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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 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 detest:
- onions
- garlic
- cilantro/parsley
- sweet-sour anything
- brown rice
- basmatic rice
- celery in my salads (I don't mind celery sticks, but I hate that "Suprise!" chopped celery in any type of salad)
- un-thoroughly-cooked bell peppers

I don't care for
- pork/bacon
- chocolate
- pizza
- pilaf (sacrilege!)

Mayonnaise or any mayonnaise based foods. I hate cole slaw, I hate potato salad, egg salad....all that stuff. Yuck.

Hillary
Chew on That

Gosh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that pork rinds were out of style. I'm a little behind the times.

I try to like sushi because my husband loves it, but the truth is it makes me want to yak. I close my eyes and chew quickly and swallow - ooh, yum, that is sooo good ....

The gals where I used to work absolutely loved this Chinese Restaurant around the corner from the office so they would go there 2-3 x a week! The Hot & Sour was awesome, but when I sat next to someone who was eating egg drop, I had to look away. That gloppy, over-cornstarched yellow snotty-looking swamp in a bowl just wasn't appetizing whatsoever.

Wooden Spoon - I am with you on potatoes! I don't hate them, but I just don't care enough about them to eat them. You could leave an opened bag of chips on my desk all day, I won't touch them. I don't care at all about fries, mashed potatoes -- all the things that people oooo and ahhhh over. This is the one thing that makes my mother think we might not be related...