Whose Your Favorite TV Chef?

[QueenOfCalifornia]

I watch a lot of FoodTV and some chef shows on other cable channels. I have some favorites and then I have some I can not stand. I really like Alton Brown - his shows are so fun and educational -- His Feasting On Asphalt 2 - River Run was the best!


A Little Fishy!


................BAM!

[bicentennial_baby]

1. Mario Batali

[QueenOfCalifornia]

4. Did you know

that Mario is gone, leaving FoodTV? http://edibletv.net/?p=369

It sucks - I like him too. He explains things clearly, adds some history of whatever he is cooking and makes it look easy.

[Deja Q]

2. GARETH BLACKSTOCK

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chef!

[philosophie_en_rose]

29. THAT criminal?

Attempted murder by illegal cheese.

:rofl:

[ceile]

67. Chef!

"Serious, serious profession..."

[Lisa]

71. "clear away the corpses of shocked health inspectors ..." (n/t)

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Bourdain and Ramsey.

I didn't like Ramsey until I started watching his original BBC "Kitchen Nightmares."

I caught five minutes of the American version and it's a case-study in everything wrong with American television.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

5. Bordain

is amazing... I love his show on The Travel Channel.

[Shakespeare]

6. Bourdain, but I keep devoutly hoping they'll give Eric Ripert his own show...

...so that I'm not forced to wait for sporadic guest judge appearances on Top Chef in order to lust after him.

[bicentennial_baby]

15. d00d, I'd buy a DVR if that happened...

So I could watch it over, and over, and over, and over...You get the drift. :D

[Shakespeare]

16. Somebody commenting on Bourdain's TC blog described him perfectly.

He has a smoldering look that says: "I could keel you.....or make love to you."

:rofl:

[bicentennial_baby]

19. Rawr!

And in that voice....that voice.

Dayum.

:rofl:

[Shakespeare]

23. "It taste like.....oh-tel food."

:rofl:

[Capn Sunshine]

40. Love Bourdain, but the best show I ever saw him do wasn't food

It was going to be about Lebanese cuisine and his crew got caught when Hamas & Israel started warring right where he was. he whole show was about how they were trying to get the hell out of there; finally they were rescued by the US Marines who came to evacuate Euros and Americans. It was an absolutely incredible, emotional piece of work. Several relatives of the crew didn't make it. The outcome was in doubt right up until the end.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

62. I TIVO'ed that and transfered it to my computer

I should post it on YouTube.....

excellent program.

[ceile]

68. yummy Eric....

drool...

[Crabby Appleton]

7. The Swedish Chef of course

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRIwuxqKyyk

[SPKrazy]

8. Bibaby and I love Rachel Ray

:P

[bicentennial_baby]

28. Hey now!!!

:spank:

[WinkyDink]

9. Him:

The Take-Home Chef.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

18. That is MY chef crush!!!

Curtis Stone. He is the sweetest thing! And he can cook too. It always looks like he is having way too much fun.

[WinkyDink]

36. I always like to watch the wives try not to stare, and the husbands try not to show anoyance!

[QueenOfCalifornia]

53. I Tivo

His show - It comes on here at 4:00 every day - then, after the kids are sleeping, I watch it. It is fun to see how nervous he gets when he sneaks up on a victim and asks if he can go home and cook for them....

[Liberalynn]

64. Mine too!

He is a doll! He could cook for me anytime. I just love Aussies! :thumbsup:

[Richard Steele]

10. Jacques Pepin.

I just always enjoy his show.

[cuke]

27. Me too

I always pick up something from his shows.

[SacredCow]

11. As a chemist, I really like Alton....

Emeril gives me hives, though....

[meegbear]

47. I'm not a chemist, but I also really like Alton ...

and Emeril also gives me hives. It's a toss up between BAM! and "EEVO" as the worst cook utterance.

[Inchworm]

61. I like Alton too

I get more chafed by Emeril rather than hives :)

:hi:

[Dragonbreathp9d]

12. Bordain without a doubt

[Akoto]

13. Martin Yan.

If Yan Can Cook, so can you!

[lightningandsnow]

14. Rachael Ray

I know a lot of people love to hate her, but I think she's soooo cute.

[Deja Q]

17. I don't watch her for her cooking...

I just wanna drool over her cupcakes. :evilgrin:

[RebelOne]

46. My son is in love with Rachael Ray

and his wife is not too happy about it.

[AlCzervik]

20. the entire crew of "America's test kitchen" and Bourdain.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

22. I haven't seen

"America's Test Kitchen"

I'll have to check it out.

[AlCzervik]

24. it's really good, they make one two recipes and they also test kitchen equipment

and different brands of various food items, ie...best bacon, store bought bbq sauce and so on.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

25. What network?

I feel lazy. Can't look it up.... sad, huh?

