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  • Post #151 - June 19th, 2020, 8:37 am
    Post #151 - June 19th, 2020, 8:37 am Post #151 - June 19th, 2020, 8:37 am
    Dave148 wrote:Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi - new 10 episode series on Hulu.


    The first episode is on youtube.

    Taste The Nation with Padma Lakshmi – The Gullah Way • A Hulu Original
  • Post #152 - June 23rd, 2020, 7:24 am
    Post #152 - June 23rd, 2020, 7:24 am Post #152 - June 23rd, 2020, 7:24 am
    Dave148 wrote:Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi - new 10 episode series on Hulu.


    A genuinely good show. Focuses on the immigrant experience (and also Native American) and related food culture. Although far from the first such show she makes it seem fresh. Milwaukee focuses on German immigrants and their contributions to foods that are now quintessentially American: hot dogs, burgers, beer and pretzels. For her India episode she visits with Madhur Jaffrey and recalls her own family history. The El Paso episode focuses on the burrito and visits the H&H Coffee shop, an El Paso classic staffed with cooks who cross the border every day from Mexico and owned for the last 60+ years by the staunchly Republican son of Syrian immigrants who passed through Mexico.
  • Post #153 - June 29th, 2020, 4:08 pm
    Post #153 - June 29th, 2020, 4:08 pm Post #153 - June 29th, 2020, 4:08 pm
    Caught a couple episodes of Crazy Delicious on Netflix. Takes the very familiar pattern of 3 amateurs making three dishes in successive elimination rounds. Has a little more whimsy than Chopped and the goal is to surprise the judges with creative or innovative output. Judges are Carla from Top Chef, Heston Blumenthal and Nikolas Ekstedt, so it's got a little legitimacy. The level of creativity varies and it seems like there's some advance notice to contestants (otherwise hard to believe they can execute AND develop the recipes in such a short time).
  • Post #154 - July 24th, 2020, 6:57 am
    Post #154 - July 24th, 2020, 6:57 am Post #154 - July 24th, 2020, 6:57 am
    Netflix's "Street Food" is back and still great. Featuring Latin America this time around with some really impressive women in Bogota, La Paz, Buenos Aires, Oaxaca and other locations. The food is amazing, as usual, but the stories of empowerment through building something on your own and inspiring others are really moving.
  • Post #155 - September 7th, 2020, 9:09 pm
    Post #155 - September 7th, 2020, 9:09 pm Post #155 - September 7th, 2020, 9:09 pm
    Amy Schumer Learns to Cook on the Food Network. She and her husband cook during the pandemic. It looks like she was basically starting from square one. Has anybody seen this one? I think it is nominated for an Emmy.
  • Post #156 - September 8th, 2020, 7:26 am
    Post #156 - September 8th, 2020, 7:26 am Post #156 - September 8th, 2020, 7:26 am
    NFriday wrote:Amy Schumer Learns to Cook on the Food Network. She and her husband cook during the pandemic. It looks like she was basically starting from square one. Has anybody seen this one? I think it is nominated for an Emmy.


    My wife and I enjoy it, since we love Amy Schumer the comedian. It's pretty light on cooking specifics but Amy is such a goofball it makes for some fun TV.
  • Post #157 - September 8th, 2020, 8:27 am
    Post #157 - September 8th, 2020, 8:27 am Post #157 - September 8th, 2020, 8:27 am
    Specifically a cooking show, maybe not, but Uncle Rodger's hilarious send-up of Jamie Oliver and Hersha Patel's fried rice videos are laugh-out-loud funny.

    More specific to LTH and Ronnie_S in particular Nigel Ng's, the comedian behind Uncle Rodger, video How The West Ruins Rice which has him weeping when cauliflower "rice" comes up [4:05]
    Hold my beer . . .

    Low & Slow
  • Post #158 - September 8th, 2020, 8:35 am
    Post #158 - September 8th, 2020, 8:35 am Post #158 - September 8th, 2020, 8:35 am
    NFriday wrote:Amy Schumer Learns to Cook on the Food Network. She and her husband cook during the pandemic. It looks like she was basically starting from square one. Has anybody seen this one?

