Who watches cooking shows?

[Valerianne]

I'm addicted to cooking shows.

Mostly the dessert ones.

I love to cook desserts.

Since Valentine's is coming they are filling the airways with Chocolate dreamy creamy velvety luscious desserts to melt not only your palate but your heart!

Who else is watching these temptingly torturous shows?

Do you have a favorite show?

Favorite dish/dessert?

 

[TheMoonshine]

I watch them here and there...I cook all the time.But the deserts......well,i can think of other things to do with them besides just eat them... ....I like Emeral probably the best because he has some good stuff on spicy type foods which I like....They all have good recipes from time to time though..

 

[Lancecastor]

The father of all gourmet cooking shows was, of course, Graham Kerr, The Galloping Gourmet.

He was rarely without an open bottle of wine nearby (not unlike Julia Childs in that regard) and always picked a cutie out of the audience to sample his wares at the end of the show.

Ever since he faded away, I lost interest in the wannabe's that followed....though I did enjoy Wok With Yan's puns.

 

[J.B.]

food porn. Yup I watch.

 

[anniebug]

I'm addicted to cooking shows.

Mostly the dessert ones.

I love to cook desserts.

Since Valentine's is coming they are filling the airways with Chocolate dreamy creamy velvety luscious desserts to melt not only your palate but your heart!

Who else is watching these temptingly torturous shows?

Do you have a favorite show?

Favorite dish/dessert?

We watch the Food Network faithfully. Gotta love the Naked Chef! But I HATE Christine Cushing.

annie

 

[Expertise]

Its so bad....

.... that i'll suffer through Martha Stewart on the off chance that she'll cook something interesting.

 

[Lancecastor]

Re: Its so bad....

.... that i'll suffer through Martha Stewart on the off chance that she'll cook something interesting.

That's so totally Maso....have you tried the BDSM Forum yet?

 

[perks]

me me me. I watch cooking shows.

I refuse to watch Emeril, cause he's all about showmanship and nothing about cooking, he sucks.
I also want to stab Bobby Flay in the eye with my Wusthoff.

My top list includes

Good Eats with Alton Brown
Iron Chef
Anthony Bourdain- if you want to know the reality of the life of a cook, read his book
Jamie Oliver <although the first season was way better>

and for anything pastries/ chocolate, Jaques Torres, he's a master.

Ming Sai isn't bad either.

 

[Valerianne]

I enjoy Emeril. He's always good for a laugh and a decent recipe.

Graham Kerr has made some tasty dishes. I've used a few of his recipes. Went over great each time.

Martha? I can't even get through a commercial for her show. And I don't mind torture now and then.


Moonshine?

Why do you think I like dessert so much?

 

[TheMoonshine]

I enjoy Emeril. He's always good for a laugh and a decent recipe.

Graham Kerr has made some tasty dishes. I've used a few of his recipes. Went over great each time.

Martha? I can't even get through a commercial for her show. And I don't mind torture now and then.


Moonshine?

Why do you think I like dessert so much?

I'd tell ya a secret ,,,But,..I'm shy....

 

[anniebug]

me me me. I watch cooking shows.

I refuse to watch Emeril, cause he's all about showmanship and nothing about cooking, he sucks.
I also want to stab Bobby Flay in the eye with my Wusthoff.

My top list includes

Good Eats with Alton Brown
Iron Chef
Anthony Bourdain- if you want to know the reality of the life of a cook, read his book
Jamie Oliver <although the first season was way better>

and for anything pastries/ chocolate, Jaques Torres, he's a master.

Ming Sai isn't bad either.

Anthony Bourdain's book is awesome! Makes you not want to eat out ever again though. Man, some of his stories about when he started out are crazy!

 

[Valerianne]

me me me. I watch cooking shows.

I refuse to watch Emeril, cause he's all about showmanship and nothing about cooking, he sucks.
I also want to stab Bobby Flay in the eye with my Wusthoff.

True Emeril is about showmanship. (Therein lies the laughter) I've found some easy recipes of his on the site though.

