Next Food Network Star *Spoiler*
I'm going to spoil, but I'm putting it behind a cut so you can choose to read or not.
Well, Aaron won. I've been saying since, literally, Episode One to Jake that the judges have been rooting for him and grooming him and coaching him b/c they wanted him to win this competition. It was so obvious in the penultimate episode when he nailed the little trailer thing but BOMBED with his presentation AND his buffet yet was still asked back to the finale; I feel that this is the Aaron Favoritism Smoking Gun. The other two did respectably in the trailers but did AWESOME buffets and solid presentations and should have obviously been in the finale. I like Aaron well enough, but I doubt that I will watch his show. He does alot of steak (which I'm not really supposed to eat) and seems to coat lots of things in Honey Glaze (which I'm also not supposed to eat.) I wish him well, I guess, but he was not my favorite.
I feel really sorry for Lisa and her "Beautiful Basics" concept--taking simple readily available ingredients and making fancy-seeming food--which I actually kind of liked. I liked the recipe she showed in her pilot (Pan Seared Black Cod with Dill Zabaglione with Roasted Leeks) and might have tried to make it. I don't need someone to show me how to mix spices together and rub them on meat; I want something new and different. However, she is a very talented woman, and I am sure that she will get another opportunity going and make her dream come true. At least I hope she does. She has said many times, though, that if she didn't win she'd feel like "a loser", so I hope she knows that she isn't. You're awesome, Lisa!
My favorite was Adam b/c I dug his goofy likeability, and let's be honest, I like tall skinny guys. He is currently a waiter at a Spanish restaurant, and I am really hoping that he can get in touch with some investors and do a restaurant or maybe a barbecue show on another network that's not so far up Bobby Flay's butt. Thoughout the season, he was called a "bozo" and ragged on for not having the culinary chops--even though he proved several times to know things the others did not (ie Aaron didn't know what a chipotle was, and Adam told him; Adam knew the diet of Iberico pigs, Adam cleaned his artichoke while being funny--to be there; Susie said he was "learning on their dime"--even though he seemed much more comfortable in front of the camera than, say, Aaron or Lisa did right off the bat. Bobby all but came right out and SAID that he did not think Adam deserved to be there. Bob's blog alleges that Tuschman was an Adam fan all along, and the other two grudgingly allowed him into the finale--even though he was the diners' favorite with his buffet and his presentation--to make a pilot and get his hopes up. His concept involved spices and rubs, but it had an interactive element that I liked as well as his personality, which I like.
I HATE how FN got Lisa and Adam thinking they had a chance when they, at least in my mind from the beginning, already knew that they wanted Aaron. I also HATE how Food Network bit Adam's internet tie-in idea and have developed a show called Ask Aida which has, you guessed it, an internet tie-in.
I do not think that I will be watching the next season of Next Food Network Star b/c I feel like it's not a real contest.
I also still can't see straight, and it's making me UPSET! and DEPRESSED! Boo!
Well, Aaron won. I've been saying since, literally, Episode One to Jake that the judges have been rooting for him and grooming him and coaching him b/c they wanted him to win this competition. It was so obvious in the penultimate episode when he nailed the little trailer thing but BOMBED with his presentation AND his buffet yet was still asked back to the finale; I feel that this is the Aaron Favoritism Smoking Gun. The other two did respectably in the trailers but did AWESOME buffets and solid presentations and should have obviously been in the finale. I like Aaron well enough, but I doubt that I will watch his show. He does alot of steak (which I'm not really supposed to eat) and seems to coat lots of things in Honey Glaze (which I'm also not supposed to eat.) I wish him well, I guess, but he was not my favorite.
I feel really sorry for Lisa and her "Beautiful Basics" concept--taking simple readily available ingredients and making fancy-seeming food--which I actually kind of liked. I liked the recipe she showed in her pilot (Pan Seared Black Cod with Dill Zabaglione with Roasted Leeks) and might have tried to make it. I don't need someone to show me how to mix spices together and rub them on meat; I want something new and different. However, she is a very talented woman, and I am sure that she will get another opportunity going and make her dream come true. At least I hope she does. She has said many times, though, that if she didn't win she'd feel like "a loser", so I hope she knows that she isn't. You're awesome, Lisa!
My favorite was Adam b/c I dug his goofy likeability, and let's be honest, I like tall skinny guys. He is currently a waiter at a Spanish restaurant, and I am really hoping that he can get in touch with some investors and do a restaurant or maybe a barbecue show on another network that's not so far up Bobby Flay's butt. Thoughout the season, he was called a "bozo" and ragged on for not having the culinary chops--even though he proved several times to know things the others did not (ie Aaron didn't know what a chipotle was, and Adam told him; Adam knew the diet of Iberico pigs, Adam cleaned his artichoke while being funny--to be there; Susie said he was "learning on their dime"--even though he seemed much more comfortable in front of the camera than, say, Aaron or Lisa did right off the bat. Bobby all but came right out and SAID that he did not think Adam deserved to be there. Bob's blog alleges that Tuschman was an Adam fan all along, and the other two grudgingly allowed him into the finale--even though he was the diners' favorite with his buffet and his presentation--to make a pilot and get his hopes up. His concept involved spices and rubs, but it had an interactive element that I liked as well as his personality, which I like.
I HATE how FN got Lisa and Adam thinking they had a chance when they, at least in my mind from the beginning, already knew that they wanted Aaron. I also HATE how Food Network bit Adam's internet tie-in idea and have developed a show called Ask Aida which has, you guessed it, an internet tie-in.
I do not think that I will be watching the next season of Next Food Network Star b/c I feel like it's not a real contest.
I also still can't see straight, and it's making me UPSET! and DEPRESSED! Boo!