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The Washington Post's Jane Black did a Q&A with L.A. uber-chef Wolfgang Puck in connection with his new D.C.-area restaurant, the Source. Among other things, he had some tart opinions about the Food Network...but about whom could he possibly be talking? We cannot imagine... You're one of America's top celebrity chefs and yet you don't have your own current cooking show anymore. Why? Well, I'm working on an animated show for children. I will be animated; the whole kitchen will be animated. We are working with Disney on it for next fall, hopefully. It's going to be a little how to cook, but it will teach what is good, what is not good, a little about the geography [of food] and where it comes from. ...I'm more into that than just going on the Food Network. They want me to do this "Iron Chef" thing. But I don't gain that much from it. I'd rather do something more important in the long run. So what do you think of food TV? It's going in a way now where it's more like housewife cooking than professional cooking. When I did it four or five years ago, they said, "We don't want celebrities; we just want to teach people to be in the kitchen and show them how to cook." ...[These days, the hosts] get a push-up bra and show a little cleavage and wear a tight sweater, and they think it's sexy housewife cooking. |
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Posted by Erin C. @ 4:41 PM Wed, Oct 17, 2007
Does Alton Brown have cleavage? What about Bobby Flay? He sounds a little peeved, probably because he realizes he wasn't as popular as others. TV is about ratings and I suppose he didn't cut it.
Posted by Wurzel Gummidge @ 10:30 PM Wed, Oct 17, 2007
What an innovative idea! A cartoon show to encourage children to cook. I wonder who thought of that? This could be the most significant new cooking show of the year.
Posted by Wurzel Gummidge @ 10:37 PM Wed, Oct 17, 2007
He is certainly right about cooking shows being dumbed down on the whole. Fraud tarts like Rachael Ray to whom everything is "very unique" (?) and "amazing" wouldn't get the time of day in any kind of quality-oriented environment.
Posted by Impiltdownman @ 8:38 AM Fri, Oct 19, 2007
I can remember when educational cooking shows were the domain of experienced culinary experts who needed no coaching from a “Food Network cooking staff.” Now (with a few exceptions) what we have are a bunch of celebrities becoming food quacks.
Posted by Joy @ 12:52 PM Fri, Oct 19, 2007
Rachael Ray (the worst of the cleavage cooks) is a complete moron -- repetitive, annoying and her meals are far from healthy as she claims. Too much cheese and oil, and she uses too many ingredients and dirties too many pots and pans in 30 minutes. And with her current media domination (shows, books, magazine, PR, products, endorsements), she's hard to escape -- I can't just change the channel.
Posted by Cory @ 10:12 PM Mon, Oct 22, 2007
Actually if you watch any of his shows, Bobby Flay does have some prodigious man cleavage.