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1/25/2014 5:34:44 PM

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"Wrong dude actually has legitimate skills. Nadia G has so much fucking jewelry dangling she wouldn't be able to chop shit even if she knew how. She is purely an image nothing else."

Alton has legitimate skills at making a good tv show, he's not a chef. If we were talking about physics shows, Alton Brown would be Morgan Freeman.

1/25/2014 8:23:15 PM

Favorite: Bobby Flay

Least: Guy Fieri

His show would be so much better without him on it. Not a chef I guess, but Anthony Bourdain is a dick.

1/25/2014 8:28:25 PM

How exactly are we defining a Chef, here? Currently cooking for a living?

Anthony Bourdain spent most of his life cooking for a living

1/25/2014 8:40:18 PM

^^But he was a chef.

^exactly.

[Edited on January 25, 2014 at 8:41 PM. Reason : AB is a chef]

1/25/2014 8:41:02 PM

Much love for Anthony Bourdain in this household

1/25/2014 11:39:27 PM

Anthony Bourdain and Alton Brown are awesome

Anthony Bourdain and Alton Brown are also cooks, not chefs

1/26/2014 12:01:18 AM

What is considered to be the defining difference between chef & cook? Training? Job title?

[Edited on January 26, 2014 at 12:26 AM. Reason : Not trying to be a pain, just interested]

1/26/2014 12:26:15 AM

Chefs create, cooks cook what chefs tell them.

Tony (I saw him at a show in Vegas so I can call him Tony) and Alton were never more than charismatic line cooks

1/26/2014 1:09:34 AM

Is that something the chefs at applebees tell themselves while watching these lowly cooks with awesome TV show?

1/26/2014 1:30:01 AM

Quote :

"Tony (I saw him at a show in Vegas so I can call him Tony) and Alton were never more than charismatic line cooks"

Anthony Bourdain has been executive chef at several restaurants, including New York's Les Halles

1/26/2014 2:07:04 AM

Bump for more discussion. I brought this up with our friends this weekend. Sparked a lot of good conversation.

1/27/2014 8:04:54 AM

I'm curious as to both how and why chefs became the new celebrity du jour.

Does it speak to just how fucking fat this country has gotten or is there some legitimate reason we laud people who are good with a pan?

1/27/2014 12:07:22 PM

The same reason we laud people who are good with a football. It's entertaining to some people.

1/27/2014 12:13:04 PM

cooking shows have been around for a long time

1/27/2014 12:15:45 PM

Quote :

"I'm curious as to both how and why chefs became the new celebrity du jour. Does it speak to just how fucking fat this country has gotten or is there some legitimate reason we laud people who are good with a pan? "

You been living under a rock? Food (delicious, healthy, fresh, etc) has become extremely popular these days. It's no longer chains and steakhouses...restaurants and going out to eat is now a form of entertainment, an experience...and chefs are the head figures in that. And people also want to re-create these delicious meals at their house. They want to grow these foods in their back yard and be part of this farm-to-table movement.

The food landscape has changed more in the past 5-10 years than it has in the previous 100...IMO at least.

1/27/2014 12:26:56 PM

my gf loves cooking shows. i can tolerate some of them, and some of it's informative (i do like to cook), but overall it's very boring to me to watch somebody cook and talk about it.

1/27/2014 12:31:59 PM

^^ It changed a hell of a lot in that 100 years, but it was going in the opposite direction.

1/27/2014 12:34:45 PM

I think it's worth noting that celebrity chefs have existed a lot longer than the recent Food Network stuff. Julia Child, Martha Stewart, Justin "I gar-on-tee!" Wilson. I think it's more that the reality television and the advent of the Food Network has brought them into the public eye more.

Also, jbrick83's comment about dining becoming an experience/entertainment is valid.

1/27/2014 12:37:19 PM

1/27/2014 12:38:42 PM

Also Swedish Chef and Chef Boyardee

1/27/2014 12:41:55 PM

You're cooking at home and I'm Dan Eaton.

1/27/2014 12:48:10 PM

Just commenting on what skwinkle and jbrick were saying, I'm glad that the food industry has made a 180 these past 10-15 years. Coming back to fresh ingredients and the "farm to table" mindset is growing again after the fast food craze of the 80's and 90's.

I think new age connectivity with the internet and cable television boom has opened eyes to a whole new world of food ideas that would have never made it to the masses through traditional media.

1/27/2014 12:56:53 PM

And a plug for the hometown, if you've not seen "A Chef's Life" on PBS check it out. NC farm to table movement right there.

1/27/2014 1:01:02 PM

1/27/2014 1:31:19 PM

I have no idea if she's any good or not, but there isn't much I wouldn't do to be able to hang with that Nigella Lawson lady

just the best

1/27/2014 1:45:16 PM