Iron Chef America. Hell Yes.
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wolven7I love cooking shows. I always have. Ever since i first saw "Yan Can Cook," on PBS, when i was very small, i've loved cooking shows. My grandmother taught me how to cook. My father taught me how to cook. I Love Cooking, and anyone who can cook well.
I like Gladiatorial battles. I'm not going to bother explaining that.
I first saw Iron Chef, in the original Japanese, in my Junior year, in Highschool, in my Japanese class. I was immediately entranced. Combination of the Gladiatorial, and Cooking. Gladiatorial Cooking. Awesome.
Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters, has three of America's top chefs, against two of the Iron Chefs, from Japan. Sakai Hiroyuki and Morimoto Masaharu, versus Mario Batali, Wolfgang Puck, and Bobby Flay. And, in that last name, lies the show's failing, if it is to have a failing. Bobby Flay.
I don't like Bobby Flay, as a chef. His food choices annoy me, and his manner is one of arrogance, impudence, and disrespect. Morimoto-san once said, after their second fight, "He is not a chef. Did you see that? At the end, he stood on his cutting board." And he had done exactly that. You can stand on your counter. in your sink. Hell, stand in your fucking Stove, if you want, and are willing to get burned. But not where you cut your fucking food, man.
He just equivocated that "He didn't mean to stand there," and "didn't know that" the cutting board is sacred. Pay attention. Man. That he won that second battle was... odd.
Anyway, enough of the bad. More of the good. The Announcer, for ICA, is one of my favourite American chefs, period. Someone who can make anything interesting, and anything explainable. The announcer is native Atlantan Alton Brown, of "Good Eats." If you haven't seen the show... Wow. The man is awesome. He explains the reasoning behind Everything he does, because his attitude is "If you don't do this, you'll fuck up. Don't Fuck Up." Only less harsh :) He has a good bit of sarcasm, and humour, about him, and satire. It's awesome. I could think of no one better suited for the role of Culinary Announcer.
I am, over all, pleased with the choices. Very Pleased. I might have chosen Tyler Florence, instead of Flay, but Flay does add that aspect of tension.
Yes, i'm going to watch it.
{10.04pm: Mark Dacascos As Kaga's Nephew!! YES!!}
I like Gladiatorial battles. I'm not going to bother explaining that.
I first saw Iron Chef, in the original Japanese, in my Junior year, in Highschool, in my Japanese class. I was immediately entranced. Combination of the Gladiatorial, and Cooking. Gladiatorial Cooking. Awesome.
Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters, has three of America's top chefs, against two of the Iron Chefs, from Japan. Sakai Hiroyuki and Morimoto Masaharu, versus Mario Batali, Wolfgang Puck, and Bobby Flay. And, in that last name, lies the show's failing, if it is to have a failing. Bobby Flay.
I don't like Bobby Flay, as a chef. His food choices annoy me, and his manner is one of arrogance, impudence, and disrespect. Morimoto-san once said, after their second fight, "He is not a chef. Did you see that? At the end, he stood on his cutting board." And he had done exactly that. You can stand on your counter. in your sink. Hell, stand in your fucking Stove, if you want, and are willing to get burned. But not where you cut your fucking food, man.
He just equivocated that "He didn't mean to stand there," and "didn't know that" the cutting board is sacred. Pay attention. Man. That he won that second battle was... odd.
Anyway, enough of the bad. More of the good. The Announcer, for ICA, is one of my favourite American chefs, period. Someone who can make anything interesting, and anything explainable. The announcer is native Atlantan Alton Brown, of "Good Eats." If you haven't seen the show... Wow. The man is awesome. He explains the reasoning behind Everything he does, because his attitude is "If you don't do this, you'll fuck up. Don't Fuck Up." Only less harsh :) He has a good bit of sarcasm, and humour, about him, and satire. It's awesome. I could think of no one better suited for the role of Culinary Announcer.
I am, over all, pleased with the choices. Very Pleased. I might have chosen Tyler Florence, instead of Flay, but Flay does add that aspect of tension.
Yes, i'm going to watch it.
{10.04pm: Mark Dacascos As Kaga's Nephew!! YES!!}
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Date: 2004-04-23 07:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Thank you for the compliments :)
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Date: 2004-04-23 07:14 pm (UTC)Yeah I realllllly need those knives as well. If I didn't have a full set of Hinkels I'd have bought them by now.
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Date: 2004-04-23 08:10 pm (UTC)no subject
My impromptu and spontaneous poem for the night...
Date: 2004-04-23 07:25 pm (UTC)is the fucking MAN.
Thank you.
Re: My impromptu and spontaneous poem for the night...
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Date: 2004-04-23 09:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Cooking, when done right, was fucking Made for people with ADD, because there's Always something that needs to be done. Try making a large meal, for a dinner party, in 30 minutes, or less, because you have to leave for a club. Not just leave, but, in that time, you have to be dressed and ready, too. Challenging. Hell, just getting all of your ingredients together, in a timely fashion, so that nothing gets fucked up...
Sometimes, you can't cut something, in advance, or it'll go bad, in the three minute interim. Even in the refidgerator. Or ESPECIALLY in the refridgerator. So it has to be done, immediately, while making sure something Else doesn't burn, and adding it in at the right time. It's a delicate balance of interlocking times.
I like to cook, when i'm frustrated, or angry. It's a focusing tool. Keeps me from going out and hitting things with a hammer, or crowbar.
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Date: 2004-04-26 10:18 am (UTC)...and watch it until our eyes bleed or our livers try to crawl out our esophagae to freedom.
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Date: 2004-04-27 06:32 am (UTC)yup, i miss drinking with you. (even if you -are- a lightweight, you're so much fun while you're still lucid.)
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