Chefs/Tv-food Personalities you hate??

[Anonymous]

Rachel Ray sucks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anne Burrell Just find her lacking warmth and full of ego.

Me too. Really miss Nigella Lawson. Loved her.

Yes yes. All of the above. Love Nigella, and absolutely cannot stand Anne Burrell. She seems like kind of a hack despite her background. And her personality is so incredibly grating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Barefoot contessa's recipes are actually pretty good. She is like the Jewish North Eastern version of Paula Deen. But what bugs me about her is that she doesn't realize her audience isn't bagillionairs like her. The perfect lunch for a dock picnic? Come on. I'd love to have the perfect menu for lunch beside a yacht, but not applicable to my life. A "garden warming" party? Really? The only garden unveiling that would go on at my house would be if I brought home a pot of flowers from Home Depot.

OP here. I love her recipes. But, I agree the themes are obnoxious.PP, I love the line about home depot!!

[Anonymous]

If I wanted to see a bunch of jiggling, I'd watch Honey Boo Boo.

OMG pp you are brilliant! If Honey Boo Boo's family spun off a cooking / food / diet program, I would make that appointment TV. Wouldn't even DVR it, I'd make sure I was home and in front of the TV when it broadcast.

Potato chip sandwiches on Piggly Wiggly store brand white bread, with a side of cheese doodles and a pig's foot. washed down with a Co-Cola of course.




You can probably tell I know from the South. That said, I want to put my fist through Paula Deen's eternally surprised looking face.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barefoot contessa's recipes are actually pretty good. She is like the Jewish North Eastern version of Paula Deen. But what bugs me about her is that she doesn't realize her audience isn't bagillionairs like her. The perfect lunch for a dock picnic? Come on. I'd love to have the perfect menu for lunch beside a yacht, but not applicable to my life. A "garden warming" party? Really? The only garden unveiling that would go on at my house would be if I brought home a pot of flowers from Home Depot.

I love Ina's recipes, approach to cooking and entertaining, etc. but I agree with you on this, it is annoying. Also, during an episode when she cooked for her fortieth (I think) wedding anniversary, she talked about how people ask her to share the secret to a long marriage, and whether it is hard work, and she said she finds those questions baffling because being with Jeffrey is joy, they delight in one another, blah blah, nothing about it is work at all, how could it possibly be...

Put simply this infuriated me. I could write six paragraphs but I won't.

I find her marriage to Jeffrey strange. The guy seems to only come home for the weekend and she can't wait to make something for him to please him. And she spends all her free time hanging out with her gay (not that there's anything wrong with that) male friends. Is Jeffrey gay and lives with a man during the week?

[Anonymous]

I love Nigella. I have a similarly bodacious curvefest of a bod, so I can relate. I like Ina Garten, but she has a charmed life for sure and so it does get annoying on occasion. Jamie Oliver sometimes bothers me. His lisp and his earnestness and naivete (like on Food Revolution, when he was trying to change entrenched notions of school food service) annoyed me.

[Anonymous]

Can't stand Paula Deen's delivery and her recipes are really unhealthy but they always work and are good.

I think Giada is a hack -- her recipes are always SO bland.

Surprisingly Melissa D'Arabian has lots of good recipes and they always turn out really well. I also like Tyler Florence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barefoot contessa's recipes are actually pretty good. She is like the Jewish North Eastern version of Paula Deen. But what bugs me about her is that she doesn't realize her audience isn't bagillionairs like her. The perfect lunch for a dock picnic? Come on. I'd love to have the perfect menu for lunch beside a yacht, but not applicable to my life. A "garden warming" party? Really? The only garden unveiling that would go on at my house would be if I brought home a pot of flowers from Home Depot.

I love Ina's recipes, approach to cooking and entertaining, etc. but I agree with you on this, it is annoying. Also, during an episode when she cooked for her fortieth (I think) wedding anniversary, she talked about how people ask her to share the secret to a long marriage, and whether it is hard work, and she said she finds those questions baffling because being with Jeffrey is joy, they delight in one another, blah blah, nothing about it is work at all, how could it possibly be...

Put simply this infuriated me. I could write six paragraphs but I won't.

I find her marriage to Jeffrey strange. The guy seems to only come home for the weekend and she can't wait to make something for him to please him. And she spends all her free time hanging out with her gay (not that there's anything wrong with that) male friends. Is Jeffrey gay and lives with a man during the week?

No, he is a professor at Yale and lives in CT during the week. I also find it annoying that she is so eager to serve him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barefoot contessa's recipes are actually pretty good. She is like the Jewish North Eastern version of Paula Deen. But what bugs me about her is that she doesn't realize her audience isn't bagillionairs like her. The perfect lunch for a dock picnic? Come on. I'd love to have the perfect menu for lunch beside a yacht, but not applicable to my life. A "garden warming" party? Really? The only garden unveiling that would go on at my house would be if I brought home a pot of flowers from Home Depot.

