Daytime Emmys: Food Network Pulls in Eight, ‘Everyday Italian’ Nets Three

Bobby Flay, Boy Meets Grill, Chefs A' Field, Everyday Italian, Food Trip with Todd English, Giada De Laurentiis, Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie, Ina Garten, Lidia's Italy, Nigella Express, Semi-homemade Cooking With Sandra Lee, TV Food Shows, Todd English
01 May 2008 Yesterday the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the 35th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Award Nominations. For anyone living in a cave, this in the American television industry's highest awards and seperate from the Evening Emmys which concentrate on the big network prime time shows, these are for ... well, as they say, "daytime" TV, everything from the soap operas to animated cartoons, from kid shows to heavyweights like "The View" and "Oprah" to game shows, and include some (not all) synidcated programming and cooking shows. Our interest here of course is anything mentioned in regards to ... {More...}

Philadelphia’s Chefs, Food, Finally Getting the Attention They Merit

Bobby Flay, Eric Ripert, Feature, Georges Perrier, Masaharu Morimoto, Michael Mina, Star Restaurants, Wolfgang Puck
08 Apr 2008 ©2008 Harry Kenney I've been working on this article for a week or so now. Funny thing, it started out as talking about two cities, Philadelphia in the US and Vancouver in Canada. Why? Because to me both are excellent food cities and yet both have not gotten the respect they deserve from the culinary world. So while different, they have much in common; additionally, I didn't think I'd have enough to write on each city by themselves (again, why is that? From being ignored or underplayed in the food press.) I'm a Philadelphian myself and ... {More...}

How the Food Network has Grown … and Changed and is Changing Again

Alton Brown, Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis, Ina Garten, Mario Batali, Paula Deen, Rachael Ray, Sandra Lee, TV Food Shows
27 Mar 2008 It's been a couple weeks since the Newsday article came out about the beginnings of and current trends of the Food Network ... It's also about a couple weeks before Food Network turns it's eye inward and covers itself in one of it's own Chefography episodes on ... yes, the Food Network. So at this in between time, let's take a peek at that Newsweek article and explore where FN started and is going. Nope, changed my mind. Want the history lesson, then best to read the article. It's nice to know how things were and who was ... {More...}

‘Grill It!’ with Bobby Flay Coming in July — And You Can Cook with Him

Bobby Flay, Contests, Grill It!, News, TV Food Shows
25 Mar 2008 It's always interesting writing these things down here when I have more than one item. You see, while you're reading "backwards", that is my most recent post to my previous-to-that-by-one post, I'm going "forward" ... Eh, you get it. Anyhow, depending on how I'm writing or the way you're reading, you just read about the April, May and June new cooking shows on the Food Network. Well this one makes number four and the following consecutive month of July. But I've seperated this from the other three for a couple big reasons. One, this is Bobby Flay, the ... {More...}

Churchill Downs Taps Bobby Flay as Kentucky Derby Party Chef

Bobby Flay, Event, News
18 Mar 2008 Did you know Iron Chef Bobby Flay owns horses? Neither did I. Seems he got into horse racing a while back and yes, so much so he has his own. One thing Bobby Flay and I have in common, we've both done Kentucky Derby Party's for years. That's right, back in the '80s there was a group of us that ranged from 8 to as many as 20 people who would have a Kentucky Derby Party each year, complete with Mint Julips, food on the grill and watching The Race. With the 134th running of the ... {More...}