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domino harvey wrote:How Guy Fieri Ruined the Food Network -- regardless of one's take on the article, I think we can all agree that calling Sandra Lee a "soul terrorist" is the greatest journalistic achievement of the year

Minkin wrote: Does anyone else watch New Scandinavian Cooking? Its a great show - which mixes travelogue with hilariously impractical dishes - all cooked outside (usually in rain or with ingredients blowing away - once, the host lost all of his food by a sudden draft). The food is usually disgusting (I can't stomach seafood, environmentally or palate-wise), and you'd be hard pressed to find any of the ingredients (usually just whatever they find growing in a forest/field - in one case, its stinging nettles. You can cook with those? The same thing that will give you a poison-ivy rash can be digested?)-despite their constant repetitions of "find all our recipes online, try it yourself". The show branches between four different hosts (trading off each season usually) - covering the four Nordic countries (Iceland & Samiland are absent). It's a great show, and I think even the non-culinary members here can enjoy it as well.

Zot! wrote:

Minkin wrote: Does anyone else watch New Scandinavian Cooking? Its a great show - which mixes travelogue with hilariously impractical dishes - all cooked outside (usually in rain or with ingredients blowing away - once, the host lost all of his food by a sudden draft). The food is usually disgusting (I can't stomach seafood, environmentally or palate-wise), and you'd be hard pressed to find any of the ingredients (usually just whatever they find growing in a forest/field - in one case, its stinging nettles. You can cook with those? The same thing that will give you a poison-ivy rash can be digested?)-despite their constant repetitions of "find all our recipes online, try it yourself". The show branches between four different hosts (trading off each season usually) - covering the four Nordic countries (Iceland & Samiland are absent). It's a great show, and I think even the non-culinary members here can enjoy it as well.

Yeah, great show, but some of the chefs blow. I stopped watching when Tina Nordstrom quit, but I guess she's back. Her and the Danish guy are the worthwhile ones. I had no idea this still existed.

domino harvey wrote: Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:54 pm In honor of that weird pumpkin ad that keeps popping up on this forum

domino harvey wrote: Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:54 pm I am obsessed with the Gourmet Makes series from Bon Appetit in which Claire Saffitz, a pastry chef and BA editor, remakes snack foods in homemade gourmet versions. The best part is other than doing some rudimentary internet research, most of each episode is a process of trial and error and it's the kind of thing we rarely see in cooking programs: the process to getting something right. The foods range from the expected (Oreos, Cheetoes, Twinkies) to more specialized (Gushers, Skittles, Twizzlers, Lucky Charms). Things I wouldn't have pegged as being the most difficult component often are-- in Lucky Charms, for instance, the cereal is the hard part, not the colored marshmallows.

In honor of that weird pumpkin ad that keeps popping up on this forum, here's the one for Kit Kats, and you can find the other seven episodes in the sidebar. Saffitz recently left BA to open a bakery, so there won't be any more episodes, unfortunately. Also there are a disturbing amount of YT commenters who "ship" the host and one of the other BA employees based on their flirty exchanges!

domino harvey wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2019 11:38 pm Over the past year or so, Bon Appetit’s YouTube channel has become the most entertaining streaming entertainment on any platform. All the colorful and likable hosts interacting with each other and cameoing in each other’s videos builds a deep interconnected BA Universe far more interesting than Marvel or DC. Given their large view counts, surely I’m not the only one here watching and loving it?

domino harvey wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2019 11:38 pm Over the past year or so, Bon Appetit’s YouTube channel has become the most entertaining streaming entertainment on any platform. All the colorful and likable hosts interacting with each other and cameoing in each other’s videos builds a deep interconnected BA Universe far more interesting than Marvel or DC. Given their large view counts, surely I’m not the only one here watching and loving it?

domino harvey wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2019 11:38 pm Over the past year or so, Bon Appetit’s YouTube channel has become the most entertaining streaming entertainment on any platform. All the colorful and likable hosts interacting with each other and cameoing in each other’s videos builds a deep interconnected BA Universe far more interesting than Marvel or DC. Given their large view counts, surely I’m not the only one here watching and loving it?