Food Porn? You ain't kidding!
Devotees of the Food Network have often called its programming "food porn" — they lovingly portray the cooking (and especially the eating) of food as an orgasmic experience for the senses. The worst (or, depending on your point of view, best) offender is Giada De Laurentiis, the host of Everyday Italian. She cooks lavishly photographed Italian cuisine in low-cut tops that show off her cleavage. She gets so into the descriptions of her food while wearing such boob-intense clothing, that the food porn sometimes just looks and sounds like plain porn without the sex scenes.
But I have never seen anything like Ms. De Laurentiis' new special Giada In Paradise, where she travels to Greece and eats all sorts of local food and even — get this — goes for a luxurious swim in a sequence that looked (lots of slow fade-ins and outs, and at one point she actually materialized on the screen out of nowhere) and sounded (sleazy wakka-cha-wakka techno music) like an actual pornographic film. Seriously, Mel and I have been sitting her for the last 40 minutes just watching with our mouths hanging open in shock. I mean this thing is pitched way wrong. Everyone wants to travel, sure, and you should make these places seem fun and romantic. But, dude, not this romantic. Unintentional hilarity alert people!
I wanted to post some pictures or a YouTube of this insanity, but there's nothing available yet. If it pops up, I will post here. But according to FoodTV.com, it's playing again tomorrow night (Sunday) at 9 PM. It's the perfect Father's Day present for your food porn lovin' Dad!
UPDATE: Giada is wearing a see-thru white dress to go stomp grapes for wine. And she just said "But first things first — I've gotta wash my feet!!" Oh boy...
posted by Matt Singer @ 9:35 PM
1 Comments:
Giada's hot. They're definitely going for that 18-34 year old male demo there. I love her semi-retarded comments on the flavors of the food. Like she'll throw in some peanuts and garlic or something and then taste it when it's done and say, "Mmm, you can really taste the peanuts and garlic! There's this sweetness, but also this saltiness, bitterness, and/or sourness, too. Soo good!"
If you want to see some more (un)intentional soft-core porn disguised as an informative hobbyist show, check out "The Natalie Gulbis Show" on the Golf Channel. Looks like it's on Wednesdays. My dad watches it, or at least he used to. But for the golf tips, of course. Only for the golf tips.
Another show on the Golf Channel that has similar sex appeal is "The Big Break," golf's version of The Contender or The Apprentice or Top Chef or America's Next Top Model or God knows what else. I think this is the show Natalie Gulbis was "discovered" on.
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