Fresh Food on TV: Weekday Edition
With all the channels on broadcast TV and cable—and the inevitable episode repeats—it's hard to sort out what's new or worthwhile. Let us sort it out for you so you don't miss anything worth watching. Times may vary with region; check your local listings for exact hour and channels.
Recommended Shows:
It's the season premiere of Gordon Ramsay's F Word on Wednesday. He'll have on Coronation Street’s Wendi Peters, Geri Halliwell, and Gavin & Stacey. Wednesday, 9 p.m. ET, BBC America
This week's chefs on Top Chef Masters are Wylie Dufresne (wd-50), Suzanne Tracht (Jar), Graham Elliot Bowles (Graham Elliot Restaurant) and Elizabeth Falkner (Orson). Wednesday 10 p.m. ET, Bravo
Monday (June 15)
Good Eats (warning, a video plays automatically on site): "Pretzels Logic." Alton recreates the traditional soft pretzel. (repeat) 8 p.m. ET, Food Network
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (warning, a video plays automatically on site): "All Over the Map." Guy goes to a family owned restaurant serving Mexican food in Phoenix, a Greek restaurant in Seattle and an Italian restaurant in San Francisco. 10 p.m. ET, Food Network
Tuesday (June 16)
Chopped (warning, a video plays automatically on site): "Salty Veggies and Heated Battles." The chefs are given salty vegetables to use for appetizers and Thai chilies for entrees. Then they have to make Mexican inspired desserts. 10 p.m. ET, Food Network
Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern: "Survival Special." Andrew gets dropped off in a Mexican jungle to try to survive living off what he can find. 10 p.m. ET, Travel Channel
Food Party: "Cave Duck." Thu goes on a hunting adventure, goes to a nudist picnic, searches for cavier, and explores the Purple Potato Caves. 11:15 p.m. ET, IFC
Wednesday (June 17)
Throwdown With Bobby Flay (warning, a video plays automatically on site): "Fried Fish Escovitch." Bobby Flay challenges a chef from Harlem's Mo Bay Restaurant to a fried fish throwdown. 10 p.m. ET, Food Network
Gordon Ramsay's F Word: Coronation Street’s Wendi Peters and her family get to experience the heat in F word kitchen. Geri Halliwell (from the Spice Girls) challenges Gordon to beat her recipe for Spanish meatballs. Gavin & Stacey star James Corden joins Gordon in search of urchins. 9 p.m. ET, BBC America
Top Chef Masters: "The Lost Supper." Drawing from the second season of Top Chef, the chefs have to make an amuse-bouche using ingredients from a vending machine. Then they have to make a meal inspired by the show "LOST". 10 p.m. ET, Bravo
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: Host of the online wine show, Wine Library TV, Gary Vaynerchuk is a guest. 12:35 p.m. ET, NBC
Thursday (June 18)
Ace of Cakes (warning, a video plays automatically on site): "Shell Shocked." A graduation cake, a Taj Mahal wedding cake, and birthday cake for a 90 year old. (repeat) 10 p.m. ET, Food Network
Friday (June 19)
The Chopping Block: The teams have to prepare dishes for a blind date night at their restaurants. You can watch the full episode on Hulu or NBC.com. 12:35 p.m. ET, NBC
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: Online cooking show host, Tamra Davis is a guest. 12:35 p.m. ET, NBC
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9 Comments:
The link to the Good Eats episode does not lead to an episode concerned with pretzels. That may or may not be the fault of Food Network.
What can be ascribed to the pigheaded manamgement of Food Network is the staccato buffering. It is still there and it still stinks and it fails to serve any useful purpose that I can ascertain. No one with good sense minds waiting for an online video aimed at instructing an audience to properly buffer.
Food Network management seems to believe that its viewing audience is made up of juveniles suffering from attention deficit syndrome. This is not and never has been true of the majority of any audience and certainly is not true of anyone interested in learning something from Alton Brown.
Note to Food Network! You are destroying yourself by acting on your very poor estimate of your audience.
Grumpy Old Man at 6:09PM on 06/15/09
@ Grumpy Old Man: The links are just links to the shows' mainpages.
Gordon Mark at 6:14PM on 06/15/09
So why not a link that goes directly to the episode mentioned? Is that because Food Network has made it impossible to link to a specific episode? If so, it is just another example of their pigheaded approach to addressing their audience.
Here's another funny. BBC uses the same pigheaded approach, but the buffering is tolerable. I still don't like it, but I can watch the F-Word without pulling my hair. Oh, and that data is coming from somewhere in England, right?
Come on, Food Network! Pull your heads out of your asses!
Grumpy Old Man at 6:31PM on 06/15/09
They don't host the entire episodes online but they do have the recipes from each show.
Gordon Mark at 6:39PM on 06/15/09
Isn't Next Food Network Star on this week?
lambowner at 10:09AM on 06/16/09
@ lambowner: New episodes of Next Food Network Star are on Sunday nights at 9.
Gordon Mark at 10:29AM on 06/16/09
Orgh! I missed it again. Sunday sunday sunday.
lambowner at 4:38PM on 06/16/09
@ lambowner: Food Network shows reruns pretty often so if you missed that episode you can catch it before the next one on: Thurs. 9 p.m.ET/PT, Fri. 12 a.m. ET/PT, and Sat. 2 p.m. ET/PT
Gordon Mark at 5:30PM on 06/16/09
thanks! I've set the dvr.
lambowner at 9:27PM on 06/16/09