Hehe a little culinary talk going on in videosift. I like, I like

People have to understand that American's co-opt all things culinary and turn them into their own thing. If you are in the United States...
1. Mexican restaurants do not serve 'authentic' Mexican cuisine.
2. Chinese restaurants do not serve 'authentic' Chinese cuisine.
3. Italian restaurants do not serve 'authentic' Italian cuisine.

Basically almost NO ethnic restaurants serve authentic ethnic cuisine. There are some exceptions, but they are few and far between and they are NOT (definitely) NOT a 'chain'.

So for these jerk-faces who are pretending to be funny to get all testy because Outback STEAKHOUSE (steakhouse DUH!) doesn't serve authentic cuisine from Australia's outback is beyond moronic. It isn't funny. It isn't even close to being funny. It's a pathetic attempt at humor that fails miserably on all levels.

If they'd actually tried some HUMOR instead of just being a bunch of jackholes maybe they'd have a purpose. They didn't. Humor isn't just tossing an epileptic, autistic, turret's syndrome fit in public over something pathetically mundane like the non-issue of an American restaurant (gasp!) serving American food!

British cooking indeed. "Has that beef still got bones in it?" AWESOME. And *woohoo beacuse it reminds me of Homer's culinary arts - like his "moon waffles."

It was a true pleasure meeting this fine group of folks, and we shared hours of enjoyable conversation (soh-ree, but what was said between us abehwt all you other Sifters is for us and us alone ). Djsunkid's phenomenal 12 course tasting menu was a culinary delight and one of the finest meals I've ever had.

I've put up 6 pictures from the Sift Up:

• VideoSift Tasting Menu - the nice printout of djsunkid's tasting menu
• Thai Coconut Soup with Tempura Sunflower Sprouts - djsunkid is missing a photo of it above
• Inside Fiddlehead Joe's - interior shot of the restaurant; we sat in the far left corner
• Kitchen Tour - djsunkid gives us a pointing tour of the kitchen; notice the lovely pile of tomatoes; behind djsunkid is a photo of a fiddlehead (it's a fern I've learned)
• All of us with labels - one of the few times during the meal djsunkid sat with us; the "bacon wrapped scallop" is on the table
  (Which reminds me: don't miss this gem from deputydog, which I mentioned at dinner: http://www.dwigger.com/msg/i-love-the-blog-of-unnecessary-quotation-marks-1)
• All but djsunkid - Another nice photo of most of us

i have a culinary gifted friend, part time barman who'll love this, he always does this weird food&drinks experiments in his kitchen

fucking tour de force of culinary expediency

AB is my culinary hero. He does not pretend to be a great chef. He got into the cooking show biz cuz he didn't like the current quality of shows and their lack of specificity. He is a food scientist, not a chef; and he's damn good at it.

Oh yes and on the Applebee's comment, since it was mentioned, other than them not having a salad bar, their food isn't very good, not even when compared to their competitors. I went once, the food was of the quality of a good TV dinner. So while edible and it didn't make me wretch I could have gotten the same results by picking something up in the freezer section then throwing it in my microwave for 4 minutes. I've heard similar reports from people who's culinary pallet's I trust. And while I am not above eating TV dinners I am above eating them at a restaurant. So if Obama really is the sort of person I wouldn't find eating at Applebee's that only goes to show he has good taste.

if it weren't for prostitution, I would've never got that scholarship to culinary school.

Mmm tasty, too bad I can't get good asian food around here. Gonna have to take me a trip to a big city so I can fulfill my culinary needs.

Critique????
Pathetic Comedy.
This geek may have natural birth-control in his genetics, and he must have read the eternal bachelor's remedial kitchen chemistry book if he thinks this amounts to eggplant parmesan.

Let's begin with his cookware.
Absolute shit. Finding any teflon cookware in someone's kitchen is a sure sign they know dick about anything culinary-Cast, stainless, copper, depending....try some Bourgeat or Ruffoni, not Cooksgreat™.

Uggghh....the prep of the eggplant, eggplant with a buncha dark, hardened pulp orlots of dark seeds will be foul, remove some of the stuff before slamming it into egg and crumb, dipshitz.

So you think some Italian breadcrumb will be just fine...plop that tasteless eggplant into tasteless egg mixture and minimally seasoned breadcrumbs from a box, into some tasteless crappy-ass oil, and slap some Ragu and tasteless Mozzerella onnit, bobs yer fuckin' uncle??Yer tastebuds have been frikkin' abused all you life, why not just make a PB&J and wash it down with some moo-juice.

No wonder the stickman here is so sickly pale and uninspiringly witless.

No olive oil, no fresh Parmesan, basil, no is there even a sauce worthy of the dish I could go on and on ad nauseum, of how little this resembles egplant parm, and how much less this guy knows the first thing about preparing anything short of meals accessed by way of opening a tin or tearing the lid from a carton-

upvote to insure this gets published( i would hate to have this diatribe lost in the discard pile)-then we can talk about what to feed geeks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vboc5d8LUu4&eurl=http://www.videosift.com/video/History-of-the-CIA-Culinary-Institute
damn-they disabled the embed-Bastards!!!

Dear VideoSift:

After watching this video I promptly upvoted it, wrote this comment, then took my own life. If it's possible for videos to get more depressing than this then I never want to view another video again.

To DFT: I leave my bio picture of Ron Jeremy. I know he's your hero.
To rottenseed: I leave my avatar, as yours sucks big hairy donkey balls.
To Issykitty: I leave my son's rats. He won't be able to properly care for them without me, so I'm sure you could give them a loving home.
To fjnbk: I leave my good looks, because your avatars are just one ugly motherfucker after another.
To kulpims: I leave this advice: Star Trek TNG has been off the air for over a decade. It's time to move on.
To dag: Advice for you too: Carnal relations with culinary utensils is illegal in many US jurisdictions, so don't come back to the States unless you have a good lawyer.
To Sarzy: Advice abounds: Lose the shades. Miami Vice has been off the air for almost 20 years. That oughta tell you something.
To my15minutes: I give you the few downvotes I've cast to add to your record. Quit being so nice.
To ant: I give you all the upvotes I've cast. You need to have a few upvotes for dick jokes on your resume.
To the rest: I ask that you remember me fondly. I just farted.

Good night, sweet Sift!

They don't go to school just to learn to prepare blowfish.

They are attending culinary art schools. More than likely they hold the equivalent to a bachelors and masters degree.

Even though i submitted the video, I think he is a hack. I am sure there are hundreds of chefs within his caliber level who are nicer human beings. The only thing he has going for him is his Michelin star-winning restaurants, he didn't go to the finest culinary schools nor do I think he's a great chef, his only advice to restaurateurs is to make simple cheap dishes, and once during a cookoff in his past show "the F word", he had a cookoff with one of the Top Gear guys, guess who won in a taste battle? The top gear guy.