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    May 15, 2012

    The Food Network's Invention Hunters Is Predicated on a Bigger Lie Than Most Food Shows

    Each week, we take a quick, cautious look at food TV. This week, Invention Hunters, a half-hour show about hunger in America, Mondays at 9 p.m. With Invention Hunters, the Food Network returns to a genre it's had much success with in the past, the Tumbledown Effort Outside Our Core Competency That ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Dumb Food Show Easter Unwrapped Is as Adorable as a Baby with a Peep Stuck to Her Head

    Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going with food TV. This week, Easter Unwrapped, an hour show that never hurt anybody, April 7 on the Cooking Channel It would be a crime to critically review Unwrapped, to lay any sort of smothering blanket upon this innocent show, which films fac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2012

    Rachael's Vacation: When Rachael Ray Pretended to Visit San Francisco's Restaurants

    ​Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Rachael's Vacation, a half-hour show you didn't hear about from me, Fridays at 4:30 a.m. on the Food Network. Rachael Ray has 31 television shows and a line of car wax. I try to know as little as p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    The Sandwich King Is Not Especially Informative about Sandwiches or Royalty

    Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Sandwich King, a half-hour show about the Black Plague, Sundays at 11 a.m. on the Food Network. Jeff Mauro, former stand-up comic, is the Sandwich King, but how he ascended to nobility I know not. I fear ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Food Hoarders Is Pretty Much Regular Hoarders, Just with Food

    Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Stuffed: Food Hoarders, a one-hour special that sours as you watch it, Feb. 11 and 12 on the Cooking Channel. Kudos to the Cooking Channel for showing food in as disgusting a light as possible, and for pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    Food TV: Bobby Deen Has a Show Because His Mom's Food Is Unhealthy and Terrible

    Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Not My Mama's Meals, a half-hour psych pop quiz, Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on the Cooking Channel. In Not My Mama's Meals, the Cooking Channel convinces Paula Deen's son Bobby to remake her death-food in a ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    Guy Fieri's Ridiculous TV Man-Fort: A Helpful Breakdown

    Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. Have you seen Guy Fieri's kitchen-fort on Guy's Big Bite? I love this guy. Here are some photos from the set. ​ Le grand kitchen-fort. Go ahead, whisper "Awesome sauce." See how that feels.

  • 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 13, 2011

    Food Jammers: The Only Mumbly Canadian Foodie Mythbusters-Like Show You Need

    ​ Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Food Jammers, a half-hour show about our Canadian overlords, Thursdays at 10:30 p.m. on the Cooking Channel. When you first heard the MythBusters cannonball went errant last week, wasn't your lif ... 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 4, 2011

    Sandra Lee in Cher Drag, New Developments in Ramen: This Week in Food Bloggery

    Generik11/SF Weekly Flickr pool ​Highlights from the blogs: 1. Michael Leaverton begins his new series of TV reviews with a flash of smoke and a cackle: It's the Sandra Lee Halloween special! Sandra Lee as Cher, Sandra Lee as Mad Hatter, Sandra Lee knocking back the cocktails. 2. Noodlespotter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    Sandra Lee's Ridiculous Halloween Special: All the Hard Drinkin' Highlights

    ​Do you remember how Joe Camel got into trouble for making cigarettes look like a fun thing for kids? This is a recap of Sandra Lee's Food Network special Sandra's Halloween Wonderland. The Nightmare Before Christmas The beginning is largely preamble, with Sandra waking up on a lawn, disorien ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    A Celebrity Chef Roundup, Moms Fight Back Against Foodie Culture

    ​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media.1. All About the Celebrity Chefs. This week has brought a number of (actually) interesting interviews with big chefs. For instance, Eater National interviewed David Kinch about the sta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    How We Ate and Drank in 2010

    alex.shultz/FlickrThe rice cooker became an essential appliance in American kitchens.​Our favorite morsel from the Web. The only thing dumber than most end-of-year food trend roundups are New Year predictions, micro-predicting things like the rise of lovage, Indonesian long pepper, or lamb bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

    ​Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. SFoodie Pissy. Rant. Session.: Now that the weekend's events are over, let it be said: Could there be a better way to piss off editors than to name an even "SF Chefs. Food. Wine."? Though it clocks a mere four words, SF C.F.W. seems way to ... More >>

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