While most serious chefs are spending hours researching suppliers with the freshest possible food, has taken the opposite track in her Food Network program, Semi-Homemade and as her critics are quick to remind us, is loading her recipes with preservatives and dyes contained in the “semi”. Well, guess you have to do something different to get attention these days! Seems as though by the time the large food chain grocery stores begin stocking organic fresh foods, an......more
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With three TV shows under his belt, six cookbooks, a chain of kitchen shops and three restaurants, is it any wonder that is a mainstay in the celebrity chefs category? His clean-cut, boy-next-door image belies the fact that the man can throw together a classic New York style cheesecake in under six minutes while teaching food technique at the same time! Hard to believe this young man has already spent 14 years at Food Network with shows that got our attention from Foo......more
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Describing himself as an “eccentric rocker guy at heart”, is described as “lightening in a bottle” by the Food Network's VP of Marketing, and “The Trailer Park Gourmet” by The Daily Beast. Highly criticized by many of his peers and adored by his fans, the Food Network people knew that the day he won The Next Food Network Star in 2006 was their lucky day! With his bleached spiked hair, gobs of jewelry and sunglasses propped on the back of his head, this is ......more
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Who said you don't have to be a rocket scientist to be a good cook? Apparently it helps! Ask ! Even without Emeril screaming “Bam” to the top of his lungs, we fell of our chair when we learned that our beloved Barefoot Contessa was a former White House nuclear policy analyst! Yes, it's a lot to digest! Ina is the role model for everyone out there who cooks and entertains friends as a release from a high-pressure job in which they think they are stuck for life. ......more
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Granddaughter of illustrious film producer, Dino De Laurentiis, has never been a stranger to staring a camera crew in the eye. With old-school values, grandfather was strong in his beliefs that women should get married, have children, stay home and not work. In fact, since her family discouraged her from attending culinary school, Giada took a detour by getting her degree in anthropology from UCLA before taking the bull by the horns and taking off for Le Cordon Bleu i......more
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Sporting bright red hair, hot pink socks and his signature, blinding-orange Crocs, is not easily forgotten. Known most for his 517 episodes of Molto Mario on the Food Network that ran from 1996 through 2004 and from his Iron Chef America appearances, Batali has been a master at applying the celebrity chef formula to his advantage. Aside from putting Crocs on the map, he has authored five cookbooks, has his own line of cookware and a licensing deal with NASCAR. When i......more
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has managed, almost single handily to pull the south out of a steady diet of gravy, biscuits and pinto beans, and for some of us, has brought the word “y'all” to the level of fingernails scratching a chalk board. Though the south isn't likely to rise again, southern comfort food has now been put on the food map by Paula and her sons. Paula is an excellent example of a person who changed a debilitating handicap into a major asset. Plagued with panic attacks that......more
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Cute as a button with a perky personality to match, has taught us that Italian home cooking is a lot more than just Sunday gravy! Here is a woman so in touch with what foods go well together, if left alone in a room with three ingredients, she would undoubtedly come up with something totally mouthwatering! Starting out with the winning concept of how to prepare a meal in 30 minutes, she developed a signature new vocabulary for cooking to describe a cross between stew ......more
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Is there anyone on earth unfamiliar with super chef ? Emeril was the first to break-though in entertainment chefs. Like he says, who wants to watch someone standing at a counter quietly chopping a cucumber? How many times did the PBS cooking programs of the past send you directly into a deep Saturday afternoon nap? So, “kick it up a notch!”, “Bam!”. Are you awake yet? Emeril really is passionate about food and fascinated by its origins and comparisons. Of ......more
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Everyone enjoys discussing . Cooks admire him because he's received 13 Michelin awards and the man knows how to cook! Women love him because they believe his loud tirades indicate that he could also be wildly passionate elsewhere. Flailing restaurateurs love him because he can put their restaurants back in the black almost overnight. Television viewers love to watch him verbally abuse employees with gusto and try to keep count of how many times he can use the F-word......more
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