Sunday, June 22, 2008
The Next Food Network Star: Episode Four, June 22
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Here it is, the shot that Food Network has shown over and over and over and over again: Dallas' Lisa Garza takes a fall.
The airing of Episode No. 4 of The Next Food Network Star on Sunday will hopefully set us free from having to see the much-screened video clip of Dallas contestant Lisa Garza slipping and falling on her behind while holding a container of sauce.
The fall, which is exactly the kind of action-clip the Food Network can't resist beating to death, takes place on a Coast Guard ship where Garza and her fellow contestants are preparing two dishes for 30 Coast Guardsmen. The fall also seems inevitable given the fact that Garza, who co-owns Dallas restaurant Suze with her chef husband Gilbert (who speaks out in her defense in this story), has all along been wearing ultra-fashionable clothes and heels -- heels that she makes note of after the fall by commenting that she wasn't worried about her Pucci shoes or $300 blouse. (Pucci makes shoes?)
The fall is also the thing that won the judges over. Lisa, who emerged to describe her dish dripping in sauce, was so natural, they said. And so she moves on to another week. It's looking like it will get down to her and the little blond, Kelsey, who toned down her enthusiasm in response to judge feedback and won. Her recipe will be featured on menus at Red Lobster, which Iron Chef Michael Symon and the Food Network shamelessly shilled. Also, if you try to watch the show's recaps or sneak previews for next week on the Food Network's annoying Website, you're subjected to ads. That station really stinks.
Nipa, the self-identified "Indian-Midwestern girl" who has clung on every week despite her lack of TV-friendly energy or cooking skills, finally got her comeuppance and was kicked off the boat.
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Collin Gouldin Verified
(as mean as this will sound)... I really don't like this lady and it was great to see her fall...
2 months, 1 week ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Billusa99 Anonymous
I think that it's highly interesting -- and a likely foreshadowing of events -- that the judges have not once spent more than about 12 seconds talking about Lisa's food on the show. And a week ago did not once mention it at all.
I think it means that she's going to be in the final.
TV is TV, and they have to play everything to the max because Food Network is in a big internal push to figure out how to appeal to even more wider audiences now that their growth has slowed compared to their earlier days.
Read this from The New Yorker Oct/2006. It's very enlightening!
"Ours is a different audience from the one that watched Julia Child. In 1962, “microwave oven” and “fast food” hadn’t entered the national lexicon. And restaurants were more expensive. Tim Zagat, the publisher of Zagat Guides, points out that for more than two decades the cost of going to restaurants or getting takeout has risen less than the annual rate of inflation—that it’s much less expensive today than at any other moment in our history to pay other people to prepare our dinner. Never in our history as a species have we been so ignorant about our food. And it is revealing about our culture that, in the face of such widespread ignorance about a human being’s most essential function—the ability to feed itself—there is now a network broadcasting into ninety million American homes, entertaining people with shows about making coleslaw. "
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006...
And Gilbert -- my wife and I love your place and Melanie is the bomb, too! Just chill, man. Nobody is down on Lisa here because of a few well-placed TV edits! ;-)
2 months, 1 week ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Teresa Gubbins Staff
billusa, Gilbert Garza actually called me last week. (i assume you are referring to the item on FrontBurner.) he wasn't responding to anything written on Pegasus News, but rather to comments and discussion about Lisa that he's seen all over.
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Billusa99 Anonymous
Nope... have not read FB yet. Was referring to his post here on Peg, that Mr. Doyle is lancing his way through.
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Billusa99 Anonymous
Just read that Sidedish nonsense. I'm so tired of Nichols's internecine warfare, so "no comment."
IJS
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DC Anonymous
So now when I'm out of town I can still see some skanked out Dallasites on TV?
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Mike Orren Staff
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frankstongal Anonymous
Mr. Bill, Just read that Sidedish nonsense. I'm so tired of Nichols's internecine warfare, so "no comment."
Can you just tell me what you mean by no comment? NN
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DC Anonymous
Maybe you should start with "Hooked on Phonics" and get back here in about 2011.
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