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April 11, 2012
Meat Men Offers TV's Best Meat Porn
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going with food TV. This week, Meat Men , a half-hour show about three male strippers in a Taco Bell, Mondays at 11 p.m. on the Food Network Meat is all-encompassing, all-embracing. Panoptic. When marbled cuts enter the picture all talk of ramps, o ... More >>
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March 6, 2012
The Donatella Project: All We Can Say for Sure after Watching Is That This Awful Show Exists
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: The Donatella Project, a new Dirk Balthazar novel by the Hugo-award winning author of the Sigma Protocol and the Prometheus Deception, on March 10 and 11 on the Cooking Channel. What's the Donatella Pr ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Fat Chef Is 400 Pounds of Bad Food TV
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Fat Chef, a one-hour show about steamed vegetables, Thursdays at 10 p.m. on the Food Network. In another effort to put even more distance between itself and food preparation so skilled it demands to be pu ... More >>
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January 18, 2012
The Food Network Somehow Even Ruins Its Ice-Carving Show
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Ice Brigade, Fridays at 4 a.m. (fuck!) on the Food Network. Ice Brigade is a show about ice carving, and if I didn't like ice carving so much all of a sudden I might have some pretty terrible things t ... More >>
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January 4, 2012
Bama Glama, The Terrible Food Network Show to Hatewatch at 4 a.m.
Bama Glama: One part cupcakes, one part "Break Stuff"Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Bama Glama, a half-hour show not about food, Fridays at 4 a.m. (yes!) on the Food Network. With Bama Glama, the Food Network pivots from food-ce ... More >>
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September 19, 2011
Elizabeth Falkner's Iron Chef Run and Ice Cream Making, and a Moving Farm
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Chef Elizabeth Falkner (Citizen Cake and Orson) will flambé, sauté, and chop her way through the Food Network's Next Iron Chef: Super Chef. Eater SF reports the battle starts Oct. 30. And while that's g ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
Top Chef Alumnus Suvir Saran Speaks About Street Food and (Apparently) Doesn't Hate Beef
Suvir Saran Serves up Street Food (and Then Talks About It) When: Sunday, August 28, noon to 3 p.m. Where: Fort Mason Center Cost: $150 for the whole conference Two facts you may not have known about Top Chef alumnus Suvir Saran: he loves street food, and he doesn't really hate meat. "I'm f ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
Top Chef Masters: Family Ties
We were unsure of how we'd manage without Hugh(nibrow) on Top Chef Masters and for the first episode without him, we were tweezed in two. Luckily, we still managed to stay tuned. For the Quickfire, the cheftestants had to have their cooking station divided and work with a mystery teammate ... More >>
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April 21, 2011
Top Chef Masters: Crickets and Curveballs
Last night's Top Chef Masters was for the crickets -- well, bug eaters. The Quickfire Challenge was to make a five-star dish using bugs and wild plants. Looking at the worms, nightcrawlers, and scorpions, the cheftestants were creepy-crawly freaked out. (The captioning under Alex read, "I can't ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
Top Chef Masters, Week 1: Traci Snarls, La Cocina Wins!
SF CHEFS/FlickrDo not fuck with Des Jardins.We are still suffering from a bit of Top Chef overload, but the new season of Top Chef Masters with new host, format, and judges brought us right back into the world of cheftestants, Quickfires, and knife packings. We tuned in last night for the Sea ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2011
Is Top Chef: All-Stars the Worst Series Ever?
