Serious Eats - seriouseats.com

Wow! Just goes to show you that you are less alone in your thoughts than you might think! I used to have FN on whenever I was home. I always loved to cook and asked for recipes form friends, etc when I enjoyed the food. The FN spurred me on to invest heavily in great cookware and to finally organize my recipe collection. I used to have a problem with printing recipes from FN. I used to print a hundred a day and spent hours searching topics on their site. I loved it. Then...they changed the line-up and put Barefoot Contessa on at 1:30 in the afternoon (who is home at that hour?) and I just stopped watching. All of these new trashy "stars" just don't have it. Rachael makes my ears hurt and her cutesy words and recipes (stoup) make me vomit. Even Ina Garten made a heavy dig at Sandra Lee's tablescapes! Sandra's new "kick" is saving money when cooking. She acrually recommended making something from scratch to save 2 CENTS PER PERTION!!! Is she nuts??? That show is the tackiest garbage on the spectrum. While watching one day at my sister's house my 15 year old nephew asked "who the h-ll is that idiot" when Guy Fieri came on. I guess they have gotten away form serious food content and reaching skills to please the "suits" at the network. It's funny though that almost all of the comments here were overwhelmingly negative. So many things these days have lost their appeal (even the streets of New York) with all of the developers winning. Who are they consulting??? What numbers are they crunching? Like everything else these days, things are designed for quick consumption and quick profits with little regard for quality or legacy. Are we being "served"??? I think not.
These "personalities" might get an initial viewership, but it's the food, the techniques learned and the quality of the recipes that will sustain the growth. Clearly, Tushman is listening to the numbers crunchers and not following his original "vision". We all lose. Put Sandra on in the old Sally Jesse Raphael slot...3 am!!! Yuck!!!