I can't stand Bobby Flay.

Good Eats is my all time favorite I think.

Oh my god I love Jaques Torres...pure art right there.

 

[Rubyfruit]

I like Sara Multon and Jamie Oliver the best.

Lance, Food Network replays The Galloping Gormet shows. They're a riot to watch now. http://foodtv.com/foodtv/show/0,6525,GA,00.html

 

[Valerianne]

I'd tell ya a secret ,,,But,..I'm shy....

Oh go ahead.

Your name is Moonshine. Find some courage there!

I'm good with secrets.

 

[perks]

Anthony Bourdain's book is awesome! Makes you not want to eat out ever again though. Man, some of his stories about when he started out are crazy!

He was so on point with his book, I was a cook in NYC for about 7-8 years, and he just blew us all away when he came out with that. No one has ever given an insider's view, like that.

He was right about us all being Pirates, lol.

 

[Lancecastor]

Lance, Food Network replays The Galloping Gormet shows. They're a riot to watch now. http://foodtv.com/foodtv/show/0,6525,GA,00.html

Isn't he the coolest? He's so very Swinging 60's, so very Austin Powers I think.

Every time he glug-glug-glugs a bottle of red into a dish....it's a hoot!

Thanks for the tip.

Lance

 

[nitelite33]

Bullseye on the The Galloping Gourmet!

I still love watching reruns of Graham Kerr sauced-up, and mincing around the stage with awesome guests like Nipsey Russel and Charles Nelson Reilly.

HELLO FRISCO!!!

 

[anniebug]

He was so on point with his book, I was a cook in NYC for about 7-8 years, and he just blew us all away when he came out with that. No one has ever given an insider's view, like that.

He was right about us all being Pirates, lol.

Were people pissed at him for writing it?

 

[Valerianne]

Anthony Bourdain's book is awesome! Makes you not want to eat out ever again though. Man, some of his stories about when he started out are crazy!

I've read some of his book.

I have to buy it.

One of those must haves.

 

[perks]

True Emeril is about showmanship. (Therein lies the laughter) I've found some easy recipes of his on the site though.

I can't stand Bobby Flay.

Good Eats is my all time favorite I think.

Oh my god I love Jaques Torres...pure art right there.

Emeril forgot how to cook. If you cooked the way he did on his show you'd have a bottle of liquor instead of a meal. He's shit.

Of course the stuff on the site is a great meal. Emeril isn't cooking it for you, neither is he making it like he does on the show.

Alton Brown is an alumni from the same school I went to, so I concur with you. He's quite informative. I still learn new things from him that I use. He makes things easier and more logical.

Jaques Torres is a genius. I'd pay to work with him for any amount of time.

 

[nitelite33]

Drunk-ass or no, I'll say this about Emeril: His steakhouse Delmonico in The Venetian serves up a mighty nice hunk of bloody flesh!

 

[TheMoonshine]

I am now getting very hungry..I need a giant bowl of Captain Crunch!!!

 

[Valerianne]

Of course the stuff on the site is a great meal. Emeril isn't cooking it for you, neither is he making it like he does on the show.

One of the greatest things about the site!

 

[perks]

Were people pissed at him for writing it?

No, we just didn't think that anyone would want to read it, lol.

Everyone wants the emerils, the bobby flays. They don't want the truth about their food, and the people that make it.

The first Kitchen I worked in, in NYC, the majority of the cooks were Dominican, I was one of four white people and the only woman, and it was a Russian themed restaurant. There were no Russian cooks. *laughing*

You work a gazillion hours, you drink, you consume your drug of choic, you pass out, you wake up go to work and do it all over again. Once in awhile you get some perks. It's a family and it's tough. But It's worth it. I miss it. I live vicariously now.

 

[perks]

Drunk-ass or no, I'll say this about Emeril: His steakhouse Delmonico in The Venetian serves up a mighty nice hunk of bloody flesh!

I'm sure. It's a profitable business, and he hires people that can cook.