Nancyland, Vancouver Foodie Fun

This is simply a journal of my food adventures, mainly in Vancouver, BC. Basically, a place for me to live out my long-time fantasy of being a restaurant reviewer. I hope that readers will find the reviews useful. I will include random bits about other foodie adventures like grocery and cookware shopping, cooking/baking projects, cooking classes, and eventually I’ll add a cartoon – The Adventures of Ha Gow, my little Chinese dim sum shrimp-filled dumpling dude. Foodies of the city, unite!

Friday, October 19, 2007

Iron Chef Junkie

I just got sucked into signing up for cable because of a promotion, and I've become an Iron Chef America junkie...only because that seems to be the only thing that the food network airs...but I'm loving it. I want to dine with Alton Brown - he is my food geek hero (or drizzle his body with the truffled olive oil I bought in Nice...one or the other). I want to sit front row in kitchen stadium. I want to be a judge. I have the urges, simultaenously, to both slap Bobby Flay for barking at his assistants and to savour the food he's arrogantly preparing. And most of all, I want to see the challengers beat the iron chefs. I clearly need a twelve-step program...

1 comment:

LotusRapper said...: Haha I too got sucked back into TV land in September (via Telus's new Telus TV) after 3 years of intentional TV abstinence. But I'm back and happy to be a non-Shaw customer.

ICA is one of my staples. Flay is an arrogant jerk IMHO. Batali, Cora and Morimoto are true sports. But I do find the final scores sometimes out of sync with the judges reviews.

BTW, Alton Brown's own show "Good Eats" is entertaining. Likened to "Bill Nye the Science Guy" of cooking shows.

Love "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares". Can't believe some of the incompetencies that lurk in those restaurants.; 10:52 AM, October 22, 2007