Emeril's Cooking with Tea

Anyone else hate this loudmouth mook? I'm talking about Emeril, not Burt.

--crymad

I don't care for him either. But then, no TV cooking shows were ever among my favorites.

N.

On 14 Jul 2003, WNW climbed into "rec.food.drink.tea", opened the box of crayons and scribbled the following:

I rather enjoy Graham Kerr. But that just may be that while he produces great foods, he seems as clumsy in the kitchen as I am. I can believe him as a cook rather than a "chef."

Of course, it helps that he's stopped drinking.

Derek

He's not exactly to my liking either. Between him and Bobby Flay, it seems like the Food Network is going for the neighborhood tough guy approach, designed to dumb down haute cuisine for the masses so that it doesn't scare them off. And for some reason, the women love them, and they're the ones who mainly watch, yet neither of these two can speak a coherent sentence. At any rate, if you can separate the message from the messenger, I still find I can learn a lot.

Bert

Ah yes.. the Gulping Gourmet. ;) Then he was all about that Mini-Max stuff.

N.

Add my vote to those who can't stand him.

John

My point was that Emeril didn't know enough about Earl Grey to realize it's flavored with bergamot, not orange.

As for the Naked Chef I think he's okay, too, but I sometimes I wonder about his sense of kitchen hygiene. Last week he goes from having his hands mixing something in the bowl to answering the door to shaking hands with the guest who came in to rubbing his face to pushing his hair back to burying his hands right back in the bowl. Bert

In his defense, isn't it commonly called bergamot orange? Still, he should have known enough to distinguish it from the oranges we are more familiar with.

Blues

LadyGreyer, are you a lady? Female, that is? Cause most men I know aren't wooed by fuckwits like Emeril and Jamie. Or Anthony Bourdain, for that matter. Remember that chapter in his book recounting a lengthy restaurant war story that ended with the punch line of him banging a new bride out back by the dumpsters? What a f****it.

--crymad

Damn I've got to take some cooking classes. How do we know it wasn't the bride who wanted dessert?

Jim

Special training? But you're a FANTASTIC f****it, Jim.

--crymad

What do you call the Iron Chef sensei who uses stainless steel? You're the one in therapy talking about chefs,brides,dumpsters,fuckwits and mama-san. You can't claim to be morally incensed while hoarding violent schoolgirl manga,anime,AVI. It's easy to point fingers at other cultures or attitudes. It may be Emeril was catering a Polish wedding. I've been to several and turned down the opportunity.

Jim

Here we have the poetry of a man gone bonkers. And yet, within the absurd lies poetic truth.

--crymad