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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Oh my, that culinary display is pure unadulterated crap. Give me a plate of Chicken Fried Steak with Mashed Potatoes and Country Gravy anytime, any day of the week.
Agreed on the bacon but it just looks like good, thick, sticky, wonderful peanut butter to me!
His isn’t a cooking show. It is an eating show. Food Network has PLENTY of cooking shows you could watch. Or you could do what any really good cook does and refers back to the classic Julia Child presentations that are available for all to see
LOL. Yes, my friend!
Ah but dahhling, you can definitely get high from being able to pay $30 for nothingness, while being seen at the right table with the right people.
(And of course, the two Big Macs you ate in the car on the way to the restaurant help immensely in staying smug.)
I love Guy and I HATE food snobs.
They remind me of the small-minded, clique-y modern art assholes who will tell you that garbage is good if it fits into the very narrow template of what the elitists decide is hip.
So don’t watch. But Bourdain’s and Chang’s comments are just plain dumb
If the food network is the only thing we argue about all is right with the conservative world!
It’s true...I can’t believe people would pay to sit two levels up to watch someone cook but they do.
Not all of his critics are food snobs.
Nigella has hair?!
Oh my, you changed my dinner plans: I planned on having Porterhouse on the Grill with Baked Potatoes but now I just have to have that Bacon and Peanutbutter Sandwich.
I’ll take my mother’s chicken and dumplings! One of the easiest things in the world to make but NOBODY I’ve ever tried can make them as good as my mom did.
I have both Alton Brown’s book and Julia’s. Both informative but in different ways.
Put the peanut butter and the bacon on the porterhouse. Voila!
To everything there is a season, and a time for every good dinner under Heaven.... ;0)
I like Fieri, and enjoy his Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. It's interesting to see all the different restaurants in the country that have been open for ages, and serve top-notch food!! Apparently if you haven't graduated from a culinary school, you are looked down upon by the snobs in the business. It's kind of like the way journalists look down their noses at people and websites who present the news, simply because they don't have a four-year degree in journalism. They're all so full of themselves they stink.
Agreed. I thouroughly enjoy Alton’s Good Eats. Being a fodd hobbyist myself, I swear by my tattered and spotted copies of Vol 1 and Vol 2 of Master the Art... Have to admit that vol 1 gets used the most
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