‘Grill It!’: Familiar and Delicious Territory with Grillmaster Flay

Bobby Flay, Grill It!, TV Show Reviews
06 Aug 2008 ©2008 Harry Kenney Grill It! with Bobby Flay (Food Network) Television and music have some common elements. Fans of a musician or band may often cry out for some different kind of music. And then it turns out they don't like it when the singer or group departs from their tried-and-true style. Meanwhile another singer or group might just keep cranking out the same-old same-old and the fans are very content with that. Same with television, fans might say "not that again", while still other fans will say "never change, do what you do best. It's what ... {More...}

Midnight Snacks of the Celebrity Chefs

Bobby Flay, Celebrity Chefs, Emeril Lagasse, Jacques Pepin, Mario Batali, Thomas Keller, Videos
03 Aug 2008 A quicky, little video. Celebrity chefs Jacques Pepin, Claudine Pepin, Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, Thomas Keller, Emeril Lagasse and Steven Raichlen fess up to their favorite midnight snacks. Taken at last year's Food and Wine Classic in Aspen. {More...}

NFNS Video Preview: Episode 8

Bobby Flay, Dinner: Impossible, Iron Chef America, Michael Symon, Robert Irvine, The Next Food Network Star, Videos
18 Jul 2008 Here's the video preview of what's happening on this week's episode of The Next Food Network Star on Sunday night at 10pm. The remaining three finalists shoot scripted promos at iconic Las Vegas locations. Then they meet Season Two winner Guy Fieri and are told to each create a lavish buffet for the ultimate Vegas crowd – entertainers from famous Vegas shows and top Vegas chefs. Also new and worthy on Sunday night is a new Iron Chef America where Bobby Flay takes on Gabrielle Hamilton of NYC's Prune. I first saw Hamilton on television during an episode of ... {More...}

What a Weekend – and Week – for Food TV: New Shows, New Episodes

Anne Burrell, Anthony Bourdain, Bobby Flay, Cooking For Real, Emeril Lagasse, Emeril Live, Grill It!, Hell's Kitchen, Masaharu Morimoto, Michael Psilakis, Sara Moulton, Sara’s Weeknight Meals, Secrets of a Restaurant Chef, Sunny Anderson, TV Food Shows, The Next Food Network Star
05 Jul 2008 What a wild weekend and week this is for food shows! Really. It's probably the busiest in quite a while. Why? Changes in shows, brand new programs and new episodes and "seasons" of returning favorites. First, a lot happens tomorrow, Sunday. The first big thing is the premiere episode of a certain Iron Chef's latest cooking show: Grill It! with Bobby Flay How does this new one differ from Boy Meets Grill? Well, first-off Flay put the word out in the Spring he wanted to hear from the best grillers. So each episode features ... {More...}

NFNS Video Recap: Episode 4

Bobby Flay, Michael Symon, TV Show Reviews, The Next Food Network Star, Tyler Florence, Videos
23 Jun 2008 Here's the fourth episode of Next Food Network Star recap video followed by my commentary ... so if you didn't catch it Sunday night and are planning to watch it during one of the repeats this week, don't click. Otherwise, enjoy. With a proviso, ok, a slight reprimand, I'm upping my ratings of this show from three out of five stars to 4 stars. First the reprimand. "Bobby Who?" First the big deal was that Bobby Flay was going to be the host of this show. And that would add a needed consistant element the show has always ... {More...}