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Bourdain's mission is to show the cool, un-Martha side of the culinary world. And after nearly two years of ranting about the Food Network's glossy simplification of cooking through such celebrity chefs as Emeril Lagasse and Bobby Flay, Bourdain will join them. Starting Jan. 8, at 10:30 p.m., he will appear on the network's 22-episode run of his half-hour travel show, A Cook's Tour, a companion to his book of the same name (Bloomsbury; $25.95; 274 pages). In Kitchen Confidential, which became a surprise best seller, Bourdain drew a super-testosteroned picture...
...half the time, on East Meets West, Tsai cooks expert fusion fare. The other half, on his new food-adventure show Ming's Quest, he's diving for sea urchins, falling off horses or staring down alligators like the Crocodile Hunter. Likewise, Bobby Flay and Mario Batali have taken their chef stars on the road in their own travel series. As Tsai puts it, "The network wanted to get us out of the kitchen." The few remaining hard-core cooking shows succeed because they have a gimmick, like Sara Moulton's stump-the-chef call-in show Cooking Live...
Ober wanted to move the channel away from the "dump and stir" studio-chef programs. The Food Network has plenty of those, including such personality-rich star chefs as Emeril Lagasse and Bobby Flay. And though Finch didn't know food, she did know how to make great television. So she took Ming Tsai, already a star of his own studio cooking show, and created Ming's Quest, sending the handsome, athletic Tsai on rollicking adventures--a sort of extreme-cooking show. On a journey to the Everglades, he fried a gator on a set rigged together in the swamp...
...places to take the kids. Does she miss "hard news"? "People who in all those years were never knocked out by what I did now come up to me at cocktail parties," Finch says, laughing. "They want to know, 'Can I get a ticket to Emeril? What is Bobby Flay like?'" Not bad for a nonfoodie who says her favorite foods are still broccoli and macaroni and cheese...
...competition itself was very real. The battle ended with the kind of anger usually reserved for NHL playoff games. "He is not a chef," Morimoto declared after seeing Flay, upon completing his meal, jump on a table, point his palms toward the sky and yell, "Raise the roof, yo!" to the audience. Morimoto walked away disgusted. "He stood upon the cutting board. Cutting boards and knives are sacred to us," Morimoto said. Imagine what the Japanese would make of screaming Cajun chef Emeril Lagasse...