"Emeril Live" canceled

[sactoking]

DVR FTW! I record all the Good Eats and Dinner Impossible on Food Network AND Food Network HD. Gotta love that the programming on the two channels is different.

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: sactoking
DVR FTW! I record all the Good Eats and Dinner Impossible on Food Network AND Food Network HD. Gotta love that the programming on the two channels is different.

HOLY FUCK. WHY DOESN'T TIMEWARNER CABLE HAVE FOODNETWORK IN HD.


DO YOU HEAR THAT TIMEWARNER. I AM TYPING IN CAPS FOR YOU.

 

[MaxDepth]

PBS is retaking the reins of Food TV, I think. Local PBS powerhouse stations are letting well known Chefs do what they want without having to mug for the camera, plug a specific advertiser's product, or break up their rhythm to support commercial breaks.

They even have a foodie show, Diary of a Foodie, which travels around the world to showcase a particular item. The one I saw most recently was about salt.

For Alton fans, you have America?s Test Kitchen which I think while Alton wins in the presentation and overall likeability of the host, ATK does provide excellent and equal insight.

So while raystorm brings up the legends of the past, who are shown occasionally on various local programming (YMMV), you have a new crop of really good shows from Simply Ming, Lydia Bastianich, Charlie Trotter, Rick Bayless (much more humble on public TV), and Jacques Pepin.

Of course, there are some really horrendous shows like Grilling Maestros, where it is so bad it is actually fun. Fritz H. Sonnenschmidt has incredible credentials, former President of the CIA (Culinary Institute of America) but he is so damn funny when he?s at the grill. You wonder if he?s going to set himself on fire or kill someone with his butter on butter recipes (Paula Dean, you have competition). But all in all, I want to watch a cooking show to enlighten me. I want to know are they doing something new to me, something unexpected, or improvements to what I already know.

Originally posted by: raystorm

Originally posted by: theknight571
Got it... they need to start FoodTV at Nite (ala Nick at Night) and rerun all of the classic cooking shows... The French Chef (Julia Child), Galloping Gormet (Graham Kerr), Frugal Gourmet (Jeff Smith), Justin Wilson, Yan Can Cook (Martin Yan), the Great Chefs series, The Urban Peasant (James Barber), etc.

I grew up on all of those pbs cooking shows. I cannot stand most of the boring chefs on the Food Network. They still give Martin Yan stuff on pbs (as well as Jacques Pepin shows) but thats about it for the classic cooking shows. There are a few good ones on PBS that I dig like Mexico: One Plate at a Time (Rick Bayless), Simply Ming (Ming Tsai) and New Scandinavian Cooking (various chefs).


Alton Brown is the best the Food Network has though I do like Iron Chef and that show that goes to different diners and drive ins around the country.

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: MaxDepth
PBS is retaking the reins of Food TV, I think. Local PBS powerhouse stations are letting well known Chefs do what they want without having to mug for the camera, plug a specific advertiser's product, or break up their rhythm to support commercial breaks.

They even have a foodie show, Diary of a Foodie, which travels around the world to showcase a particular item. The one I saw most recently was about salt.

For Alton fans, you have America?s Test Kitchen which I think while Alton wins in the presentation and overall likeability of the host, ATK does provide excellent and equal insight.

ATK...I was wondering why that looked familiar. They do the Cook's Illustrated magazine, right?

 

[CrackRabbit]

Originally posted by: theknight571

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: foghorn67
Am I weird for missing the Frugal Gourmet?

wtf was the frugal gourmet

Jeff Smith a.k.a. The Frugal Gourmet.

I watched him on PBS... I wish they'd rerun his shows on FoodTV... or even PBS again.

I think I have all of his cookbooks.

Him, Julia Child, Martin Yan and Justin Wilson were all great to watch on TV.

 

[RossMAN]

We're watching Emeril right now since nothing is on.

He's pretty boring compared to the other Food Network chefs.

 

[imported_yovonbishop]

I'm not really sad to hear it. I don't think he's a bad cook or anything, it's just that some of his stupid gimmicky stuff got really annoying really fast.


On a side note (that's almost completely unrelated to this), a waitress I work with met Alton Brown and said he's extremely nice. Her son David Bull was on Iron Chef America this past October IIRC and competed against Bobby Flay (and lost, of course), where Alton Brown was host.

 

[ballmode]

I like that Guy's Eats or whatever with that spikey haired blond guy. Makes good food, alton is better tho

 

[ultimatebob]

Emeril let his routine get old and stale. He should tried harder to kick his SHOW up a notch, and stop using the same 10 catch phrases over and over again!

He should have also done at least ONE guest appearance on Iron Chef America. I mean, come on... If Rachel Ray can handle the heat, Emeril certainly can!

 

[ranmaniac]

I don't normally watch cooking shows, but I do watch Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares on BBC America, I just wish they didn't bleep out the f-bombs, lol.

 

[abaez]

:heart: Nigella :heart: