@iluvmingos Same. His Good Eats series is what got me interested in cooking, and I’ve heard he’s an incredibly funny guy off camera that cusses like a sailor.
@duodec he’s always been that way. You’ve just never seen it in full force since all of his previous shows (except cutthroat kitchen) were very scripted. He’s very sarcastic and snarky and a total smart ass and frankly I adore him more now than ever. I’ve liked him since the original good eats and my husband and I have watched feasting on asphalt, all of the Thanksgiving live shows (where some of his snark came out accidently but he mostly reined it in) and all of the iron chef shows because of him. He actually talked on QQ about having to alter his personality a bit for tv and curb the language because it was more palatable for the network execs because they didn’t think the cooking channel/food network viewing public would watch a smart ass being a know it all (totally paraphrased).
My husband got us tickets to see him live in the eat your science tour and omg I was over the moon for months before and after. It was so good
@baqui63@ivannabc@RiotDemon I admittedly prefer Good Eats AB. I recall a tweet he made during early Cutthroat Kitchen seasons when a fan asked him, and he said that Cutthroat Kitchen was acting, and Good Eats AB was closer to himself. I don’t doubt the snark and sarcasm have always been there; you could see it even then. Just surprised by some of the ‘amplification’ of it on QQ.
Feasting on Asphalt was wonderful! First one was the best but both of the cross country ones were classic! I’ve got the DVDs. I still regret that it didn’t continue (reportedly because Diners Drive-ins and Dives “sucked all the oxygen” out for that type of show).
I contact Food Network every year asking them to make new Thanksgiving Live shows, and show the previous year ones (off prime time is fine, making them available on on-demand); my favorite parts every time were AB, and then AB and Giada bouncing off each-other. Good Eats Thanksgiving shows, Night Before Good Eats, and The Cookie Claus are my absolute favorite episodes.
We also went to an Eat Your Science show here in illannoy, and it was awesome!
@baqui63@duodec omg there were sooooooooo many hateful comments about his reactions on worst cooks. admittedly, i thought he was kind of…overly bitchy at times but he’s no worse than anne has been at times. it’s like they said “ok alton you can take off the gloves and be yourself on this show” and he took them at their word. i used to work with a chef like him who was from germany. he had me rolling all the time because he was constantly saying these incredibly sarcastic and hilarious things but his humor was so dry no one else knew if he was joking or being serious. i’m not dry or witty but i am sarcastic and i love and appreciate that type of sense of humor. maybe it’s like beer: either you like and appreciate it or you don’t.
@baqui63@ivannabc I’m not much of a watcher for the shows he ‘hosted’ or narrated. I watched some episodes of Iron Chef America but he couldn’t save it for me relative to Iron Chef. I’ve seen maybe 20 episodes. Its ok.
Cutthroat Kitchen I gave up on early. I grew up in a fairly cooperative family, went to schools that welcomed competition but always always with clear honor and sportsmanship, and was peripherally involved in local muscle car culture in Las Vegas and shitcagoland; you lend a competitor a tool or a part, you help them if they have a failure, because odds are they’d do the same for you.
I guess thats some old fashioned shit now. The shows that feature the sabotaging and backbiting (not Iron Chef America) just make me sad. If I’m competing with someone I want to beat them at their best, or what’s the point?
@duodec yeah i get what you’re saying. watching people try hard to screw over the competition is an acquired taste. you know, schadenfreude and all that. not everyone has the mean, nasty, evil gene. But I’m a scorpio so…there’s that…
Personally, I wouldn’t want to compete in anything like that but I spent enough time playing video games online that I can shit talk with the best of the but that feels different somehow. you know?
Anthony Bourdain, RIP.
Who doesn’t love grilled meat on a stick from a street vendor, hammered at 2am in some strange city where you don’t understand a lick of the local language?
@mike808 I watched Bourdin eat lower intestine in Africa once. I remember him saying it still had some filling in it for flavor. miss the guy. I could watch his programs constantly if I needed to watch TV that much.