    Fwiw, I found it boring and unwatchable. HonestMan's critique is correct in that ones opinion of the show will just reflect their opinion of her shtick. There's really nothing about food or recipes to keep you tuning in.
  • Post #159 - September 8th, 2020, 10:36 am
    Post #159 - September 8th, 2020, 10:36 am Post #159 - September 8th, 2020, 10:36 am
    bweiny wrote:
    NFriday wrote:Amy Schumer Learns to Cook on the Food Network. She and her husband cook during the pandemic. It looks like she was basically starting from square one. Has anybody seen this one?

    Fwiw, I found it boring and unwatchable. HonestMan's critique is correct in that ones opinion of the show will just reflect their opinion of her shtick. There's really nothing about food or recipes to keep you tuning in.


    It's pretty one-note. No useful hints, simplistic recipes and flat banter. Nice idea and about $30 in production costs per episode, so I can see the appeal from a cheap content perspective, but there's a lot of superior content on Youtube.
  • Post #160 - September 18th, 2020, 8:23 pm
    Post #160 - September 18th, 2020, 8:23 pm Post #160 - September 18th, 2020, 8:23 pm
    Season 2 of Taco Chronicles has started on Netflix. The suadero episode is terrific.
  • Post #161 - September 18th, 2020, 11:01 pm
    Post #161 - September 18th, 2020, 11:01 pm Post #161 - September 18th, 2020, 11:01 pm
    Being in our current situation, my viewing preferences have decidedly shifted from shows that focus on finished dishes -- and the places where they can be procured -- to shows (and segments) in which recipes and techniques are shared so that I can actually learn how to make the dishes. Since I'm not planning on traveling any time soon, for me, it's all about cooking now. This is why I've gone so deeply down the youtube rabbit hole lately.

    =R=
    Same planet, different world
  • Post #162 - September 19th, 2020, 3:09 pm
    Post #162 - September 19th, 2020, 3:09 pm Post #162 - September 19th, 2020, 3:09 pm
    I'd give the suadero episode of Taco Chronicles mentioned above a shot. They show variations of a theme and how the dishes are modified to suit the region or local tastes. The traditional preparation of suadero is brisket or adjacent cuts of beef cooked in liquefied fat in a sombrero-shaped comal (the meat cooks in oil in the deep outer ring and then sausage or fattier meats are cooked in the center with the fat dripping down). Although it mainly focuses on Mexican preparations, one of the variations was in an upscale place in Austin where they used wagyu brisket which was prepared confit-style in a large vat of previously-rendered fat from other batches of the suadero. The cooked brisket was tender and very lean and chopped up and crisped on a plancha before tossibg it on homemade tortillas.
  • Post #163 - September 19th, 2020, 3:26 pm
    Post #163 - September 19th, 2020, 3:26 pm Post #163 - September 19th, 2020, 3:26 pm
    spinynorman99 wrote:Season 2 of Taco Chronicles has started on Netflix. The suadero episode is terrific.

    Thanks for the heads up. Good stuff.
    Never order barbecue in a place that also serves quiche - Lewis Grizzard
  • Post #164 - September 22nd, 2020, 12:44 pm
    Post #164 - September 22nd, 2020, 12:44 pm Post #164 - September 22nd, 2020, 12:44 pm
    Hi- I get emails from slickdeals, which is a deal site. Somebody over there just wrote an article about what cooking shows the various streaming channels have, and their cost. Apparently there is a PBS streaming service that is available to people who have Amazon Prime or Apple tv, for an additional $2.95 a month. It sounds like it is similar to Passport which is only available to people who are members of PBS. Here is the link to the article.
    https://slickdeals.net/article/list/bes ... rc=hublist
  • Post #165 - November 9th, 2020, 4:11 pm
    Post #165 - November 9th, 2020, 4:11 pm Post #165 - November 9th, 2020, 4:11 pm
    New episodes of Somebody Feed Phil. Mississippi Delta, San Francisco, Hawaii and other locations. San Francisco was great but a little too fast-paced. He visited the Ferry Plaza Market (one of my favorite locations anywhere) with Alice Waters, had a few courses with Dominique Crenn and hung out with Thomas Keller (he was a consultant on Spanglish, where Phil played a chef). Really enjoyable, Phil still hasn't picked up a thesaurus - everything is still "great' or "wow", but has an enviable group of friends.
  • Post #166 - January 6th, 2021, 11:20 am
    Post #166 - January 6th, 2021, 11:20 am Post #166 - January 6th, 2021, 11:20 am
    Stanley Tucci is doing a limited (4-episode) food tour series in Italy on CNN:

