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>>>>> Fox TV has a cooking show? That's a nightmare all by itself.
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>>>> Hell's Kitchen is decent. I also enjoy Kitchen Nightmares, which I
>>>> just say a new series will be running on BBC America starting soon.
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>>> That is probably a more appropriate venue for it than the Food
>>> channel. A half dozen hour long episodes of a restaurant consultant
>>> who likes to swear a lot to demolish kitchen staff egos. It seemed to
>>> e on Food TV almost every time I switched to it, and it's one of the
>>> reasons that I dropped that channel.
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>> I'm confused. What show are you talking about on Food TV? I can't think
>> of one like that.
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> I could be responsible for that confusion :-) Someone else had referred to
> Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares. It was (still is) on Food Network Canada. IMO,
> it was on far too often.
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> It was interesting enough to see it once or twice, but there were a number
> of episodes and in each one he goes into a failing restaurant, usually run
> by someone who has no idea how to run a restaurant, and who have hired a
> cook who really doesn't know much about cooking or running a kitchen, and
> who is supposed to be supervising a crew who generally don't give a damn.
> He generally creates confrontations with the staff, runs them down,
> embarrasses them, swears a lot. It would make an interesting special, but
> the format gets tired very quickly. it is just as well there were only a
> few episodes, but they run them over and over and over.
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I don't know why you'd want to watch Kitchen Nightmares more than once.
The entertainment wasn't really Ramsey so much as the people running the
restaurants. The first place was just indescribably awful, Ramsey got
food poisoning from the sample meal! The kindest thing you can say about
the owner and the "chef" is that they were both simpletons.

As the show progressed the restaurants actually improved until they got
to the final place which once been a famous gourmet establishment that
depended for its success on the passion of the original owners. One of
the big problems for the new owners, if I remember correctly, was
getting decent staff to leave London for the provinces. And of course
they had to get on top of the financials, which Ramsey understands very
well.

Ramsey is quite competent as a chef and, I would say, very competent as
a businessman. He is naturally short tempered and foul mouthed, but I
reckon he plays to the camera. Rick Stein would never do for a show like
this, he's too much of a gentleman. (And of course, here we come to the
English class thing that is the subtext to all their popular
entertainment - Ramsey's an unashamed oik, which adds to the fun when
they let him loose on the posh place next to the golf club.) The shows
are not what I would call food TV, they are reality TV.

Christine

Christine
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