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08-29-2008, 04:39 PM
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| |  I'm Mad at the Foodnetwork
I was just trying to check the schedule for tomorrow morning's Foodnetwork lineup. Saturdays are my favorite mornings because I get up and watch Jamie At Home at 9:30. I was trying to find out what great amazing things he's going to inspire me to make only to find out that Jamie Oliver won't be on at ALL!!!! It's being replaced by yet another new show "the cooking loft." It seems all they do is get the great chefs out of the way so they can make room for all these new chefs... I mean really! Bobby? Guy? Big Daddy? Not for me! I'm looking for Mario, Jamie, Ming!
Quick, anybody know where I can get my fix? |
08-29-2008, 04:48 PM
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Public Television!
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08-29-2008, 04:59 PM
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PBS has much better cooking programming than the food network. I don't miss cable/satellite TV at all. Just hundreds of channels of crap. |
08-29-2008, 06:49 PM
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The wife and I made the decision to ditch cable/sat a little while ago. We've got three young kids that we're chasing around during the day...and when we're done we'll watch one to two shows that were recorded on the DVR. One day we noticed that a good number of shows were DVR'd off the major networks. Then you had my cooking and landscape shows that were all from one of the PBS stations.
We canceled cable and bought a Tivo HD. We still have a guided dual tuner HD DVR for all the broadcast channels. The HD picture is great! Not to mention our bill went from $140 to $24 for DSL internet.
PBS all the way!
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08-30-2008, 10:48 AM
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ogg that chic is a B%#$H I met her at a charity event I was volunteering for and she was jsut like snooty and mean. maybe it was a bad day but at $5000 a person she could have been a bit nicer.
I dont watch FN much during the day and I have watched jamie at home. and its a decent show. it relates to me since i grow alot of stuff.
I hate the fact that they keep on pushing who they want to be big. liek micheal simon or whoever. and ugg i cant stand them....
Dont push your stars.... I feel like FN is going to end up like MTV...
Im still a big fan of good eats |
08-30-2008, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by GhettoRacingKid  ogg that chic is a B%#$H I met her at a charity event I was volunteering for and she was jsut like snooty and mean. maybe it was a bad day but at $5000 a person she could have been a bit nicer.
I dont watch FN much during the day and I have watched jamie at home. and its a decent show. it relates to me since i grow alot of stuff.
I hate the fact that they keep on pushing who they want to be big. liek micheal simon or whoever. and ugg i cant stand them....
Dont push your stars.... I feel like FN is going to end up like MTV...
Im still a big fan of good eats | Who was snooty? |
08-30-2008, 12:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Mapiva I was just trying to check the schedule for tomorrow morning's Foodnetwork lineup. Saturdays are my favorite mornings because I get up and watch Jamie At Home at 9:30. I was trying to find out what great amazing things he's going to inspire me to make only to find out that Jamie Oliver won't be on at ALL!!!! It's being replaced by yet another new show "the cooking loft." It seems all they do is get the great chefs out of the way so they can make room for all these new chefs... I mean really! Bobby? Guy? Big Daddy? Not for me! I'm looking for Mario, Jamie, Ming!
Quick, anybody know where I can get my fix? | That show just looks awful.
I think they must have someone new behind the scenes at FN because their programming seems to be getting worse and worse, and they are going for edgy over educational. |
08-30-2008, 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Mapiva Who was snooty? | I'm thinking this might be the person GRK is referring to The Cooking Loft with Alexandra Guarnaschelli |
08-31-2008, 12:57 AM
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Try this:
Yell at Quinn, he's doing his externship at the Food Network and if enough of us are upset, he'll make everything all better!
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I can dream can't I?
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08-31-2008, 05:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Mezzaluna Public Television! | I'd been unable to watch PBS cooking shows until this past week. What a pleasure. Got more ideas and recipes from watching a dozen or so shows than from weeks of watching FN. Over the past couple of months, even before getting PBS access, I stopped watching most FN shows.
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08-31-2008, 10:35 AM
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It seems to me that the Food Network has turned into the food entertainment channel rather than a cooking channel.
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08-31-2008, 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by DocSmith That show just looks awful.
I think they must have someone new behind the scenes at FN because their programming seems to be getting worse and worse, and they are going for edgy over educational. | Jamie at Home is not awful, at least in my opinion. Why not check it out before putting it down? I find it really informative and inspiring to take chances with my cooking. Every time I've tried one of his recipes I've never been disappointed. His risotto technique is exceptional!
I did watch the Cooking Loft and I wasn't overly impressed. I'm not sure I like her school marmish matronly personality and I don't like the way she handles and preps food. If she's going to do a whole thing about tomatoes, why not talk about the different kinds of tomatoes, their flavor, their texture, which one is better suited for what, etc.
At this point I'm not so much looking for great recipes as I am looking for tips on technique. America's Test Kitchen is great for that. Good Eats can be good but sometimes I feel like he's all about "it's this way or the highway." This new show Food Detectives is uninspired and silly.  |
08-31-2008, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Mapiva Jamie at Home is not awful, at least in my opinion. Why not check it out before putting it down? | I was talking about the cooking loft. |
08-31-2008, 12:41 PM
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Shel, how is it you weren't able to get PBS? Cable or satellite should provide local channels, or there's always rabbit ear antennas.
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08-31-2008, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by phatch Shel, how is it you weren't able to get PBS? Cable or satellite should provide local channels, or there's always rabbit ear antennas. | I didn't have cable, or rather, my set being old, I was unable to get all the local cable channels. Rabbit ears don't work where I'm located. Without cable I get two chinese language channels and one regular channel.
A few days ago I got access to a cable box which allowed me to get some channels that I couldn't get before.
In any case, television isn't very important to me. For years I had no cable, and was only able to receive one channel. I used the set for watching DVD movies. When I moved, a basic cable setup was available to me.
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