If you loved the Jack versus Tony Bourdain Smackdown series on snack, sorry – there will be no more. Fox has indeed cancelled the show mid-season, and Tony triumphs with No Reservations.
Marcus Samuelsson is maintaining a slow burn over on the Discovery Home Channel with his Inner Chef. It’s still on track to roll into 2006.
Tom Coliccio debuts his first reality show, Top Chef, on Bravo, March 15th. Expect the usual roster of wanna-be chefs going through culinary trials and eliminations.
Gastronomes, magazine publishers and bloggers are talking about Ruth Reichl. The current editor in chief of Gourmet (and former restaurant critic for both the New York and Los Angeles Times), has found a deep-pocketed taker for her memoirs in HBO. Her trio of revealing gastro-biographies will be turned into a half-hour sitcom á la Sex and the City.
If you’d like to get off the couch and onto the small screen, Fox is casting now for the second season of Gordon Ramsey’s Hell’s Kitchen. Could be your chance to get s***stomped by a famous chef on national TV. Good times.
Holiday excess and technical difficulties have kept me from my regular posts. Admittedly some of my fresh news is now a day-old bargain, but ‘tis the season for the round up so here we go.
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