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The Next Food Network Star, Episode 4 Recap: Share Your Feelings

Sometimes I think the show should be renamed the Next Cry Baby Star because really, on every episode at least one person starts crying like a bad Hallmark card. I do like how Lisa is becoming more human. I developed a new respect for her when she kept going without a hitch despite all that sauce on her.

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The Next Food Network Star, Episode 4 Recap: Share Your Feelings

Sometimes I think the show should be renamed the Next Cry Baby Star because really, on every episode at least one person starts crying like a bad Hallmark card. I do like how Lisa is becoming more human. I developed a new respect for her when she kept going without a hitch despite all that sauce on her.

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The Redhead: Thursdays to Every Day, One Chef's Path

I just went last night with my grandparents. Fried chicken was delicious. It's now $17. Everything was pretty good. My grandfather's boyfriend loved the shrimp and grits.

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The Redhead: Thursdays to Every Day, One Chef's Path

Went for dinner last night. Probably the best fried chicken I've ever had. Also had the peanut/bacon brittle (very addictive) and soft pretzel & sausage (amazing quality and spices!). Highly recommend though it is a small location for may be not for large groups.

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The Redhead: Thursdays to Every Day, One Chef's Path

Thanks for the photo props, guys! :)

And I would like to thank my best friend: PHOTOSHOP. When my photos are too yellow or underexposed, PS comes to my rescue.

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The Redhead: Thursdays to Every Day, One Chef's Path

Oops!!! Robyn, I didn't see your name up there. Your pics are ALWAYS awesome though. But I have noticed Ed's photo skills as well, in his reviews of Fiore, Casellula, and Terroir (those are yours right?) So, props to both of you.

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The Redhead: Thursdays to Every Day, One Chef's Path

This looks and sounds delicious. I love the unpretentious, simple, yet inventive courses that are rich and decadent without resorting to hyper exotic or expensive ingredients and outrageous flavor combinations. I would love to check this place out.

And Ed, I must say in all sincerity that are my favorite restaurant reviewer. You are head and shoulders above all the New York reviewers at least. The way you present your dining experience, the array of dishes you examine, the pace with which you write. And your photos are gorgeous. While I may disagree with you from time to time on subjective matters of taste, objectively you have completely mastered your craft. The others should strive to be so complete, and so relevant to their medium (and to their readership,) as you.

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The Next Food Network Star, Episode 4 Recap: Share Your Feelings

The FN seems committed to destroying whatever but of credibility it has left. This entire episode was a commercial for Red Lobster. Now they've gone beyond product placement. A sponsor can virtually buy an entire show. But even worse is Guy Fieri, whose show is supposed to be a love note to independant, quirky, regional, family run restaurants, shilling for TGIF - a homogenized, standardized, national corporate chain. The kind of place that is destroying the "diners and dives" he's supposed to be a champion of. You can say that's him as a person, and not FN, but it still shows that FN is all about selling out.

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The Next Food Network Star, Episode 4 Recap: Share Your Feelings

Can they just go out and get Mario, Bourdain, et al back? Heck, Padma just released a new book - spend some money and get her 10 episodes - she actually seems to have a perspective and niche that is missing. Just give me a morning of Ina, Bobby, Mario, Nigella, and Alton Brown. For the love of God.....no more "She's a former Navy SEAL, a DJ, AND a single mom who knows how to cook" or "Watch Guy shove more diner food in his mouth and begin to moan before his tastebuds can even react.." How about someone say once, "You know, this avocado, fennel, sorbet burger kind of sucks...."

Ed Levine: can you use your power as an Iron Chef America judge to stop Tischman or Fogelson in the hall and tell them to pull their heads out of you know where? Otherwise I fear new episodes of "America's Best Buffets at Strip Clubs", hosted by Guy Fieri and sponsored by Hormel Chili will be wedged in between "Down Home Neely's" and "30 Minute Meals". Heck, give me more Dave Lieberman - I learned something on his show every week at least.

Or maybe I'm just an old bitter 38-year old man yearning for reruns of "Cooking with Claudine" on PBS. Jack Pepin: save us from our self-destructive ways......

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Location: SF Bay Area

About: I blog about eating wellness through food at Noshtopia.com. I share recipes, tips, and ideas plus lots of food pictures on how cleaning up your nutrition, and eating more consciously can help you achieve more vibrant health.

Favorite foods: Dolmas, Quinoa, jicama, walnuts, sushi, turkey, Filipino food, and the occasional Twinkie.

Last bite on earth: My mom's Lumpia