SanFranAnnie/FlickrPack up your knives: Not even Padma can save this series from sucking.The Bahamas, Eric Ripert, the promise of Padma in a bikini: What could bad about the finale of Top Chef: All-Stars? Well, everything. Last night's show was the most boring episode to date. Things began ... More >>
Blogs
November 18, 2010
It's Yigit! S.F. Pastry Chef Wins Top Chef: Just Desserts
Benjamin Seto/Cooking with the Single GuyThe Taste Catering pastry chef topped Morgan the dick and Danielle the face contortionist to take it all.The final challenge in last night's Top Chef: Just Desserts finale was to create a progressive four-course dessert tasting. The twist arrived with ... More >>
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November 1, 2010
Kings of Pastry Opens Nov. 17 at the Balboa
We've become blasé about the endless string of set-pieces chefs build for shows like Food Network Challenge. Fondant-wrapped Disney-themed fright cakes, cupcake towers inspired by Manolo Blahnik heels, sugar glass-molded landscapes with wonky Venetian masks and chocolate fountains that never gus ... More >>
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October 28, 2010
Top Chef: Just Desserts, Week 7: Edge-Of-Your-Seat Excitement Minus the Balls
rocor/FlickrFiercer than Game One at AT&T Park, it was Dessert Wars!Everybody knows the Giants aced Game One of the World Series, but in last night's other competition news, Dessert Wars were on . Top Chef: Just Desserts rolled out a collection of challenge favorites, beginning with the Pastr ... More >>
Blogs
October 11, 2010
Bitchin Kitchen's Nadia G, the Punk-Rock Julia Child
Bitchin Kitchen/FacebookNadia G's Bitchin Kitchen cooking show reecently debuted in the U.S. We had the pleasure of meeting a very bitchin' gal last week. Nadia G had just arrived in town from Montreal for BlogHer Food, where she was speaking on a panel called Be Your Own Food Network. You mi ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2010
The Great Food Truck Race Doesn't Sound So Great
John BirdsallThe owner of Spencer on the Go suggests the Food Network show suffered from casting that was, well, lame.Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Food Gal Carolyn Jung takes the PR call and schedules interview time with Laurent Katgely, the chef and owner of Chez Spencer and Spencer ... More >>
Blogs
June 7, 2010
Is Tom Pizzica the Next Guy Fieri?
John BirdsallThe owner of Spencer on the Go suggests the Food Network show suffered from casting that was, well, lame.Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Food Gal Carolyn Jung takes the PR call and schedules interview time with Laurent Katgely, the chef and owner of Chez Spencer and Spencer ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2010
Hear the DJs Who Inspired Papalote's Triple Threat Burrito at Throwdown Viewing Party
Triple Threat Djs from Vinroc on Vimeo.Bay Area mixing gods Apollo, Vinroc, and Shortkut ― collectively known as the Triple Threat DJs ― are so good at what they do, they inspired the creation of a namesake burrito at Papalote. It's a bundle of delight that in turn inspired an episode of the tel ... More >>
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November 11, 2009
Gallery Food
Triple Threat Djs from Vinroc on Vimeo.Bay Area mixing gods Apollo, Vinroc, and Shortkut ― collectively known as the Triple Threat DJs ― are so good at what they do, they inspired the creation of a namesake burrito at Papalote. It's a bundle of delight that in turn inspired an episode of the tel ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2009
Shoreline Food Fest is an Odd Assemblage of TV Stars, Local Chefs, and Aging Rockers
The Super Bowl of food? Let's hope the half-time show is betterAn unusual group of local chefs, TV food celebrities, and Boomer bands are coming together at Shoreline this Saturday for the Great American Food and Music Fest. "There'll be more deliciousness per square inch than you will find anywhere ... More >>
Dining
July 23, 2008
Orson Not Well
Ambitious, edgy California cuisine flirts with the future in uneven fashion.
Blogs
April 21, 2008
Attention Faux-Hawks: Top Chef Casting Call
Ambitious, edgy California cuisine flirts with the future in uneven fashion.
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October 30, 2007
Gastro Pups: It's All Your Fault Food Network
Ambitious, edgy California cuisine flirts with the future in uneven fashion.
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October 30, 2007
Gastro Pups: It's All Your Fault Food Network
Ambitious, edgy California cuisine flirts with the future in uneven fashion.
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