Who's your favorite TV chef...
 

I was liking Ming for a while but his stuff is too complicated. Then it was Lydia and her homestyly Italian but it was a little plain. After that I liked that South American chef for a while but the ingredients are too bizzare.

Then, I tuned in to New Scandanavian cooking and decided very quickly that Tina Nordstrom had the right mix of simplicity and ease of preparation. And the stuff she makes makes me hungry.

New Scandanavian Cooking is great, if just for the scenery. The couple of times I watched, it's beautiful weather.

I like Bobby Flay's Grill Meets Boy, especially the beginning when he does his food shopping. Almost makes me want to move to NYC.

I like Paula Deen. But my all-time favorite was Graham Kerr, The Galloping Gourmet. I watched his show all the time when I was a kid. Some of the funniest stuff ever. :)

I haven't watched a cooking show in forever.... so I'm gonna go with Masaharu Morimoto.

Alton Brown and "Good Eats"

Have enjoyed the Paula Deen magazine and would love to catch a show...

Alton Brown! His show is just so clever!

Alton Brown, definitely. I can't stand Bobbie Flay, Emeril, Rachel Ray, Sara Moulton, or any of the Food Network stars. I can put up with watching The Barefoot Contessa, but that's about it.

Favorite of all time has to be Julia Child, of course.

Oh, and The Galloping Gourmet, but only when he was still drinking. After he sobered up and found God, he was far less entertaining.

Yan Can Cook was entertaining for a while, but the whole Jackie Chan style of cooking gets tired really quickly.

And I always suspected Jaques Pepin of faking his accent.

You guys are gonna think I'm nuts but I've never heard of Alton Brown.

I need to check him out apparently. I'm scratching my head at how I have never seen his show???

Alton has a website: http://www.altonbrown.com/

I have "I'm just here for the food."

If you like Alton Brown, you might also like the Cooking for Engineers website: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/

Both have kind of a scientific bent to cooking.

I also liked The Frugal Gourmet until they found out that this former minister was also a pedophile.

Seconded, Frugal was very cool.

I have a wonderful Christmas book by Jeff Smith. Too bad.

I couldn't stand him before we found out he was a pedophile/ephebophile. He was always too self-righteously smug.

Alton ROCKS !!!!!

Nigela Lawson is fun to watch .

I will have to check out that sweedish cook .