Food Network bringing back Alton Brown's Good Eats (828 views)

Like everyone else, I find myself watching Food Network less and less---dislike the competition shows (omg, Cutthroat Kitchen???) and the loudness of it. (I will admit to binging Triple D sometimes, tho Guy often rubs me the wrong way). I watched the first new episode of Good Eats---for me, we'll see. I don't much like the goofy stuff, and even sometimes the science makes me feel I'm being lectured AT (in a bad way). Will all depend on the food he picks. I have recipes of his I adore (roast turkey, meatloaf, mac & cheese, brownies) and others that completely fell flat.

BUT I'll take this opportunity to plug a different cooking show, an old one, from the late 80s and 90s---the Great Chefs series.  Outside of classic PBS (Julia, Martha, Graham Kerr), this was one of the first cooking shows I remember.  It's a series (GC of NY, Chicago, San Francisco, the Southwest, etc) and it's excellent--very quiet and relatively minimal narration, just watching hugely talented chefs make intricate dishes.   Each episode contains an appetizer, entrée and dessert, and some of the featured chefs include Bobby Flay, Eric Ripert, Daniel Boulud, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten.  It's super soothing and strikingly "adult" compared to a lot of the current Food Network shows.  All the episodes are available with Amazon Prime.

One warning:  the theme song is "catchy" in the way of commercial jingles, and it will get stuck in your brain.  So maybe leave the tv on mute through the opening credits.