Weinr Loves Food!

Okay, so I’m sitting here in front of my television writing about the Food Network Awards. The best part about it? I’m on my new Dell Inspiron 6400, and I’ve got a 56″ Samsung DLP rear projection television. Is that mean that I’m more enthralled with my own geeky tech toys than the awards themselves?

Alright, in all honesty, the Awards show isn’t that bad. It’s actually somewhat entertaining, but it’s not qnything like what I expected.

Ohhhh, George is talking to Robert Irvine right now – talking about voting for their favorite ballpark eats. Crap – nothing about Dinner Impossible ;-p

Okay, back to where I was – This is nothing like I expected. No commercials; no press; nothing that I read mentioned that this was an awards show about random categories. Actually, I should have checked Foodnetwork.com to see what they’re saying about it. Uh, oh no – foodnetwork.com is down!? Weird.

Ohhh – Alton Brown is on now. He’s looking at nominees for playing with their food. The nominees are some guy who makes animals from fruit, some girl who makes scuptures from Jello, some guy who paints on tortillas, another guy who paints with random mediums. This guy is a freak ;-p He made a Rosie O’Donnell out if junk food.

I thought this show would be more along the lines of awarding Food Network stars for their work on their shows.

It’s not; and I can’t help but think that some of these “categories” are really mor along these lines: “Food Network had a story about this topic, so they took it and made it a category” – This stuff just doesn’t seem genuine. The humanitarian of the year is a guy who went down to New Orleans to find better deals on seafood after Hurricaine Katrina. By “helping” (buying cheap seafood from fishermen who would otherwise lose their catches to food spoilage) he’s a humanitarian, right? It sounds like a good spin on a story about someone who’s an entreprenuer. Another story came from an investment banker turned cookie maker that is “helping create jobs” in Africa by opening up a cookie shop there where she’s hiring people from nearby poor villages and towns. I’m sorry, but she’s making money; I have a hard time really believing she’s going to great lengths to really help people.

So, that goes off on a tangent, but it’s how I feel about these awards. And the viewers choice? Ugh – great; favorite comfort foods? Lame. I’m going to bed ;-p

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