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Get Ready For More Alex Guarnaschelli
Published on: September 13, 2009 – 7:40 pm by Jillian Madison 
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Love her or hate her, you’ll soon be seeing a lot more Alex Guarnaschelli on the Food Network. We just got word she’ll be hosting another show, tentatively titled Alex’s Day Off, which is set to premiere on Sunday, October 18th 2009.
Here’s the official description from the Food Network:
Alex Guarnaschelli, professional chef, working mom, and passionate home cook invites you along for a unique culinary journey. Playful, poetic and downright funny she’ll make you think about food and cooking in a whole new way. For Alex, cooking is sensual, personal and pleasurable and she wants to share it with you. Her recipes are down-to-earth, sophisticated, and a bit sassy—just like her. Get ready to be inspired, get ready to laugh, and get ready to cook with Alex!
Thank you, Food Network, for providing all that useless fluff and leaving us with no clue what the hell the show is actually about. The title, Alex’s Day Off, makes it sound like cameras will be following her around while she’s pigging out on vacation somewhere. But the description makes it sound like she’ll be standing around in her kitchen in sweatpants and no make-up, telling jokes and teaching us how to heat waffles on her day off.
Either way, it doesn’t sound like anything I’m dying to watch. Let’s just hope on Alex’s next real day off, she hits up her aesthetician for a facial. Yikes.
We’ll bring you more info on Alex’s new show as soon as it becomes available!
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She doesn’t need to tell us about freezing bacon, thank goodness; that’s already been covered.
At least she’s a professional chef. As opposed to someone who took an Saturday class at the Cordon Blue or married a Frenchman.
Other than that the description sounds like every other FN show.
As long as she’s not so damn angry…Bitter is better left for pills, not FN hosts…
Kudo’s to her agent though, I mean, after her previous show and Chopped, why in the world would / should she get her own show is beyond me…
She just scares me and that pic is terrible! Hey, did anyone notice Alton Brown’s sexy new earring? Oh BOY OH BOY! Skinny now, but cuteeeeeee!
besides Ace of Cakes and Iron Chef, are there any cooking shows on FN that might actually challenge viewers?
to answer my own question, I think Good Eats qualifies.
I’m glad she’s getting her own show. It makes it easier for me to avoid, unlike if she had joined a FN show I actually watch. Which is about three shows.
And dear God, I would greatly appreciate it if The Food Network never again used the word “sensual” in any way when talking about that flesh-colored Grimace.
Sweet Mother of our next President Mitt Romney… that chick looks like a dude! It’s a mother?! We really need to impeach the worthless One-Termer NOW!!! Before more things like that are allowed to own children.
OMG. “Playful, poetic and downright funny”. Who is FN talking about here? They can’t be talking about grumpy, rude, furrow-browed, nasty, mean, hateful, self-righteous Alex “Gu-wanna-piece-of-me”.
Hey, is it April Fools Day? Or am I on Candid Camera?
Sounds like a total rip-off of Food Network Canada’s show, Chuck’s Day Off, except Chuck Hughes is pleasant to watch.
Well done Tuschman you thief.
I bet Ferris’s day off was much more fun.
Also, “impeach”, that’s twice you injected your tired, tired political diatribe as a quasi comment, seriously, do you think we are all as stupid as those you surround yourself with?
Keep the politics on your own forums, and seek help for your illness.
@ Sarah I was thinking the same thing.
@Sarah @Teague
I just googled “Chuck’s day off” and that show does look quite interesting, nice recipes a lot of variety and they do look complex but approachable, like the user would learn something even in trying them.
Also, FN Canada’s web site is so much better then ours :(
I wish we could watch FN canda’s shows, but i tried it said go away yankee this is just for the people of the north. :(
@DesignerJeans – you mean the Canadian site told you to ‘get oot’? Aw, geez, that’s just mean….
Chuck’s Day Off. One handsome chef who owns/operates a restaurant in historic Old Montreal. Premise for his show is that on his day off he cooks for friends, family, suppliers etc…to show his appreciation. Pretty genuine guy.
It will be interesting to see if Chef Alex will do the same considering she has such a nasty disposition and foul attitude.
At least she can actually cook.
Chef Fat Alex is sort of homely uh ? You would think she might put a bit of makeup on.She looks like a greasy little street urchin in that picture.
@ DesignerJeans leave it to FN to be totally unable to even come up with an original name, let alone program idea.
How deliciously bitchy of you to feature THAT photo. **applause**
Why Syd, I have NO idea what you’re talking about!
(hands in pockets, whistling in the air)
Alex is a girl?? That dude been hit very hard with the fugly stick. My God, she got a face that’ll make a train take another set of tracks.
She looks like she needs a shave. And it’s a pretty good bet she needs a major clip and wax down below too.
