Chow Ciao

[filkertom]

One of my favorite Top Chef contestants is Fabio Viviani. Dude's overflowing with personality, and obviously loves food as much as anyone. While watching him, Leslie and I would note again and again that, even if he didn't win the big prize, he would at some point have his own TV show.

Turns out, he does. Catch new episodes of Chow Ciao every

Comments

[wingus]

I'd say something that'd be a cross of Epic Meal Time and Mythbusters - so I guess Man Vs. Food where cooking is actually done by the show stars rather than going all over the place.

[alverant]

You mean like the episode where they cook MREs using C4 they set on fire?

[wingus]

I s'pose crazy methods of cooking could be used, yeah.

[madrona]

So like the guys who made the meat pirate ship, but as a cooking show? I'd see that.

[ladystarblade]

Fabio is a total doll; we dropped into his Cafe Firenze in Moorpark on our LA trip this year for lunch, and he came in on his day off to say hello after my roomie tweeted at him that we were there...he brought our desserts to us and I fangirled all over the place. Made such a mess. :-) But he is a charmer and knows his stuff, so I'm not surprised at all that he has a show...betcha he's having a ball!

My own cooking show? How To Boil Water Without Burning Your Kitchen Down. And even that would be a near thing...I have no skill in that area.

[alverant]

I'd do a show called "Easy Ethnic" which would be a variant of "Good Eats" but instead of focusing on an ingredient I'd show how to make dish from a non-American country using cheap, easily obtained, ingredients substituting the expensive stuff and "uni-taskers" as necessary while also talking about how its history and how it's a part of the country.

[scifantasy]

I'd probably take the idea for my sadly-not-working-as-well-as-I-might-hope blog, Untasters Anonymous, and just ask the question: "what's the big deal?"

[jss1113]

I'd steal a friend's concept and host Recipe for Disaster, a show that takes common kitchen mistakes and informs the viewer how to correct them. For entertainment value, I'd definitely do it "wrong" first, of course. :)

[roman_mclaze]

Brilliant idea! Even if that doesn't get to be a full show, it would be perfect as a recurring segment on a larger program, or as one of those "mini-shows" that some networks used to do to pad shorter programs.

[filkertom]

That's what I love best about Cooks Illustrated and Cook's Country. Showing you what can go wrong and why, along with explanations of how to fix things, is not only informative but entertaining as heck.