Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Food/Home/DIY, Programming, OpEd So I woke up this morning and I thought to myself, "you know what we need more of on television? Food competition shows! 27 just isn't enough, we need a 28th." Then I saw the preview for Food Network's new show Chopped , which debuts...

Want some great vegetarian recipes but don’t know where to go? Maybe you’re looking for vegetarian Thanksgiving ideas? Well check out the 10 recipe sites below — their wealth of ideas won’t leave you disappointed! 1.  Vegetarian Times Vegetarian Times magazine is a fun read,...

So I was sitting in my little burrow on Saturday morning around 9:45, wearing my pajamas, watching a DVR'ed episode of General Hospital: Night Shift from a couple weeks back, and contemplating the day ahead of me. I had just followed up my extremely healthy yogurt and granola breakfast with a chaser...

If you're in Sitka, Alaska tonight then please join me, my friends, and colleagues to watch me judge Iron Chef America! No, really! Iron Chef Bobby Flay battles Chef Gabrielle "Breastfeed This, Bitch" Hamilton! Michael "Fluffy" Ruhlman and Karine "Va-va-va-voom"......

Once I discovered Project Runway I was hooked. To me, this was the best of what reality TV could offer -- not some bozos swapping spouses or seeing how long they could stay on an island -- but a real test of skills and grace under pressure. So it was a natural progression that I would be hooked on T...

Since it’s been suddenly so hot here, we’ve all been a bit more active at night than usual. And during the day, we’ve been sprawled on the couches watching a bit of the Food Network - the Canadian one, but we do get a lot of American shows. Doesn’t matter, we snark ‘em ...

Or "The One Where Adam Got Sent Home" (mark my words).*** I really should have turned this into a drinking game. But I just haven't bothered to outline how! So some rough guidelines: Once for any time somebody says something stupid (like TC4 Andrew's "culinary boner" comments)Once for any time someb...

Happy July 4th!  Now, with that out of the way… My sister Tania was at the Nathan’s Hot Dog eating competition today.  She was happy with the result, I was rooting for Kobayashi.  Oh well.  My roommate was rather disgusted by the whole thing.  Me?  I found myself REALLY wanting a h...

Once a show like the Next Food Network Star starts dwindling down its number of contestants, you begin to see quickly who really knows what they are doing.  These last couple of weeks we have finally gotten a good handle on who knows their food, who has the culinary chops and who has the personalit...

I may be off by an ep or two, but by my estimation we're about at the halfway mark with The Next Food Network Star. Last week we lost the divalicious Nipa. Based on how our remaining lovely contestants have been doing, this is my best guess at who is ripe for elimination, starting with the most like...