@mvalleeis That would be a dish HE would cook, not me! (I’m OK to pretty good with pancakes and PB&J, but those two would not cut it with most chefs in a job application).
@andyw or you could make something together like they do on those awkward segments on talk shows. José actually has a great one of these that he did with Colbert at the beginning of quarantine! It’s up on YouTube, if you haven’t seen it.
I’m not into fancy food. Pretty mundane, but I’d like to be at Rachael Rae’s house when it is mealtime, if she really cooks like that for her family. When I watch her TV show, everything looks scrumptious.
(Not that I think we would be BFFs She seems to be pretty celebrity conscious.)
@phendrick Funny, my friend’s son and his fiancé were just on her show two days ago. I knew they were supposed to be and I happened to turn around at work just in time to randomly catch the segment on the tv in our waiting room.
Vivian Howard, Kinston NC; the chef and the farmer restaurant; PBS A chefs life. She takes one local ingredient and waves her magic wand and does marvelous things!
@2many2no If you liked the food/recipes, look for John Folse’s shows. His approach is more historical and gives background on where the dishes and recipes come from.
It’s been said above but not like this: How the fuck is Alton Brown not on that list? Maybe I’m giving him too much credit but without him food TV doesn’t become the thing that it is and I don’t get to recognize three, maybe three and a half names off that incomplete list above.
Of the someone else voters, I’m going to mentally count those as 50% Alton, 40% Bourdain, and 10% someone else.
This night would have been a real hoot. I’ve been there, but not in this esteemed company:
/youtube Alton Brown Anthony Bourdain Clermont Lounge
I watch a loooooot of cooking tv and YouTube videos and I’ve never heard of three of those people. But you leave off Alton, Giada (hands down one of if not the loveliest chef alive), Bobby flay, Michael Symon, Wolfgang puck and so many other amazing ones? Weird list.
I would LOVE to meet masaharu morimoto and Chen kenichi. They were always my favs on iron chef
@bayportbob The guy’s a New Jersey Carpetbagger hack and Bourbon Street barker rolled into one. Yeah, he learned at Commander’s, and that place was always pretentiousness incarnate. It was never the people’s food. It was always the people who used to own people’s food.
@ahacksaw@bayportbob
He is renowned only because of what he learned from Paul Prudhomme and then bastardized and tarted it up for TV. He’s still a hack. Who looks a lot like he’s from Jersey.
@bayportbob I’ve eaten at a few of Emeril’s restaurants & even met his head chef down in Las Vegas @ Delmonico Steakhouse. (Our waitress asked where we were from. When we said we were from ND, she mentioned the head chef was as well. He came out & greeted us. He said we had just missed Emeril by one day.) I’ve always liked Chef Lagasse and I’ll guarantee these naysayers that Food Network wouldn’t even be a blip on the radar screen without the great Emeril Live show. Always had FANTASTIC meals at his restaurants & I will gladly go back to any of his branded locations!!
I’m gonna give away my age but I remember the Frugal Gourmet on PBS, Jeff Smith was a good one and I can’t forget Martin Yan of Yan Can Cook was delightfully funny and entertaining. Not sure if either is still around the cooking circles
@mike808@pskemp2 Yeah, it was new in 2018, and nice for seeing various regions of China. More of a travel show than the earliest ones, I think - but boy, it’s been a while since he first got started.
@mike808@pskemp2 He’s good but he doesn’t have that zany manic energy that Yan has. One guy I really don’t like is Nick Stellino. I’m not a fan of Lidia Bastianich, either. Italians are known for being warm and ebullient, but those two both seem like chilly fish to me. Lidia’s improved her manner since when she started, but it doesn’t seem authentic.