[AlCzervik]

26. pbs and they usually have 2 episodes on back to back, for me it's on Saturday at noonish.

website.
http://www.americastestkitchen.com/

[Connonym]

33. LOVE America's Test Kitchen

Alton Brown, Graham Kerr back when he was known as the Galloping Gourmet

[Art_from_Ark]

41. Is Graham Kerr no longer the Galloping Gourmet?

Did he give up galloping?

[Connonym]

42. I think he gave up galloping and butter :-/

I don't know if he's done anything very recently but evidently he had a massive heart attack several years back and has changed his cooking style hugely. Not nearly as much fun.

[Art_from_Ark]

44. I remember him from the '60s

My mom used to watch him on Saturdays, I think. He'd always invite one of the ladies in the audience to share his meal with him. We never were able to prepare any of his meals, though. They invariably called for alcohol, and we lived in a dry county!

[Connonym]

51. I have fond memories of watching him after school when I was in kindergarten

I don't remember much about the actual recipes and I'm sure my mom never actually cooked any of them but I thought he was so exotic and interesting. Hey, it made sense when I was 5 :)

[madeline_con]

87. I heard he was galloping with his assistant. n/t

[QueenOfCalifornia]

54. Graham Kerr

was fine before he became a Mormon and quit getting drunk on his show- I watched that when I was a kid and I am about to turn 51.... He inspired me to really love cooking - Then there was the wonderful Julia Childs - The French Chef. She is still the Queen of all chef shows

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

76. I thought that was an infomercial the first time I saw it.

I was waiting for Ron Popiel to come out and tell me there's more.

[Greyskye]

21. Is that like a Sushi chef?

Doesn't the soy sauce and wasabi ruin the TV? :shrug:

[philosophie_en_rose]

30. Jamie Oliver and Alton Brown

:loveya:

[Richardo]

31. Ol' "3rd Place" Casey

:D

[TreasonousBastard]

32. Still the one-and-only Julia. I have her books, and...

one of these days will get the DVDs of her show.

Yan's cool for the Asian stuff Julia didn't do, and Lidia and Mario for Italian.

So, where are the Greek, Middle Eastern, other Asian, South American, African, Spanish, Porutguese... cooks and their shows?

Anyone seen a luau or Brazilian or Argentinian barbecue pit lately? Tapas?

[QueenOfCalifornia]

55. All of these happen

on the food network - and other places on the tv dial - Emeril has a friend from Hawaii who comes on his show a couple times a year - Sam Choy:


Curtis Stone (see above in this thread) The Take Home Chef often cooks Spanish food including Tapas... He also does curry (He is a very accomplished at Indian food)

I love Martin Yan - His goofy sense of humor is a kick.

As for the Argentinean BBQ pit - I saw a cooking show on the Travel Channel a couple of years ago about that but would like to see more.

[carly denise pt deux]

34. Emeril

Carly

[AwakeAtLast]

35. Why, Chef, of course

:D

[Drunken Irishman]

97. How would you children like to suck on my chocolate salty balls?

[swag]

37. Julia Child.

Julia Child.

[kath]

38. Justin Wilson. And the Anal Retentive Chef from the old SNL skits.

The one where the Cajun Chef was a guest on the Anal Retentive Chef's show was friggin' hilarious. Phil Hartman died way too young. :-(

[KitchenWitch]

39. Mary Ann Esposito!

[riverdeep]

43. love Alton,

despise Emeril. But right now, I like Healthy Appetite with Ellie.



Some of her stuff needs to be reworked to make it more to my liking (can be bland), but she gets me thinking in interesting ways.

[tjwmason]

45. Keith Floyd and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Floyd is a somewhat eccentric English television cook - he tended to travel around exploring a local cuisine (and alcohol production). A typical episode would include him setting up cooking apparatus in the middle of the town square and attempting to cook whilst a large crowd gathered round mumbling in the relevant foreign language, and he would always be two-sheets to the wind whilst cooking with a constantly emptying glass of wine in hand.

Fearnley-Whittingstall is even more eccentric...he became famous for cooking and serving a placenta on television. These days he is a firm supporter of back-to-nature cooking running his own farm. His latest television series took folk who live off 'ready-meals' and introduced them to the realities of food production, including trips to the abattoir.

[Burma Jones]

48. I have a couple of Fearnley-Whittingstall's Books

Meat and The River Cottage Family Cookbook.....

I've never seen him on TV, but his books are excellent and help my wife and I teach the kids how important it is to respect what you eat.

