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Grow to hate her? Ahem.

She's irritating as all get-out, which means she'll be on the show for several episodes, at least. That's how competition shows seem to go. I can't get over how pleased with herself she was over cooking "in a beautiful dress and heels." True, she's pretty, but in a harsh, scary way, like a Romulan.

On the plus side, "Feed the hoeless" may just be my favorite quote-of-the-week!

I think she'll do well for herself if TFN continues with the "bewbies you love to hate" formula.

someone make her shut up, please. i really have problems with this type of personality. i doubt she is even capable of realizing how transparent she is (generally attention whores don't). good call on the bakers.

Yeah.... ""bewbies you love to hate" formula." seems to deter me from even watching reality television. (Except Ramsey, he's wicked)

I'm sorry to those who are fans, but I find her really annoying; since you're asking I guess she could grow on me--but I would have to be able to tolerate her in the first place, right?

@Don Luis: Proper use of hyphens rules!

"feed the hoeless" that totally made me "LOL".

I'm afraid they'll keep her around longer because people hate her, which means ratings, but let's all keep our fingers crossed in hopes that Alton pulls some strings and gets her sent home somehow... after she slips and hits her head of course.

Wow, her restaurant is only 15 minutes from me. Never heard of it, or her. And speaking as someone from Dallas, Texas, born and raised, she's not 'typical' of our people. Trust me on this. :)

"Please pack your Manolo Blahnik's and go"

Heck, I might have to go check out her restaurant now. I will bring my camera. You think they will let me in wearing my Chick-fil-A T-Shirt?

I've been shy about criticizing New Yorkers (mostly because I'm terrified they might eat me in their next fancy recipe) but I have no problem with one of my own. :)

I can't stand the way she runs around the kitchen like a freak, I'm waiting for the train to wreck.

I also pray I never hear about the Three C's again, if Alton Brown tells you to drop it, you should probably listen!

I must admit I do hope she comments more, I am enjoying laughing at the grammar errors.

When she was first coming in and all the other contestants were snickering, I felt kind of bad. Then she talked about her so-called "vision" (and how it related to TNFNS?!?) and I had no more pity. Wow. wow wow wow.

It'll be interesting to see how long FN keeps her around. Perhaps she would boost ratings (I might watch the show some more JUST to see what does!)

hmmm...there's just something about her that doesn't connect....the fine dining, harshness, designer look, selling $200 aprons just doesn't match someone who's culinary point of view is about feeding homeless.

Lighten up, folks! Lisa is a beautiful woman with an upbeat personality. Many people cannot deal with that for some reason. All she needs is some experience in TV and she'll be just fine. The whole show would be a snoozefest without her. Funny that many of the Foodnetwork stars are as phoney as people can become, including some that criticized Lisa.

I like her style and hope that she wins. A feast for the eyes too!

One of my favorite quotes from "Steel Magnolias" applies perfectly to this woman:

"An ounce of pretention is worth a pound of manure!"

I cannot STAND this woman and the sooner she's gone, the better (IMHO)!

I have to say that reading these comments is ten times more entertaining than the show itself. . .
I think that this woman is the heiress apparent to Rachael Ray, the queen of annoying food tv.

No one on the show grated my nerves like Kevin. He referred to Mac & Cheese in a box as "white trash" in an interview I read a few weeks back. He has also been a pampas ass in many other ways on the show. I think in both episodes he made some comment about being the total package. Apparently baking is not part of his package cuz, man, he sucked at rolling those baguettes. I'm glad he is gone.

I did not care for Lisa during week one. She reminded me of a woman I knew in Nashville. Despite having gone to high school and college in Tennessee and being born in Kentucky she told everyone she was from Dallas because she lived there for 2 years. She, too, was self-absorbed and her image was more important than anything. I guess Lisa brought too many bad memories so I immediately wanted her gone.

In week two, Lisa took the judges comments to heart and actually became more likable. Her new approach, fine dining with beautiful accents or something similar is much better than babbling for five minutes. Lisa is very attractive but right now my favorite is still Kelsey; she has personality and looks without being fake.

Which one is the blond that Sandra Lee liked? She's as fake as they come. And it just goes to show how fake she is -- SANDRA LEE the QUEEN of PRETENTIOUSNESS liked her!

Is this the original Lisa Garza? The image below is from the website of "Suze", Lisa and Gilbert Garza's restaurant in Dallas. She's apparently had quite the makeover!

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I think Lisa is a babe, and obviously she can cook too. So what if she can't spell, even our President, (also a Texas resident), and someone I have a great amount of respect for, occasionally has a difficult time with his vocabulary. So give the high - heeled hottie a break, and a dictionary, hey, Martha Stewart likes her! I dig you too Lisa, I hope you win! I'll keep watching, good luck Lisa, I hope I get to see you on your own Food Network Program.

Lisa is fabulous. Those that judge a book by the cover often miss the best reads. My eight yearold daughter wrote her a fan letter. Lisa wrote her a beautiful personal response that has made daughter skip around the house for days. Shame on you shallow narrow minded people.

