Today I look at the latest new food and cooking shows of this winter season. Give a nod to some of the best shows that have been on a while, and look forward to the first signs of Spring. Seems Punxsutawney Phil came out of his burrow, saw his shadow made by a creme brulee torch, and predicted two of our top favorite shows will be returning in just a few weeks.

Oh and with this article, I start the first ever reviews complete a star rating system. That said, let’s begin with the latest crop of new programs. Are they feast or famine?

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©2008 Harry Kenney

Wolfgang is Back!

… with his show simply called Wolfgang Puck. Now I have to admit I missed the first few of the new shows already. Because, quite candidly, not watching too much Fine Living (FL) channel, I see only a few of their commercials. In short I had no idea it existed until several days into it’s run.

Ok, wait, this isn’t a knock on the FL channel as I do watch several of their shows, it’s just fewer shows than the Food Network (FN) as FL does a variety of programming, most of which I’m not as interested in. That said, their take on food and beverage, the shows they’ve come up with often show even more innovation than FN does. Let me save this for later below and get back to “Wolfy”.

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The Food Network (FN) is a strange animal. I liken it to my cat. My cat does what she wants. She’s sweet one moment, a disaster the next. She shows surprising brilliance usually as well as amazing acrobatic skills. At other times she takes her favorite little ball and purposely sticks it under the sofa and pushes it so far in so she can no longer get to it any more, to her own detriment. She’ll also make a jump from the floor up to the window, a move she’s done thousands of times, and every once in a while inexplicably misshoot it and fall to the ground dazed. Silly cat!

She’s often entertaining, my cat, and overall I do adore her. But quite often she gets in wild and weird moods, running around the house super fast and going no where, scratching things she shouldn’t. and behaving in ways just plain annoying and which make me wonder just what is going through that furry little mind of hers.

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