Food Network cancels Emeril Live

[Alex]

We were travelling somewhere on a road trip a couple years ago and actually came across a PBS station showing The Lawrence Welk Show. I had to wonder if living a stereotype so fully burns.

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by Alex

Emeril is annoying but at least he cooks on his show instead of visiting restaurants to be told "sorry, secret recipe" or running video press releases for processed food manufacturers.

Yes! I **HATE** Unwrapped!!! It's just a poorly disguised commercial for food products.

"Here's a press person to tell us about this taaaasty treat. Now here are some big machines that do all the work for us so you can't really see what's going on. They add flour, sugar, and the seeeecret ingredient, and process it all where you can't see a damn thing. Now here's a machine that packages the product. We're going to sit on this view the longest because it's the only time anything interesting happens and it shows the company logo repeatedly. Now here's Mark Summers pretending to like all the crap we just talked about."

That, in a nutshell, is Unwrapped.

However, there are a few semi-non-cooking shows that are very good. Dinner Impossible, while it involves cooking, doesn't focus on the food but rather the process of meal prep. That can be fun. I also liked the one where Alton Brown traveled the country on his motorcycle and at at roadside stands.

I am not terribly fond of the American version of Iron Chef. I miss the Japanese quirkiness.