I love Ina's recipes, approach to cooking and entertaining, etc. but I agree with you on this, it is annoying. Also, during an episode when she cooked for her fortieth (I think) wedding anniversary, she talked about how people ask her to share the secret to a long marriage, and whether it is hard work, and she said she finds those questions baffling because being with Jeffrey is joy, they delight in one another, blah blah, nothing about it is work at all, how could it possibly be...

Put simply this infuriated me. I could write six paragraphs but I won't.

I find her marriage to Jeffrey strange. The guy seems to only come home for the weekend and she can't wait to make something for him to please him. And she spends all her free time hanging out with her gay (not that there's anything wrong with that) male friends. Is Jeffrey gay and lives with a man during the week?

No, he is a professor at Yale and lives in CT during the week. I also find it annoying that she is so eager to serve him.

Sounds like the PERFECT arrangement to me. Gorgeous house, close to beach, lots of fabulous gay and women friends, adoring DH who comes home only one weekends ... ahhhh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barefoot contessa's recipes are actually pretty good. She is like the Jewish North Eastern version of Paula Deen. But what bugs me about her is that she doesn't realize her audience isn't bagillionairs like her. The perfect lunch for a dock picnic? Come on. I'd love to have the perfect menu for lunch beside a yacht, but not applicable to my life. A "garden warming" party? Really? The only garden unveiling that would go on at my house would be if I brought home a pot of flowers from Home Depot.

I love Ina's recipes, approach to cooking and entertaining, etc. but I agree with you on this, it is annoying. Also, during an episode when she cooked for her fortieth (I think) wedding anniversary, she talked about how people ask her to share the secret to a long marriage, and whether it is hard work, and she said she finds those questions baffling because being with Jeffrey is joy, they delight in one another, blah blah, nothing about it is work at all, how could it possibly be...

Put simply this infuriated me. I could write six paragraphs but I won't.

I find her marriage to Jeffrey strange. The guy seems to only come home for the weekend and she can't wait to make something for him to please him. And she spends all her free time hanging out with her gay (not that there's anything wrong with that) male friends. Is Jeffrey gay and lives with a man during the week?

No, he is a professor at Yale and lives in CT during the week. I also find it annoying that she is so eager to serve him.

So he lots of time alone for affairs with men or women?

[Anonymous]

I LOVE Jacques Pepin. He is like a kindly French grandfather who happens to make scrumptious food. He makes it look so easy and is not an elitist at all about ingredients. I do find his daughter Claudine slightly annoying though.

You know who really annoys me? Christopher Kimball, that tall bowtied geek host on America's Test Kitchen (the TV version of Cook's Illustrated). I hate the way he says "mmm" when tasting something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I LOVE Jacques Pepin. He is like a kindly French grandfather who happens to make scrumptious food. He makes it look so easy and is not an elitist at all about ingredients. I do find his daughter Claudine slightly annoying though.

You know who really annoys me? Christopher Kimball, that tall bowtied geek host on America's Test Kitchen (the TV version of Cook's Illustrated). I hate the way he says "mmm" when tasting something.

Is he the guy with blonde hair? Yeah, he's freakin' annoying and comes off as a complete ass with something huge stuck up his.

[Anonymous]

I hate Rachel Ray. I find her voice super annoying, I think her mannerisms are annoying, and her life story bores me to tears. I have 3 of her cookbooks because her recipes are for ppl like me, who don't cook. So in the end I support someone who I can't stand, just as another pp stated. But honestly I would rather stare at a white wall for 48 minutes then watch her show.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I LOVE Jacques Pepin. He is like a kindly French grandfather who happens to make scrumptious food. He makes it look so easy and is not an elitist at all about ingredients. I do find his daughter Claudine slightly annoying though.

You know who really annoys me? Christopher Kimball, that tall bowtied geek host on America's Test Kitchen (the TV version of Cook's Illustrated). I hate the way he says "mmm" when tasting something.

Is he the guy with blonde hair? Yeah, he's freakin' annoying and comes off as a complete ass with something huge stuck up his.

The hair that he has is kind of reddish, although there's not much of it. He is tall, wears a bowtie and has glasses. I do like the women on the show however.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I LOVE Jacques Pepin. He is like a kindly French grandfather who happens to make scrumptious food. He makes it look so easy and is not an elitist at all about ingredients. I do find his daughter Claudine slightly annoying though.

You know who really annoys me? Christopher Kimball, that tall bowtied geek host on America's Test Kitchen (the TV version of Cook's Illustrated). I hate the way he says "mmm" when tasting something.

Is he the guy with blonde hair? Yeah, he's freakin' annoying and comes off as a complete ass with something huge stuck up his.

The hair that he has is kind of reddish, although there's not much of it. He is tall, wears a bowtie and has glasses. I do like the women on the show however.

It looks brown, maybe he dyes it. But yeah it's him for sure.