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May 2, 2012
Cupcake Wars: The Problem With a Cupcake Show Is That It's a Cupcake Show
Each week, we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with food TV. This week, Cupcake Wars, an hour-long show about one thing, over and over, until death comes, Sundays at 8 p.m. on the Food Network. Cupcake Wars has been on the air just two years, but they're already finishing up their fif ... More >>
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April 17, 2012
On Trisha's Country Kitchen, Trisha Yearwood Can't Stop Proving How Damn Country She Is
Each week, we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with food TV. This week, Trisha's Country Kitchen, a half-hour show of executives laughing at us, Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. on the Food Network. Trisha Yearwood is a two-time cookbook author with a new show on the Food Network about souther ... More >>
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February 21, 2012
Worst Cooks in America: A Hater's Guide
Each week (except last week) we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Worst Cooks in America, a one-hour documentary about Arizona, Sundays at 9 p.m. on the Food Network. The premise Imagine a competition in which the worst cooks in America -- let' ... More >>
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February 3, 2012
Top Chef Casting Calls Coming to SF
Each week (except last week) we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Worst Cooks in America, a one-hour documentary about Arizona, Sundays at 9 p.m. on the Food Network. The premise Imagine a competition in which the worst cooks in America -- let' ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
Top 5 YouTube Cooking Shows
Big news in the food world: Food Network exec Bruce Seidel is jumping ship for YouTube's new food channel. Considering that the internet seems like it might be here to stay, it's probably not a terrible idea. While Bruce is most likely pondering YouTube's food channel future, we'd like to humbly ... More >>
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January 24, 2012
Rachael vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off: The Food Network Craps Out
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Rachael vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off, a one-hour show about the debt ceiling, Sundays at 9 p.m. on the Food Network. There used to be only A and B-list celebrities, divided by movies and television. Then te ... More >>
Blogs
December 20, 2011
The Food Network Show So Cruel and Dumb Even They Aren't Re-Running It
Food Network has no images from this show available, so here's some trophies from the strip-mall bar ofsadness Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Mystery Diners, a half-hour show you will never see again, on the Food Network or anywh ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2011
Have Cake, Will Travel: If Fail Were a TV Show About Cakes
Not your best choice, even at 4 a.m.Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Have Cake, Will Travel, a half-hour show about reaching for the bottom, Fridays at 4 a.m. on the Food Network. Dear Food Network, So it's four in the morning, ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2011
Chef Hunter Would Be Better if the Food Network Actually Hunted Chefs for Sport
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Chef Hunter, a one-hour show that does not take place on a private island, Thursdays at 10 p.m. on the Food Network. In Chef Hunter, unemployed chefs show up at the door of an important restaurant (like ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2011
Food TV Weirdness: Guy Fieri's Best Thing I Ever Made
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what is going on with televised cooking. This week: The Best Thing I Ever Made, a half-hour show about the end of the world, Sundays at 11:30 a.m. on the Food Network. The premise of Best Thing is simple: Each episode, a handful of chefs cook thei ... More >>
Blogs
July 12, 2011
"Famous Food" on VH1: Guilty pleasure
As we watched a real New Jersey housewife fight with a fictional New Jersey Big Pussy, we realized celeb-reality has officially taken over food TV. VH1's "Famous Food" is the latest food show to pop up on a previously non-food channel, a trend the Los Angeles Times wrote about recently. Th ... More >>
Blogs
June 20, 2011
Top Chef: The Tour Quick-Firing at Embarcadero
