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

[Elaine Koogler]

Thanks for your information.  I thought there was something awfully fakey
about him.  And now, I see that the whole package is fake.  But....how did
he manage to at least hold his own on Iron Chef?  Even though we know that
he lost the first battle...and made a major A** of himself when he did, he
did win the second (and we figure he was "given" that one because of the
temper tantrum he threw during the first one), he did at least seem to know
his way around the kitchen.  In view of what you're saying, he must have had
some heavy-duty coaching!

Kiri
----- Original Message -----

> 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