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Chefography This Week on Food Network

They DID tape one on Robert Irvine but are choosing not to air it.

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The 'Save Robert Irvine' Campaign Begins

Will this "group of volunteers" also be around to talk major organizations into working with Robert? I don't think anyone understands how tough it will be to produce a show with Robert Irvine now that he is more known for being a liar than for being a chef. It is not as simple as "keep him on Food Network!", it is a question of how will they produce this show now? Good luck to you and your volunteers.

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Celebrity Chef Has Pants on Fire

Let me elaborate: a) Robert Irvine doesn't live where they say he does and B) Dinner: Impossible is not in it's 2nd Season.. who's to say they are incorrect about other things mentioned in their article?

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Celebrity Chef Has Pants on Fire

Perkymac: The only reason he calls himself "Executive Chef" is b/c HE HAS BEEN AN EXEC. CHEF FOR MANY HOTELS/ RESORTS Including Donald Trump's Taj Majal.

Look- yes he did stretch the truth regarding a couple things in his past but let's not forget all that he has accomplished. He HAS cooked for several Presidents and he has been an Exec. Chef for many prestigeous Hotels and Resorts and he HAS cooked for Royalty.

And PERKY MAC- You are only getting ONE side of this story as far as Robert Irvine "Steeling" hundreds of thousands of dollars (which isn't the case- trust me).. This Socialite woman LaTorre practically owns St.Pettersburgh and has an axe to grind- she bought & paid for the article. This is a one sided story and is unfair. Are you really going to believe everything you read?? I can verify that SEVERAL "facts" in this article are FALSE, so maybe this fact checker hasn't done their best?

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Celebrity Chef Has Pants on Fire

I like the guy, the guy was pretty interesting. My wife enjoyed his cooking. It just shows that, the producers and management at food network are just bunch of retard. Come on now this is the second time they screwed up. First was with Anthony Bourdain who has a hit show on travel channel. They got rid of him and he went to another show and got nominated for his show. Now their running his old shows because they knew they screwed up. The people at food network should atlest, let the his contract end and don't renew so there wouldn't be a big controversy over his resume. Second they should went out and check out all the people he use to work for. All the employer's do back ground check, why didn't they simply do a background check on someone. That's just plain common sense. It shows to all of us that who ever is running the food network are just bunch of retarted CEO'S and producers of the shows. There were shows in the past that were good and now there gone. CAN'T ANYONE AT THAT FOOD NETWORK GET IT RIGHT!!!!!! THEY THEM SELF SHOULD GET FIRED ASWELL.

From Talk

Chefography This Week on Food Network

yes Robert Irvine I think he is great but if I worked with him I known I would start crying like a baby !!!

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Chefography This Week on Food Network

How about a Lidia Matticcino Cheftography? And I love the idea of a FN2- bring back David Rosengarten and Two Hot Tamales!!!

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Chefography This Week on Food Network

Graham Kerr , well done! Good memory, how about that English sot Floyd doing a local gig that Bourdain has lifted the Two fat ladies! Yes!

The irony is you folks love to grouse but you can't take your eyes away from that channel! There is so much better out there but you have to watch PBS instead. True some of PBS's stuff is horrid (MA Esposito? How do you say PB+J in Eyetalian?) and *Everyday food*? for a Prozac nation perhaps.

The bitterness heaped upon Ms. Lee is laughable, the only thing that would make you ladies detest her more and send her rating through the roof would be to put her in a bikini or less lol!

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Chefography This Week on Food Network

Bravian if you had stayed you would have seen that Emeril and Julia really was just a mention, it didnt last more than a min and a half. The show on Julia was a little disapointing to me, they seemed to stress how she was a "party girl" way too much. As for SL I actually watched her's a while back when it was on, before I ever saw her show, and all I can say is yes she had a hard childhood, there is an expiration date on that! Get over it and move on, if you must dwell on how far you've come from such awful starting point, go get drunk with friends and do it there! It's supposed to be FOOD TV not thinly disquised bragging!

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Chefography This Week on Food Network

I wouldn't have objected to a chefography on someone who teaches worthwhile cooking practices but Sandra Lee? Come on. Like she's the only person who had to survive less than ideal circumstances while growing up? TVFN's twisted slant on her "history" makes her sound like MacGyver of the Culinary World. Hardly.

My mother weathered her share of uphill climbs and managed to cook real food every single night. Now that's impressive.

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Chefography This Week on Food Network

I turned on the food network in the middle of Julia Child's 'Chefography' and who do I see? Julia Child with Emeril. I quickly flipped over to something else. If this is what Chefography is going to be I want nothing to do with it. I can't believe that Emeril is even a footnote in this woman's storied career.

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Chefography This Week on Food Network

They need to do one on Graham Kerr also.

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Chefography This Week on Food Network

@Traveller - somehow, SL's story in her "Chefography" is different from the one in her "memoir" is different from the ones she tells us during her shows. Inconsistencies are quite amusing. But yes, I am willing to believe that her ever-changing childhood was, indeed, no piece of cake. Whose was?

But if her idea of a time & money saving shortcut is brining a grill to the parking garage of a fast food joint and spending hefty amounts of time AND money on recreation of the said fast food joint's meal - thank you, for a fraction of the cost and in no time I can just go inside and buy the whole thing! It will be a) MUCH cheaper, b) MUCH faster and c) the amount of chemicals will probably be the same if not lower. Make no mistake, her show is not for poor mothers who have to come up with a meal for a family in no time and with no money - if there was a show like this, I would have all respect in the world for it. If you pay attention, you'll figure out pretty soon that despite her claims, her show is really intended for bored, rich (very rich) housewives who don't really love food but want to "embellish" and "take all the credit". For goodness sake, the woman's recipe for beef tips in gravy starts with a package of beef tips in gravy!!! Are there really people out there who need a recipe for this? I will shut up now before I am banned from SE forever:-)

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Chefography This Week on Food Network

I've been cooking on both ends of the spectrum - from classically French trained to feeding 9 on a dime. I have no huge love for Sandra lee, but you do what you must to survive, and if it's soomething that will help others, so much the better.

Nobody rates the world on each breath they take, and yet we all breathe and must do so to live. Honestly, it's the TV Food Network, not the TV Chef Network. I don't think they should pat themselves on the back, but aren't they delivering what they should -- food?