    https://www.foodandwine.com/news/stanle ... series-cnn
  • Post #167 - January 7th, 2021, 8:24 am
    Post #167 - January 7th, 2021, 8:24 am Post #167 - January 7th, 2021, 8:24 am
    Korean Pork Belly Rhapsody on Netflix. It's in Korean, with subtitles. Damn I miss getting into Korean restaurants.
    Never order barbecue in a place that also serves quiche - Lewis Grizzard
  • Post #168 - February 4th, 2021, 9:27 am
    Post #168 - February 4th, 2021, 9:27 am Post #168 - February 4th, 2021, 9:27 am
    If anyone has Hulu, the documentary "Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles" is a great watch. The London-based chef, who was trained as a pastry chef, is asked to curate an event for the opening of a Versailles exhibit at he Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He assembles a diverse team of pastry and experimental chefs to create their impressions of 17th century desserts from a 21st century perspective (basically, the stuff is mostly modern with a historical thread connecting it to the past - like the all-jelly-mold offerings of Bompas and Parr - jelly molds were nearly impossible to make without refrigeration in the 1700's, so it was not uncommon for the elite to have more than one jelly course in a meal to display your wealth). The results are all pretty impressive (other than Dominique Ansel, who sort of phoned it in).
  • Post #169 - February 14th, 2021, 12:47 pm
    Post #169 - February 14th, 2021, 12:47 pm Post #169 - February 14th, 2021, 12:47 pm
    This is just to remind people about the four part series on Italian food with Stanley Tucci which starts tonight 2/14 at 8:00PM Central on CNN. They are also premiering a series on Lincoln immediately afterwards too.
  • Post #170 - February 14th, 2021, 5:32 pm
    Post #170 - February 14th, 2021, 5:32 pm Post #170 - February 14th, 2021, 5:32 pm
    Indianbadger wrote:
    Dave148 wrote:Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi - new 10 episode series on Hulu.


    The first episode is on youtube.

    Taste The Nation with Padma Lakshmi – The Gullah Way • A Hulu Original


    Saw that episode this afternoon, quite good. I believe Zimmern had done a show on the gullah, but this was better. I had spent quite a bit of time doing business over the years on Edisto Island, St. Helena Island, Johns Island, as that's where the fresh tomatoes are grown during a 4 week period in June. Fascinating area, also right there in Beaufort is where they filmed the ensemble movie 'The Big Chill'.

    Looking forward to the Tucci show. And actually the Lincoln series too.
  • Post #171 - February 15th, 2021, 10:23 am
    Post #171 - February 15th, 2021, 10:23 am Post #171 - February 15th, 2021, 10:23 am
    Tucci's show is pretty good. Hard to do Italy for the umpteenth time but he makes it interesting. He had some unique perspectives, visiting Scampia (the slums that are familiar to anyone who's watched the Gomorrah crime drima) which has attracted a very large and poor Romany community. They have established a restaurant featuring Romany and Italian dishes which funds day care and other programs. He also visits Ischia, which I have not seen on any shows of late.
  • Post #172 - February 15th, 2021, 10:23 am
    Post #172 - February 15th, 2021, 10:23 am Post #172 - February 15th, 2021, 10:23 am
    spinynorman99 wrote:Tucci's show is pretty good. Hard to do Italy for the umpteenth time but he makes it interesting. He had some unique perspectives, visiting Scampia (the Naples slums that are familiar to anyone who's watched the Gomorrah crime drima) which has attracted a very large and poor Romany community. They have established a restaurant featuring Romany and Italian dishes which funds day care and other programs. He also visits Ischia, which I have not seen on any shows of late.
  • Post #173 - February 21st, 2021, 4:56 pm
    Post #173 - February 21st, 2021, 4:56 pm Post #173 - February 21st, 2021, 4:56 pm
    Week two of Stanley Tucci's limited series on food in Italy on CNN is going to take place at 8:00 tonight. I read his bio on Wikipedia, and I found out that his first wife died in 2009, and he got remarried to somebody from Britain, and they are currently living in London. I assume it would be easier for him to go to Italy during a pandemic when he lives in London. Apparently he filmed there during a lull in the pandemic. I did not know there was a lull in Italy. I noticed that a lot of people were not wearing masks, and one of the restaurants that he filmed from, had 300 reservations one evening, but then the area got hit with a bad storm, and all 300 people cancelled at the last moment.
  • Post #174 - February 22nd, 2021, 1:55 pm
    Post #174 - February 22nd, 2021, 1:55 pm Post #174 - February 22nd, 2021, 1:55 pm
    Love Stanley Tucci and I'd love to watch this show, but alas, I don't get CNN, so I'll have to wait til it shows up on some other platform.