[tjwmason]

57. He does teach a philosophy of food

rather than merely provide a few recipes - that's what I like about it, he goes much 'deeper' than merely giving a list of ingredients and how to combine them.

[Rabrrrrrr]

88. Yes! His book Meat is outstanding!

I just bought it a month or so ago - brilliant!

[opiate69]

49. Alton, Bourdain, Mario and......

[Burma Jones]

50. Rick Bayless - Mexico, One Plate at a Time

and Bourdain and Pepin, Child, Batali. Bastianich

On Edit, how could I forget Daisy Martinez' show, "Daisy Cooks" I also just like her, she has a very sweet and kind TV persona.

The idea of humanely raised meat, local produce and nose to tail eating has been heartily embraced at our house, and subsequently, we go out to eat much less often and we eat far better food. If you take The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating by Fergus Henderson, The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution by Alice Waters, that would pretty much describe how I approach food ethically.

I also like America's Test Kitchen mostly because I like the cooks.

Haven't seen anything on the Food (Porn) Network in many many months, I used to like Alton Brown because his show had some nice quirks, but, the Food Network is dark at our house, it represents, to me at least, an unethical approach to eating.

[dembotoz]

52. hannibal lechter

fava bean and a nice chianti

[QueenOfCalifornia]

56. He knows a good meal

[MorningGlow]

58. Alton

No competition. I needs me some funny to go with the cooking thingie. Probably because I suck at cooking and he makes it seem possible--or, if not, at least I laugh for half an hour.

[Tektonik]

59. Bourdain and Pépin are my favs

Most of the shows on PBS are very good as well.

The Food Network fucking sucks, and Alton is the worst, closely followed by Rachel.

[TK421]

60. Ramsey...it's hilarious watching him tear into people in the kitchen

I'm referring to Hells Kitchen, but I have never seen Kitchen Nightmares ( heard it was good, though )

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

80. Yeah, it's far better than Hell's Kitchen.

He doesn't just abuse people. He goes into real restaurants, figures out where the problems are, and addresses them. He's still acerbic, but it provides context, it makes sense.

I'm surprised at the range of knowledge. He'll cover sanitation problems in a little hole-in-the-wall lunch shop, or deal with an over-enthusiastic young chef in a michelin star restaurant.

[madeline_con]

86. I want to see someone clock him with an iron skillet.

I'd pay to see that. :spank:

[T_i_B]

93. I must admit that I'm not a fan of Gordon Ramsey

Just too much shouting at people and not enough of the actual food for my taste.

I wonder what you lot would make of Heston Blumenthal though.

[tjwmason]

94. I have to say that I despise Heston Blumenthal

It's not really about food with him, it's more about a chemistry lesson.

My philosophy is food is pretty naturalistic - whereas he seems to want to take everything into a science lab.

[T_i_B]

96. The reason I mentioned him...

...is that the subject of the Fat Duck being rated the top, or one of the top resteraunts in the world has come up once or twice on DU and it has been known to cause ahem "heated discussion" on here as people try and work out what's going on with his menu.

[Liberalynn]

63. Curtis Stone

The hunky Aussie Take Home Chef from TLC!

[Catchawave]

65. Alton, Rachael and Paula are my favorites n/t

[ceile]

66. Ming Tsai

I watch PBS cooking shows for hours on Saturday. Him and Rick Bayless ("Mexico One Plate @ a Time") are wonderful to watch.

[momophile]

77. I love both of these too.

for the first several episodes my husband watched, Bayless annoyed the hell out of me. now I appreciate how passionate he gets when he talks quietly and close to the camera.

Ming is just awesome. I wish my hubbie would try more of his recipes.

we have books by both of them (and Daisy too - do you watch her?)

[ceile]

104. Daisy?

Not familiar with her. Is she on PBS, too?

[swimboy]

69. I used to enjoy Clarissa Dickson Wright and the late Jennifer Paterson

on Two Fat Ladies and grew up amazed and not knowing quite what to make of Julia Child. I came to appreciate her when I was older.

Now I casually will watch Alton Brown from time to time and I appreciate the way he goes into the processes and sometimes chemistry of what is going on as you cook and he often finds interesting and memorable ways of debunking certain cooking myths or proving and recommending others.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

74. Holy SHIT on a Stick!

I loved that show. It was a hoot - but when one died - I guess the other fat lady couldn't do 2 fat ladies any longer.

[susanna]

90. Oh, swimboy, you're my soulmate.

I miss the Two Fat Ladies like no one's business. They just rocked.

RIP, Jennifer. :-(

[tjwmason]

95. I'm trying to find a way to launch the cause for Jennifer Patterson's canonisation

If you've never read the history of her life you should do, it's absolutely fascinating. Anybody's whose funeral includes solemn Mass entirely in Latin, and a biker's helmet on the coffin has got something to her (b.t.w., the funeral was in the Brompton Oratory, which you may remember from your visitation).

