I’ve dined at one of Batali’s stupid “celebrity” restaurants in Manhattan (not by my own choosing) and the food was awful and overpriced. He gives Italian cuisine a bad name. Plus, the Food Network is hardly watchable anymore because it is run by a rainbow of politically correct jerks.
The Food Network is the reason I stopped watching TV. It degraded into a stream of demeaning contest shows where a judging panel of cooks I never heard of told other cooks I never heard of how bad their cooking was while game show host I never heard of made snarky comments.