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‘Journalist’ Flubs Up Attack On Iron Chef America
Like Christopher Columbus Robert Sietsema of the Village Voice has discovered something millions of people already knew about - that TV shows aren’t always what they seem.
Wow.
Sietsema had the good fortune to watch a taping of Iron Chef America and once he saw what television was all about he attacked with the vengeance of [...]
Emeril Gets ‘Owned’ By Martha Stewart
From CNN:
“The New York-based media and merchandising company founded by domesticity maven Martha Stewart announced Tuesday that it bought the rights to the Emeril Lagasse franchise of cookbooks, television shows and kitchen products for $45 million in cash and $5 million in stock at closing.
The final price could rise to up to $70 million if [...]
St Pete Times: Food Network Chef Lied About Credentials
The St Petersburg Times is reporting that Robert Irvine, the host of Food Network’s Dinner:Impossible has lied about his credentials and experience including claims that he has a degree from Leeds University and worked on Charles and Di’s wedding cake.
One scathing accusation:
Irvine’s bio on his own Web page lists a B.S. degree in food [...]
No Recipes Or Celebrity Chefs? Is Michael Booth Crazy?
Maybe, maybe not.
In an article appearing in today’s Belfast Telegraph journalist Michael Booth warns us not to follow recipes or listen to celebrity chefs.
His assertion is that “recipes don’t work”. His credentials? A year of cooking school. What’s he selling? A book that has recipes in it.
By his own admission before Michael went to cooking [...]
USDA Issues Largest Beef Recall In U.S History
The U.S. Department of Agriculture today issued a recall for 143 million pounds of beef that came from a slaughterhouse that was already under investigation for cruelty to animals.
I highly recommend you follow this recall closely through the mainstream media until the facts become clear. This evening there still seems to be some confusion as [...]
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Greetings, I hope your holidays are going as well as ours. Foodwise the gloves are off today, which is just as well considering we hit our daily allotment of calories and fat at breakfast (especially satisfying because we’ve made everything ourselves).
So we’re off to watch our annual marathon of holiday classic films.
Until next time, [...]
Roasted Chestnuts and Hot Buttered Rum
Two Christmas ‘standards’ we’ve tried.
Chestnuts Roasted On An Open Fire Oven
I have to admit I approached the chestnuts project with great anticipation. I love the concept of the ‘old fashioned not quite so glitzy’ Christmas and roasted chestnuts sounded like something right out of Dickens. As it turned out tho this was a huge [...]
Viewer Mail - Key West Mollete? It’s the Picadillo!
I was curious if being familiar with the keys you might know about a place we got stuffed cuban bread from when I was very young…maybe about 1974-1976? It was filled with some kind of a ground beef mixture that was out of this world, the place was very small and had maybe two booths. [...]
Kitchen Warfare’s Cuban Bread (Tampa Style)
Background
The problem is I am addicted to Cuban bread. Blame that on the fact that I was born, raised and lived in Tampa, FL for 40 years. My grandfather’s house was in old Ybor City on 26th Ave, just down from Tampa’s premier Cuban bread producer, La Segunda Central Bakery and as a [...]
On The Road With Kitchen Warfare (Day 8)
This was mostly a really boring driving day, once again on the dreaded I-75. We got a few chores done before leaving town for our 13 hour drive home and I doubt I would have even mentioned today if the nicest thing hadn’t happened.
We ran out of gas (us, not the car) in Georgia [...]
