AP:
Food Network is kicking Emeril Lagasse down a notch.
The celebrity chef's "Emeril Live," which has been on the air for 10 years, will cease production Dec. 11, Food Network publicist Carrie Welch told The Associated Press.
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UGH. Now my parents are going to want to talk to me at 8pm when I go home to visit them cause they won't have anything to watch.
Damn you, Food Network... Damn You!!!!
It was one of the FN personalities/chefs that I DIDN't like to watch.
BAM! Heh heh heh... BAM! Heh heh heh... BAM! Heh heh heh... BAM! Heh heh heh... BAM! Heh heh heh... BAM! Heh heh heh... BAM! Heh heh heh... BAM! Heh heh heh... BAM! Heh heh heh.
i've never been an emeril fan. he's some portuguese guy from boston or maine who suddenly thinks he's from new orleans. i could never figure that one out. i have eaten at one of his restaurants, NOLA, and it was quite good. his recipes have been hit/miss for me. mostly miss.
i miss mario. his show was a cooking lesson and history lesson all in one. i liked that part. i've never cooked his food.
now, if paula dean would just go ahead and die of that stroke from all that crisco and lard...and rachel's big head would float off into the vastness of the universe...
Maybe he'll have time to resurrect his unjustly, criminally underrated sitcom, Emeril. It was undoubtedly one of the greatest travesties of broadcasting that it was never given the opportunity to find an audience. It was beyond classic, putting lesser sitcoms like Seinfeld and Roseanne to shame.
The brilliant casting of Emeril as a chef named Emeril was a stroke of genius.
(there is some sarcasm in this post)....
show more of giada's titties. Aside from her five head, she is fooking hawt!!!
Emeril could go to England and teach the whole damn country how to cook..boiling water is about the best they can do in the kitchen
I would say "thank god!" but they'll only come up with someone more insipid and with big boobs. @@
First they mess with Mario in September, and he's gone! Now Emeril!! Although I really love Mario, and they were both instrumental in Food Network becoming what it was (not is) I do believe it was time for Emeril to move on. Yes, he will still do Essence, but it airs in most parts of the country in a time slot most people don't watch. It won't last long!
I've watched Food Network since its inception. Paula Deen didn't have such a deep southern accent when she started...nor did she have this nerve-shearing crackling laugh!! I don't watch her much anymore, either.
Alton Brown is great-not only is his show Good Eats informative, but you have to appreciate his sense of humor to like him on Iron Chef...and I do!!
Oh well...on we go!!!
I want more Puck, he had a great no bullshit cooking show with wonderful recipes.
He had his day and made his millions. And Food Network sucks now anyway. PBS and other stations are the REAL DEAL.
Wrong headline again, he is no longer doing the live program, still doing Essence. This on going headline problem which demonstrates editors don't read the articles, has past any level of acceptance
There's always HGTV!!!!!!!!!
Now that news makes me happy, happy, happy!
I've disliked Emeril intensely ever since he dumped his first wife, who laid the groundwork for who he was at the height of his fame. He dumped her for a younger woman, once he had Food Network wrapped around his little sausage, er, I mean his repetitive little recipes.
I watched his show from time to time, so I could chat with a friend -- an Emeril superfan, who lived only to meet the man. My friend has met much more relevant chefs who've had a profound impact on both American and French cuisines, yet he had a jones to meet someone who's a charicature of himself. (Watching Emeril cook is like watching William Shatner act; it's messy, unappetizing, and can leave you with heartburn.)
How far you've fallen, culinary America. I'd rather catch a rerun of Justin Wilson's cooking show any day, at this rate. He was the better Cajun cook and Emeril can't hold a candle to the (late) gentleman, nor to Paul Prudhomme who did more for the bayou than Emeril could ever dream of accomplishing.
Now if I could get them to cut back on the Rachel Ray crapfest, Food Network *might* be worth watching again someday. In the meantime, I'll get my recipes the good ol' fashioned way -- by reading a non-celebrity cookbook.
Now, if they would only get rid of Rachel Ray (known affectionately at our house as the politically un-correct Ray-tard) and Paula Deen, maybe they could begin to move forward with some new faces and new programming!
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First Posted: 11-26-07 12:05 PM | Updated: 03-28-08 02:45 AM