I've often heard the Food Network referred to jokingly as "food porn". Here's an analysis of the network's offerings that argues that it actually does borrow techniques from porn to make the food more alluring. I find it quite amusing.
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Matt at the Behavorial Ecology Blog is asking for the most perverted queries. His is: "cats as sexual partners." Here are some which have raised my eyebrows:
When I was a kid around 1980 me and my buddies used to
In the new Atlantic, Ross Douthat argues that porn is a moral slippery slope, and is part of the adultery continuum:
Porn is a big business. Every year, Americans spend $4 billion on video pornography, which makes the industry larger than the N.F.L., the N.B.A. or Major League Baseball.
I gotta say, Rachel Ray is kind of a hottie ;)
IlDayo wrote:
But she's so maddeningly perky that you just wanna smack her. Every time she says "YUMMO" or "E.V.O.O." instead of olive oil, it makes me want to strangle a kitten.
Now I have heard everything LOL
"OHhhhh babyyyyy your tongue sandwich excites me" LOL
Ed, what are you REALLY doing when you are making all that BBQ?
Lynn wrote:
LOL. Well, it does involve rubbing the meat. And sometimes even injecting a marinade. Mr. Freud, call your office. We've got a live one.
So that's why my roomie always throws on a blanket and lookls rather guilty when I catch him watching the food network at two am. . .
I love to cook, but mostly the Food Network leaves me cold. I used to enjoy cooking shows, but I haven't seen anything on FN that resonates with me the way Dame Julia did, or the pre-conversion Graham Kerr. And I still miss Jeff Smith (The Frugal Gourmet), even though he brought about his own downfall.
I wish I could remember who it was that I saw on Inside the Actors' Studio, who when asked the standard list of questions said that his least favorite word was "perky." Separated at birth, we must have been.
Hmmm... I wonder if I should be concerned that my wife has filled up the hard drive on our DVR with Food Network shows.
Troy Britain wrote:
Probably all Bobby Flay shows. Lynn has the hots for him too. :)
Alton Brown is my fun guy. Micheal Chiarello on the other hand...soft spoken, Italian, he's my hottie. I really don't watch the other guys unless they are making something I'm interested in. Don't like Emeril, Flay is okey. I like Mario but haven't seen him much.
I watch the popular girls. I like most of Rachel's recipes but Rachel is too perky and gets too repetitive when she tells you what she has chopped and dropped after every break. Giada is not bad but does she ever not smile? Her head is so huge on her tiny body its almost distracting.
I am addicted to FN. Burn out is around the corner. I, too, miss the pre-FN chefs. The Frugal Gourmet was my favorite.
In one of the Froog's cookbooks he had a BBQ sauce recipe that was the start of my own secret sauce. I will tell you that one of my secret ingredients is molé poblano base from the Mexican grocery. A one-quart mini-crockpot is perfect for cooking up a batch of 'que sauce.
Funny -
Just the other day I said to my wife, "I'd like to see Rachel Ray do porn."
Guess I was closer to the mark than I thought. Must be my stomach talking.