worst sounding sushi roll at guy fieri's southern bbq & california style sushi restaurant tex wasabi's

that Kimball interview/article was priceless

oh man that frugal gourmet intro takes me back

― call all destroyer, Thursday, November 15, 2012

I forgot how often his voice squeaked

hahah yes

http://ny.eater.com/uploads/12121231232012_guy_fieri_times_Square1-thumb.jpeg

UPDATE: I asked famous (and restaurant-friendly) Olive Garden reviewer Marilyn Hagerty what she thought of Wells’ critique. The Grand Forks Herald restaurant reviewer hasn’t responded to my email yet. || UPDATE II: She’s too busy to answer emails today. I just read that Anderson Cooper surprised her on his show with a 12-day Mediterranean cruise package. (I didn’t know until now that she’s a show regular.) || UPDATE III: I never did hear from the Guy’s publicist.

Marilyn Hagerty sent this email at 10:03 p.m. Thursday:

Hi Jim …I just now got home from New York where I was on Anderson Cooper show today …We were talking about the combined Olive Garden and Red Lobster under one roof … Something new Darden is doing in small markets…so just for fun I went to Waycross, Ga., and reported on it …

So I haven’t been aware of anything else because I have been on five airplanes the past four days …. The review is very interesting, but I wonder why a person would write a completely negative review. I don’t know what is the point. I guess there are many ways of thinking! Marilyn

http://eater.com/archives/2012/11/15/did-the-nyt-host-a-party-at-guy-fieris-restaurant-last-night.php

watching the Frugal Gourmet, whose popularity peaked in the mid to late eighties, I forgot how most people were just becoming aware of cholesterol and fat.

A 1992 Harper's Magazine article by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison entitled "P.C. on the Grill" ridiculed him as condescending, ill-informed, and for "cloth[ing] consumption in piety."[2] Smith reportedly wept on the air when discussing this article, which he called "so profoundly hurtful I didn't know what to do."

really need my gf to come home so she can tell me how we access the harper's archive

Marilyn Hagerty being the Samurai of Good Feeling.

there are totally exceptions but having spent a long time in the restaurant industry and knowing ppl that have spent even longer, there is definitely a certain system in place that seems to encourage abusive and tempermental behavior

otm

I guess there are many ways of thinking! Marilyn

when in doubt about a man's true intentions, look at his beard

Never have truer words been spoken, etc.

the frugal gourmet was my dad u_u

here's another clue for you all
Jeff Smith was my pa

"show me on this knobby summer squash where the pbs chef touched you"

the barefoot contessa was my au pair

i once won $50 off ming tsai in a card game

My village was slaughtered by General Tso.

wouldn't surprise me matt.
do tell?

― Everybody did shit, art happened! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, November 15, 2012 3:39 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

forks i don't wanna really blow up a bro's spot w/specific incidents. but i take his word for it, he's an impeachable bro & total pro.

l-r

Christopher Kimball, Christopher Kimball

http://www.shockya.com/news/wp-content/uploads/peabody_and_sherman.jpg

these old frugal gourmet clips are a trip; i don't think 6-year-old me registered how weird this guy was.

every dish was first cooked for him by some little old lady in a boring part of the country!

the frugal gourmet seems like part of a hangover from some 70s/early 80s culture that really isnt around anymore

i can't really define it but i'd include things like early genesis album covers and your family having an entire cabinet full of dinner plates designed to look hand-thrown

same thing that begat owls on everything and overwhelming walls of houseplants?

basically the impression that lots of people would have rather lived in hobbiton

the frugal gourmet seems like part of a hangover from some 70s/early 80s culture that really isnt around anymore

the same hole from whence Out of Africa came!

i baked a pie in afreecah

It's this thread all over again imo: WORST of the Best Picture Oscar Noms (Only The '80s Edition)

"Let's get away from bacon and eggs and all that cholesterol....so let's choose something healthier, from the American South: biscuits and gravy!"

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, November 15, 2012 3:47 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes this is amazing. so 80s!

the galloping gourmet was something else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czrj4yJm6z0

leading off your show with suicide stats is 0_0

xp My parents had one of his books - they never cooked a single recipe from it.

my dad used to confuse the frugal and galloping gourmets

"fruggalloping gourmet" sounds like a pre-AIDS badge of honor

tbf they seem easily confused

something something donkey sauce

and don't even mention Edie Gorme

"Frugalloping Gorme at the Anvil -- 1 a.m. Sat.

i have a vintage copy of the joy of cooking that i like to read as if the recipes were borges stories. because if i made any of them the amount of butter they recommend in everything would kill me in a week

i wonder if mark bittman is a dick? i love the book "How To Cook Everything"

The first words from my mom's copy of the Better Homes & Gardens Better Homes Cookbook: "Barbecuing has become an American way of life -- a time to relax, perhaps to get outdoors, and to enjoy 'doing' with the whole family. Most importantly, Mom gets to rest!"

mark bittman is surely a dick

but I happen to agree with him a lot, which makes him the best kind of dick

that's usually infallible advice

dick bittman

man bitts dick

Actually, he was a beast in the kitchen and some of the stuff I overheard him say to the waitstaff is stuff I'd be too embarrassed to post here so you may actually be right. He's still awesome though. When he's not in the kitchen.

― ENBB, Thursday, November 15, 2012 3:34 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

having worked in both kitchens and in ORs, i can tell you that the general ~vibe~ is v often similar

mum has lots of great 70's cookbooks where chinese cooking is a ~new thing~
like *amaze your guests with your exotic flavors of the orient at your next dinner party with Women's Weekly's 'Beef With Black Bean Sauce'*

Jeff Smith just said: "Remember not long ago when we called all pasta 'macaroni'?"

iirc even garlic was considered somewhat exotic in the pre-70s Midwest.

until about 10 years ago mum had a jar of MSG in her spice rack (it had an expiry date of 1985 so I don't think she'd used it for a looooooong time, lol)