demiglaze and Bobby Flay - was, Re: [Sca-cooks] demi-glace

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach Gorgeous Muiredach:

>Just let's not confuse demi-glace with glace, the later being reduced
>solely by reduction.

You mean thickened by reduction, no? I agree, they're very different,
but I think it's covered by the different names. One is a glaze, the
other halfway there ;-) .

>>[* with the exception of Bobby Flay, who, while not a French chef,
>>has never worked a day in a kitchen in his life...]
>
>I would have to concur with Adamantius here.  Now, there's one who along
>with Emeril really grates on my nerves, and whom, unlike Emeril, appears to
>have no cooking concepts whatsoever, plus he's an *ssh*le :-)

In all honesty, cookery is a field with a _lot_ of very creative
people, and when one creative person makes it big over another, one
can expect a fair number of "sour grapes" reactions. However, that
said, Flay is a living, breathing, marketing ploy, sprung from his
own forehead like Athena from Zeus'.

I'm pretty sure he was an unemployed art student who could barely
boil water when he managed to talk several of his friends into
opening a restaurant strong on booze and light on a rather simple
menu concept, with his name on the dotted line as chef of record.
Thus was born the Mesquite Grill on 13th Street and First Avenue in
New York, whose food vastly improved after he left the place to open
the Mesa Grill. He used to work about four days a week, maybe five or
six hours a day, didn't know what the h*ll he was doing, and made
himself a star on the backs of others who made the place a success
not because of, but in spite of, his involvement.

When I dealt with him, every person he met for the first time was
greeted with, "Listen, I know you think I'm a kid and have no
experience, but I really do know what I'm doing. I really am a real
chef." I guess he could read minds.

Well, he is definitely good at something, but I wouldn't trust him to
cook me a hamburger. Come to think of it, I worked with the man for
four months and never saw him cook anything. Ever.

Adamantius