@Kyeh@pskemp2 YES! I loved watching both of them! i have several of the frugal gourmet cookbooks. i dig food history and he always puts lots of history stuff in his books
Guy Fieri just shot a few episodes of Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives here in my hometown area (Fargo, ND & Moorhead, MN) this past month. I’m curious to see how they turn out, though I’m not sure when they are to air. I wasn’t able to attend any of the tapings, but I talked to a few people who said he was super nice, signing autographs & joking around just like you see him on TV. He & his crew spent two full days here…
@tohar1 he’s done some restaurants here, and I’ve been told he was nice, but they dealt mostly with his crew until shooting time.
I still find him incredibly annoying.
A few years back I spent an unplanned night in Fargo on a road trip (I had no route in mind when I left home). I general look for places to drink beer, not restaurants, so I ended up eating a weird sausages at Würst Bier Hall.
@craigthom Wurst has 2 locations in town. Did you go to the one downtown or the one in West Fargo? Both are really good, but the downtown location kind of has the “dive” mentality, while the West Fargo is slightly more upscale (at least in comparison). I really like the place, but for the best beer you have to try Junkyard Brewery in Moorhead if you’re ever up this direction again. Fantastic microbrews!!
perhaps morbid but, anthony bourdain. i often daydreamed about me and my friends running into him and his crew some night, and convincing him to have “just one” drink with us at whatever club night we were lingering outside.
if i had to choose someone among the living, i think the most fun would be with action bronson & friends for fuck that’s delicious.
Since the wife is a big fan of this Weight Watcher guy: The Guilt Free Gourmet
I must admit, his recipes are pretty good, and he is fun to read as well. I think he seems like a genuinely interesting guy.
While I don’t dislike Gordon Ramsy and know who David chang is. And love Alton Brown. And some how know who all the extremely pretty women up there are…
@unksol OH MY GOD i never even thought about red green but heck yes. he is at the top of my list for celebs i want to meet. that show is exceptional and hilarious
With all the people talking about Bourdain, I’m surprised no one has mentioned Eric Ripert. He and Bourdain were great friends. He was my favorite judge on Top Chef, gave credit where credit was due and was appropriately critical when warranted.
@mtb002 Seconded. Watching the HBO series Treme and both Eric Ripert and David Chang come across as more themselves than the script or acting. Given they were in the middle of running world-class restaurants at the time the series was made, their participation was very generous. Especially towards New Orleans as a food destination, despite what Alton Brien says about regionality in the Hot Ones video above.
Wendy and her tasty tasty spicy nugs.
@FrostByte
“Hot 'n Juicy” didn’t just name itself.
Alton Brown.
@iluvmingos he seems so personable and has some fun quarantine YouTube videos
@iluvmingos Same. His Good Eats series is what got me interested in cooking, and I’ve heard he’s an incredibly funny guy off camera that cusses like a sailor.
@iluvmingos agreed!!!
Until very recently I’d say Alton Brown; I think I’d still pick him but he’s gotten kind of snippy on the QQ streams.
@duodec I think he’s been snippy for a while. I don’t mind it that much though.
@duodec he’s always been that way. You’ve just never seen it in full force since all of his previous shows (except cutthroat kitchen) were very scripted. He’s very sarcastic and snarky and a total smart ass and frankly I adore him more now than ever. I’ve liked him since the original good eats and my husband and I have watched feasting on asphalt, all of the Thanksgiving live shows (where some of his snark came out accidently but he mostly reined it in) and all of the iron chef shows because of him. He actually talked on QQ about having to alter his personality a bit for tv and curb the language because it was more palatable for the network execs because they didn’t think the cooking channel/food network viewing public would watch a smart ass being a know it all (totally paraphrased).
My husband got us tickets to see him live in the eat your science tour and omg I was over the moon for months before and after. It was so good
@duodec, what @ivannabc said… pretty much spot on. If you don’t like sarcasm, Alton Brown will rub you the wrong way.
