I agree with microwave popcorn. Someone at work used to make this vile "corn on the cob" variety and one morning, when I was feeling a bit tender, it actually triggered my gag reflex.
Liqours like rum and brandy also do it for me.
This is a bit shameful but, Gordon Ramsay. I find Wolfgang Puck quite sexy but don't really try any of his recipes. If Eric Rippert had a show, I would watch it even though I do not like fish just due to his general appeal.
I have woven an entire food blog around the game (forgive the pun, but it's my personal take on the Kevin Bacon game for '08) of working an ancho-chile crush on Bobby Flay into every entry:
http://happyhoarfrost.blogspot.com/2008/03/bobby-flay-apple-of-my-ribeye.html
I am not a food hussy, but I do enjoy working that theme--HOWEVER, I had the delicious & bizzarre fortune of spending some time with Duff Goldman (The Ace of Cakes) in his bakery this weekend--and I'll tell you what, that man is as fascinating a dervish in real life as he is on his show. MORE SO. He's the new object of my confection--because he's got the cake going on beneath the fondant.
http://happyhoarfrost.blogspot.com/2008/04/duff-goldman-bucket-full-of-fundant.html
I think Alton Brown is a cutie - smart and funny, too.
I love to watch Giada eat. She seems to genuinely enjoy food.
My all time favorite Food Network show was The Two Fat Ladies. I can't say I'd ever eat anything they cooked but they were a delight to watch.
I can not stand Rachel Ray's contrived hand-waving and pointing. I look at the description of the show and if I like the sound of something, I'll get the recipe from the web site. And if I hear her say, "e-v-o-o-extra-virgin-olive-oil" one more time, I'll scream!
In the first Lyon in the Kitchen episode I watched, in which he was making chicken Marsala, he mispronounced Marsala every time he said it. He said Ma-SAH-la. I haven't watched that show since.
I'm a straight woman but I like watching Giada because she's so pretty and it always looks like she's enjoying herself. And Those are definitely real. She moves like she's been keeping them out of the spaghetti sauce all her life. I like Alton because of his brain--although he looks better without that scraggly beard he wears on Iron Chef, and sort of astonishing in leathers, as on that "Open Road" series.
They say Mario was a fiend with the ladies when he was single. Hm.
Mario Batali is not my idea of good-looking, but I love his personality. I can watch him endlessly. And I love watching Jamie Oliver, too.
When I first read the title of this post, I thought you might be talking about how some shows have too much drama. Many have contended that Top Chef focuses more on the drama than the food, and now that I think about it, they probably have Padma to lure in some guys...
Hillary
Chew On That
I have a new one, also a puzzle. A friend brought me a huge bag of lemons from Costco and I didn't have room in the fridge (he brought me a ton of produce), so I left them in the bag on the counter for 2 days. I could see the perfect lemons in front, but the plastic at the back was not see-through. Three lemons had turned to smelly green dust! Mystery smell solved. There was only one other that I had to cut off part of the rind, but I scrubbed all the rest, and put them in a bowl in the fridge. I hope they don't freeze - no room in the crisper.
I have a question for you. Would you zest lemons that had been exposed to that green dust? Should I spray them with a bleach solution and rinse? Should I trash them? What would you do?
Anyone think TVFN over reacted? Or was that their excuse for firing the focus character of a lackluster show? The punishment seemed extreme.
Todd English also comes to mind about watching a chef for his looks... but his food is also really good so I guess it's win/win.
@chiff0nade - One and the same. His show wasn't that great from a food perspective, but it was fun to watch him get flustered in strange situations.
Robert Irvine...Isn't that the guy who got fired from TVFN for lying on his resume?
I can't believe potatoes can smell so...fishy.
Bleech. I just ate too...
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