Meat & Potatoes Show - Food Network

new show on the food network. starting sept 24 th 2010
looks ok from previews

I known of a few LTHers that will be making appearances.

Interesting...now I have to tune in.

forgot this show was strating fri. night
but i cought the end of it. dont think this one was the show
but this fri could be the one

Morning,

If you have 30-minutes to kill this evening, Friday, I will be on (unless I get cut) the Food Network show Meat and Potatoes, 9pm central time. I 'take' the host to Sun Wah BBQ in Chicago then sit down for a meal with host Rahm Fama, and LTHForum members David Hammond, Phil Wingo and Cathy Lambrecht. I will also be on an upcoming Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, no air date as of yet.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/meat-potatoe ... index.html

Please keep in mind the camera adds 88-lbs.

Enjoy,
Gary

G Wiv wrote:Morning,

Please keep in mind the camera adds 88-lbs.

Enjoy,
Gary

not 87 or 89, but exactly 88
too funny, now I have to watch...
<<HUGS>>

irisarbor wrote:

G Wiv wrote:Morning,

Please keep in mind the camera adds 88-lbs.

Enjoy,
Gary

not 87 or 89, but exactly 88
too funny, now I have to watch...
<<HUGS>>

And there were three cameras on us, so that's like an additional 264 pounds, each.

Just wondering ... how Sun Wah fits into the supposed "meat and potatoes" theme ...?

Katie wrote:Just wondering ... how Sun Wah fits into the supposed "meat and potatoes" theme ...?

They serve meat, and dammed good meat at that.

Guess I don't understand the theme of the show, then. We have a very limited choice of channels here.

B B Q
through a different style of bbq

Katie wrote:Guess I don't understand the theme of the show, then. We have a very limited choice of channels here.

I believe it's a metaphor for simple, satisfying food.

Hope GWiv (or someone similarly inclined) will record it so I can see how it turned out (I'll be out tonight, and, if all goes as planned, eating a Ghost Pepper stew -- far, I'm thinking, from meat and potatoes).

David Hammond wrote:

Katie wrote:Guess I don't understand the theme of the show, then. We have a very limited choice of channels here.

I believe it's a metaphor for simple, satisfying food.

Hope GWiv (or someone similarly inclined) will record it so I can see how it turned out (I'll be out tonight, and, if all goes as planned, eating a Ghost Pepper stew -- far, I'm thinking, from meat and potatoes).

it's going to be rebroadcast at midnight, if that works better for you.

I never imagined anyone would take my comment negatively, but I was wrong, so let me be clear:

It was really just an innocent question. I haven't seen the Meat and Potatoes show, but the name led me to believe it was about, well, old-fashioned American meat-and-potatoes dining experiences. Like diners. Meat loaf and mashed potatoes. Like I said, I guess I don't understand the show's theme, not having had the chance to see it.

Goodness, I'm not anti Gary, and I'm not anti Sun Wah. Just wondered what kind of topics this show was going to cover. A new show called Meat and Potatoes, I wouldn't have expected that its first visit would be to a Chinese restaurant. I really doubt I'm alone in that.

Don't always jump to the conclusion that someone is being rigid or critical or difficult. If I may say so, the neutral position - assuming the person has no opinion and is asking a reasonable, innocent question - may well be the better starting point. In this instance, it would have been the correct assumption.

Katie

LTH,

Seems the food network cut 95% of my part, oh well. I spent over two hours taping and they didn't even say my name or mention Low & Slow. Guess that's tv for you. The Cheng family did a great job as did Hammond. Still very cool to be on the Food Network.

Enjoy,
Gary

Do they put the shows up online at their website or hulu or something?

Some of y'all already know, we don't own a TV & yes I would love to see this episode.

Katie wrote:I never imagined anyone would take my comment negatively, but I was wrong, so let me be clear:

It was really just an innocent question. I haven't seen the Meat and Potatoes show, but the name led me to believe it was about, well, old-fashioned American meat-and-potatoes dining experiences. Like diners. Meat loaf and mashed potatoes. Like I said, I guess I don't understand the show's theme, not having had the chance to see it.