@baqui63 @ivannabc @RiotDemon I admittedly prefer Good Eats AB. I recall a tweet he made during early Cutthroat Kitchen seasons when a fan asked him, and he said that Cutthroat Kitchen was acting, and Good Eats AB was closer to himself. I don’t doubt the snark and sarcasm have always been there; you could see it even then. Just surprised by some of the ‘amplification’ of it on QQ.
Feasting on Asphalt was wonderful! First one was the best but both of the cross country ones were classic! I’ve got the DVDs. I still regret that it didn’t continue (reportedly because Diners Drive-ins and Dives “sucked all the oxygen” out for that type of show).
I contact Food Network every year asking them to make new Thanksgiving Live shows, and show the previous year ones (off prime time is fine, making them available on on-demand); my favorite parts every time were AB, and then AB and Giada bouncing off each-other. Good Eats Thanksgiving shows, Night Before Good Eats, and The Cookie Claus are my absolute favorite episodes.
We also went to an Eat Your Science show here in illannoy, and it was awesome!
EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!
@baqui63 @duodec omg there were sooooooooo many hateful comments about his reactions on worst cooks. admittedly, i thought he was kind of…overly bitchy at times but he’s no worse than anne has been at times. it’s like they said “ok alton you can take off the gloves and be yourself on this show” and he took them at their word. i used to work with a chef like him who was from germany. he had me rolling all the time because he was constantly saying these incredibly sarcastic and hilarious things but his humor was so dry no one else knew if he was joking or being serious. i’m not dry or witty but i am sarcastic and i love and appreciate that type of sense of humor. maybe it’s like beer: either you like and appreciate it or you don’t.
@baqui63 @ivannabc I’m not much of a watcher for the shows he ‘hosted’ or narrated. I watched some episodes of Iron Chef America but he couldn’t save it for me relative to Iron Chef. I’ve seen maybe 20 episodes. Its ok.
Cutthroat Kitchen I gave up on early. I grew up in a fairly cooperative family, went to schools that welcomed competition but always always with clear honor and sportsmanship, and was peripherally involved in local muscle car culture in Las Vegas and shitcagoland; you lend a competitor a tool or a part, you help them if they have a failure, because odds are they’d do the same for you.
I guess thats some old fashioned shit now. The shows that feature the sabotaging and backbiting (not Iron Chef America) just make me sad. If I’m competing with someone I want to beat them at their best, or what’s the point?
@duodec yeah i get what you’re saying. watching people try hard to screw over the competition is an acquired taste. you know, schadenfreude and all that. not everyone has the mean, nasty, evil gene. But I’m a scorpio so…there’s that…
Personally, I wouldn’t want to compete in anything like that but I spent enough time playing video games online that I can shit talk with the best of the but that feels different somehow. you know?
Matty Matheson
Anthony Bourdain, RIP.
Who doesn’t love grilled meat on a stick from a street vendor, hammered at 2am in some strange city where you don’t understand a lick of the local language?
@mike808 As long as it isn’t bat.
@mike808 @rtjhnstn It was probably bat…
@rtjhnstn @shahnm
/giphy savage
@mike808 @rtjhnstn @shahnm Heck, to hang out with Bourdain would mean chumming around with a zombie, and then eating monkey brains together…
Still would prefer that over any of the others on the list. Among the living: Guga or possibly Nigella Lawson.
@mike808 I watched Bourdin eat lower intestine in Africa once. I remember him saying it still had some filling in it for flavor. miss the guy. I could watch his programs constantly if I needed to watch TV that much.
Mike Haracz seems like a cool dude.
Umm … let’s see … I’m a Dude so the OBVIOUS Choice HAS TO BE … Giada De Laurentiis!!
@IndifferentDude Beat me to it… Couldn’t have said it better either :’D
@IndifferentDude I know. Total heartbreaker. No chance tho…check out that rock!
@IndifferentDude she is my dad’s favorite too. I like her but not for the same reasons lol
@IndifferentDude oh yeah. great picture.