Jonathan KauffmanThe Top Chef Tour's San Francisco stop.Bravo TV trailers and "Top Chef" tents have colonized Justin Herman Plaza this morning. Is Bravo flash-filming a segment for the next series? Is Traci Des Jardins throwing a semi-celebratory Top Chef Masters gala? No -- it's the Top Chef Tou ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2011
Top Chef Masters: Nostalgic Finale Edition
Bravo TVHost Curtis Stone checks in with San Francisco finalist Traci Des Jardins.Last night brought the finale of Bravo's Top Chef Masters and our SF-based Traci Des Jardins was in it to win it. On the line was $100,000 for the cheftestants' charity of choice. For those of us rooting for the ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2011
Top Chef Masters: Traci Des Jardins Hosts Her Own Party
Carina OstWatching Top Chef Masters from Public House. SFoodie got word that cheftestant Traci Des Jardins would be having a Top Chef Masters viewing party at her casual dining joint, Public House. It was, of course, open to the public, so we headed down there for a seat at the bar. The sound of ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2011
The 8 Sexiest Women on TV Cooking Shows
Last week SFoodie brought you the hot and hunky men of food television. Today, the companion post so hot it'll melt your listicle, their sultry female counterparts, the women you've watched tying up your meat, sizzling your pot, and making you run your Tivo in slow-mo. We give you the eight sexiest ... More >>
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April 6, 2011
The 8 Sexiest Men on TV Cooking Shows
Producers of food TV don't just care if a guy can cook ― most stars of cooking shows these days have to be hot enough to make viewers' plasmas sweat. Behold, SFoodie's countdown of the eight sexiest male chefs currently taking up space on our DVRs, dudes with the power to sear our tenderloins with ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2011
Bring On the Finale Already: Top Chef: All-Stars Is Down to the Final Two
BravoTVTop Chef's boys' club...We are still in it, and the real season finale for Top Chef: All-Stars is still not even upon us. Let the torture stop and the recap begin! Last night's Quickfire Challenge was the Quickfire of all Quickfires. The cheftestants each got to assign a Top Chef Quic ... More >>
Blogs
March 17, 2011
Last Night's Top Chef: All-Stars Was All Conch, No Balls
usmagazine.com Padma's flotation devices can't even keep this series above water.We thought we were out, but we got reeled back with a determination to finish what we started ― i.e., this awfully boring season. Last night's Top Chef: All-Stars was entitled "Island Fever" and it was fitting ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2011
Top Chef Loses a Fan, San Francisco Sweets Gain THC
What's missing from this season's Top Chef? A little San Francisco magic, maybe.Highlights from the blog this week:1. Carina Ost, our Top Chef chronicler, may be a devoted fan of the cooking show, but her patience with the series is wearing out. Quickfire, Bravo! Time to re-season this show. Mayb ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2011
Top Chef: All-Stars, Week 10: Ironing Chef
Delfi Jingles/FlickrCookie Monster: "C" is for "kooky."Last night's Top Chef: All-Stars began with Dale mouthing off. "I'm not like these new-school parents who are like 'we're all winners' ― f@ck that. That's bullshit, man! Who ever said losing is okay? In what country is that cool?" In ... More >>
Blogs
December 2, 2010
Top Chef: All-Stars: Festival of Losers Brings the Heat
BravoTVEx-Absinthe chef (and former Top Chef loser) Jamie Lauren.Last night was the premiere of Top Chef: All-Stars, and it was also the first night of Chanukah. For those of you un-chosen folks, you celebrate the first night by lighting the shamash (helper candle) that will light the first c ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
My Moment with Yigit: The View from Top Chef's Victory Bash
Catherine BergstromThe author, in full-on gush mode with Pura.Since Episode 1 of Top Chef: Just Desserts, I've been rooting for San Francisco cutie-pie cheftestant Yigit Pura. We admit it: The boy's rosy cheeks, dimples, well-thought-out desserts, and overall sweetness make me gush. So last ... More >>
Blogs
September 30, 2010
Top Chef: Just Desserts, Week 3: It Was Glee All Over Again, Minus the Britney Crazy
1weddingsource.comIt's Sylvia, bitch!Was the Britney Spears Glee episode this week not sweet enough for you? Top Chef: Just Desserts tried to carry out the same overhyped (school) spirit on last night's episode. Unfortunately, both Glee and Top Chef were misses compared to last week's crazine ... More >>
Blogs
September 16, 2010
