Favorite TV/Internet Chef/Cook

yeah, it's kinda hard to have a thread like this and not mention Jacques Pepin. I was gonna be mildly annoyed if nobody else had. dude was Charles de Gaulle's personal chef. the recipes I've tried are simple and utterly sublime.

as Shulkie said, anything PBS has is great. I love PBS, and it's the only other channel I would watch if we could pick it up on the HDTV antenna. (we did the whole Netflix only, drop cable thing a few years back.)

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maybe that's an unconscious tribute to how good the food is? no time for chit chat, gotta dig in ASAP!

Posh Nosh

Oh man, yeah. I actually thought their food looked kind of terrible a lot of the time, due more to things like lighting and production values and whatnot, but they were definitely fun to watch. They seemed like genuinely funny, nice people who loved to go around cooking for special events. Especially youth groups.

That's Mrs. Snape's mom. Whenever she comments on what a nice and sweet grandmother she is to Baby Snape, it's always to say, "That is not the woman I grew up with!"

I've read his memoir and seen him on Chopped as a judge, but I've never experienced his cooking, neither through his cookbooks nor his restaurants. What would you say are his strengths as a cook?

This can also be blamed on editing, but Marcus has always struck me as a dick. I think he has an interesting story and I bet his food is amazing, but whether on Chopped or more likely Top Chef Masters, he always seemed to me like someone I wouldn't like in person. Can't quite put my finger on it.

Yeah, I went to see him speak and in one-on-one encounters before the event he (very subjectively) seemed to me to have a bit of diva-esque personality. But the talk itself was very captivating.

Went to Red Rooster last time we were in NYC, and really enjoyed it. If you like a little live music, there's a jazz club in the basement and the menu is available down there, well worth it if that's your kinda thing. 

I've been watching a few eps every night after dinner and I'm laughing harder than I do at some of the comedies I watch. The souffle ep has a very frisky Child constantly needling Pepin and it's hilarious.
"Oh, what cheese is this? Such an unusual color."
"Eet's an Eenglish sheddair."
"The English have such strange cheeses."
"Duh you like eet?"
" . . . No."
I don't know why, but Child's bluntness had me laughing for a long time. I am a nerd.

Oh my god. That's amazing.

YES HE IS I AM EXCITE.

er, ahem. sorry.

Will it be on Food Network again, or his own? I remember him saying he was doing an online/streaming show that was basically Good Eats, but that they couldn't call it that because Food Network owned that name.

According to Brown, the show – officially titled Return of The Eats – will be a half-hour format. It will air on Food Network, of course, but there will be bonus footage shot just for web too.

To say I can't wait is a bit of an understatement.

EDIT: -shakes his tinyfist™ at SnapeBro-

I watched the first episode this weekend and thought it was, I dunno, okay? I'm confused by the concept, since there was absolutely nothing ugly about the food in the episode (pizza). And also I generally dislike David Chang as a presenter. I've no doubt his food is good - I know is ginger scallion sauce is good - but Chang as always struck me as a huge dick. Maybe a great chef, but someone who would be completely insufferable to be around, and this episode of television didn't convince me of anything different. I might actually hate him.

I don't know if I find him to be a dick, but I find him to have no personality. He seems bland, and like he doesn't want to be in front of the camera. When he's supposed to have enthusiasm toward something (like whatever show it was on Netflix with him cooking with other chefs), it seems like he's indifferent. While I've never gotten a chance to dine at any of his restaurants, I don't doubt he's an amazing chef. But I don't tend to like him as a host.