@tweezak Actually, she got divorced 5 yrs. ago; currently dating but not married (yet).
/giphy anything’s possible
She’s hot, but could be hotter if her head were even more gigantic.
@zachdecker Never trust a thin cook - they don’t believe in their product
@IndifferentDude That’s right! I seem to remember Bobby Flay being involved. I’m not stalking. My wife told me.
@ManBehindPlan @zachdecker Who said anything about cooking?
José Andrés, as he is apparently a great cook and is a humanitarian who is generous with his time and money.
@andyw he would be my choice, as well. He just seems like such a fun and genuine guy. It would be awesome to talk with him over a delish dish.
FOOLS! TOOLS! JEWELS! AWESOME!
@mvalleeis That would be a dish HE would cook, not me! (I’m OK to pretty good with pancakes and PB&J, but those two would not cut it with most chefs in a job application).
@andyw or you could make something together like they do on those awkward segments on talk shows. José actually has a great one of these that he did with Colbert at the beginning of quarantine! It’s up on YouTube, if you haven’t seen it.
@mvalleeis Thanks!
CHEF FROM SOUTHPARK NO QUESTION.
@markkorn you don’t even know his name??
@markkorn @unksol chef is his name. The actor who voiced him is Isaac Hayes and not chef lol
@ivannabc @markkorn sigh… His name. Not the actor. Chef the characters name. Is Jerome McElroy
https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Jerome_"Chef"_McElroy
@markkorn @unksol i was just being a smart ass and trying to be funny. not that shocking, it fell flat (see comment above about me not being witty)
I’m not into fancy food. Pretty mundane, but I’d like to be at Rachael Rae’s house when it is mealtime, if she really cooks like that for her family. When I watch her TV show, everything looks scrumptious.
(Not that I think we would be BFFs She seems to be pretty celebrity conscious.)
@phendrick Funny, my friend’s son and his fiancé were just on her show two days ago. I knew they were supposed to be and I happened to turn around at work just in time to randomly catch the segment on the tv in our waiting room.
Bourdain!
It would be a tie between Rachael Ray and Alton Brown. Maybe Guy Fieri. That would be a fun trio!
I don’t know half the people on that list.
@sammydog01, haha! That’s the only chef I know here.
@njfan I would serve pasta and cookies.
@njfan @sammydog01 I mean. I don’t get the joke but… I could go for some pasta and I guess cookies
/giphy Muppets swedish chef
@eonfifty hurdeeee hurdee hurrrrr.
@eonfifty my parent’s friends from Sweden DO NOT like the swedish chef lol
@ivannabc
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@eonfifty @ivannabc have they even tried his food?
Vivian Howard, Kinston NC; the chef and the farmer restaurant; PBS A chefs life. She takes one local ingredient and waves her magic wand and does marvelous things!
Back in the day, Justin Wilson.
/youtube Justin Wilson a little wine for me
@2many2no
I gah-ron-tee it’s gonna be good!
He was quite the raconteur. I have a soft spot for Alfonse and Pierre jokes.
His recipes were the real deal - Bayou Cajun, not New Orleans Cajun. As long as you measure dat real careful now.
@2many2no If you liked the food/recipes, look for John Folse’s shows. His approach is more historical and gives background on where the dishes and recipes come from.
I’ve been watching Paik Jong-Won’s channel lately. He seems cool and down to earth.
Alton Brown!!
Chef Boyardee
@tweezak zisheetalacan.
Ina Garten.
It’s been said above but not like this: How the fuck is Alton Brown not on that list? Maybe I’m giving him too much credit but without him food TV doesn’t become the thing that it is and I don’t get to recognize three, maybe three and a half names off that incomplete list above.
Of the someone else voters, I’m going to mentally count those as 50% Alton, 40% Bourdain, and 10% someone else.
This night would have been a real hoot. I’ve been there, but not in this esteemed company:
/youtube Alton Brown Anthony Bourdain Clermont Lounge
Based on the stars now it’s more like 60/30/10.
