Iron Chef America: Flay vs. Pagano
Sunday night on the Food Network, we returned to kitchen stadium to see the Iron Chef Bobby Flay and challenger Ralph Pagano take on the weekly ingredient: Barramundi.
It amazes not only my husband (who attests to my poor culinary skills) but myself as well, how much I enjoy watching Iron Chef America. I suppose it could be the great take on another quirky Japanese game show or commentary from Alton Brown, food anthropologist. Maybe it is fun seeing the unveiling of the secret ingredient or just living vicariously through expert chefs who make it look so easy. One thing for this weeks competition of Flay vs. Pagano (besides the killing of the live fish off camera), Gael Greene was a judge.
So what is up with the hats? My husband thought that maybe she was horribly disfigured by some nuclear accident. I thought possibly that was what rich women in New York City do. I guess many questions have arisen by the unknowing masses outside the culinary circuit regarding the hat. The hat helps you to remain discreet as a critic…no one truly knows the face behind the mask or something like that. The hat goes away when she reviews. So word of advice, if you want to get impeccable service at a New York restaurant, where a blond wig and a face shielding hat.
I seem to be seeing Gael Greene
more and more lately. But of course, her new book has just been published. Gael Greene is not only a restaurant reviewer and food critic for New York Magazine, but a lustful writer of various novels alongside of which she now can boast a memoir, Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess. You have to hand it to a woman who has found an inventive way to incorporate the two things she loves, sex and food.
The memoir should be more than interesting coming from a woman who has given us quotes such as, “Live every moment in the present. Do it. Risk it. Buy it if you love it. Loving well, takes practice, delicious practice. If it feels good, it must be good.” Her books, including Insatiable, can be found on Amazon.com, and fine, delicious bookstores everywhere.
*Book Cover from Amazon.com*
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