    Meanwhile ... does anyone else remember the wine show he used to host? I'd forgotten the name but looked it up: it was Vine Talk, on PBS, and I'm glad to see it's available on Amazon Prime Video.
    "Your swimming suit matches your eyes, you hold your nose before diving, loving you has made me bananas!"
  • Post #175 - February 22nd, 2021, 6:36 pm
    Post #175 - February 22nd, 2021, 6:36 pm Post #175 - February 22nd, 2021, 6:36 pm
    I have Sling tv that I pay $30 a month for, and get all of the news channels. It is way cheaper than Comcast. There is a free streaming service that has CNN, and then one that is $20 a month. One of them is Pluto. I forget what the other one is. I watch CNN more than any other channel on Sling. I just realized yesterday that I had a free preview for Showtime, but I did not discover it until two hours before it was ready to expire. I watched the Circus for the first time. It was okay.
  • Post #176 - February 22nd, 2021, 7:48 pm
    Post #176 - February 22nd, 2021, 7:48 pm Post #176 - February 22nd, 2021, 7:48 pm
    I just checked Pluto, and it is free, and it carries CNN. You have to be hooked in to something like Amazon Fire or chromecast in order to register for it though.
  • Post #177 - March 9th, 2021, 2:28 am
    Post #177 - March 9th, 2021, 2:28 am Post #177 - March 9th, 2021, 2:28 am
    Original Iron Chef
    Crazy dishes from really odd ingredients. Good chefs thinking on their feet. I get the feeling most shows now are way more staged.
  • Post #178 - March 9th, 2021, 5:03 pm
    Post #178 - March 9th, 2021, 5:03 pm Post #178 - March 9th, 2021, 5:03 pm
    klasstaffan wrote:Original Iron Chef
    Crazy dishes from really odd ingredients. Good chefs thinking on their feet. I get the feeling most shows now are way more staged.


    Assuming you're referring to the original Japanese series it was pretty stagey, but fun.
  • Post #179 - March 9th, 2021, 10:41 pm
    Post #179 - March 9th, 2021, 10:41 pm Post #179 - March 9th, 2021, 10:41 pm
    Hi,

    Gale Gand and Homaru Cantu were both Iron Chef Challengers.

    In advance of the competition, they were advised the secret ingredient might be one of three food items. They created menus and practiced what to do in advance. It was not quite as spontaneous as suggested.

    Yet, you are in someone else's kitchen. Things can go haywire with fixes on the fly.

    I remember my first Iron Chef program with the secret ingredient of red snapper. My nieces and I got quite whipped up watching this show and cheered the winner. My favorite was crispy fried fish fin crowning the ice cream.

    Regards,
    Cathy2
    Cathy2

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  • Post #180 - March 10th, 2021, 8:32 am
    Post #180 - March 10th, 2021, 8:32 am Post #180 - March 10th, 2021, 8:32 am
    Years ago I was at Topolobampo shortly after Bayless competed on Iron Chef. They were offering a menu of dishes that were prepared on the show. There were obviously more than the 5 presented dishes on the menu. The wait staff explained that prior to the show, Bayless was given two possible choices of what the secret ingredient could be (Bison was what was chosen, mushrooms if I remember was the one not chosen). He was also allowed to bring with him any "special" ingredients that he may need, and also given plenty of time prior to craft a menu and practice timing.

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