I read on Pop Candy this morning that the Travel Channel will be premiering a show on February 2nd called Deep Fried.  As if this country needed to think about food that will get them even fatter, the show will focus on Chicken Charlie, a man from southern California that has developed quite a following [...]

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Last month, So Good got an e-mail update from the road. Friend of the blog, Chef Mike, while in Cleveland, happened to catch an episode of the USA show Psych. While I’ve never seen the show myself, Chef Mike explained that the main characters on the show are big food lovers. On this episode, the [...]

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Despite a number of recommendations, I have never watched a single episode of Sons of Anarchy on FX. That said, according to Brand Channel, the cable show has found a clever way to highlight products in their shows, particularly in the case of Jameson Irish Whiskey. As you can see in the photo above, taken from the [...]

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You remember Marcel Vigneron, that tiny hair-sculpting man-child from Top Chef. Here’s a reminder in the form of a Youtube mash-up. Season 2 winner Ilan sums up the other contestants feelings toward Marcel. Ah, to pee on Marcel. Anyways, according to sources, Marcel will be hosting a cooking show on Syfy Network (formally the Sci [...]

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Someone recently pointed out to me that there were at least 3 cake-making shows on television these days. I’ve blogged about this before, but the whole “It works on one network, let’s inundate five other networks with frail copycats” thesis doesn’t work. How many people even know that “Chopped” exist, let alone that it tries [...]

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A press release just hit my inbox announcing the 10 competitors on the upcoming season of The Next Food Network Star, which premieres June 7th.  Notable among them, at least for DC residents, is Teddy Folkman, the Executive Chef at Granville Moore’s.  Granville’s is located on H st. in the NE quadrant of Washington, DC, [...]

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Food Network is not particularly known for its innovation.  Iron Chef America is a version of Japan’s Iron Chef.  Jeff Corwin has a show that directly echoes Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods.  Meanwhile, Will Work for Food is essentially Dirty Jobs with a more annoying, somehow whiter host with food-related jobs.  Now we have Chopped, which [...]

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Editors Note: This post is the first “official”  So Good post by Cary, So Good’s newest contributor.   Cary is probably well known to any regular readers as he has been an active commenter since So Good launched in August of 2007.  He was also in the same sketch comedy group as me in college, for [...]

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One of my favorite parts of the holidays is food, which should not come as a surprise to anyone.  Watching TV recently, it came to mind how toned-down a lot of the holiday food ads have become.  I will admit to being unabashedly nostalgic about my childhood, but don’t the ads below take you to a [...]

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Last week I watched the first two episodes of Man v. Food (off of my DVR…dumbasses scheduled it head-to-head with Top Chef) and enjoyed them quite a bit.  I plan on hitting up my DVR after Top Chef to watch the next two episodes tonight, where the host travels to Pittsburgh and Columbus.  Challenges tonight [...]

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