Fred Smoot, Next Food Network Star
The Next Food Network Star is one of my summer TV guilty pleasures. Just about any cooking reality show can safely be classed as one of my guilty pleasures, actually, but I feel particularly guilty about NFNS this season, largely because I can't stand any of the contestants. I'm sure they're all perfectly lovely people, but I have no interest in watching any of them host anything.
This has put a real damper on my enjoyment of the show, and I've spent a disproportionate amount of time trying to think of how it could be improved next season. Up until today, the best suggestion I had come up with was eliminating multiple contestants in one episode, but a video on NFL.com has provided an option that I really should've thought of myself:
The Food Network -- much like professional bowling and radio color commentary -- needs Fred Smoot. Check out this tour of the team's dining area from NFL Total Access:
He's got a distinct culinary point of view -- count how many times he mentions the rich food heritage of his Mississippi upbringing -- and excellent camera presence. Sure, in the course of this brief video he misidentifies quail as "river pigeon" and needs Colt Brennan's help to make a smoothie, but is that so much worse than anything this year's NFNS contestants have done?
No, no it isn't. Once Smoot's done with the whole bowling thing, this is what absolutely needs to be next.
This has put a real damper on my enjoyment of the show, and I've spent a disproportionate amount of time trying to think of how it could be improved next season. Up until today, the best suggestion I had come up with was eliminating multiple contestants in one episode, but a video on NFL.com has provided an option that I really should've thought of myself:
The Food Network -- much like professional bowling and radio color commentary -- needs Fred Smoot. Check out this tour of the team's dining area from NFL Total Access:
He's got a distinct culinary point of view -- count how many times he mentions the rich food heritage of his Mississippi upbringing -- and excellent camera presence. Sure, in the course of this brief video he misidentifies quail as "river pigeon" and needs Colt Brennan's help to make a smoothie, but is that so much worse than anything this year's NFNS contestants have done?
No, no it isn't. Once Smoot's done with the whole bowling thing, this is what absolutely needs to be next.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-08-2009 @ 1:05PM
David said...
Uh oh, careful or you're going to piss off someone who does a 10 hour long weekly podcast on cooking :).
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7-09-2009 @ 10:16AM
lou22152 said...
hahaha good one David!
7-08-2009 @ 1:26PM
Adam said...
Smoot is awesome. But man, listening to those two guys with that Mississippi accent, it's like a foreign language.
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7-08-2009 @ 5:14PM
lizkauai said...
Ya just gotta love how the Redskins players are coming on in the offseason. Smoot is a total hoot!
It just feels like 2009/10 is going to be a total breakout season. Energy is rising!
HTTR!
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7-08-2009 @ 8:20PM
randy_hawkins said...
Couldn't go a blog entry without mentioning Colt Brennan, eh?
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7-09-2009 @ 2:19PM
fj.hamilton said...
Bruce Smith parked his Smoot's car on the highway?! Hahahaha!!
You should do a segment called "When We Were Rookies" and have them tell stories of hazing and all the madness.
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7-09-2009 @ 4:18PM
Aidan.Dewey said...
As much as I LOVE Fred Smoot...
If anybody is going to be the NFNS (I'm down with the lingo), then it has to be Randy Thomas.
http://blog.redskins.com/2009/01/26/monday-january-25-cooking-with-randy-thomas/
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7-09-2009 @ 6:47PM
fbcstan said...
I am with you this NFNS is not even close to as good as the others and if the Gay guy says he wants to make out with Bobby again I will no longer watch it. Maybe we can get Smoot or Randy on there to set him straight.
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7-10-2009 @ 2:02PM
CA BRAVE said...
River birds and river pigeon really wets my appetite!
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7-14-2009 @ 9:14AM
BlaketheMega said...
Fred Smoot, by all accounts, seems to actually be one of those "good guys" sportscasters and analysts talk about when speaking of Brandon Marshall, PacMan Jones, or Bill Romanowski. I've never heard any of them call a duck a duck and say that some of these players were terrible guys although we know some of them were. Hail Smoot and the Skins D.
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