Posted on 11/19/2009 12:30:21 PM PST by EveningStar
...Fieri's meteoric ascent is impressive, but it also makes him one of the culinary world's most polarizing figures. For as many fans as Fieri earns—Dora Long, the creator of Fieri's biggest fan site, says she gets “hundreds of emails a week”—he draws equal detractors. Like Rachael Ray or Emeril Lagasse, Fieri is a food personality who has rapidly outgrown the food, walking the narrow line between technique and celebrity that makes so many in the industry nervous. His recipes have names like “No Can Beato This Taquito,” and “Mac-Daddi-Roni Salad,” and he often effuses about the greasy meals he eats on Diners, Drive-Ins and Drives with his mouth full of nachos or chili dogs—spirited gluttony as entertainment.
The ire from the industry is palpable: At a recent panel at the New York Wine& Food Festival, star chefs David Chang and Anthony Bourdain sat down to “call bull----” on several aspects of the food world, and singled out Fieri as the enemy...
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I’m with you. I wish I could eat the food he showcases. Well, I could but I’d be 300lbs. and would probably need a triple bypass.
I like Guy, although he can be annoying, but the Poochie remark is spot on and hilarious.
She cooks?
These two guys work at opposite ends of the business - they both appeal to a completely different group of people. Bourdain eats "squeezle" in the mountains of Vietnam while getting plastered with the village communist. Guy raves about Mother Jones' meatloaf along with the farmers in Podunk, Iowa. Both draw an audience. Both networks profit.
And my opinion on the FieRi-FieTi debate is that Guy's pronunciation is a short rolled "r" that comes out like a "d". His name, his business. Who cares.
I think diners, drive-ins and dives is awesome. I also like that Bourdain actually makes fun of the FN stars. The Poochie remark is one of the funnier ones I can recall.
Freegards
If I had a chest like that, I'd smile all the time too. And I'm a guy.
nuts. I hate it when I write something all authoritatively and find out later that I’m wrong. My brother’s story wasn’t about Bourdain. Nevermind my previous statement.
My nephew and Guys’ kids are both on the same baseball team.
He is in person a very normal, thoughtful and enthusiastic person and as good a dad as you are likely to find.
I find the criticism of him by the likes of Bourdain to be petty and class based. Guy is from middle class stock and remembers his roots and has avoided for the most part, the navel gazing approach to food taken by the likes of Bourdain et al. He lives in Santa Rosa Calif, not New York or LA. He spotlights the kind of food I want to eat, in the places I would never know about.
He had a piece on DD&D about a place in my hometown I had never heard of. We went and were stuned to learn of such an amazing restaurant in my own town that I didn’t even know existed!
Bourdains “food show” on the Travel Channel (?!) jumped the shark for me when his show on New Orleans turned into an hour long Bush bashing session over Katrina.
Screw the lefty foodies with their self absorbed TV shows and by all means spare me their sermonizing, I will take 10 episodes of Diners Drive In’s and Dives over any day.
Cheers,
*burp*
knewshound
Which is why people like him. If I want to watch someone produce dishes that I could never make or choke down with exotic ingredients I could never find or afford I will watch Iron Chef.
If I want to get an idea for a new type of dish to make for dinner then "Guy's Big Bite" or Triple D is nice, amusing and productive 1/2 hour.
Yeah.
To each his own I guess.
Good point, that's very true.
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