Clarissa Dickson-Wright did another series over here - "Clarissa and the Countryman" which was basically a celebration of the British countryside, not a food programme (though one can't avoid food if one's talking about the country).

[Throd]

70. The Swedish chef from "The Muppet Show"

[swimboy]

72. Anyone remember Julia Grownup from The Electric Company?

I dug her.

[calico1]

78. Yes!

Loved her....


But....what about Naomi? :silly:

[redqueen]

82. No... looked the bit up though....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-KRn0ISlOhs


I was actually looking for something I thought of when I read your post and saw "Electric Company"... still haven't found that, though. Darnit.

[NYCGirl]

73. The hottest man on the planet — Bourdain!

[shanti]

103. got that right!

for all of us ladies who like the "bad boy"! ;-) tony is hawt and funny as hell!

[DrDan]

75. Sandra Lee

just seeing if anyone is awake . . .

[QueenOfCalifornia]

79. Almost Homemade?????

I want to wring her friggin neck - that perky bitch.

BwaaaaaHaaaaaa!

signed... The Lounge Strangler

[DrDan]

83. I know - that is the reaction she usually gets - particularly in the Cooking forum

just checking the reaction here in the lounge

[susanna]

92. STOP IT RIGHT NOW.

I am having a stroke and it's all your fault! Just kidding. But if you really like SL, I advise that you run down to the nearest supermarket and buy a packet of stir-fry seasoning before your next stir fry. It will make you feel better somehow. But please also have on hand garlic, ginger and soy to supplement that foul powder from the pack.

There. Am I still considered awake?

[momophile]

81. bloody hell!!!! BBC's Chef!!!!!

[RedSpartan]

84. Giada

I've met her, and she's just as stunning in person. Also, very sweet and gracious. My favorite recipe of hers: panettone french toast.

[Wilber_Stool]

89. Nice tits.....n/t

[hellbound-liberal]

85. Though he's no longer with us, I really loved Justin Wilson and his Cajun stories

Here he is talking about going duck hunting with his friend Jean-Baptiste. Funny stuff!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F4Ws_2XwdU

[Wheezy]

91. Gilligan, I love Alton too, and

Other shows I like:

Dinner Impossible

Hell's Kitchen (my FAVORITE reality show!)

I'm not a huge fan of Guy Fieri, but I do enjoy his "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" show.

I like Giada when she isn't getting all drunk and chocolaty.

I like Paula Deen when she makes sexual innuendos, but not too many.

I really can't stand Rachel Ray or Sandra Lee

Emeril is fun, and it was the show we watched when my daughter was 2-3 years old that helped her fall asleep during some rough patches, so I am ever grateful to him for that.

I always give the new shows a shot, like the new latin show, which is okay (I love many of her recipes and I wish I could remember her name) and I watched the most recent "Next Food Network Star," Amy, start her series (hoping she will get better with time).

Tyler Florence has some killer recipes, especially for red meat

and even though Bobby Flay is a bit arrogant at times, I personally love to grill so I find his shows really helpful.

I am watching "The Next Iron Chef" curiously. Liking it, tentatively. The regular show really cracks me up ... but I love Alton's role there too.

[dysfunctional press]

98. either jack tripper on three's company, or neelix on voyager.

it's a toss-up.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

99. I used to watch Food Network (is it now FoodTV?)

All the time when I used to live in the US. Now that I live in the UK, I've started to really like watching Saturday Kitchen, Ready Steady Cook, and (this series just finished) The Restaurant.

I liked Ramsay before I came here but there's another chef that's replaced the top spot. Raymond Blanc:



The reason why? Blanc was so gentle with all the people who was competing to open a restaurant with him in "The Restaurant". It's a concept I seriously think will come to the US.... just wondering who'll be the chef to host it.

I'm liking James Martin (host of Saturday Kitchen) and I'm looking into his recipes that frequently get published in the Good Food Magazine. On Ready Steady Cook, I think Gino D'Acampo is so cute:



My fiance and I often comment that he makes pasta-making look so easy.

Out of all the chefs I've mentioned, I've been to one of their restaurants. I went to Boxwood Cafe (Gordon Ramsay's restaurant) and it was DELICIOUS! It's expensive but it's quite nice to have a wee splurge every once in a while! :-)

[FunkyLeprechaun]

100. Sniff.... Thread Killer here

wahhhhh!

[FunkyLeprechaun]

101. Look there!

Nigella Express is on... what perfect timing....

Yum yum...

[shanti]

102. anthony bourdain!!!!

love that man!