Entries tagged with 'television'
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Martha Stewart's daughter, Alexis Stewart, is probably not making a precious place setting with fall leaves and acorns right now. Like mother, like daughter only goes so far. Instead, she's somewhere making fun of her mom's early '90s episodes of Martha Stewart Living. That's the premise of the new show Whatever, Martha! Hosted by Alexis and her friend Jennifer Koppelman Hutt (daughter of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia chairman Charles Koppelman), Whatever, Martha! premieres tonight on the Fine Living network. It's a half hour of Alexis and Jennifer vegging on a couch, or engaging in arts and crafts, while making fun of Martha's short shorts, bed fetishes, and masked OCD moments (when kids go berserk with icing, clearly destroying her...
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Winner of Food Network's reality show The Next Iron Chef, Michael Symon will begin hosting Dinner Impossible tonight, kicking off with two back-to-back episodes: one on Alcatraz Island, the other on the New Jersey boardwalk. Symon replaced Robert Irvine after "embellishments and inaccuracies" were made on Irvine's resume in February. According to this video interview (Warning: autoplay video), Symon wasn't allowed to cook on the historic prison island so he prepared everything at an off-site facility then shipped in the food. But as Iron Chef proved, Symon loves a good adrenaline rush. "I'm always pretty jacked up for a good competition," he said in the video. One episode to get excited for: a visit to the Crayola Crayon factory, where...
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Before you leave the house for any party, you do the routine check: keys, wallet, phone, mints. Now you can add hot sauce carry purse to that list. Because what if they hand you a burger and don't have bottles of tongue-burning, chili pepper-laden condiments waiting? "They ain't got no hot sauce! I told you we should have called first...C'mon woman, get in the car, we got to go!" Bernie Mac, who died Saturday morning of pneumonia, was freaking out in this SNL sketch until his lady whipped out her sweet Tabasco accessory, where each compartment is insulated and calibrated for maximum hot sauce freshness. Bernie even had something for guys who didn't want to schlep around a girly...
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Morning, serious eaters! We hope you're drinking some "damn good" black coffee—and hot, too—just the way Agent Dale Cooper liked it on the television series Twin Peaks. "As black as midnight on a moonless night." The show's creator and cult filmmaker David Lynch wants you to "give yourself the present" of black coffee everyday, so he created his very own brand of organic beans. Eight-ounce canisters are available for $18.53. After the jump, watch a bonus video of the Twin Peaks characters loving black coffee. [via Metafilter]...
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Gordon Ramsay, promoting his latest book, visited Live with Regis and Kelly today to do a cooking demo. Ramsay's comment to Regis Philbin regarding his previous visit to the show: "You were a nightmare last time. You were horrific." A lot of gentle sparring. Video after the jump....
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Tonight on Great Britain's Channel 4 (or in half an hour if you live in UK), Gordon Ramsay will be cooking live for 60 minutes with his television audience to prepare a three course meal for four people. In anticipation of the nation's rush to buy ingredients for this special event, supermarket chains have stocked up with the provisions for tonight's menu: pan-roasted scallops with tomato and herb salsa as a starter, steak and chips with a rocket and parmesan salad as the main course, and chocolate mousse for dessert. Watch the promo for tonight's show after the jump....
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Alton Brown has signed a new contract that will keep him on the airwaves of Food Network for the next three years. In addition to hosting Iron Chef America and pumping out Good Eats, he'll eat his way around the world's waterways on his new show, Feasting on Waves....
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First off, if you're a fan of Top Chef, casual or hard-core, it's time to visit the Bravo website and read up. There are a metric ton of blogs on that site, and, while they're not always stellar, the scales are tipping in a big way when you've got chefs like Anthony Bourdain and Season One's Harold Dieterle breaking it down. Bourdain's take on last week's episode is well worth your time, as is Dieterle's recap of this week's action. In fact, go read his and ignore the rest of mine... Ah, well, if you insist, here's my take. [Warning: Spoilers follow after the jump.]...
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Following up on last week's on-air publicity stunt charity contest, Bravo's Top Chef has kicked off Season Three with a pair of cook-offs in New York and Miami. The latter city is the location for this year's run, but New York was were I happened to be hanging out when hosts Padma Lakshmi and Tom Colicchio wheeled out the Top Chef party tent and set Season Two contestants Ilan and Sam quick-firing at each other. I can't tell you who won, since I had an appointment at the nearby Union Square Cafe, but I can remind you to watch the season opener tonight on Bravo, 10 p.m. ET. Note: Add 15 minutes to your recording if you're taping the show....
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I'm sure the programmers at the Food Network would've loved to have scheduled next Friday's Good Eats rerun for tonight, but Grill Week must be strictly observed. Still, if you think a week from now you might be jonesing for a half-hour on the food science of glazed, raised, and chocolate-bathed doughnuts, tune your personal recording device to the Food Net June 8 at 11 p.m., when Alton's 2004 opus, Circle of Life, is slated to air....
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