Neither of them can carry Giada DeLaurentiis' purse.
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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Which ALWAYS struck me as pretentious as the sunglasses on the back of the head. This guys is a sels-centered tool.
that would be “self-centered” tool, of course.
Attempting to use language-accurate pronunciation is evidence of self-centeredness? Better tell Rush to stop accurately pronouncing Mika Brzezinski’s name, he’s being self-centered!
He’s an American and speaks English. “T” doesn’t equal “R”. I grew up in an Italian neighborhood. It never happened.
Neither of them can carry Giada DeLaurentiis' purse.
Trouble is, the article supplied the pronunciation.
My point exactly. And he cooks nothing any of us couldn’t.
Wow. Why the heck do people hate him? His show is great and really showcases old-fashioned diners.
I really don’t give a care what some stuffy New Yorker thinks whose idea of food is some tiny plate with a drizzle of some weird concoction over a tiny piece of lettuce or some crap like that.
Check out the link in post #5. :)
Hee-hee. That site is hilarious! Thanks for posting the link.
Primanti Brother's Pittsburgh strip district... weep.
Number one, I never pronounce Mika’s last or first name. Number two, how is his pronouciation “language appropriate”?
Who cares?
That’s not the point.
If you want a show with hard-to-make dishes, there are plenty of other people on the Food Network.
He is all about highlighting traditional American food, classics, real America....not some ritzy LA or NY restaurant.
I don’t get why that’s a bad thing!
The show would be better without him. :)
So does Alton Brown.
Which I don't get at all. It's perfectly normal for Romance-language culture backgrounds, like Fieri's from, to pronounce an 'R' like a 'T' (or maybe a slightly softer 'D') in some situations. For example, a Spanish-speaking person saying "para ti" meaning "for you" will make it sound like pah-duh-TEE, almost like a slurred pronunciation of "pot of tea."
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