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The Most Hated Celebrity Chefs (2 articles)
The Cheat Sheet - two links in body of thread | August 6, 2017 | Various

Posted on 08/06/2017 1:33:38 PM PDT by EveningStar

The Most Hated Celebrity Chefs

Jess Bolluyt
The Cheat Sheet
August 6, 2017

Celebrity chefs are everywhere. They host reality TV shows, judge cooking competitions, publish cookbooks, and open their own restaurants. Along the way, many of them ruffle a few feathers. Many celebrity chefs are genuinely talented. But some have polarizing personalities. Some have boring shows and lackluster recipes. And others are, plain and simple, badly overrated. Read on to check out the celebrity chefs everybody — sometimes including their fellow chefs — loves to hate.
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Here’s Why Guy Fieri Is One of the Most Hated Celebrity Chefs of All Time

Julie Peirano
The Cheat Sheet
August 6, 2017
From bleached hair to bowling shirts, Guy Fieri is, without a doubt, one of the most hated celebrity chefs of all time. But what exactly is it that causes droves of people to disdain the seemingly happy-go-lucky guy in the first place? From his brash personality to his lackluster restaurant in NYC, reviews of Fieri fall flat. Here are 14 reasons why this chef is nothing but a culinary catastrophe.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: anthonybourdain; bobbyflay; celebritychefs; chefs; culinary; foodnetwork; giadadelaurentiis; gordonramsay; guyfieri; inagarten; jamieoliver; pauladeen; rachaelray; reedrummond; restaurants; sandralee
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1 posted on 08/06/2017 1:33:38 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
Bobby Flay tops my list.

Guy never actually cooks, so why hate on him?

2 posted on 08/06/2017 1:38:14 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: EveningStar

Kick them all up a notch...


3 posted on 08/06/2017 1:39:39 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: EveningStar

FU, Jess Bolluyt.

I like Guy Fieri, even though we would never be friends, because he is such a simple, open, happy soul.

Further, he’s had some great recipes on his show.


4 posted on 08/06/2017 1:45:06 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: doorgunner69

Some years ago, when they ruined the highly popular japanese show Iron Chef by first adding subtitles then fully anglicizing it, Flay won the contest and stood on his cutting board and everyone gasped at his arrogance.


5 posted on 08/06/2017 1:46:50 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: dsc

Guy’s Grocery Games is our favorite.
Also like Damaris Phillips.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/profiles/talent/damaris-phillips


6 posted on 08/06/2017 1:47:40 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: SpaceBar

Only thing good about Iron Chef was that Cat Cora chick, then I found she was a lesbo. What a waste.


7 posted on 08/06/2017 1:49:54 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: EveningStar

I find it amusing that both articles quote a failing web site, Salon, like it is some kind of cultural arbiter of great repute that we should all read and heed. I’ve watched many of the chefs featured in the article while avoiding others that are too obnoxious for my taste.

I’ve been to a Bobby Flay restaurant in Vegas and enjoyed the experience. I seek out Guy Fieri’s “Triple D” featured local places and had mixed experiences. Ree Drummond’s new restaurant/mercantile endeavor is a little over an hour away from my house so I’ve been there once. I’ve used various celebrity chef recipes to some level of success. In all of that, I’ve had experiences and learning that would have otherwise passed me by. I’ll call that a personal win.


8 posted on 08/06/2017 1:58:02 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: EveningStar
Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai is my favorite TV chef. His cooking and artistic talent made his Iron Chef competitions very entertaining. The Iron Chef Japanese shows are on Youtube.
9 posted on 08/06/2017 1:58:58 PM PDT by DFG
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To: doorgunner69

Flay seems to have only one facial expression, that being a blank one.
Not surprising that Paula Deen is still being listed as no.1 Most Hated Cook. That was years ago. Paula has moved on.
Of course it’s easier now, with The Kenyan and his ‘Bride’ out of direct power.
Rumor is, all this started when Paula remarked about the Obamas visiting her kitchen studio. She said “Michelle ate more food than any other guest she’d ever had before!”
That’s when Paula’s TV career hit that big ol’ iceberg and almost sank completely.

Not the first time this happened.
remember Dr. Drew Pinsky?
He lost his TV show after he questioned candidate Clinton’s proposed Healthcare. You think she cares about his livelihood?


10 posted on 08/06/2017 1:59:34 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: EveningStar

FU Jeffrey Zakaian and Michael Simon.....Two POS Trump haters.....B rated Iron Chefs.....


11 posted on 08/06/2017 2:00:29 PM PDT by 1217Chic
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To: doorgunner69

Ya, but Cat Cora is now divorced and waiting...for you.


12 posted on 08/06/2017 2:01:31 PM PDT by donozark (JAMES COMEY: Democrat Presidential candidate 2020.)
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To: EveningStar
I have only watched one episode of that Hell's kitchen or whatever it is called.

That guy get's my vote for being the cook who is guaranteed to ruin a good meal with a side of major heartburn.

13 posted on 08/06/2017 2:08:29 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: 1217Chic

Not familiar with those two, but upon your recommendation, I will try to avoid them.

This whole “celebrity chef” business is really getting to be a bore.

When I was a youngster, I loved to watch Julia Child and “The Galloping Gourmet” Graham Kerr. I think you could say about both of them that they took cooking seriously, but weren’t terribly serious about themselves.

Fieri would be OK if he got a normal haircut. Chef Emeril is definitely OK, in part because he’s anything but pompous — I just love how the audience gives him an extra round of applause whenever he puts in the garlic.


14 posted on 08/06/2017 2:08:51 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: EveningStar

I would have thought G. Ramsey closer to most hated. After all, he does scream and shout more than anyone. And poor Giada. She got tanked on two glasses of wine during a live Thanksgiving Show a couple years ago and nearly caused poor Ina Garten to faint!


15 posted on 08/06/2017 2:09:50 PM PDT by donozark (JAMES COMEY: Democrat Presidential candidate 2020.)
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To: donozark
Nah, thanks to Gordon, we have one of the best Internet memes going....


16 posted on 08/06/2017 2:11:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: doorgunner69
"Bobby Flay tops my list."

My sister is a retired journalist who once interviewed Bobby Flay about one of his books. She said he was a complete jerk. To tell you the truth, I find most of the personalities on The Food Channel kind of creepy. I'm pretty sure I would not like Guy Fieri if I knew him. I prefer the people on the ABC show The Chew.
17 posted on 08/06/2017 2:12:07 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: doorgunner69

“Only thing good about Iron Chef was that Cat Cora chick, then I found she was a lesbo. What a waste.”

Umm...it was pretty obvious.


18 posted on 08/06/2017 2:13:24 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: donozark
Speaking of Gordon Ramsey, I worked in restaurants during the late 1970s as a teenager and there were some cooks that reminded me of Gordon Ramsey. This was before I went into the Marine Corps and they were worse than my drill instructors!

I remember being screamed and yelled at way worse than the DI's or Parris Island yelled at me. It was good preparation for the Marine Corps, let me tell you.

19 posted on 08/06/2017 2:13:36 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Steve_Seattle

Bobby Flay’s character is a New York character. There is a lot of acting there. I always found him to be a professional wrestling type. He plays Bobby Flay on TV


20 posted on 08/06/2017 2:15:31 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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