Frank Deis wrote:I hadn't seen her for years until I started taking Physical Therapy 3 mornings a week, and now I am forced to watch her. At first I honestly didn't recognize her (didn't she use to have cheek bones? She's filled out a bit!). Certainly I recognize her style. She made a Passover dish that involved sauteeing a lot of sliced onions in butter and then adding beef brisket. And serving with potato pancakes with a dollop of sour cream on top!
I will concede that most of what she makes looks like it would taste pretty good.
And I like her better than the VERY STUPID game shows!! Or Fox...
She used to have a show on the Food Network the opposite of what's described in the Food Network's press release above where she went around the country tipping very badly. That is, she had some low bar to satisfy, maybe $25 a day for a whole day of eating out in name some larger U.S. town. I maybe watched two episodes, I dislike her and this was hardly travel information I could use--but I recall an episode of Anthony Bourdain where he ate in a restaurant in Charleston mere weeks after Rachel's crew had been through, and he asked them if it was true about her and bad tipping. The waitresses' reaction was like, "Don't even get me started." Apparently there was no off-camera compensation for all the trouble they caused on top of everything else.
But I feel your pain for having to watch her in public places! Daytime TV is rank. I do not watch unless I'm stuck in bed sick, which coincidentally I have been for the last couple days with the Norovirus. Fortunately I discovered some cooking contest show on the Esquire channel (where did that come from, anyway?) called Knife Fight whose moniker is, "where the only prize if bragging rights." That was fun. I even enjoyed laughing at the dump cake recipe book commercial and companion dump dinner recipe books. Just imagine, Frank, you can put two pounds of raw ground beef in a pan, add a jar of spag sauce, a bag of macaroni and some water, and 30 minutes later you'll have a dinner everyone will wants seconds of!!!!