchen in a traditional French brigade style.
(In a strange reality-inside-reality television moment, in the first documentary ever to feature Ramsay Boiling Point the early parts of it actually show Ramsay watching the undercover report that one of his previous employees turned over to the Bad Bosses show air for the first time on TV, Boiling Point in general is probably also a pretty realistic view of how Ramsay operated “legitimately” even though I’m sure some early hamming it up and editing made it a little less than 100% accurate.)
Ramsay is actually probably a really good example of “real chef” versus “fake celebrity chef.” On The F Word and the original Kitchen Nightmares that aired in the UK I think you see very close to the real Ramsay. He’s a guy passionate about food, swears like a sailor, and rubs some people the wrong way. On Kitchen Nightmares in America you get the “real Ramsay” in some of the earlier season and periodically after that–but KN in America is a lot more about Ramsay fighting idiot restaurateurs running hopelessly failing businesses than was the original British show (even though almost all of the restaurateurs in the British version were in the same boat.)
If you look at Ramsay in Hell’s Kitchen especially, you get to see “celebrity chef” in action, it’s a complete, 100% fabrication and nothing like what a real kitchen is like or how a real head chef acts in a kitchen. In any real work environment like a fine dining restaurant angry shouting matches will probably happen, but they are rare–real business doesn’t get done with constant fighting. In Hell’s Kitchen the worst outbursts you might see in years of working in a professional kitchen are portrayed as something that normally happens 25 times in an hour.
Yan has some good vids on YouTube, though not nearly enough. I remember watching him when I was a kid and really wanting that cleaver thing he used.
I don’t recall the exact amount, but it was enough to coat the apple slices. Maybe the problem was that I used too much.
Next time I make an apple pie, I’ll try adding a tablespoon and see if that works for me. Usually, though, I make it with dark brown raw sugar, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and raisins. I’ve tried putting nuts in as well (peanuts, hazelnuts, cashews), but they always get soft and chewy. I’d like it if they remained crunchy.
My sister and I used to amuse each other with bad imitations of his accent. “If Yaaaan can COOOK, then SOOOOO caaaaan yoooou!” 
Dessert Circus wasn’t Jaques Pepin it was Jaques TorreiSync he was amazing. I have his Dessert Circus cookbook and I read it like a fantasy novel!
Jacques Pepin did cook with Julia though.
Outstanding!
What’s the board for, after all? Annnd done.
Jacques Torres. Weird auto correct there…
No more stupid that military personnel responding with “Yes/No Sir/Ma’am” or prisoners/slaves responding with “Yes/No Boss”.
See the similarity?
My favorite Jacques Pepin show was “Cooking With Claudine,” during which he constantly corrected everything that Claudine (his daughter) did.
I think he lost all the weight because if his heart attack and now he can’t eat like he used to, so that pisses him off.
That was the one where the babe with the long blonde hair was always talking to someone off camera? I didn’t realize she knew how to cook at all; I always assumed the French chef was there to teach her everything as they went along! :smack:
Claudine wasn’t blonde.
One stop shopping for all your Julia Child-related PBS needs. Classic episodes are available for streaming, it seems, for a limited time. So get your bon appetit in gear!
I’m pretty sure he never had a heart attack.
Not even kind of reddish-blonde? :dubious: Don’t tell me there was more than one show like that! :eek: