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Next Food Network Star Winner: Melissa D’Arabian
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Melissa D’Arabian beat the “ingredient smuggler” Jeffrey Saad in tonight’s incredibly boring season finale of Next Food Network Star. She flew under the radar every week, and pretty much bored us to tears the entire time. At least Debbie Lee got people talking, and Michael Proietti got people laughing. Melissa D’Arabian just had us reaching for our No-Doz.
If you didn’t participate in our live-blog of the event, here’s your chance to speak up! What did you think of the season? Did the right person win? Will you watch Melissa’s show? Were you as underwhelmed by it all as we were?
(I don’t know about you guys, but the up-close 80s Glamourshot of Melissa they flashed during tonight’s episode is going to give me nightmare for a week. She looks like a demonic Texan bank teller from hell. Hmm… I wonder if her Nanny took the photo while teaching her how to speak Spanish?)
UPDATE: Melissa’s new show will be called Ten Dollar Dinners with Melissa D’Arabian, and it’s going to premiere on Sunday, August 9th, at 12:30 EST after Sandra’s Money Saving Meals. On the show, Melissa will be sharing money saving tips and preparing dinners for a family of 4 on a $10 budget.
There’s frugal, and then there’s just ridiculous. $10 for a family of four? Let me guess, each person gets 5 strands of dry spaghetti and a crust of 3-day old bread?
Sandra’s money saving tips haven’t been very helpful thus far (“Buy in bulk! Boxed pasta is cheaper than fresh pasta!”) Will Melissa’s Melissa’s advice be any better? If the video clip on the FN dish blog is any indication, no. Melissa suggested we prevent waste by buying “wine that is inexpensive enough to cook with, but tasty enough to drink.” Ya don’t say!
At first glance, Melissa’s new set is bright, blue, and very cheap looking. The back wall is tiled with ugly white grout, which unfortunately makes it look and feel like she’s cooking in one of the old shower stalls at my college dorm. Are they setting her up to fail? Does the network really need another homemaker offering up obvious money saving tips?
Stay tuned! We’ll have more info as it becomes available!
Other posts on Food Network Humor:
---FNH Review: $10 Dinners With Melissa D’Arabian---Twitter Conversations: Melissa D’Arabian’s $10 Dinners
---A Note To FNH Readers From Melissa d’Arabian
---Next Food Network Star Finale: And The Winner Is…
---Sandra Lee’s Money Saving Tips O’ The Week
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“Kindergarten Cooking” would be a better name for this lame show. If Melissa is pg, FN knew that they wouldn’t have to film more than one short season of “Ten Dollar Dinners”.
I’d like to know how it’s possible that Mommy Dearest INVENTED glazed carrots. And while we’re on the subject of carrots, can someone explain how they are versitile? Her explaination was that you can eat them as a snack or use them in recipes….yeah, and you can do the same with celery, tomato, lettuce, cabbage, yada yada yada. I guess she should probably think about what she says before she says it because it makes her sound ignorant. And could we please drain the grease off the meatballs before we pour it in the tomato sauce. That was gross and disgusting. She also made my spine shiver when she scraped those big horse teeth on the fork as she tasted that crap she made. I HATE that! Ok, I’m done ranting (at least for this week).
your an ignorant son of a b**** why don’t you learn some manners. didn’t your mom teach you anything. stop judging and being a stalker to her. you need to grow up mama’s boy. go to hell.
Lynn, you nailed it! FN took Jeffrey’s POV! It’s ingredient smuggler cheerleader!
Did you notice how many times she either said ‘cheap, inexpensive, bulk or savings’? I lost count at 17. Think FN got bombarded with everyone saying–it’s NOT $10?
Today I learned from Melissa that: 1. Lemon zest adds lemon taste and 2. Canned tomatoes add tomato taste.
Really?
Well, I watched her first show, and it will be the LAST one I will watch. She is BORING and condencending. I also wonder where the “working mom” went. That is what I expected to see, but she didn’t show ANYTHING about being a “working mom” JUST BORING !! YOU GUYS DFFINATELY PICKED THE WRONG ONE THIS TIME !!!!
JUN – check out the recipe for harisa on the internet. It takes 10 minutes and you probably have all the ingredients already. The sandwich is a killer. I also went to Red Lobster and had Jeffrey’s seafood dish. It was a bit pricey for lunch at $18.50 but well worth the money after I tried it.
lil late on this one, but, Jeffrey the ingredient smuggler??
How bout Jeffy the Turd Burglar?? Thank God he didn’t win. Those introspective shots of him looking out over the ocean or off a balcony and whatnot made me wanna hurl.
Bores me to tears. Untalented, uninteresting, and basically unwatchable.
We rooted for her from the beginning. Look forward to her show in January. She looks like a good clean person that you would welcome into your home. We would rather see her on a weekday slot, some of us go to church on Sunday.
Loved Melissa’s show when does it come back on? I have not been able to find the date and time. Any updates would be great.
@Debra Ulmer, “Loved Melissa’s show when does it come back on? I have not been able to find the date and time.”
On FN, click ‘Chefs’, then choose Melissa’s picture when it comes up, then click on ‘$10 Dinners’ and right at the top it says ‘New Season Jan 2010′
This is a HUMOR site and Melissa is routinely critiqued. I personally hope her show never returns, but everyone’s entitled to their own opinion.
Is this supposed to be a humor website? How com I’m not laughing. I’d like to watch more of Melissa’s shows but unfortunately I don’t see her $10 shows anymore. Are there anymore shows for Melissa coming? Hope before the holidays. That would be wonderful. She has great tips that sound and taste delicious. Thank you.
Zeny,Melissa’s new shows started back in March at 12:30 pm (EST) on Sundays.
I was glad that Melissa won but I saw one of her shows and the food looked pretty bad. She was trying to tell us that kids LOVE Moroccan meatballs. Huh? I always watch this contest when it’s on and really enjoy it but I think they should revamp it and just throw a bunch of money at the winner – not give them their own inevitable flop of a show. Guy Fieri has made it work for him (groan….stop with the surfer dude talk) but that must have been a fluke. Use a napkin once in a while, man.
I have tried all of Milissa meals, from the start. She cooks very good. I am a chef, had a Rest. all my life. I have checked her prices, very good.
Only thing you people should do is let her cook what she wants. Why did you put her at $10.00 Meals, it is you people fault. Leave her alone.
melissa show I Love, take Paula Off, I am from Ga, she is a Fake……….
Yeah, right, you’re a chef.
Whew…
when she suddenly played the “S” card (suicide–of parent)
I just couldn’t believe it.
I’m glad they showed it and didn’t cut it.
but i thought, ‘this gal will do anything.”
……….
Back to Tony Bourdain until I cancel my cable service.
I watched Melissa’s six segments and tried almost all of her meals. I made the Moroccan meatballs and the cumin-infused glazed carrots and I can tell you they were a big hit with my dinner guests, one of whom was an 11-year-old – in fact, I think she was the biggest fan of all. She has asked when I’m going to make them for her again! Melissa needs to work out the herky-jerky movements and choppy conversation, but maybe that will come in time. I think she just doesn’t have the on-camera experience to do an effortless show yet. My husband and I both watched every episode of Next Food Network Star and we could not abide watching Jeffrey and his goofy behavior and insistence on being the “Ingredient Smuggler. He got on our last nerve. I’m sure he’s a nice guy and has some creative ideas, but he rubbed us both the wrong way so badly that we would never have watched him on his own show. Melissa came across as having more general food/cooking knowledge and I think that was important to her credibility and her win. I just watched Melissa’s newest segment and, to add to someone’s comment in a previous post, she looks pregnant to me (but I don’t know for sure.) She was a little more relaxed during the newest segment of the New Year…but not a lot. I guess only time will tell. I can assuredly say that I love her recipes and so do my guests. As for her success on the Food Network, I think she will only pull it off if she can get the choppiness out of her voice and get the frenetic behavior under control.
I like Melissa and she is slowly getting used to being on camera.I see some Mexican gal named Marcela will be hosting a new show on FN( Mexican Made Easy ).Did they dump Ingrid Hoffmann?I’m glad they dumped Michael Chiarello.Another gal I don’t care for is that snob Alex G.Her other show didn’t last long but I did enjoy her part when she ate this hot dog ( Best Thing I Ever Ate )at this place in Conn.( next to a hardware store ).I like Robin Miller but they axed her a year or two ago and show the old shows in the am.I always laughed at the filming in that fancy house in Conn. coz she lives in Scottsdale,Ariz.
we call it SNOTTSDALE around here for a reason…
@ foodness …sorry I’m like a year late! ;)
At “Snottsale” -yes we call it that…when we don’t live there!!! I grew up west valley & definately used the name but now that I live here, it’s not so snotty. Until you run into Robin Miller at your childs school. Seriously the woman doesn’t think her poop stinks!!
I wanted to like World’s Worst Cook but thought the first episode pretty dopey and kept wondering who did Anne Burrell’s lousy makeup job? She’s lost weight and looks terrific EXCEPT for the horrible new makeup look. Having seen her for years on Iron Chef and her own show we’re used to her spiky whitish hair and bubbly charm but I just don’t think Worst Cook is a very good show and the lack of chemistry between the two head chefs is apparent.
Hello to all:
Food Network personalities are just that – Who is tbe best personality to stand in front of a TV camera for 22 minutes (8 minutes of commercials) and deliver an entertaining show. It is not just a matter of what they cook or prepare. Notice that many don’t “bake roasts or chickens in ovens” that takes hours to prepare. People today don’t want to work meals with ovens and the 1 – 3 hours of cooking time that an oven takes. They want to do skillet cooking which is really heating up food and browning it until it is eatable.
Melissa is a pretty woman and has personality. The camera is all about who “looks” good on TV. The Food Network is not so much concerned about FOOD as it is with profit in running an alternative TV network. Food just happens to be the solid theme of the network. Not movies or sit-coms or new shows or sports. It’s FOOD.
But, you have to have a pretty or good looking personality who can talk for 22 minutes before the camera. You can’t have someone who can only say: “Measure 1 cup of flour and add a pinch of salt.” You need people who can tell stories about themselves and their life’s experiences that people can listen to while they watch the food preparations.
Remember, it’s all about getting money from sponsors for the shows. Commercials. The Network sells commercial time for 8 minutes of every half-hour show. MONEY… who can “bring home the bacon!”
OK? Be well.
Larry from Illinois
I skipped over this post before. I’m sorry now. Oh, oh so very sorry.
Nobody’s lips should shine like that.
And “ten dollars” is a joke. I’ll bet both ovaries that woman has never had to send something back from the checkout line because she went two bucks over budget.
The tuna/bread salad episode featured conspicuous product flashes, especially of the “special IMPORTED tuna” which “only costs a few cents more”! Sheesh. Even if she bought clear Boone’s Farm instead of white wine, that booze would set her back three bucks.
Maybe there are grocery stores where you can bribe a clerk with a handjob so he’ll look the other way while you stuff kalamata olives down your bra.
I think Debbie should have one FN needs an Asian cook, and I know one reason they didnt like her was becuase she only cooked Asian food but I liked that because you dont see a lot of shows centered around Asian food.