I love Lidia Bastianich ..not sure if I spelled that right or not. She is usually on the PBS channels around here. Her food is right on. When you actually make one of her dishes from her cookbook, the food actually comes out tasting like you think it would if she cooked it.
Spread it on a Maria Cookie. They are little round biscuit cookies. I think they are from Spain. Yummy and when I eat that I kid myself into thinking its a low-cal treat! Just don't slather on the nutella too thick
I so wish Shirley Corriher had a show of her own. The lady is brilliant and absolutely ebuliant. She is just so cute on Alton Brown and if you have Cookwise or Bakewise, you know how much you could actually "learn " about the cooking process and food science in half an hour with her.
...those who say Alton Brown is not a chef. he may not be technically a chef cause he has no restaurant, BUT he has helped redo and open enough ...
I don't consider Alton a "chef," I do consider him an expert educator. His subject matter, area of expertise if you will, happens to be cooking and the culinary arts. Same thing with David Rosengarten, not technically a chef but an expert educator.
I also love Shirley O. Corriher for this very same reason. She also looks cherubic...LOL.
Wow talk about only garnering information from single sources!
Here's some very bad ones for your consideration.
Then Hippy gourmet:
http://www.hippygourmet.com/
Beyond annoying yet the stuff he makes probably isn't terrible. I'm sure his brownies are winners though;-))
Wendy Brodie and her *Art of food*:
http://www.wendybrodie.com/
Quite possibly the single worst voice for broadcast ever and her lush of a husband and thier disgusting little dog! The hieght of worthless snobbishness. I actually like it because it's so bad.
Rick Bayless, a very weird guy but everything he makes I think looks really tasty:
http://www.rickbayless.com/tv/season5/
Oh and don't forget how truly terrible Maryann Esposito andf her *Ciao Italia* is! "Today we will make Pasta e Fungi* roughly translated as noodles and mushrooms.
And then L. Bastianich must we watch that zaftig wench stuff her face with yet another stew and tell us how great it is while her whole family proceed to bore us?
*Everyday food* is also beyond annoying. Could we possibly find a more white bread group of condesending SSRI junkies?
How about the chunky vegitarian (Christina cooks) lady that tells us how horrible we eat yet every subsequent season looks worse herself then the season before?
And then all the lowcarb/lowfat cooking shows out there. Trust me compared to PBS the food channel looks very good at times.
It's really simple there are far more nad shows out there in TV land then there are good ones.
America's test kitchen is probabaly the most educational yet the formula is pretty simple. Make simple recipies complex, and complex ones simple.
I retract that statement I made about Nigela being "huge".
I certainly didn't mean it in that way.
I mourn the loss of James "The Urban Peasant" Barber. His show taught me so much about the joy of cooking, and was both an inspiration and a revelation. "It's your dinner!"
ChefJMac, Alton explicitly says, again and again, that he is not a chef. That doesn't mean that anyone respects what he does any less, certainly not me, but what he does is not the job description of a chef. As terrific as he is, he just has a different job. Bill Nye isn't a physics professor, although he holds two honorary doctorates and has done a huge amount for science education. There's nothing wrong with what he's done, but it isn't in the job description of a physics professor.
Fine Living now has several of the old cooking shows from the pre-formula Food Network days. Ming Tsai, Molto Mario, and Follow that Food still show there. I miss Jaques Torres' chocolate show.
I agree with most everyone on here on who is the best/worst. I just thought I would throw my two cents in and state (IMO) that Nigella is not "huge" at all. She still seems her curvy, voluptuous self. I don't want to get on that road, but just thought I would send it out there that I didn't think she was as big as Ina...geez, I feel bad even typing that. They are both beautiful! :-)
and for those who say Alton Brown is not a chef. he may not be technically a chef cause he has no restaurant, BUT he has helped redo and open enough to know the difference between possible and not possible.
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