You are my favorite TV channel, period. I love almost everything you put on. I have actually searched your site for specific recipes I’ve seen and made them the same night.
I set my DVR to record The Next Iron Chef, (thank Elune that overbearing pr!ck got the Alton Brown Boot.)
Speaking of Alton, can I start the “Brown for President” campaign now? /worship
I want Paula Deen to be my step-mom, and I don’t even like grits.
Is there another woman like Alex Guarnaschelli who is so sexy being a massive smartass? (Do I have to peel the carrots, Alex? I’m down with the brown sugar and molasses, though; I’m taking copious notes.)
Jeffrey Steingarten needs his own show, and the fact that this hasn’t happened is a national tragedy.
Bobby Flay is Severus Snape. Is there any doubt about this?
Chopped is tremendous, even though I wouldn’t eat 90% of what the chef’s are forced to make.
Great job, Food Network. Just one thing: can you please tart Giada De Laurentis down some?
She’s a lovely woman. She seems honestly nice and warm and someone I would love to be friends with. But how am I supposed to learn to make her ravioli when she’s flashing her cleavage at me? What the h3ll is she making, Pasta and deep-cut-emerald-green-silk-blouse? Is that a pesto?
Just get the makeup artist to quit applying Giada’s makeup like she’s going on Cosmo, and the dresser to put her in clothing that isn’t made for going to a bar on Friday night. You are Food Network, not Playboy.
(And a note for her probably very nice husband: Dude, you totally outkicked your coverage, you know that, right? Totally. I think you are now in the urban dictionary for this term. Grats.)
I watch Giada and I never even look at the food. I watch Paula Deen feed her sons and my heart melts. That’s the difference, Food Network, that’s the difference.
Sincerely yours in gastronomic heaven,
Daniel
The worst part of Giada’s show is that it’s Italian food. My wife knows I hate Italian. I therefore have no cover for watching the show.
You’re severely limiting yourself, Daniel. Haven’t you ever seen Bravo’s “Top Chef” or “Ace of Cakes”? Don’t forget to check out Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” on the Travel channel.
Alton Brown is my culinary hero. Whenever ivenrure into an unfamiliar recipe, I aways try to refrenece the Alton Brown version first. Great food and geeky information at the same time?!?! Yes please! I will back your Brown for president bid.
I second your Alton for president campaign iv’e loved good eats for years.
Where i love Alton’s show for the ability to learn some great recipes while geeking out i also love Giada’s show for combining the 2 greatest things on the planet, Italian food and beautiful blonde women. My only complaint is i wish she wouldn’t open her mouth so wide, makes me wonder if i could stick a whole apple or orange in there when she gets it open all the way.
I am working on the “Brown for President” bumper stickers as we speak!
I have watched every Good Eats episode so many times I can quote the dialog as it plays. I quote AB on just about everything!
The only other show that I like as much is America’s Test Kitchen on PBS. They are good about giving the why and what for behind science of the food.
Alton Brown FTW. He’s the reason I’ve gone from a mediocre cook to a relatively decent one.
Alton Brown makes cooking fun, and easy (if he can teach Clio to cook…). Even if he did go to the University (sic) of Georgia. Maybe he’s been in Atlanta long enough for that to wear off.
I gotta say, Alton Brown is on/off for me. Sometimes I enjoy it, sometimes I don’t. But, I probably do like the Food Network a little more than the average 21 year old college kid!
I give my vote. I like Giada, she has an autentic passion for her food. Lets not forget rachel ray and her meals in 30 min, Her turkey jerk burgers are da bomb.
Out of all those shows good eats is my all time favorate though.
on a side note you are right though, I probably spend more time watching Giada’s cleavage than the food
I completely agree, Giada is a food goddess. She could feed me a raspberry cake made from giant raspberries and I’d never notice.
(I’m allergic to raspberries. Yeah)
Meh, there’s already a low-quality, dressed-down Giada: she’s called Rachael Ray.
/luffs me Giada
Seriously, I love Giada’s stuff, but even as a lady, I find the cleavage to be overbearing at times….granted, I still love to watch Mario Batali simply because he’s from my hometown. On his original show he would talk a lot about the accessible produce from home and stress others to do the same.
And Alton Brown = awesomeness for his hilarity.