Top Chef: Just Desserts, Episode 1: The Good, the Bad, and the Bitchy
Bravo TVPretty boy swag: Taste Catering's Yigit Pura.Following Kevin asking "I am?" seconds after being told he was Season 7's Top Chef last night, thereby restoring some reality-show dignity to New Jersey (it's taken a beating from the Housewives and Jersey Shore kids) something oh-so-sweet ... More >>
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August 11, 2010
When You're Here, You're Family
Bravo TVPretty boy swag: Taste Catering's Yigit Pura.Following Kevin asking "I am?" seconds after being told he was Season 7's Top Chef last night, thereby restoring some reality-show dignity to New Jersey (it's taken a beating from the Housewives and Jersey Shore kids) something oh-so-sweet ... More >>
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July 15, 2010
Morimoto Napa Opens Today. Relive Some of the Iron Chef's Greatest TV Moments
Food NetworkMorimoto in his Iron Chef Japan fighting days.Masaharu Morimoto debuts Morimoto Napa today, an event so momentous that Inside Scoop took the time and care to assemble a dossier on the topic and Eater SF has the pretty pictorial and menu. We instead would like to salute this newcom ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2010
DVR Alert: Humphry Slocombe on New Food Network Show Outrageous Food
Tamara PalmerGotta get there early for Fetal Kitten.Frozen dessert wonderland Humphry Slocombe is featured on Outrageous Foods, which has its premiere tomorrow night on Food Network. Hosted by Aaron McCargo (Big Daddy's House), the program focuses on the wildest eats in the country, beginning ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2010
What Would Brian Boitano Make ― with Sardines?
T. PalmerBoitano filming an episode of his Food Network series at Precita Park.Amy Sherman of Cooking With Amy recently interviewed Bay Area Olympic and World Figure Skating gold medalist Brian Boitano about his street-food adventures, wine preferences, and Food Network series What Would Bria ... More >>
Blogs
October 29, 2009
Melissa Perello of the Castro's Long-Awaited Frances: The SFoodie Interview
Melissa Perello was born in Nutley, N.J., lived in Houston, and went to cooking school in upstate New York, but San Francisco is where the 32-year-old chef formed her restaurant bones. She arrived here fresh from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., to gig with mentor Michael Mina a ... More >>
Blogs
October 8, 2009
Sorry, Chris: Chefs vs. City = Massive Fail
Food NetworkChris (left), we love you, bro, but tell us there isn't going to be a Season Two.We bow to no one in our love for chef Chris Cosentino. Incanto is on the short list of S.F. restaurants that (a) we unfailingly recommend to others, and (b) gladly spend our own money at. We're still ... More >>
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July 6, 2009
TiVo Alert: Bi-Rite Creamery on 'The Best Thing I Ever Ate'
Bi-Rite Creamery's Banana Split.If you think the line is bad now, just wait! Bi-Rite Creamery (3692 18th at Dolores) takes a star turn on tomorrow night's "Sugar Rush" episode of Food Network's The Best Thing I Ever Ate."Sugar Rush" airs on Tuesday, July 7 at 9:30 p.m.; Wednesday, July 8 at 12:30 a. ... More >>
Blogs
June 25, 2009
Ideas for Replacing TyFlo's Still-Missing Fork
Food NetworkWe're pretty sure it's been eating at you in those quiet moments, like when you wake up at 3 a.m. and just can't drift off to sleep again: Tyler Florence's ginormous fork is still missing from the sign of his Mill Valley tchotchke emporium. Fans of the Marin native and incandescent Food ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2009
Season Six of 'Next Food Network Star' to Hold Open-Call Auditions Here
Kim in Cajun Country/FlickrNo, this isn't the real Guy Fieri, just a wannabe like you.Admit it: You bust out your Guy Fieri moves in front of the full-length when nobody's home. In July, you'll have a chance to do it where it counts -- in front of a Food Network casting agent. On July 26 at the W ... More >>
Blogs
June 12, 2009
Boulevard Chef Calls Lineup for Tomorrow's Great American Food and Music Fest 'Interesting'
bernardus/FlickrNancy Oakes: Fearing a throwdown?Nancy Oakes told SFoodie she's not sure what to expect at tomorrow's Great American Food and Music Fest, the sprawling Shoreline event that brings together Food Network personalities, local chefs, and rock bands. The chef and owner of Boulevard is doi ... More >>
Blogs
June 12, 2009
Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends
Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Flayed: At Chez Pim, ambivalence about the lineup at tomorrow's Great American Food and Music Fest (a mashup of Food Network stars and actual chefs) bubbled over into a sticky brown goo. Pim? Totally stoked -- she called it the place to be this S ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2009
Upcoming Great American Food and Music Fest Features Bobby Flay, Guy Fieri, Marshall Crenshaw, Little Feat, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy -- and an Astounding Array of Eats
There'll be plenty for both foodies and music lovers to enjoy at the Great American Food and Music Fest, a one-day event running from noon to 10 p.m. on June 13 at the Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mountain View.Chef and Food Network star Bobby Flay is the host, and will demonstrate his famed grilling te ... More >>
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February 11, 2009
Vittles du Video
Throughout my television-viewing life there have been certain programs that I've obsessed over, planned my schedule around, discussed with my fellow zealots over water cooler and barstool and, in short, made a point to watch without fail, but nowadays there's only one show I can't live without, Top ... More >>
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February 11, 2009
Casting Call: Bobby Flay Wants The Bay Area's Best African-American Grillers
Rock Shrimp has been casting the second season of the Food Network's Grill It! with Bobby Flay for more than a month now. The New York-based production company is now specifically looking on Craigslist for local African-Americans (who "appear to look between 21 and 45") with the ability (and reci ... More >>
Blogs
August 3, 2008
Scoop! Rachael Ray to Air Show on East Bay – In Seven or Eight Months!
Rock Shrimp has been casting the second season of the Food Network's Grill It! with Bobby Flay for more than a month now. The New York-based production company is now specifically looking on Craigslist for local African-Americans (who "appear to look between 21 and 45") with the ability (and reci ... More >>
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February 13, 2008
Coolio In The Kitchen: 'It's Time To Cook Biatch!'
Rock Shrimp has been casting the second season of the Food Network's Grill It! with Bobby Flay for more than a month now. The New York-based production company is now specifically looking on Craigslist for local African-Americans (who "appear to look between 21 and 45") with the ability (and reci ... More >>
Blogs
August 21, 2007
Rory, JAG-off, and Amy: the Surprise 'Next Food Network Star, Season Three' Ending
Rock Shrimp has been casting the second season of the Food Network's Grill It! with Bobby Flay for more than a month now. The New York-based production company is now specifically looking on Craigslist for local African-Americans (who "appear to look between 21 and 45") with the ability (and reci ... More >>
Blogs
August 21, 2007
Rory, JAG-off, and Amy: the Surprise 'Next Food Network Star, Season Three' Ending
Rock Shrimp has been casting the second season of the Food Network's Grill It! with Bobby Flay for more than a month now. The New York-based production company is now specifically looking on Craigslist for local African-Americans (who "appear to look between 21 and 45") with the ability (and reci ... More >>
Blogs
August 20, 2007
SFoodie: Top Chef, Hell's Kitchen, No Reservations Analyzed
Rock Shrimp has been casting the second season of the Food Network's Grill It! with Bobby Flay for more than a month now. The New York-based production company is now specifically looking on Craigslist for local African-Americans (who "appear to look between 21 and 45") with the ability (and reci ... More >>
Blogs
August 20, 2007
SFoodie: Top Chef, Hell's Kitchen, No Reservations Analyzed
Rock Shrimp has been casting the second season of the Food Network's Grill It! with Bobby Flay for more than a month now. The New York-based production company is now specifically looking on Craigslist for local African-Americans (who "appear to look between 21 and 45") with the ability (and reci ... More >>
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May 9, 2007
Knives Out
Rock Shrimp has been casting the second season of the Food Network's Grill It! with Bobby Flay for more than a month now. The New York-based production company is now specifically looking on Craigslist for local African-Americans (who "appear to look between 21 and 45") with the ability (and reci ... More >>
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November 29, 2006
Bewiched
A top chef expands his brand, and we follow
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