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Who Should Be on Reality TV: White, Steingarten, or Ramsay?
White COULD be someone I like but why can't he say anything without putting his finger up? Steingarten is a pig. I may try reading one of this books but the dude rubs me the wrong way.
My vote? Ramsay all the way. If you watch anything he's done on BBC, you'll see that he's personable but exacting in his kitchen. I love the guy.
'The Chopping Block': Do We Really Need Another Cooking Competition Show?
I still don't know what to make of Marco. This may take a show or two more to decide. But I love Gordon Ramsay, after seeing the F Word re-runs, I can appreciate him so much more. Marco seems TOO pompous.
And Jeffrey Steingarten is to food television what Jabba the Hut was to Star Wars! And watching either of them eat brings about the same reaction in my household.
Cook the Book: The Essence of Chocolate
I once made a chocolate pecan fudge that was melt in your mouth delicious and I've spent many a batch trying to recreate it. One day, I will again! Perhaps with the help of a certain book?
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Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
Oh, just pick me, I always enter and never win, but this book I REALLY want. I now live in the south (KY) and really need to show up my next door neighbor, she's just a little too cocky about her pies. And I'm telling you, they aren't that good. This old lady needs to be taken down a couple of notches!
Who Should Be on Reality TV: White, Steingarten, or Ramsay?
White COULD be someone I like but why can't he say anything without putting his finger up? Steingarten is a pig. I may try reading one of this books but the dude rubs me the wrong way.
My vote? Ramsay all the way. If you watch anything he's done on BBC, you'll see that he's personable but exacting in his kitchen. I love the guy.
'The Chopping Block': Do We Really Need Another Cooking Competition Show?
I still don't know what to make of Marco. This may take a show or two more to decide. But I love Gordon Ramsay, after seeing the F Word re-runs, I can appreciate him so much more. Marco seems TOO pompous.
And Jeffrey Steingarten is to food television what Jabba the Hut was to Star Wars! And watching either of them eat brings about the same reaction in my household.
Cook the Book: The Essence of Chocolate
I once made a chocolate pecan fudge that was melt in your mouth delicious and I've spent many a batch trying to recreate it. One day, I will again! Perhaps with the help of a certain book?
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
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Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
dropping the entire casserole on the oven door
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
I made walnut brownies with walnuts that had secretly gone bad...it was a giant inedible pan of musty, nasty brownies. Sick and so, so sad.
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
As a kid, my best friend and I made sugar cookies. She read the ingredients as I incorporated them. She read off 1/4 cup of salt, I then asked her if she read that right because that was a lot of salt. She insisted she was correct and I added that amount in. Once the cookies had baked, we couldn;t wait to try them, we each took a bite and spit them out. She was wrong, it was 1/4 tsp salt!
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
My most triumphant baking success was making brownies for my friend.
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
My biggest success was baking my husband's favorite pie, a Lemon Meringue Pie. garrettsambo@aol.com
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
no disasters but I haven't tried to make anything that seems too complicated for me, I guess the triumph would have to be making pound cakes, just because I had to make them with a hand mixer
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
My most disasterous was when I was about 8 or 9, I deceided to make my mother a surprise cake. I got up about 4 in the morning and decided to make of all things a chiffon cake. Well it calls for lots of eggs and etc. When that cake came out it was flat as a pancake and I cried and cried, but my mother said it was the thought that counted, but she was not happy I had used so many eggs.
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
My greatest success was the first time I made bread. I was inspired by a retired pro-wrestler (yeah, a "wrassler") interviewed in the student newspaper. He baked bread, read classic literature and was a tour guide at the local zoo. If he could do it, I could do it. And it did.
Who Should Be on Reality TV: White, Steingarten, or Ramsay?
All you Ramsay fans are crazy in the UK or the US he is a total wanker ...yes the man can cook ........because Marco taught him .......jeffrey is a good crittic honest and harsh when need be but his own show ...I just dont know. To me Ramsay has just become a media whore. And yes I must agree on one point its the producers that are unleashing the Ramsay we see on the US versions of his shows.
Who Should Be on Reality TV: White, Steingarten, or Ramsay?
How about none of them? Here's an idea.....what if the TV powers to be (PBS , Food Network, Travel Channel, Fine Living Network-I don't really care) re-ran the old shows from Julia Child, Jeff Smith, Justin Wilson, Marcia Adams, Graham Kerr, Earl Peyroux, Joyce Chen, Madeleine Kamman, Natalie Dupree, the Romagnoli's, Marcel Desaulnieres, Biba Caggiano, Nick Stellino, Mollie Katzen, the 'Great Chef's series', Anne Willan (cooking from LaVarenne) et al.......if for no other reason other than the newbie generation of foodies can experience the kind of cooking shows that paved the way for this current wave of cooking shows? My daughter (in her 30's) has no idea of what a cooking show on TV is other than the crap we see on these reality shows and 'most' Food Network shows.....did I just have an epiphany or will be I be flamed?
You know what? I'm tired as hell as of the new "cooking shows" and I'm not going to take it anymore. I have a remote control. And I can read books.
Who Should Be on Reality TV: White, Steingarten, or Ramsay?
