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^What Jerzee said. I forgot to set Ina up on my DVR. I will take care of that today!

Dang it! Missed the premier eps but will be watching for new shows. I love Ina's classic recipes but after watching the shows a zillion times, I was jonesing for some new stuff. I hope her "back to basics" formula isn't just an excuse to regurgitate her old stuff. I think she's better than that.

I worship Ina. Her recipes are always clean and appealing. Caught both the episodes. Ina's was fabulous but I thought Giada's was lacking. Her daughter was cute though.

Ina's show puts enough spin on her recipes to keep it from being boring. I'll definitely keep watching.

@wookie - Giada's little girl is really cute from the brief glimpses I got of her.

Ina seems more laid back; I think spending time with her "T.R." fella does that to her.

@jbeach - for some reason, the idiots at FN put him on at 7am in the morning. He's got new shows, but you have to get up early to watch them or at least record them. "The Cooking Loft" is in his place now. I like that show, but preferred the one-two punch of Tyler and Jamie.

@AuntJone ~ TR is definitely good looking, but like most of Ina's male friends, he wouldn't "dig" us, or her for that matter. Anybody know what he does for a living? I'd love his little fishing shack with dock in my next life. That would suit me just fine. He seems to be rolling in dough. Yes, pun intended. You all know me well enough now - do I need to keep saying that?

I haven't seen any of the new shows. SIGH. Jamie is practically on in the middle of the night (I fall asleep around 3 a.m.). I'll bet Ray Ray, Sunny, Aunt Scamdy, Neely's, Marc Summers & Al Roker are all on at watchable hours. Ticks me off.

I love Giada's recipes. I for one am happy that she has minimized the cleavage. It was difficult watching Everyday Italian with some of my guy friends or even male relatives and Instead of commenting on the dishes she was making on a particular show, and they would only comment on her excess amounts of "boobage".

Ina Garten can do no wrong. I love her show and I love her recipes and her delivery. She is so confident and her recipes are so simple and elegant. I appreciate how she always stresses the importance of good quality ingredients---Sandra Lee take note: How is using nasty bottled lime or lemon juice quicker or simpler than giving a squeeze to the real thing? Ina rules. I watch her show when I get home from work and I'm transported to a calm, sane oasis where good food and classiness is the rule. Not the snobby type of class...the real thing. And I love her house and when she and Jeffrey go to the beach. Keep that good vanilla flowing. She is my fav on FN, bar none.

Watching Giada now.
She's making food to take to a POLO match.
Glad to have her suggestions, as I spend all my weekends at POLO matches.
(I really do love Giada, but....)

Love Ina - her world to me does seem a bit contrived, though!

I just bought her new cookbook, Jamie's newest, Martha's, "Cooking School," and Bittman's, "How to cook everything" to christen and use in my brand new kitchen - still living in kitchen reno hell, washing dishes in bathroom sink, etc., but soon . . . - at any rate I am going to get Nigella's latest book, keep my, "Hoppin' John's Low Country Cooking," by John Taylor and get rid of all the rest. My low country cookbook brings me great pleasure on days like this, bleak, freezing, grey Winter days. I just sit and read it and conjure up oyster roasts, low country boils and barbeques!

Giada's mannerism makes it impossible for me to watch her - and I've tried several times. She just comes across as very fake. Ina, I love.

My wife and I cracked up about the polo match recipes. How relevant in our economy. I am accused of only watching Giada for the cleavage, which is probably true.

Last week, it was game day recipes for her husbands friends. These must have been the husbands of her polo loving friends. Although the food looked fine, nothing said "game day" and their was no evidence any game was being watched or even a TV in the vicinity as most of the guys were just starting at Giada. Plus, they were eating a calamari stew in red sauce while sitting on a white couch. (Wife's observation again.)

As for Ina's show, I just want to be Jeffrey.

kmitch218 ~ a man's view is fascinating! most of us women want Jeffrey, but you're the first male who said he wanted to BE Jeffrey. I would too, if I were male. I wouldn't say I'm jealous of her exactly, but I do want her life, her talent, her personality, her house and barn, her kitchens, her fireplace, her car, her food and her husband. That's for starters. ;-)

Giada? Nada. Well, her husband is cute, and I hear her baby is adorable. I have no interest in her show or her cookbooks or her boobs or polo and her food is pretty much always the same and I already make most of it anyway.

What is it with these supposidly "professional" (and I use that term loosely) cooks on tv with these boobs hanging out? Giada, Ratchel? Is this because they need a ratings boost? Trouble at home?? Come on, be like Ina and act like a professional, lady and cover up! Do they want us to notice their dishes, or their boobs?

What austintx said. Exactly. I need not type another word.