I watch a loooooot of cooking tv and YouTube videos and I’ve never heard of three of those people. But you leave off Alton, Giada (hands down one of if not the loveliest chef alive), Bobby flay, Michael Symon, Wolfgang puck and so many other amazing ones? Weird list.
I would LOVE to meet masaharu morimoto and Chen kenichi. They were always my favs on iron chef
/youtube now we feast Alton brown
Marcus Samuelsson. Also Rachael Ray and John Cusimano
Julia Child. Though her voice grated on me, she was an amazing person.
Hanging out with her might be problematic now.
emeril. not so pretentious.
@bayportbob The guy’s a New Jersey Carpetbagger hack and Bourbon Street barker rolled into one. Yeah, he learned at Commander’s, and that place was always pretentiousness incarnate. It was never the people’s food. It was always the people who used to own people’s food.
@bayportbob @mike808 Hard to be a New Jersey hack when you’re from Fall River, MA.
@ahacksaw @bayportbob
He is renowned only because of what he learned from Paul Prudhomme and then bastardized and tarted it up for TV. He’s still a hack. Who looks a lot like he’s from Jersey.
@bayportbob I’ve eaten at a few of Emeril’s restaurants & even met his head chef down in Las Vegas @ Delmonico Steakhouse. (Our waitress asked where we were from. When we said we were from ND, she mentioned the head chef was as well. He came out & greeted us. He said we had just missed Emeril by one day.) I’ve always liked Chef Lagasse and I’ll guarantee these naysayers that Food Network wouldn’t even be a blip on the radar screen without the great Emeril Live show. Always had FANTASTIC meals at his restaurants & I will gladly go back to any of his branded locations!!
Another vote for Alton Brown! He’s a doll! I love him!
Mary Berry.
@ahacksaw omg yes! i love her!! she always seems so nice
I’m gonna give away my age but I remember the Frugal Gourmet on PBS, Jeff Smith was a good one and I can’t forget Martin Yan of Yan Can Cook was delightfully funny and entertaining. Not sure if either is still around the cooking circles
@pskemp2 Yeah, I love Martin Yan.
@Kyeh @pskemp2
Yan is still around with Spice Kingdom onn the PBS CreateTV channel. Who knows if it was an old series warmed over, though.
https://createtv.com/show/Yan-Can-Cook-Spice-Kingdom
@mike808 @pskemp2 Yeah, it was new in 2018, and nice for seeing various regions of China. More of a travel show than the earliest ones, I think - but boy, it’s been a while since he first got started.
@Kyeh @pskemp2
Simply Ming with Ming Tsai seems to hit a nice vibe with some nice pairings with other notable chefs.
@mike808 @pskemp2 He’s good but he doesn’t have that zany manic energy that Yan has. One guy I really don’t like is Nick Stellino. I’m not a fan of Lidia Bastianich, either. Italians are known for being warm and ebullient, but those two both seem like chilly fish to me. Lidia’s improved her manner since when she started, but it doesn’t seem authentic.
@pskemp2 I admit I adored Jeff Smith (pre-scandal ) and the Frugal Gourmet back then too!! Good stuff.
@moonhat I didn’t know there was a scandal, now there goes my morning, lost down a rabbit hole of inquiry
@Kyeh @pskemp2 YES! I loved watching both of them! i have several of the frugal gourmet cookbooks. i dig food history and he always puts lots of history stuff in his books
@moonhat ohhhh i had forgotten about that
@Kyeh @mike808 haha, zany manic energy is right!
Guy Fieri just shot a few episodes of Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives here in my hometown area (Fargo, ND & Moorhead, MN) this past month. I’m curious to see how they turn out, though I’m not sure when they are to air. I wasn’t able to attend any of the tapings, but I talked to a few people who said he was super nice, signing autographs & joking around just like you see him on TV. He & his crew spent two full days here…
@tohar1 he’s done some restaurants here, and I’ve been told he was nice, but they dealt mostly with his crew until shooting time.
