It was why my mother and wanted computers, to get the recipes from food tv...

Food tv is having a special tonight at 9pm

And can Guy Fieri say that sucks for once...lol

She looks like she's teaching a lesson in how to give a handjob

I didn't even realize FN was around for 20 years. I only just discovered it circa 2005/2006

It seems to be all competition shows now. It's too bad. Guy Fieri is a douchebag.

I only just discovered it circa 2005/2006

Same here. I never really paid it any attention until I took a cooking class in high school that year and everyone would constantly talk about it. I watched the various afternoon divas RELIGIOUSLY. Ina, Giada, Sandra, Rachael, Sarah, Paula before her ego took over, etc. And sexy ass Dave Lieberman.

I can't really stand it most of the time now. Like Carl said, it's too many competition shows. Those are fine, but I like the basic cooking shows the best.

I've watched it for 16 of those 20 years, when the cable company added it to the lineup, I got hooked on it and started cooking right away. It's a far cry from what it was those years ago, when they actually had real instructional programs on, not the overly produced shows they have now. It was low budget, but it was easier to follow along with the recipes and the chefs were more technical. Cooking Live was the best show on the network, I called in a couple of times and made it on the air.

Love Food Network. It ranges from good to so bad it's good.

Good

So bad it's good <3

More Inagoddess <3

Edited November 10, 201312 yr by juppiter

It seems to be all competition shows now.

It really has become the Game Show Network.

I remember when Food Network had a show called "How to Boil Water," not the Tyler Florence version, but the one with the guy named Sean and the chef who sat off stage in the dark while giving Sean direction. It was such a poorly produced show, I would cringe. I remember thinking to myself, "When are they going to let that poor chef come into the kitchen?" They eventually did.

ETA: I just did a search on this show and it looks like Emeril was the original host. I did not know that.

Edited November 10, 201312 yr by Jonathan

I only catch myself watching it for two reasons: Jamie Oliver (unless he's on a health diatribe) or Anna and Kristina's Grocery Bag - Those bitches are hilarious.

Ina Garten really is a fabulous diva. Hokey and corny so much of the time, but it's part of her Hamptons charm. Love her, love Jeffrey, love the house, love her gays, love outrageous brownies, love some "good vanilla extract."

I love food shows but ironically I don't think I've ever faithfully followed one on FN besides DD&D. Travel, FOX, or PBS for me. My little Susan Lucci Bratz doll Giada was on Jimmy Fallon the other night and I was thinking I might have to start checking her out again. Her recipes skewed a little too healthy for me though (Ha! What a fat American thing to say!) and the whole food porn schtick gets old fast when you know that food isn't getting smeared anywhere below her neck. Plus I don't like that she insulted Lidia who I sure wouldn't mind having as a third grandmother. Hopefuly it's mostly an act for TV, but I don't know how she could produce a prick like Joe.

Giada used to annoy the crap out of me on Everyday Italian whenever she'd pronounce words in an overly affected Italian accent. "Spagheeti" was the worst. At one point, I think she was doing that with non-Italian words like potato.

Giada used to annoy the crap out of me on Everyday Italian whenever she'd pronounce words in an overly affected Italian accent. "Spagheeti" was the worst. At one point, I think she was doing that with non-Italian words like potato.

On one hand I get what you're saying, on the other I'm with Giada. First-- I think a lot of the time it's for show, because Italians abbreviate everything. It's never "capicola," always "capicool." It's never "braciole," always "brazhol." BUT on the other hand, I got made fun of at work for the way I say "risotto." But I just pronounced it the way I was brought up hearing it-- "Ri-sot-to", NOT "Riz-otto". I come from a FOB Italian family and to say it that way would be unnatural for me and I was honestly unaware people call it that til I got made fun of.

Edited November 11, 201312 yr by juppiter

That is hilarious about Giada overpronouncing potato. Gordon Ramsey also says ri-sot-to which has rubbed off on me. I do not however pronounce pasta the English way, rhyming with how black people say pastor. I dated an Italian girl in college and she would say "moo-zuh-relle", my first time hearing it that way.

I have never heard Rachael Rae say "EVOO", I have only seen people write about it. Is she saying it like a word rhyming with emu or emo, or is she saying each letter like CNBC?

Getting back to Gordon and his obsession with ri-sot-to... I love steak, I went on a cruise two months ago and ate it at least six nights, but I have never had Gordon Ramsey's signature dish, the beef Wellington. Have any of you? I will certainly try it eventually but I have my suspicions about a puff pastry wrapped around my meat. For why?

That is hilarious about Giada overpronouncing potato. Gordon Ramsey also says ri-sot-to which has rubbed off on me. I do not however pronounce pasta the English way, rhyming with how black people say pastor. I dated an Italian girl in college and she would say "moo-zuh-relle", my first time hearing it that way.

I have never heard Rachael Rae say "EVOO", I have only seen people write about it. Is she saying it like a word rhyming with emu or emo, or is she saying each letter like CNBC?

Getting back to Gordon and his obsession with ri-sot-to... I love steak, I went on a cruise two months ago and ate it at least six nights, but I have never had Gordon Ramsey's signature dish, the beef Wellington. Have any of you? I will certainly try it eventually but I have my suspicions about a puff pastry wrapped around my meat. For why?

She spells it out. She says E-V-O-O-Extra-Virgin-Olive-Oil at the top of the show, then just calls it "E-V-O-O" for the rest. Used to annoy me but it has worked its way into my lexicon.

Thanks, mystery solved! I've taken it upon myself to rhyme it with emu in my head. There's a men's skincare line called 4VOO (for vous) and I think that's why.

I have heard not so great things about Rachael's recipes. I was in Bed Bath and Beyond buying a coffee maker and I thought it was funny that she sold a big vomit-coloured bowl specifically for food scraps. You know, for those of us who can't quite make it across the kitchen to the trash can.