I never liked Justin Wilson. I found his act repulsive. On top of that, I am privy to scuttlebutt that his whole Cajun act was an act. I don’t know whether it’s true, but I choose to believe it.
And over here we are going to get him going around telling hoteliers how they’re doing it wrong.
Great rant and true Alton Brown is an asshole but what gags a maggot is that bitch Giada who won popularity by letting her titties hang down to the cutting board. Why don’t they just let her do her show topless with a couple tea cups hanging from her nipples?
Re: Justin Wilson: It WAS an act and he WAS an asshole and a racist…
Not doubting you, but how do you know?
Hmm, I wonder if AB was playing on that when his blue-shirted, red-suspendered Cajun Chef character drops his accent at the end of the Gumbo episode (about 9:50 here).
Justin Wilson never really hid the fact that he hammed up his accent on the show. He did interviews with his normal speaking voice .
I don’t think that necessarily means it was “all an act”.
How is that not the definition of it being all an act? If he spoke that way in interviews, that least lends itself to some plausibility that that is how he actually speaks. But if he speaks “normally” in interviews, it just proves that any accent he puts on for a show, is all an act.
Before his show went national on PBS he would always pronounce “vinegar” in his phony cajun accent as “vi-nigger”… politically, he was a big time Republican.
some people have different voices in different situations. My voice tends to be a lot gayer/cutesy when I’m with my friends, and more professional when I’m at work, and MOST professional when I’m on the phone with a stranger. It’s just natural for some people to change their voice.
Even greater rant.
Not to defend Brown or anything, but I think I remember that episode. Did you allow the pie to cool and set up for at least, oh, I believe he said 5 hours or so? It wasn’t the kind of pie you should eat warm out of the oven.
“His accent is partly an act” == “it’s all an act”.
I stopped watching some show of his, when he started doing something like the following:
Old Way: "Now, add salt and pepper to the oil and water. Follow this with six egg yolks, a tablespoon of milk, a teaspoon of nutmeg, and then whip gently until combined. Pour into a baking dish and top with the chopped spinach. Cook at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
New “Improved” Way, with rapid-fire editing: "Salt! Pepper! Egg! Milk! Nutmeg! Whip! Spinach! Pour! Bake!
I hope I’m getting across how truly annoying this was. He and the producers trying to “bad ass” up the show. You’re making a quiche, numbnuts! It ain’t gonna get too exciting.
Justin Wilson, from that obscure site call Wikipedia. 
I have no idea if it was racist, but it’s not like he tried to hide what he was doing.
That was what I loved about Taste. Each show would focus on a single dish. He would show all the ways people made it wrong, then show one or more ways to make it right. His show on scrambled eggs was a classic - every vile thing that mediocre cooks have been doing to eggs since time immemorial; cooked to dryness, “stretched” with liquids, etc. Followed by three recipes that produced wonderful, flavorful eggs - very slow cooking that produced deep orange eggs that tasted like cheese, another way of cooking them with a double-boiler, and scrambled with cream cheese that is amazing.
A “food” channel that doesn’t feature people cooking recipes is like a porn channel that doesn’t have naked people having sex.
David Rosengarten’s show is one of my earliest memories of the Food Network.
I just looked him up online, and he’s 62 now. Wow.
I remember him from back in the late 90s, I guess it was. He forever won my heart when he did a show on the Philly Cheesteak, complete with Cheese Whiz. He could get fancy with the best of them, but was unpretentious about things like that.
He just judged an Iron Chef America a few weeks ago. He looks the same. I enjoyed his show back in the day.
I don’t watch any of Alton’s shows because he is just too boring for me, but I have to say, he isn’t bothering me on the Next Food Network show like he usually does. Maybe it’s because I like his protege.