What Cooking /Food shows Do You Watch?

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I like this guy in the Napa valley, Michael Chiarello, but his show was dropped or moved. I like Anthony Bourdain as he combines food, travel, and getting drunk all the time into one show. Guy Fieri traveling around meeting innovative eateries is a great show. I really like Extra Virgin. It's more of a reality show but that aside, that Tuscan guy comes up with great stuff. This show made me appreciate lighter foods. Pigging out on giant portions doesn't turn me on like it used to. I went from 182 lbs. to a consistant 167 lbs. in the last 3 1/2 years since changing attitudes about food, and it coincided with watching that show.
What particular food shows do you like, if any?
 
Chopped. Best show on TV IMO. I often experiment with food and get inspired by Triple D and the like.
 
I really like "Good Eats" with Alton Brown. Not many new episodes but I can watch them all day.
 
I like Americas Test Kitchen & Cooks Country - just about every recipe I've tried works out great, plus they do a lot on the grill - also gadgets and taste tests (ketchup etc). I think my favorite chef is Jacques Pepin - he has quite a few series on re-runs and one with Julia Child that is fun watching for their interaction alone. He does some stuff that is quick and easy and outside the box (e.g. black bean soup with bananas). I usually DVR them and watch in the morning with coffee and paper.
 
I like Alton Brown's Good Eats. I also like his motorcycle excursions "Feasting on Asphalt". I have grown tired of Chopped and most any of the food game shows. I think the Food Network doesn't use their talent very well. None of their evening shows have their female stars. It seems like every evening is just one show again and again. Chopped, one episode after another, Triple D, one after another, or Restaurant Impossible, the same way. I would like to see more old classic food TV also. It would be nice to see old Julia Child, Justin Wilson, and Yan Can Cook shows.
 
Guy Fieri's Triple D is so great because it focuses on all these hard working people out there doing what they love to do. The amount of work some people go through to come up with something is astounding.
Someone asks what Anthony Bourdain's talent is. He goes to interesting places, meets interesting people, eats interesting food, and gets drunk all the time.
 
Yes, Triple D, and as much as I've learned to dislike Bourdain after reading about his disgusting verbal attack on Fieri and Paula Dean, I still watch No Reservations and just ignore Bourdain's overly entitled BS.
 
diamonback68 said:
Anthony Bourdain is arrogant and a disgusting jerk that turns most people off. What talent does he have?
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The Bourdain that you rail about is a persona that he has developed over the years to make a very good living. He is opinionated and not afraid to voice those opinions sort of like well......you. He has no other talent than being an amateur writer,"turn and burn cook" and television personality by his own admission, by the way. I like Tony for his book, Kitchen Confidential that anyone who has ever worked in a hot kitchen can relate to,his unique and irreverent spin on so called sacred cows .As for turning most people off,his show on the travel network is their most watched and successful, his talks are sold out world wide and he has just signed a very lucrative contract with CNN where his production company has total control over content. I also like that he doesn't take himself too seriously. A trait perhaps we can all learn from....Wouldn't you say?
 
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While more of a music show, I really like "Live from Daryl's House". It involves artists coming and performing at Daryl Hall's (Hall and Oates fame) house. They always play a few songs, prepare a meal and then eat it while shooting the breeze with each other. It is entertaining, informative and combines 2 of my favorite things....music and food.
It's on Palladia. "Try it, you'll like it"!
 
I don't watch many of these cooking shows but always find the time to watch the pioneers of food shows. The Galloping Gourmet, Graham Kerr.Cajun chef, Justin Wilson. Julia,anything with the master, Jacques Pepin and Martin Yan.
No contests or surprise ingredients just good technical cooks.
 
duppie said:
The Bourdain that you rail about is a persona that he has developed over the years to make a very good living. He is opinionated and not afraid to voice those opinions sort of like well......you. He has no other talent than being an amateur writer,"turn and burn cook" and television personality by his own admission, by the way. I like Tony for his book, Kitchen Confidential that anyone who has ever worked in a hot kitchen can relate to,his unique and irreverent spin on so called sacred cows .As for turning most people off,his show on the travel network is their most watched and successful, his talks are sold out world wide and he has just signed a very lucrative contract with CNN where his production company has total control over content. I also like that he doesn't take himself too seriously. A trait perhaps we can all learn from....Wouldn't you say?
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My son just gave me "Kitchen Confidential" the other day. I just started it and it's great so far. In my favorite episode of No Reservations he goes to the desert in Ca. and hangs out at places I really like there. He's no snob and in that one episode he'll eat chile and eggs at a flea market eatery then later on prime rib and martinis in a high- tony Palm Springs restaurant, and enjoy both. Here's that show I like. The bar he goes to at the beginning was a blast when we went there with my neice and nephew who live in Joshua Tree. Great music.

Anthony Bourdain No Reservations US Desert 13 SaveYouTube com - YouTube
 
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