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Cat Cora on a hot ‘Iron Chef’

Iron Chef America’s” Cat Cora has outflambéed some of the best in the business, but the only female chef on the popular Food Network show has set her sights on one competitor in particular.”I really want to challenge Gordon Ramsay,” Cora told the Daily News. “I think that would be a good battle. He’s one of the chefs that really stands out for me. He needs to get in there and get knocked up a little bit.”

a PopMatters Television Feature

Before I started my research — two weeks of watching cooking series — I assumed that today’s tv cooks, even if they possessed Child’s technical prowess, wouldn’t be nearly so endearing. I was partly right. In fact, many vibrant personalities host cooking shows, as well as numerous exceptional culinary teachers. Few individuals are both.

from the TV Review in the New York Times

Mr. Ramsay emerges as though he were Gwyneth Paltrow making an inspirational visit to a fat camp. Everyone around him just looks so shabby, seems to be so shabby. Peter’s, a family-run Italian restaurant in Babylon, is a mess because no one gets along. The eponymous Peter is a big clown of a guy who bleaches his teeth, squanders his money and seems to operate in an uninterrupted state of remorse over never having achieved his calling as an extra in “Goodfellas.”

in the washingtonpost.com

Chef Rock is already a brand name and a charitable foundation, in the rough draft of his dream. “I’m going to have a few cookbooks, hopefully. Definitely a product line. And my own culinary apparel: Food industry apparel will never be the same. There are definitely sauces and vinaigrettes I’d like to bottle. Knives, maybe. All chefs like their knives,” he says.

FOX Broadcasting Company: Kitchen Nightmares

Hell hath no fury like an angry chef, and no chef has a sharper temper than Gordon Ramsay when things go wrong in the kitchen. The star of the highly rated culinary boot camp HELL’S KITCHEN returns to FOX with another sizzling unscripted series, KITCHEN NIGHTMARES.This time, Chef Ramsay hits the road, in each episode tackling a restaurant in crisis and exposing the stressful realities of trying to run a successful food business. The third season of HELL’S KITCHEN will premiere on FOX this spring.

Culinary Podcast Network (TM)

The Culinary Podcast Network is the world’s first all-food podcast network. Some of us are professional chefs, and others obsessed gourmands who simply can’t put down the fork. Here you can find some of the finest quality food podcasts on the web, hot out of the oven!

from teh la times

“If you want to know what some of the world’s most cerebral gastronomes are thinking about the future of food these days, you could immediately jump on a plane to San Sebastián, the Basque city in Spain where a rather dazzling array of marquee names will be gathering next week for a meeting of the culinary minds at Diálogos de Cocina.

Or you could just amble over to your computer on Monday and Tuesday.”

http://blog.ruhlman.com/2007/02/guest_blogging_.html

“I actually WATCH Food Network now and again, more often than not drawn in by the progressive horrors on screen. I find myself riveted by its awfulness, like watching a multi-car accident in slow motion.”

Rachael Ray: Branding Goddess?

Rachael Ray is interested in what food becomes, how food turns into meals, social occasions, brimming kitchens, people communing, families eating…and talking…and being a family.  This enterprise begins with food and moves briskly on to the emotional, social, and cultural benefits that food gives us. 

Bill Buford on Food TV

The first sign that I’d been unknowingly affected by cooking shows occurred on a Sunday morning when I realized I was talking to myself. I’d been making toast. “First, we cut our bread,” I whispered. “Do you know why?” I stopped what I was doing and looked up. “Let me tell you why.” It was eight-thirty. It was also Hour 25 of a seventy-two-hour commitment I’d made to watch continuous food television (sleeping only when the shows began repeating at midnight).