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The Trailer Park Gourmet (Guy Fieri)
The Daily Beast ^ | November 10, 2009 | Rachel Syme

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Food; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: celebritychef; celebritychefs; dailybeast; food; foodnetwork; foodnetworkhumor; guyfieri; thedailybeast
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To: CaptRon
Let’s face it, the guy is trying to brand himself and it ain’t working. At least for me. But if it works for you, ok.

LOL! Get real. The guy sells out 20 and 30,000 seat venues doing cooking demonstrations! It's working.

61 posted on 11/19/2009 1:22:24 PM PST by pgkdan ( I miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: rwfromkansas
I have Bourdains book. He is an arrogant Pr**k.

I love to cook. I must have 100 cookbooks. None of them have a recipe for brain sugery, but lately they are treated as if they can do it. "I don't see your personality in this dish" Gimme a break. How does it taste. Cook and shut up.

62 posted on 11/19/2009 1:22:38 PM PST by CaptRon
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To: Owl_Eagle
Sorry, but Giada has all the culinary chops of the average McDonald's employee. Which, to me, puts her in the same category as Fieri.
63 posted on 11/19/2009 1:22:45 PM PST by LIConFem
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To: CaptRon

So relax. either he is your cup of tea or he isn’t. Hardly worth getting excited over


64 posted on 11/19/2009 1:22:46 PM PST by the long march
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To: Trailerpark Badass

There is one thing which comes through very clearly wiht the places Guy visits: all the places are run by small business people who have pride in their work, their business, their value to the community. There are no SEIU slugs holding job spots for a paycheck and with no pride in workmanship, just real small business owners and workers doing their best to get it done for their customers, with pride. ... So anti-obamaesque don’tchaknow.


65 posted on 11/19/2009 1:23:03 PM PST by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: Talisker

Exactly. That stuff. What the heck is that anyway...I mean geez.

You can’t possibly feel full after eating that $30 plate of nothingness.


66 posted on 11/19/2009 1:23:34 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: Mashood

Ya lost me on that one.


67 posted on 11/19/2009 1:23:38 PM PST by CaptRon
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To: CaptRon
And she doesn’t go by “Giada DiLautentis”.

Assuming typo, yes she does.

68 posted on 11/19/2009 1:24:29 PM PST by MozarkDawg
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To: pgkdan

Bourdain-——idiot drunk who has a useless show on the travel channel. no wonder he’s jealous


69 posted on 11/19/2009 1:24:35 PM PST by the long march
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To: CaptRon
And I miss Reagan too!

The Food Network or not we'll always be allies!

70 posted on 11/19/2009 1:24:48 PM PST by pgkdan ( I miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: Scythian

Think I’ll have to blow that one up to poster size!


71 posted on 11/19/2009 1:24:57 PM PST by albie
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To: the long march

His show is basic cooking with the “whys” behind it.


72 posted on 11/19/2009 1:25:29 PM PST by CaptRon
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To: CaptRon

I guess each person has different tastes. I like Guy and pretty much everyone else on the channel, even Alton, though I hate his stupid gimmicks and skits.

My wife thinks Alton is pretentious and hates him, as well as Emeril for some reason. Yet, she loves Rachael Ray (hard to say she’s even on the channel anymore though), Giada, Sandra Lee, Paula, Guy etc.


73 posted on 11/19/2009 1:26:14 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: pgkdan

Really. Never heard that. Can’t understand why.


74 posted on 11/19/2009 1:26:25 PM PST by CaptRon
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To: paulycy

Not enough Crispy Bacon Strips and is that Skippy Extra Chunky beneath the Bacon?


75 posted on 11/19/2009 1:26:36 PM PST by seoul62
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To: the long march

I don’t spend sleepless nights over it. Cooking is my hobby. He isn’t someone I’d look to.


76 posted on 11/19/2009 1:27:40 PM PST by CaptRon
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To: MozarkDawg
Ya know, if Nigella were cooking for you in her kitchen, I bet you wouldn't give a darn about her hair not bein' in a net. ;^)
77 posted on 11/19/2009 1:28:07 PM PST by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: EveningStar
For years I have been entertained by Jolene Sugarbaker..The Trailer Park Queen.

For those who don't know, SHE is a HE...:)

sw

78 posted on 11/19/2009 1:28:13 PM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFIJTWf_W5I


79 posted on 11/19/2009 1:28:42 PM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: CaptRon
A “T” is still a “T” and and “R” is still an “R” in any romance language.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6yGBp0Sb1I

As an example, check out the pronunciation of cantare at 1:27... The difference between the 'T' and the 'R' is quite subtle.

80 posted on 11/19/2009 1:28:56 PM PST by Sloth (Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8)
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