UPDATE: Do not bother clicking through the link here. Apparently, it is not funny. —AK, 8/9/2009 Longing for Cinnabon and Diet Cherry Dr Pepper? LOL. Food Network Humor, true to its name, offers a satirical list titled "Understanding the Food Network." These are little known "facts" that will help you "understand why the Food Network is the way it is": The Neelys: They are brother and sister. They just play a married couple.Sandra Lee: She feels that she is a woman trapped in a woman’s body.Tyler Florence: He is extremely sensitive to the fact that his first name is a common last name and his last name is a common woman’s first name.The Chairman of Iron Chef: He is not...
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Sandra Lee's catch phrases and verbal tics from various episodes spliced together into one insane montage. Watch the video, after the jump....
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If you didn't rush out to pick up Semi-Homemade as it debuted on newsstands yesterday, don't worry. Eat Me Daily has a preview for you....
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New York Daily News: "'I see all these home dec magazines and I think, "They’re so beautiful but none of these projects are do-able, and these recipes take 25 ingredients and five hours to make,"' says Lee. 'I can look at a picture, because of my product background, and say, "Oh my God, you don’t have to do that, you can buy X, Y, and Z and it will be done in 10 minutes."'"...
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Sandra Lee vs. The Price Is Right vs. The View Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee, The Price Is Right, and The View were nominated for a Daytime Emmy award in Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling. There's really such a category? How can Sandra Lee, one woman, on her own, compete against the bevy of belles that is Barker's Beauties? Or the gab-fest led by Barbara Walters? Then again, who cares about hair when there's a more important question: who would win in a death cage match—Barker's Beauties or ladies from The View? I bet Barbara Walters knows kung fu. Or something....
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That Amateur Gourmet video interview with Anthony Bourdain? The bleeped bits? Damn. Strong stuff. As reported on AmGour: "On Sandra Lee: 'She should be taken to Guantanamo and waterboarded.'" And that's not even the worst of it....
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Anthony Bourdain shares his thoughts on the Newer, Younger, More Male-Oriented, More Dumb-Ass Food Network over at Ruhlman's, a few choice bits excerpted here: On Mario Batali: "Oh, Mario! Oh great one! They shut down Molto Mario--only the smartest and best of the stand-up cooking shows." On Rachael Ray: "We KNOW she can’t cook. She shrewdly tells us so. So...what is she selling us? Really? She’s selling us satisfaction, the smug reassurance that mediocrity is quite enough." On Sandra Lee: "Pure evil." (His "IRON CHEF AMERICA match-ups I’d REALLY like to see" are pretty amazing, I'd watch them even on Pay Per View!) We've had a related question over in Talk for a few weeks, if you haven't chimed in...
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