My Favorite Food Show on TV

Unsurprisingly, my favorite food show is not on the Food Network. There's a great food related TV show called After Hours with Daniel on the InHD channel. Basically the premise of the show is chef Daniel Boulud goes to a great restaurant in NYC and invites fellow chefs and people from Hollywood, the literary, and sports world to eat with him and share stories. Kind of like a Dinner For Five concept, but for food...Dinner for Five is all people in the movie business eating food - great show also.

The last show of the season had the following guest list:

• Eric Ripert (chef of 4 star Le Bernardin - making the most ridiculous paella on that episode by the way)
• Jacques Pepin (former chef to Charles De Gaulle and my fave TV chef)
  
• Dan Barber (chef of Blue Hill)
• Lee Hanson (chef of Balthazar - i think it was him?)
• Ariane Daguine (owner of D'Artagnan - gourmet food purveyor)
• Drew Nieporent (owner of Nobu, Tribeca Grill - basically all restaurants in Tribeca)
  
• Ruth Reichl (former food reviewer of the NY Times)
  
• Jeffrey Steingarten (food writer for Vogue)
  
• Rocco Dispirito (former respected chef at Union Pacific, now the butt of Anthony Bourdain's jokes)

Now that is a ridiculous who's who in food today. It's great to see how real chefs like Daniel and Eric work in a kitchen. Quite a contrast to watching the sloppy Evil Mini Martha's (Rachel Ray, Paula Dean, Sandra Lee, etc.) trying to cook.