Top Chefs

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None of the media chefs for me thanks. I was/am classically trained, spending time in Le Cordon Bleu in Paris in the late 80s as well as 3 other schools in the 90s and don't really care for what they are and what they stand for. A few of them like to say they attended "culinary" schools and I get a smile out of that.
If I could I would spend some time with Auguste Escoffier as well as Antoine Careme. They are the fathers of fine cooking to me. As for media chefs, before she was one, Julia was a fantastic cook from what I've seen and heard. So it would be interesting to meet her.

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None of the media chefs for me thanks. I was/am classically trained, spending time in Le Cordon Bleu in Paris in the late 80s as well as 3 other schools in the 90s and don't really care for what they are and what they stand for. A few of them like to say they attended "culinary" schools and I get a smile out of that.
If I could I would spend some time with Auguste Escoffier as well as Antoine Careme. They are the fathers of fine cooking to me. As for media chefs, before she was one, Julia was a fantastic cook from what I've seen and heard. So it would be interesting to meet her.

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Of course not Yahtzee. This is a good time. I can see why some of the people would want to spend time with Giada De Laurentiis. Her grandpa was a famous director. Plus she's really pretty. She's known as the boob chef cause of the clothes she wears.
Paula Deen just cracks me up. She is what she is. Take her or leave her. Seems like a fairly normal southern cook. Her back story is interesting too.
There was one a few years ago. I can't remember his name. He was forced off the air, I think he was mostly PBS, for "handling" young boys. Or something like that. But was supposed to be a hell of a cook.

btw, I am by no means a "top chef". But thanks for the offer.

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Of course not Yahtzee. This is a good time. I can see why some of the people would want to spend time with Giada De Laurentiis. Her grandpa was a famous director. Plus she's really pretty. She's known as the boob chef cause of the clothes she wears.
Paula Deen just cracks me up. She is what she is. Take her or leave her. Seems like a fairly normal southern cook. Her back story is interesting too.
There was one a few years ago. I can't remember his name. He was forced off the air, I think he was mostly PBS, for "handling" young boys. Or something like that. But was supposed to be a hell of a cook.

btw, I am by no means a "top chef". But thanks for the offer.

well, out of 7 posts prior to your last one, you were the focus of 5 of them.

apparently you should have a word with the Food Network about obtaining your own show.

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Anthony Bourdain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2945SHlFIk

Tetsuya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkQ9T1W16ww

I'd pick Bourdain out of those 2, for sheer entertainment value.

If he was still alive, Keith Floyd would have to be right up there too.

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chefkathleen wrote: "There was one a few years ago. I can't remember his name. He was forced off the air, I think he was mostly PBS, for "handling" young boys. Or something like that. But was supposed to be a hell of a cook."

You're thinking of Jeff Smith who did a show called "The Frugal Gourmet." He wrote a number of cookbooks as well, most, or maybe all of them with "Frugal Gourmet," somewhere in the title. He left PBS in 1997 after being accused of sexual abuse of teenage boys.

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Robert Irvine all the way great chef and what a body that man has Mmmmm I bet he cooks in all kinds of ways! English too and I love English men those sexy hunks....

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Graham Kerr - The Galloping Gourmet (from the 1960s) This guy was hilarious and always drinking wine while cooking.

Kerr was born in London, and his parents were established hoteliers. As a result, much of his childhood was spent among some of the most outstanding chefs of Europe. Educated at the independent school Brighton College, he became trainee manager at the Roebuck Hotel in East Sussex, England, when he was just fifteen years old. After five years in the British Army as catering adviser, Graham became General Manager of England's Royal Ascot Hotel.

Kerr moved to New Zealand in 1958, becoming chief chef catering adviser for the Royal New Zealand Air Force. It was there that his media career began in the early 1960s: his recipes were delivered on radio and in magazines, and a related book, Entertaining with Kerr, sold out its first edition in eight days. He moved into television with the emergence of the new medium in New Zealand, after being recruited by NZBC producer Shirley Maddock.

Later The Galloping Gourmet, a show named for Kerr's onscreen persona, was taped in Ottawa at CJOH-TV and produced by his wife Treena Kerr. The origin of his "Galloping Gourmet" persona stemmed from a 1967 book he co-authored with wine expert Len Evans, The Galloping Gourmets. They got their nickname from a 35-day worldwide trek to the finest restaurants around the globe. The title was echoed in the opening of each episode of his original North American series, filmed in front of a live audience, where Kerr entered the stage area by running in and leaping over a chair in the dining room set.

The series was known for its lighthearted humour, tomfoolery and the copious use of clarified butter, cream and fat. Indeed, Graham's most famous line on the show might have been his response to someone's criticism of his cooking: "Madame, you could go outside and get run over by a bus and just think what you would have missed!" Graham also liberally featured wine, serving it with most meals, drinking it while cooking, using it in his dishes, and waxing poetic about its virtues. In an ongoing feature of the show, Kerr would make his way into the audience as the closing credits began and select an audience member (usually female) whom he would invite onstage with him to enjoy whatever dish he had just prepared. During The Galloping Gourmet's successful run, Graham became a worldwide sensation, wrote an abundance of cookbooks, and earned two Emmy Award nominations. One particularly amusing episode featured Kerr making the British dessert known as "Spotted Dick."

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Hmmm good thread...

For current tv personality chefs, I'd like to hang with Guy Fieri

For good ol' southern food, give me Paula Deen

For quality Cajun food, I'll take Paul Prudhomme or Justin Wilson or John Folse

For sex, I'll take Chef Kathleen...oops, that doesn't belong here.

For the most part the cooking that really hits me where it counts; in the stomach. My mom's chicken and dumplings. My dad's brisket. In fact, just about anything my dad cooks is as good as most any meal I've had in any restaraunt.

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Quote by lafayettemister
Hmmm good thread...

For current tv personality chefs, I'd like to hang with Guy Fieri

For good ol' southern food, give me Paula Deen

For quality Cajun food, I'll take Paul Prudhomme or Justin Wilson or John Folse

For sex, I'll take Chef Kathleen...oops, that doesn't belong here.

For the most part the cooking that really hits me where it counts; in the stomach. My mom's chicken and dumplings. My dad's brisket. In fact, just about anything my dad cooks is as good as most any meal I've had in any restaraunt.

I loved Justin. Shu-ston. As he used to say. And Paul is a good one too.

I'll cook you up a mess o these any 'ol time.