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Anybody else catch The Feasty Boys Eat America on the Travel Channel (home of Samantha Brown)?
(Travel Channel = :rock: )
Decent show with a nice hook... "guy food." Easy to prepare, must contain one or more of "the four B's", lots of open-flame, etc.
Lots of potential, but the execution is lacking IMHO. Far, far too much schtick and not enough actual cooking.
For one thing, I was surprised to find out that it was only a half hour. Definitely needs to be a full hour, especially if you're going to leave in so much of the silliness/schtick.
I do enjoy the "here's the main ingredient, here's how it's produced, here's where it comes from, here's why this particular kind is the best, etc." segments. That's good stuff, and part of the reason the Travel Channel rocks.
But I thought that by the time they got through with all that, and the two guys making damn sure you know that they're wacky and fun-loving and male, the actual preparation of the dishes was so heavily edited-down for time that it's almost an afterthought.
I'm sure they'll make plenty of stuff that I'll want to try eventually, but I can't absorb the procedure in the 20 edited seconds they use to show the preparation. I came away disappointed, but I'll watch again.
Anybody else catch it?
I heard they tried to get Adam Horovitz to do a guest spot, but he couldn't because all the fly ladies were on his jammy.
(Travel Channel = :rock: )
Decent show with a nice hook... "guy food." Easy to prepare, must contain one or more of "the four B's", lots of open-flame, etc.
Lots of potential, but the execution is lacking IMHO. Far, far too much schtick and not enough actual cooking.
For one thing, I was surprised to find out that it was only a half hour. Definitely needs to be a full hour, especially if you're going to leave in so much of the silliness/schtick.
I do enjoy the "here's the main ingredient, here's how it's produced, here's where it comes from, here's why this particular kind is the best, etc." segments. That's good stuff, and part of the reason the Travel Channel rocks.
But I thought that by the time they got through with all that, and the two guys making damn sure you know that they're wacky and fun-loving and male, the actual preparation of the dishes was so heavily edited-down for time that it's almost an afterthought.
I'm sure they'll make plenty of stuff that I'll want to try eventually, but I can't absorb the procedure in the 20 edited seconds they use to show the preparation. I came away disappointed, but I'll watch again.
Anybody else catch it?
I heard they tried to get Adam Horovitz to do a guest spot, but he couldn't because all the fly ladies were on his jammy.