ranting session

this was prolly sparked by my previous post.

i. this will prolly sound sexist, but it isn't (i hope). today i thought about it, and i realized that i'm starting to REALLY not like the food network because of all the shows with cooks, many of which are women, that aren't even involved in the "foodie" community and/or culture. not that i'm against women chefs with their own cooking shows, but these ladies aren't even real chefs! i mean, i haven't done all my homework on the "foodie industry" but i do know a couple of things:

(1) the "foodie" culture is dominated by white people (2) the restaurant industry is male-dominated, [i knew this before ratatouille] (3) one measure of success as a chef is owning your own successful restaurant (4) filipino cuisine has not yet become a "foodie" type of cuisine in this country, but it's still my favorite.

with that being said i think that there SHOULD BE more women chefs on tv. but dang, can the food network please use some real chefs? here's a list of some the women food network celebrity cooks who have tv shows that air ALL THE TIME (in no particular order):

- rachel ray, although she does endorse ritz CRACKers and dunkin donuts.
- giada de laurentiis, although she did do that really weird esquire photo shoot
- ina garten, cooking in the hamptons lady
- sandra lee, she's lived a hard-knock life, kinna, but still very weird
- ellie krieger, she's still cool though, healthy is always cool
- paula deen already hated on her
- ingrid hoffmann, simply deliciLOCO

with the exception of (surprise) paula deen who own's the lady and sons all of these ladies have never even tried opening up a restaurant, even with their newly found celebrity status. what can we conclude? i know you're thinking it. THEIR FOOD ISN'T THAT SPECTACULAR! oh sure, it's prolly better than eggs and rice, but nothing better than what a creative mind can come up with in the kitchen (along with some appropriate research from real chefs). maybe i'm laboring over a small point, but i'm pretty sure that this channel was built off of celebrity chefs, not celebrity cooks. i mean, yes the above mentioned do present important practical techniques for your everyday home kitchen. but damn, how much frickin rachel ray do i need to watch before i can watch a real chef cook? i got more than 30 minutes, teach me something harder to make!


ii. so first it was that one golf commentator lady, jokingly saying tiger woods ought to be lynched. and now it's dana jacobsen, whoever the hell she is, drunkenly making some inappropriate comments at a celebrity roast.

are you surprised? i mean why should you be? we all know that mainstream sports media shuns any and all of the cultural, racial, and social questions professional sports inevitably creates, and we all know that more than enough sports commentators are racially, culturally, socially, religiously, or otherwise-ly insensitive. so why should we be surprised? these two problems create another clashing problem. i'm pretty sure the screening process you have to go through to become a sports commentator involves the questions "are you white and conservative or can you associate yourself with white AND conservative people?" and "how do you feel about black athletes?" and "isn't fox the best tv station ever?"

anyways i don't hate all sports commentators, i miss the days when kenny mayne and dan patrick did sportscenter. i just hate the fact that most of the biggest games have to be commentated by some of the biggest assholes, like joe buck, prolly the biggest racist asshole in sports commentating history. eff you joe buck. and it's still too bad that stuart scott is still the only premiere sports commentator of color. and fuck you pedro gomez.

ps. somebody needs to tell tiger woods that he's colored, maybe he should watch this