Next Food Network Stars
 

Is anyone watching this season's Next Food Network Stars on the Food Network? I got hooked on the show last season.

Anyway, this season is proving very interesting. I can already tell the finalists are likely to be Aarti (who I think is beautiful) and Aria (great pesonality). Brianna is very pretty too, but doesn't have the personality to get to the end.

I watch, but I don't stay hooked the way I do to Top Chef, mostly because TNFNS promises me a "Star" and doesn't really deliver. It seems like (similar to American Idol?) one or two of the runner ups gets picked up for a show instead.

I like the Next Iron Chef better even if they did ditch Batali :(

However I agree with you on Aarti, she'll get a show either way.

I'm watching too, and I agree that it seems to be Aria's and Aarti's to lose.

Is Aarti the one going with the Indian cuisine angle for a show?

Yep. She actually has an online cooking show already. I rather hope she wins, I love Indian food and any more representation on TV will only make it easier for me to get ingredients and try it at home.

I love Aarti she's hands down my favorite. I'm sad Dzitra (sp) went home because she was great to watch in a really awkward painful kind of way.

She just wouldn't stop talking to herself!

Yea, when Dzitra left, I really don't think the other contestants were all that unhappy. I mean they gave her perfunctory "we-have-to-do-this-because-the-camera-is-rolling" hugs, but it didn't seem authentic.

Now if they can just get Serena to slow down her words per minute to oh, say, 8,000, we might understand what she's saying. :rolleyes:

Biggest kick for me last night was seeing Guy Fieti (sp) play "tough guy" on some of the bad meals. He's always hyped on Diners Drive-Ins and Dives so this was a new look, IMO.

I was watching Iron Chef the other night and I wondered what happened to Batali. What's the story on that?
(It's pretty funny that I like these cooking shows in view of the fact that I don't cook)

Eh they had a falling out. They stopped airing his show, which hadn't had a new episode in a while and so I think he decided to pull back and so did the network. So they did the first "next iron chef" and pick Symon, and I think Batali had done a few following that but then by the next season of the show Batali was gone.