I find Steingarten pompous and gave up on "Chopping Block" after ten minutes. I am definitely a GR fangirl, but Fox's meddling - with most of their shows not just KN - has left a bad taste in my mouth. I'll stick with The F Word and KN BBC. There's so much less DRAMA!!! and more actual food.
Who Should Be on Reality TV: White, Steingarten, or Ramsay?
Steingarten was on White's show? Eff. So, original programming isn't such a big deal to Steingarten. Still think he'd balk at hosting a show that has a tired, cooking competition format.
Who Should Be on Reality TV: White, Steingarten, or Ramsay?
Well, shucks. I should have wrote "...he'd rather eat a preservative-laden salad before appearing on ANOTHER reality show with an unoriginal format."
Iron Chef America was certainly modeled after the original. Anyway, Steingarten gets a pass for that. No right thinking person would pass up an opportunity to be on the judge's panel for that show (one of the very few TVFN shows worth watching these days).
Who Should Be on Reality TV: White, Steingarten, or Ramsay?
Love him or hate him, Steingarten is the only one of the three who could move the ball forward in the world of food shows. Can you imagine him putting on a fake persona or doing something unoriginal? Not me. He's believably and genuinely crabby -- unlike Ramsay -- but he's also humorous and an astute professional eater from whom we could learn valuable lessons. His books certainly suggest this. And you know he'd rather eat a preservative-laden salad before appearing on a reality show with a unoriginal format. White did just that by appearing on another show with the GD kitchen competitions. If the viewing public is feeling anything like me, they're tired of celebrity chefs involved in competitive cooking events. Something new would be nice!
Steingarten would be the ultimate surly moderator for a weekly roundtable series, a la The McLaughlin Group, where guests with different culinary viewpoints hash out food issues in an intelligent yet often comical manner. Could also see him hosting a culinary Jeopardy-type show, where he'd get to make hilariously bitchy quips in response to people's answers.
So, I'm all in for Steingarten. He's one-of-a-kind and real. Real smart, real funny and could be truly great on his own show . . . maybe a reality show. Or not.
Who Should Be on Reality TV: White, Steingarten, or Ramsay?
Steingarten should be read and not seen/heard.
MPW is beautiful and terrible like an army arrayed for battle. He takes my breath away... I would have loved to see Batali and Ramsay put into tizzies!
Also, anyone into heavy pointing is fine with me!
Who Should Be on Reality TV: White, Steingarten, or Ramsay?
Ramsay - He's pretty rough on Hell's Kitchen, but if you ever see Kitchen Nightmares, you get to see a different side of him. I find him honest and while pretty raw sometimes, and I watching him.
Who Should Be on Reality TV: White, Steingarten, or Ramsay?
Serious Eats needs to do a better job of editing its articles. I love the content on this site, but the blatant and consistent grammatical errors detracts from the overall quality of the site and tars the reputation of its writers. There is simply no excuse.
Who Should Be on Reality TV: White, Steingarten, or Ramsay?
At this point it's pretty easy to see through Ramsay's shtick--I'm finding him entertaining again.
MPW's 'power' finger approach is the new joke around the house.
As much as I like Steigarden as a critic I worry about him being wasted as a host--this happened to Ted Allen; having to carry the ball still haunts Emilio at times.
An aside: Chilean Sea Bass is no longer considered endangered; there are other reasons activists recommend that you avoid it.
Who Should Be on Reality TV: White, Steingarten, or Ramsay?
Jeffrey mumbled too much. He's fine on Iron Chef, always entertaining, but we had to dig out the closed captions option to figure out his Herpes remark.
Who Should Be on Reality TV: White, Steingarten, or Ramsay?
Actually, Marco doesn't claim to have made Gordon cry. Marco says Gordon made himself cry. And Marco also had Batali in such a tizzy that Batali stormed out of his kitchen, dropping handfuls of salt into several sauces on his way out.
Who Should Be on Reality TV: White, Steingarten, or Ramsay?
Love Gordon, find MPW's new show a complete waste of time and Steingarten ... eh.
Who Should Be on Reality TV: White, Steingarten, or Ramsay?
Jeffrey Steingarten is a very intellectually focused food critic...and I don't know that he would translate all that well for the masses in a reality show. He's too understated and has very little "drama" in the way he presents himself. I enjoy reading him, and as long as I don't have to watch him eat I enjoy his commentary on cooking competition shows.
As for Gordon and Marco, let's see them go head to head. :) That would be some serious reality show drama. Marco claims to have made Gordon cry...so let's see it.
Who Should Be on Reality TV: White, Steingarten, or Ramsay?
Thanks, mycherrypie. That show was fun. I think that Jeffrey's show would have a different format than any food show I've seen on tv yet. I also think Marco Pierre White would be better suited to a different format.
Who Should Be on Reality TV: White, Steingarten, or Ramsay?
love steingarten. i miss the show the two of you had Ed!
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Oh, just pick me, I always enter and never win, but this book I REALLY want. I now live in the south (KY) and really need to show up my next door neighbor, she's just a little too cocky about her pies. And I'm telling you, they aren't that good. This old lady needs to be taken down a couple of notches!