Goodness, I'm not anti Gary, and I'm not anti Sun Wah. Just wondered what kind of topics this show was going to cover. A new show called Meat and Potatoes, I wouldn't have expected that its first visit would be to a Chinese restaurant. I really doubt I'm alone in that.

Don't always jump to the conclusion that someone is being rigid or critical or difficult. If I may say so, the neutral position - assuming the person has no opinion and is asking a reasonable, innocent question - may well be the better starting point. In this instance, it would have been the correct assumption.

Katie

I don't think anyone made the assumptions you're assuming they made. And that's all I have to say about that.

G Wiv wrote:Seems the food network cut 95% of my part, oh well. I spent over two hours taping and they didn't even say my name or mention Low & Slow.

Just got home from dinner and, wow, that's unfortunate.

Watching the re-run now. I enjoyed Gary's 4 seconds of fame but, I have to say, I thought Kelly was incredibly good on camera.

I get the feeling that this show more about Rahm Fama than the places he's visiting. He seems to be a cheap version of Guy Fieri (and that's really cheap) with an even bigger ego. In every place he visited, I got the feeling that it was more about him than the actual place "Look at ME I'm cooking brisket in KC, and now a pig just like I'm Chinese!". While it was nice to see the Chang family get some love, I doubt this show will make it to my regular viewing rotation.

jesteinf wrote:Watching the re-run now. I enjoyed Gary's 4 seconds of fame but, I have to say, I thought Kelly was incredibly good on camera.

Agree 100%, Kelly was terrific, personable, knowledgeable and she looked great on the show. If one is going to get bumped may as well, and probably will be, by a nice looking woman.

G Wiv wrote:

jesteinf wrote:Watching the re-run now. I enjoyed Gary's 4 seconds of fame but, I have to say, I thought Kelly was incredibly good on camera.

Agree 100%, Kelly was terrific, personable, knowledgeable and she looked great on the show. If one is going to get bumped may as well, and probably will be, by a nice looking woman.

That's the second reference to you being bumped by a beautiful Asian woman this week; I advise caution if you see Lucy Liu heading in your direction.

/show was good, let us know if you get access to the outtake material

HI,

I didn't see it. If I was cut entirely, I thank the editor ever so sincerely. I thought this guy was woefully uninformed. Didn't know how a Peking/Beijing duck was made. Made a big to-do not to talk to him because he wanted to keep reality show spontaneous. While it may be unrehearsed, he did have to go back and repeat a few things.

I managed to annoy him with what turned out to be my fact checking function. It sure would not have hurt to bone up on things are made or where a dish fits in a cuisine's hierarchy.

Dinner at Sun Wah was good as always.

Regards,

I loved seeing Gary and David...and was sad to see Cathy must have been cut. Golly, you guys came off as downright respectable! Keep in mind I've only talked to you at LTH picnics.

Cathy,

I saw you for a split second.

seen me for 2split sec.

This episode is going to be shown again this Sunday 10/10 at 3pm. Maybe this time I'll stay awake. Not that the episode bored me, I get up at 4 am and it's hard to stay awake past 8:30 pm.

stevez wrote:I get the feeling that this show more about Rahm Fama than the places he's visiting. He seems to be a cheap version of Guy Fieri (and that's really cheap) with an even bigger ego. In every place he visited, I got the feeling that it was more about him than the actual place "Look at ME I'm cooking brisket in KC, and now a pig just like I'm Chinese!". While it was nice to see the Chang family get some love, I doubt this show will make it to my regular viewing rotation.

I agree with you, Steve. We had taped it and watched it last night. I wanted to throw something at the host. Or at least give him a thesaurus so he could learn additional words beyond "awesome." That said, the food looked great in HD (at least the first two segments). The Cheng family was charming, especially with the support of GWiv, David Hammond, philw and Cathy2.

I agree with pretty much everything already said.
Kelly and family-delightful!
The host....not so much.
All our LTHers... kind of a loss not to let them get in more than a couple of words edgewise.
Great shots of the food at Sun Wah, and nice explanations of how the baby pig is cooked differently than the big pig or the duck. I also learned that there are white molasses...something I never knew.

irisarbor wrote:I also learned that there are white molasses...something I never knew.

I'd guess white molasses is a euphemism for maltose syrup which is traditionally used to give Peking Duck its shine and hint of sweet.