I still find him incredibly annoying.
A few years back I spent an unplanned night in Fargo on a road trip (I had no route in mind when I left home). I general look for places to drink beer, not restaurants, so I ended up eating a weird sausages at Würst Bier Hall.
@craigthom Wurst has 2 locations in town. Did you go to the one downtown or the one in West Fargo? Both are really good, but the downtown location kind of has the “dive” mentality, while the West Fargo is slightly more upscale (at least in comparison). I really like the place, but for the best beer you have to try Junkyard Brewery in Moorhead if you’re ever up this direction again. Fantastic microbrews!!
perhaps morbid but, anthony bourdain. i often daydreamed about me and my friends running into him and his crew some night, and convincing him to have “just one” drink with us at whatever club night we were lingering outside.
if i had to choose someone among the living, i think the most fun would be with action bronson & friends for fuck that’s delicious.
Padma Lakshmi
@macromeh I don’t know who she is,.but I’m sold.
Since the wife is a big fan of this Weight Watcher guy:
The Guilt Free Gourmet
I must admit, his recipes are pretty good, and he is fun to read as well. I think he seems like a genuinely interesting guy.
Scott Conant. He’s my celebrity chef bro crush.
Giada De Laurentiis because she is pretty bangin and adorably tiny.
How can you not pick Alton Brown?
Would have been Anthony Bourdain, but maybe later. For now, Batali, you know he parties.
@Tystix parties? How’d those sexual harassment allegations pan out?
@RiotDemon @Tystix
Mario parties? Did Anthony give him some ink in Kitchen Confidential?
@Tystix Anthony Bourdain “later”? In the afterlife or something?
@Kyeh yes.
@RiotDemon I don’t stalk people enough to know.
@Tystix it was kind of a big deal. He sold all his restaurants to his partner.
Another vote for Alton, unless I want eye candy with conversation, then Padma and Gail could join us. Giada would be cool too or Vivian Howard.
While I don’t dislike Gordon Ramsy and know who David chang is. And love Alton Brown. And some how know who all the extremely pretty women up there are…
You’re all WRONG.
@unksol +1 for RedGreen but I’d also accept
Auguste Escoffier as replacement.
@unksol
Red Green!!!
@unksol OH MY GOD i never even thought about red green but heck yes. he is at the top of my list for celebs i want to meet. that show is exceptional and hilarious
@ivannabc he’s better known for other things than his clearly amazing chef skills.
And where the fuck is Claire Saffitz
@unksol Or Brad Leone? I’d hang with him.
Sheesh, all the lechy votes for Giada De Laurentiis - okay, from a female point of view, since Bourdain is gone, I’ll vote for Michael Symon.
@Kyeh I noticed it too. The topic was which celebrity chef you want to hang with, not bang with.
@Kyeh Maybe @OldCatLady or @tinamarie1974 have some celebrity chefs to suggest…
@mike808
I cannot believe no one said Rick Bayless. He is amazing!!
@tinamarie1974 I agree!
Phil Hartman and John Goodman
/image Kevin Belton New Orleans
With all the people talking about Bourdain, I’m surprised no one has mentioned Eric Ripert. He and Bourdain were great friends. He was my favorite judge on Top Chef, gave credit where credit was due and was appropriately critical when warranted.
@mtb002 Seconded. Watching the HBO series Treme and both Eric Ripert and David Chang come across as more themselves than the script or acting. Given they were in the middle of running world-class restaurants at the time the series was made, their participation was very generous. Especially towards New Orleans as a food destination, despite what Alton Brien says about regionality in the Hot Ones video above.
No mentions for Ludo Lefebvre?
Rocking tats, a bad boy in a dad bod.
I like all the guys from Sorted Food but have a bit of a crush on Ben.
@CaptAmehrican Ebbers!!
James is handsome.