I personally don’t mind raw Alex. It would be a refreshing change from the superficial super-glam divas like Aunt (hic) Sandy and Giada who are totally bereft of ideas and any real skill. I’ll take substance over form any day!
goddd. i hate her.
why does she get her own show?
ugh.
go to hell! go to hellllllllll!
I think Anne Burrell, aka “Grover” would be a much more interesting individual to follow on a day off. I bet that woman is a real hoot even when no one else is around. She has a zest and zeal for life that is contagious and while I find she uses too much salt for MY tastes (HALT! Don’t start in please! LOL I know the reasons she gives for that, it’s why I said MY tastes), she knows her stuff.
Woot woot! More Anne, less Alex G!
I agree about Anne Burrell, except it seems that Chef Backside is a FN contract player intent on seeing even more of her ugly mug onscreen hoping she too might land a cookbook or cookware deal.
Thank you so much, JustANobody. GROVER!!!
OMG, it’s so obvious now! That’s who the hell she’s been reminding me of–it’s absolutely been buggin’ the livin’ crap out of me ever since I first saw her!
Ahhhh, I feel so at peace now.
when will the disgruntled former employees of butter going to spill the beans on Alex G?
Revedo, omg your post truly made my day with that train analogy.
Cat Chow, the “postal” disgruntled ex-employees won’t come out of the wood work, for all fear the wrath of the “Terminatrix”. They truly believe that she “will be baaaack”! John Conner got off easy, compared to them.
@Dank Dillweed…how can she be a Terminatrix…isn’t sensual Alex playful, poetic and downright funny? LOL :-} Maybe the ex-butter kitchen slaves fear she will track them down and personally sit on them, me thinks.
YW, HermityCrab.
And LOL at “disgruntled Butter slaves” and Alex G sitting on them LOL!
Really, a restaurant named, “Butter”? WHY? That doesn’t even sound appetizing.
@JustANobody – I’m sure Pauler stayed awake for many a night at not having thought about it before, since that name was more apropos to her “culinary” empire.
What an awful pic of her. She looks like she was just released from prison.
She has to keep doing FN shows. If you google her name and read a few online bios, you’ll find she supports a child and her unemployed husband.
This sounds TERRIBLY like Giada at Home. Which is really just another version of Barefoot Contessa but oh well… I bet I’m not the only one dreading it!
So what is it?? Down to earth or sophisticated?
I am not into judging her looks, just her attitude because that seems to be so overpowering I can’t even see her face past the sourness. Even when on Chopped she LIKED a dish, she was upset because she couldn’t find something to complain about. That’s what I don’t like about her. And she gives the stink eye to every chef as she tastes their dish.
She looks like my next door neighbours great grandma from Sicily in that picture.
Oh wonderful . . .
I have a name for her show:
The Condescending Bitch Cooks!
How on earth did her husband procreate with her? Wait, I know! He rolled her in flour and looked for the wet spot.
:::::::waits for collective groan
AG has to be one of the biggest trolls ever trotted out by the powers that be on TFN. If she ever worked in my kitchen I’d show her the working end of the meat tenderizer when she flashed one of those bitchy, nasty faces. She’s a big pus-filled boil on the behind of TFN.
I have enjoyed watching Alex on “Chopped” and especially when she gives one of those looks when she is unhappy….a million words in just one look. I’m looking forward to the show.
She’s horrible! Why would FN give her a show? She’s rude, pretentious, and downright mean. Where does she get off. I hope she gets cancelled.
I never saw alex as all that? I find her dull and when she would critique the food I wondered what planet she was from. In chopped she did make the comment that, that person had made the appetizer and main meal in france but than went to mexico to make the dessert? what in the hell was she implying….So hopefully she won’t be microwaving waffles from france or was it england…she is boring and actually looks boring…
Hahaha! Yeah, who the hell decided to use that picture? It’s like one of those pictures the tabloids use of celebrities to make them look as bad as possible. It looks like she just woke up and rolled out of bed. Not flattering at all to say the least.
I was wondering if I was the only one who found this woman to be a bit bitchy and mean-spirited. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt but I do find her and a large number of judges on “Chopped” to be condescending and arrogant in their judging. Let me stick to just Alex though since this article is about her. These chefs, many of which have accomplished more than her, are busting their asses, with sweat pouring off them, trying to frantically put together a tasty dish with several surprise ingredients in only 30 minutes, and she acts as if the food should be 5-star quality. I like when judges are a bit understanding when it comes to competitions whose judging is largely based on a subjective criteria. That being said, she should be a lot more kind when critiquing the people’s food — and I have found her to be a bit biased.
As for her show, yeah, couldn’t agree more. This just looks like another stock cooking show. I see nothing unique about it at all other than it has a host who is largely unpopular.
