In my opinion, the network didn’t really need Adam or Lisa, both offered the same things the network already had.

Adam is quirky and funny, but so is Guy Fieri and Ted Allen. And Lisa’s Beautiful Basics was just another variation of other shows with female hosts already on the network.

The network needed Aaron, a black male to kind of contrast with G. Garvin, who is on TVOne and the top black, male celebrity chef in the business.

I am very happy with Aaron’s appearance not only on the Neelys but on CBS and his own show. Check this out.

Aaron McCargo Jr’s Blog: Big Daddy’s House Scores Big Daddy Ratings.

Please post using your own name(s). Now I will retire this name so anything posted under this name is from a pretender.

I was finished watching Aaron at exactly 1:30 and about forty-one seconds.

I think the Food Network should have a show where Guy Fieri, the Neelys, Sunny and Aaron all cook at once. Aaron can keep yelling “Whooooo!” in the background while Guy, in the foreground, looks at the camera and says “That’s money, bro!” Sunny can chortle simultaneously and ask “How’d that get on MY plate?” And the Neelys can grope each other’s potatoes on-camera.

That’s entertainment, yo.

-B-

PS Props to Lightbulb for an observation from July 25th: “Sweet. More Coke the Van.”

LOL…

Did you go to early service? I did so I am just going to say: have a great day.

Pertend to be the half Native American side. You missed the mark on the black side.

Unfortunately, your productivity does not extend to proper grammar usage. When “speaking your mind,” please learn to spell and correctly use apostrophes. Otherwise, you will simply continue to wallow in your own stupidity. It is people like you who hinder the progress of Booker T. Washington, Dr. King, and Barack Obama. You are an embarrasment not only yourself but to the black community as a whole. HBU should be ashamed to have granted you a degree.

Furtermore, I am not ‘pertending.’ I am half black, half Native American.

Back on topic, my favorite of the three was Lisa.

Please, you don’t know me. First you are not black so stop pertending. You never watched the show did you? You are just somebody wanting to get in on this board and hide behind a keyboard.

Aaron won the first challenges, He and his group won the next challenge, and it was the third challenge that Martha Stewart said his product was the most marketable. He went on to wen two or three more challenges.

Do’nt tell me what the black community needs. I have been a productive part of my community for years. I am the product of a HBU so I was taught to speak my mind.

“your ill-advised, insulting protection.” What?????

Fat Lady Sings, as a black male, your condascending, racist tone is highly offensive. Neither Aaron nor the black commnunity needs your ill-advised, insulting protection.

I am not angry. I am addressing other blogers like you and everyone else.

Just because you don’t like what I said doest not mean I an unhappy and angry,

I have lived on this earth more than 55 years. It is going to take more than a reality show to angry me.

We down here in the Bayou will be jumping.
“Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez”

Being the caring person you are..Aaron’s son is back and was at the viewing party with his family.

Just make sure you know where your child/children are and what they are doing before celebrating the pain of another parent.

Lisa -Ina Garten new series on Food Network –beginning in October, 2008 – will also be titled Barefoot Contessa – Back to Basics.

Adam -Aida Mollenkamp will prepare delicious dishes while providing answers to questions submitted by Food Network viewers (by internet) in her new interactive cooking show, Ask Aida.”

Ina’s been on TV for at least 6 years. One of her specialties is French food made simple. Isn’t that what Lisa was trying to sell? If you’re going to pitch a show to a network, it’s probably wise to pick someting they don’t already have. (Not that it matters on the FN; they recycle the same ideas over and over)…

I’ve actually seen Aida on TV in a show similar to this as far back as May, I think. Maybe it was a limited run to see if there was enough interest for it to be picked up for a full season? It’s hard to say which came first unless someone knows when the NFNS shows were taped. Aida is the editor of the food website Chow.com — If I remember the episode where Adam pitched his show correctly, it seemed to me that Gordon Elliot fed the show style to Adam, not that Adam came up with it on his own.

Is it true that Bobbie Flay is part owner of the FN? If so, no wonder Adam, the grillmeister didn’t get anywhere. Bobbie Flay doesn’t seem like the sort of person who likes any real competition….

I, for one, am tired of BOTH sets of folks — those who criticize Aaron’s detractors for being racist, and those who overly criticize him. Let’s remember that these contestants are all human beings, worth at least a bit of dignity, but everyone should be allowed to voice their opinion without a nagging undercurrent of suspicion of racism. Let’s leave racist undertones out of it, for the good of us all.

http://www.picbuddy.com/images/user_files/w1/greg/Chicago%202006/videos/mccargo-fine-edit.divx

I noticed now there is something else to pick at regarding Aaron and the comment about eating disorder. We all have said something that can be considered inappropriate.

Lisa made the comment …..Treating the Mac & Cheese dish like a stepchild. Do you know how many children have been abused by Step-parents? Those of us reared by step- parents/adopted parents have experience some things and that comment was inappropriate.

Give it a rest…AARON WON …it not going to change…Even though the show was aired Sunday, the competition has been over for a while and I am sure Lisa has moved on….I know Aaron has.

This is my last point: With all the second guessing of the FN’s winner; I am sure they will work very hard to prove everyone wrong. GO AARON…