That's enough, Bobby

Why it's ok to hate Bobby Flay.

Comments

[bill p]

Throwdown is like that scene in Mommie Dearest when Joan Crawford makes little Christina race her in the swimming pool and then gloats about winning. Well of course you won.

I will say that most of the people on the show Flay challenges are, um, larger than life themselves (the marine, the opera singer) but going to the Red Hook ballfields? Jesus, what a tool.

[Andrew]

Yeah, it's not like Bobby is doing the cooking all by himself: whereas most of his challengers are solo cooks with little formal training, Flay not only has culinary degreee and years of restaurant experience, but he also has the assistance of two top Food TV prep chefs helping him develop his dishes! Where is the "mano a mano" in that?

[Michael S]

No Santa Claus

Once I believed a cooking show meant the person in front of the camera did the cooking. My very first experience of being herded like cattle to watch a taping of Emeril opened my eyes wide. I can't ever watch him now without remembering he's only there for the entertainment, and a few pretty decent tips on cooking.

I was a kid in college when I pitched in at WGBH in Cambridge to see Julia do her own stuff, without a mega staff of kids out back making the food look pretty for the camera.

No one should believe Bobby (or any of them at Food Network) does his own cooking, and no one should ever believe the Iron Chef isn't fixed.