Also, I’ve never been to her restaurant, but I haven’t heard anything about it by other posters other than the food “wasn’t anything to write home about”. That means she’s an average to mediocre chef — yet she has her own cooking show…. Wonderful. I also agree the name of her restaurant doesn’t make the food sound very appealing. “Butter”? Not only does that not have a nice ring to it as a name in itself, it makes me think the food there is greasy and fattening, like some cheap diner with a one-dimensional menu.
Wow, you people are real assholes. It’s so easy to sit back and just let loose on people you don’t even know. And what have YOU all accomplished? I’d like to see some of you handle just one day of being an executive chef at a popular restaurant in Manhattan. Or just one day of hosting a TV show. There’s a reason her restaurant continues to be popular, and there’s a reason she continues to be asked to do TV shows. You’d probably have something nasty to say about Julia Child.
In Europe, people are respected for having opinions and stating them. Americans collapse in a faint if someone happens to disagree with them; they take disagreement as a personal insult. She has discerning taste. She criticizes when necessary. She’s tough–why is that so threatening? Her knowledge and experience have afforded her the ability to judge food.
And for those of you making cheap shots about her appearance, that’s simply asinine. That’s the way of a douchebag: make nasty remarks about a person’s (especially a woman’s) appearance to put her down. What does her appearance have to do with anything? And besides, she’s completely lovely looking. Do you idiots look beautiful in every photo you take? Are you all fit and slim with perfectly proportioned figures? Do you judge all your friends, family, and colleagues strictly on their appearance?
To use a literary analogy (for those of you who actually read)… There are readers of Shakespeare and Nabokov; there are readers of Stephenie Meyer and Nora Roberts; and then there are illiterates. You people seem to fall in the latter two categories. You wouldn’t know good taste if it hit you in your collective head.
@Misanthrope – “In Europe, people are respected for having opinions and stating them. Americans collapse in a faint if someone happens to disagree with them; they take disagreement as a personal insult.”
Perhaps you should move to Europe.
@Misanthrope; Wow, did you miss the part about the whole concept of FNH being snarky? You seem to be the one hyperventilating over an “insult”……and it’s someone else being insulted. No more caffeine for you!
And Impeach Obama…..take the politics elsewhere. I for one come here to get away from that crap.
I think Chef ButterButt has everything coming to her.
Quite frankly I feel as if her presence on Chopped and any other FN program where they call upon her to participate just ruins any hope of bringing the viewers a level of enjoyment.
She is a total bitchy buzz killer. It’s not her stage presence. Behaviour like her’s is indicative of some serious issues. You can’t fake that nastiness.
Misanthrope, I’m really glad you came here to tell us of your advanced reading levels and Continental worldliness.
You should just pick up your phone, call Chef Alex and tell her that respect and honor are earned, not given, and she should be ashamed of her deplorable behaviour. It not good for the culinary arts, either here or in Europe.
I suspect Misanthrope is Chef Alex.
@Misanthrope. All the training and education in the world doesn’t give a person the right to treat people in a nasty fashion just because that person can. Chef Alex could be so much more influential if she just acted with manners, grace, and treated others with respect. Furthermore, Chef Alex (oops, I mean Misanthrope), your comments are no less judgmental than the ones you are complaining about. Not one bit.
Finally a great cooking show. I look forward to what Alex will be cooking next. Real Inspiring.
I am a huge fan of Alex. I like how she is blunt and honest. In the food industry (my brother is an executive chef) you need a thick skin. Plus, if you go on a food competition show, the entire point is to be judged and critiqued. I have been to Butter (Alex’s restaurant in NYC) and it was the most incredible meal I have ever had. Not only was she on the line cooking that night, when things slowed down she came out to our table (only after we requested a visit) to say hello. She was great and was very personable and talked about Chopped a lot when we asked. Remember, as viewers we only see what editors and producers want us to see. We don’t see Alex talking to contestants after the show and telling them what great chefs they are and how they shouldn’t get discouraged by having a bad day that happened to be the same day they were chosen for the show. So, before you make judgements I urge you to go to the restaurant and meet her for yourself. I did and it was an amazing experience!
Finally, a down to earth, real cook….glad to see a “nice italian girl” make it…all the above comments of negativity show jealousy…she made it; you didn’t…brava alex…we love you….show those silly goons up – and you’ll be the one to do it…
I think there is an excessive amount of ego that most chefs seem to have. To me I find it rather silly because after all it is only food and cooking techniques.Imagine if the rest of us were to act like that in our professions? I get it it that some chefs are seriously gifted.Some are creative geniuses. But that being said so are a lot of us and it is never ok to act out and deliberately talk down to or mistreat another person.Especially in front of people.I am a nurse who works with genius nurses doctors and clinicians daily..you would think we would be the ones acting like spoiled self important divas BUT it seems to be the chefs who have the over inflated idea of their own importance.Come on people you are preparing food NOT finding a cure for cancer…lets keep it in perspective.