Food Network is the ENTIRE REASON I am still craving cable after not subscribing for a year. There is literally nothing else I miss.
/petition Comcast for a FoodTV-only package
Long-time lurker reporting; my inner harry potter geek must inform you that it’s “Severus Snape”.
Giada makes food?
Alton Brown is indeed, the best. I also have to say that Rachel Ray gets my vote as well. We make a lot of her recipes. My hubby and I are not Giada fans though.
ROFL i got slapped by the wifey the other day for watching rachel ray too closely. the giveaway was she was working with a food that I hate….
and my vote’s for alton as well.
Wow…all this food network love and no mention of Guy and Triple D?! Maybe in this landscape of sportscars and Giada, Triple D is deemed low-brow cuisine programming. As far as I’m concerned, though, that’s the only show on the channel that I would eat more than 90% of what they show. Besides that, when I travel to visit relatives many of them live in or near cities featured on the show and when I suggest going to a place I saw on the show it turns out to be a hit.
Guy and Triple D 4 Life!
I watch Giada and I can’t remember a single thing she was cooking when it’s over. Unlike Alton Brown, from whom I actually learn useful things when it comes to cooking.
I really like Dinner Impossible though, that’s probably my favorite show on that network.
Great post Daniel!
I SERIOUSLY miss my Food Network. I just moved back to Guadalajara, Mexico from Canada and I NEED to find a way to get Food Network again.
My other favourite was “The Thirsty Traveller”. Man-o-man what a great gig Kevin Brauch had: http://www.thirstytraveler.tv
Cheers,
Ken
Triple D is an awesome show. And some of the food is scary.
Can’t take Rachael Ray. Her voice is like a bandsaw against my nerves.
Personally, I love Nigella Lawson. But without a DVR to catch her show, I’d never see her. She’s been relegated to 7:00 on Saturday mornings.
<3 This. Don't forget Ina Garten…who finds it necessary to sick her finger in her mouth every 5 seconds.
Good Eats is my personal food holy book – especially since you can see so many episodes on youtube. He’s got a cookbook out now too (called “Good Eats, the Early Years” – covering episodes 1-80) that I MUST HAVE.
I have to agree about Alex Guernaschelli (particularly since she seems to have such amazing food-taste) and Ina Garten too. I think they end up “dolling-up” Giada because she’s young and pretty and skinny – three things that make her somewhat unusual among Food Network stars. (“Never trust a skinny cook”?)
Brown for President!
I totally and completely agree. I’m not very much a fan of giada. The only thing I really hate food network for is that Alton’s been put on at around 2 AM PST, and I don’t possess and DVR, and am too advanced for VCR. Damn it all.
Oh, and Brown for President!
I can’t stand Rachel Ray. Her voice, the terms she uses, the way she’s too chipper … ugh.
But Giada … now her I like! Haha.
I was running UK while my wife was watching food network. I was completely absorbed, until I heard the name Giada. wife commented how I hadn’t been watching tv for the last hour, but I turn my head when I heard Giada. She and Nigella can literally wipe pugs if I’m the one healing or tanking. Why food network and WoW don’t go together for me:
Nigella appears on screen.
Nigella crits my attention span for 9 million
Random mob hits tank for 5k 8 times. tank dies
Random mob crits each of my dps for 25k. They have died
Random mob crits me for 25k. I have died.
Nigella leaves screen because commercial is over.
I regain attention span.
I return to numerous expletives in purple text on my screen.
/blame lag spike and hope Giada isn’t on next.
Alton Brown
Is.
My.
Hero.
After BRK of course.
Vegetables?
Peeled?
But thats where most of the goodness is!
(And flavour!)
I was lucky enough to meet Alton Brown once. He came to town for a book signing at a grocery store (Wegmans for those on the east coast). He is as wonderful in person as he is on TV.
I… couldn’t have said it any better myself. Will you be my best friend?
Brown for President?!
I hope you don’t mean Gordon. But you can have him if you like.
if you ever get past Giada’s cleavage check out her head – it is huge. In fact we call her Big Head in our house. Never Giada just Big Head, sometimes when her show is on we only talk about her huge head and never the food.
I’ll help stuff envelopes or (insert other mundane task) in the Alton Brown for President campaign office. Anything I can do to help!!