The Next Food Network Star just wrapped up its 11th season, and the reality competition show is simultaneously everything that's right and wrong with the Food Network today. What's right about it is that TNFNS (pronounced "ti-NIF-niss" in my house) is Food Network's ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  May 24, 2016

Someday, eventually, Guy Fieri's reign of culinary terror will end and the most widely recognized chef in this country won't be someone who couldn't desecrate food more if he literally took a shit on it. In time, our culture will finally exile this human Ed Hardy t-shirt to the ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 17, 2016

(Photo: Jay Cheses) The scathing 2012 New York Times review of food terrorist and human Ed Hardy t-shirt Guy Fieri's Times Square pig trough is by now the stuff of legend. It's sincerely one of the great literary achievements of our time and if you haven't yet read it I'd ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 17, 2016

There are no words to appropriately describe Guy Fieri. This could be why every item on the menu at his new Las Vegas eatery -- we'll call it an eatery because "food abortion clinic" doesn't have the same ring to it -- keeps with the bold Fieri tradition of mangling not only ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 17, 2016

When I tell you that hack celebrity chef and douchebag Rosetta Stone Guy Fieri (née: just plain old Guy Ferry) got into a very public fight with his hairdresser, the correct response is -- well, yeah, that makes sense. But when you actually see that fight -- in which ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 17, 2016

By Chez Pazienza: Anyone who's listened to me and Bob Cesca rail like bitter old guys against the various tyrannies of the world on our podcast knows that there's one subject besides politics that we bring up over and over again. Something that elicits from us both anger and ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Nov 9, 2018