And it's banned completely. Go, Food on Wheels! You need to be able to afford 4, square feet — just get a truck and start serving up some good food. But while I'd love to shake hands with Man vs. Food guy or any of the others, Nadia G was my ultimate celebrity sighting over the past 10 days.
That's saying something. I was a newcomer to the cooking shows a couple of years ago, when I decided to try my hand at not using my oven for storage. I became a bit of a junkie. My DVR is full of these shows, my Saturday and Sunday mornings occupied with smiling women and cool dudes making interesting things out of lemongrass and shallots and lots of basil and the occasional Spice I Don't Recognize.
But I was a metalhead in the 80s, an indie and punk snob in the 90s, and even today eschew the modern version of Woman With Apron who hosts dinner parties and makes five days' worth of meals every Sunday. So my relationship with the TV Foodies was a rollercoaster, to say the least. I did, however, find one reason to love each of them. Giada — known around our house as "Cooking with Cleavage" — had recipes that were easy and fresh. Down Home with the Neelys featured a couple that was so hot for each other the dialogue could have been used on late-night Cinemax.
Mark Bittman dancing with turnips makes my day, Chuck's Day Off features cheerful and hunky tatted-up dude from Montreal who is as easy on the eyes as his recipes are on the palate plus he's usually cooking for someone — the wine guy, the neighbors, homeless teenagers Rachael Ray loves pit bulls, which is the only reason I watch her.
And even then, it's with the sound off. Hungry Girl should call herself "Dorm Cooking" because of all the recipes that featured microwaves and cheap substitutes, but she had the occasional brilliant idea — like punching up pasta with broccoli coleslaw.
Paula Deen is fattening but funny as Hell, and Sandra Lee's gawd-awful "tablescapes" are reason enough to watch even though she's the Very Model of a Modern Stepford Wife. And that doesn't even scratch the surface of my cooking-show rituals.
Kelsey taught me how to properly use my knives. Padma wears ironic college music T-shirts. Emeril makes me giggle no matter what he's doing. My ever-growing cast of Cooking Channel and Food Network buddies, however, became background noise when I first saw Nadia G punch her fist into the camera sporting what amounted to brass knuckles, while standing in a bright red kitchen wearing a dog collar and talking about hangover recipes.
Her show was fresh, her personality genuine and irreverent. Occasionally she gives us her Italian slang dictionary. Sometimes there's a music video. The idea of watching the horror pass over Sandra Lee's face when she got her first look at Nadia's fishnets?
And always, always there are random hilarious lines that I insist on repeating on my Facebook page. Like this one, in which she teaches us to how make a Breakup Meal right before dumping someone:. Your band sucked anyway. Now why would I want to stuff 'em then chuck 'em? You want to leave them with a good taste in their mouth.
I mean, come on. You once cared for them. But more improtantly, they know your secrets and probably got them on tape. Her accent on the shore is more like Jersey Italian than it is Canadian, and she does a lot of devil horns and head bangin' and insulting the male cast members. All of which would make someone like Melissa D'Arabian so much more fun to watch. Because she was being so sweet to me during our interview — which she gave me right after finishing up a smoke break at the Easy Tiger — I had to ask her how much of her tough girl persona was an act.
I knew the answer already, as I had seen her dancing and yelling and partying before the interview — and would run into her hours later doing the same thing, notched up a little louder and little more brash and even more fun.
So I rebelled against that a little bit, traveled a little, got into some trouble, got a lot of tattoos. Then I was able to consolidate my roots with my philosophy through comedy. Feast on This. By Brianna Caleri. Eat, Drink, Be Merry. Beefing up its presence. By John Egan. Movie Review. By Alex Bentley. Weekend Event Guide. By Paige Turner. Movie review. By Stephanie Allmon Merry. By Kristen O'Brien. Banding together for the holidays. By Chantal Rice.
Goodbye to a Texas music legend. By ABC13 Staff. But I must be missing something, because millions of people watch Bitchin' Kitchen of their own volition. So onward with the review! Let's start with Cookin' for Trouble's cover, which features Nadia making a "come hither" gesture while sporting a bustier made out of uncooked pasta. Does it remind anybody else of that rose petal scene in American Beauty? This isn't her only outrageous outfit in the book: other photos feature Nadia clad in a black body suit ala Catwoman and a groom get-up -- which she wears as she makes out with a cheeseburger in a wedding veil.
But while the images of Nadia are over-the-top, the food photos are fantastic. I ended up wanting to try a lot of her recipes, not because they're particularly original, but because the pictures made them look absolutely nom-worthy. Most Random Quote: "That's right, America! In this chapter we're gonna pummel your muffin top, throttle your beer gut, and bite you right in the cankle. Chapter 13 is called "Gluttony G-Style.
Overall rating: : 2. If a cookbook offers decent recipes and photos, it deserves some credit. But there's nothing special about said recipes, and Nadia's character is tiresome. News U. Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline. HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Follow Us. Terms Privacy Policy. All rights reserved. By Joseph Erdos. Overall rating: : 4. This cookbook is fun, food-friendly, and sexy! What do you think of Nadia G? Let us know in the comments below!
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