This week's episode proves one thing. That all reality shows are first and foremost "shows," and decisions are made by judges and producers based on entertainment value and not the merits of the contestants. How else to explain that Lisa Garza is moving on (left alone finishing third) after her total train wreck in the Rachel Ray challenge? First, she totally sidestepped the spirit of the challenge by steamrolling over that poor little Brownie. "You will eat horseradish cream sauce and like it." (Favorite moment: when she tried to explain to the kid what horseradish cream sauce is by relating it to remoullade. Huh?) What 11 year wants to eat steak with horseradish? Not to mention that on camera she offered the audience a total lie, claiming that the girl had told her she liked horseradish. I know this is not on the scale of Jag lying about his military career, but you would think that after last season's debacle they would not want a Food Network Star who so freely plays fast and loose with the truth. As for her on camera performance, no matter how much you blame the editing, there is no denying that she froze, and stood there with a zombie grin while RR had to jump in and save the show. She admitted to being intimidated by RR. Is that someone with the confidence and inner strength to host their own show? Then came the judging. What becomes more apparent each week is the total lack of consistency. Shane, who was at least honest enought to admit he has no experience relating to little kids, is raked over the coals for not interacting more with his Brownie. But at least he listened when she said her favorite was ham and incorporated that into his recipe. Lisa made she wanted to make, and I think the Brownie was terrified not to agree with everything she said. (The whole kid thing was just dumb. How often is that going to happen on the Food Network. This is not "The Next Nickelodeon Star.") Then, the judges tell Adam and Kelsy they may not have the required food knowledge or authority. But after admitting that Shane has great knowledge and technique and makes excellent food, they find a way to hold it against him, but deriding his skills as coming from "book learning." Not only that, but he has the gall to love French food without having been to France. Huh? How elitist. Is being a world traveller now a requirement? Before the Food Network picked her up Rachel Ray's big claim to fame was that she had worked at a hotel and on a local TV station in upsate New York. Hardly France either.) What it comes down to is that the contestants are characters in a show, and the producers decided that Shane had the least to offer in terms of entertainment value as a character. All the others contestants have their easily definable personas and built-in audiences, love em or hate em. I think originally they thought Shane was going to be the young whiz kid character, but he's too laid back for that (to his credit) and can come across as bland. So despite being the best chef on the show and a seasoned TV performer (having been a child actor) he's gone. This year's version of NFNS isn't the train wreck we had last year. (Defining moment of last year's show was when Alton Brown, Gold bless him, said in genuine frustration,"Can't we get rid of everyone and start over." ) But the general mediocrity really has to make the network evalute this whole concept. When your shining light from four seasons worth of shows is the annoying, endlessly promoting, TGI Friday's pitch man Guy Fierri then something is seriously wrong. Of the remaining contestants Adam is the only one who can bring something new to the FN that they don't already have - a young, hip, urban everyman, sort of Seinfeld in the kitchen. It's a demographic that the network currently doesn't reach. He may not be the most qualified in terms of food knowledge or experience, but remember, the Food Network, like The Next FN Star, is all about entertainment.

Way 2 go Adam bring it home @ Philly babe! Cat

I finally figured it out....Star Trek Romulan hair do. Mormon cult dressmaker. Even if she can cook & talk on camera at the same time the rest of the package is just too darn distracting, PERFECT for Food Network!

I signed up just to comment on here myself. I don't know what in the world these judges are thinking. I have a hard time watching her on this show let alone tune into a weekly show with someone like her. We don't need another Martha Stewart. Someone on the panel needs to get a clue what people will watch and I can't imagine it will be her unless that is what they are hoping. They want a winner that will have such poor ratings they can cancel them after only a few shows.

having been in the business for over 40 yrs,I find it hard to take anyone seriously that wears heels and nice clothes in a kitchen. Plus,just when I thought no one could be more obnoxiuous than Bobby Flay,here comes LISA!!!!

I'm glad Lisa didn't win. She seems to have more of a passion for fashion than for food. Even though she was prompted in her exit interview, she stated how she was wearing a Carolina Herrera dress. Anyway, I wouldn't have watched her show because she annoyed the heck out of me during the entire run of this season. I'm glad Aaron won, although Adam could have won and I would have been just as happy - I'd watch either one of them. They both seem very personable, are nice to look at, and bring something special to the screen.

The anonymity on the Internet is a dangerous thing. You all vent all of your anger on the world and your jealousy through a public anonymous forum where no one else can judge you. You are all cowardly and horrible people to be capable of publicy bashing anyone to this extreme.

The Food Network really needed a female personality with actual talent and a good fashion sense. Someone that makes cooking look attractive and modern again. Someone that makes REAL FOOD. I'm so mad that we're going to have yet another show on how to make unhealthy, easy meals like Mac and Cheese or lasagna. Go ahead and feed your obsesity America.

I also signed up just to comment. Although my choice was Aaron, and I did not care for Lisa, I'm kind of disappointed in the venom that is being spewed her way by the bloggers. Between viewing comments from blogs on a few sites, it's frightening how many people are downright hating! Poor Aaron appears to be really getting it from so many sides which is okay if it's an opinion; but so much of it's racial epithets! viewers, it's disgraceful! Let's stop such hatred and nastiness because we don't agree with a choice, or with what a person should look like. Let's try to embrace diversity, and Ha! Ha! ,women cooking in the kitchen with high heels and expensive blouses! Lighten up, good people !

She wants to have a farm on the beach? Does she have any idea how vegetables grow?

Unattractive and talentless women are very good at spewing hatred. Lisa is the moral winner. Aaron was inarticulate, boring and his food was unimaginative and uninspiring. I and my GF love lisa and her restaurant.