10 things Celebrity Chefs Won't tell You

I love watching food network, but I think most people know about the behind the scenes stuff. Especially, that they're just as apt to mess something up or burn something just like everyone else! Hey, as good as something tastes, no one is doing an orgasmic "mmm" like Rachael Ray is doing every two seconds! :whistle:
 
LIDARKSIDE said:
I love watching food network, but I think most people know about the behind the scenes stuff. Especially, that they're just as apt to mess something up or burn something just like everyone else! Hey, as good as something tastes, no one is doing an orgasmic "mmm" like Rachael Ray is doing every two seconds! :whistle:
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LOL!! Yeah, they do go a bit far with the acting when they taste stuff. If food made you feel that good, nobody would ever want to stop eating, and we would all weigh 1800 pounds and look like Jabba the Hutt! :laughing:

The stuff on the second page is what was really interesting to me. I hadn't really noticed that they had dropped all the professionally trained chefs from the channel. I had noticed that PBS seemed to be getting a ton of good cooking shows lately, but hadn't realized why.
 
I pick and choose when I watch them cook. I can tell when something is just going to make you go "blah"! Sometimes, I will turn it off knowing that what they're making just isn't going to work or it's just gross. I do like some of those who aren't "trained chefs". They seem to stick to what's normal. I do love Paula Deen though. Now, there's someone who makes food that you can actually eat. I also like their other shows where they go out to find different eats. We've tried several of them in NYC. We went to the "Trailer Park Lounge" on Saturday. Small menu, great eats, good pick! :headbang:
 
Did you see the special episodes they had about a month or so ago where Paula went to Europe? They were very good, no real recipes, but very interesting and entertaining! There was one Frenchman she was talking to that was selling rotisserie chickens in an open air market. He seemed to have the hots for her so bad I thought he was going to pounce on her right there in the street! :laughing:
 
celticbikerbabe said:
Did you see the special episodes they had about a month or so ago where Paula went to Europe? They were very good, no real recipes, but very interesting and entertaining! There was one Frenchman she was talking to that was selling rotisserie chickens in an open air market. He seemed to have the hots for her so bad I thought he was going to pounce on her right there in the street! :laughing:
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Ah, they're all like that over there! :laughing: I missed that one, because I watch it in cycles. I'll have watched it so long, everything starts to repeat and get boring. So, I break from it for awhile. I like Guy going to all the dives though. I love places like that, and there's nothing like New Jersey diners either, anywhere!
 
Well, if you happen to see it is going to be on as a repeat, those European trip shows of Paula's are well worth watching! At the very end of the last show, her hubby gives her a very romantic and sweet surprise - I won't spoil it for you by telling you what it is. It actually made me tear up a little, and tv doesn't usually do that to me.

Guy's shows always make me hungry, even if I have just eaten!!! I have almost exactly the same tastes as that man! If I had unlimited funds, I would love to plan a trip around some of the places he has profiled.

My all time favorite show on Food Network is Good Eats. The way Alton explains stuff really appeals to the science nerd in me, and I really like how he breaks down technique for making tricky stuff. His motorcycle trip show was pretty interesting, but some of the "local cuisines" - YUK!!! Like fried brain sandwiches - ugh!! I don't know how anyone could eat that!!!!
 
I love to cook, and I love to eat. My mother came from Germany and started teaching me to cook and bake at four years old. I hate "presentation" food, and I love comfort food. That's why I like Paula Deen's show, but I do criticize the tv screen when I think "it's just wrong"! :whistle: :laughing: Europe really is a nice place to go. We went to Germany last year to visit my family. All they do is eat, but they are extremely active there. Everyone's riding bicycles. Breakfast does include lunchmeat, breads, butter, and cheeses in addition to Mueslix. Lunch is actually the dinner, and dinner is like lunch. At about 3:00 p.m., everyone has coffee and cake. Yum, yum, yum! I can't wait to go back!
 
My mother is from England, and we went over there about 8 years ago. I was really impressed with the quality of the produce over there. The fruits and veggies weren't as large as they are here, but they were certainly more flavorful and in better shape. The stuff at the stores here looks like someone worked it over with a baseball bat before putting it out in the bins! :cussing:

I noted something the other day that made me do a double-take. They were re-stocking "fresh" broccoli, and the box said from Hong Kong on it!!?? I would have never thought fresh broccoli would be from China! :scratch: Frozen or pickled canned stuff, yes, but fresh??? I would think it would be going bad by the time it got here even if it was in cold storage on the ship, unless they flew it in, and I would think that would be too expensive to be worthwhile.. It looked really nice, like it was just picked, the cut ends were not even dried out! :scratch: :scratch:
 
The word "fresh" can have such a broad meaning. Just like stands selling "local corn" when the corn is months away from harvasting. :scratch:

If you noticed, the refrigerators are also very small in Europe. They don't stock shop like we do here, and they shop almost daily so that their breads and such are fresh. Unfortunately, meat is extremely expensive there!
 
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