The only cookery show (if you can call it that) I watch.

I've made it my gastronomical mission to visit as many of the restaurants featured on the show as possible. So far fifteen have been sampled and thoroughly enjoyed. However I've yet to undertake any of the food challenges. Although I've shuffled out of many feeling like I just have. It's when walking from the restaurant through the parking lot to the car, induces a light sweat on the brow and an impromptu rest in the car, that indicates you might have had a tad too much. You know it's job well done.



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MVF Nation just isn't the same...

I have a similar ambition with Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.

Having visited 38 of the 50 states and eaten in a variety of restaurants, drive-thrus, roadside diners, truckstops etc. A few observations I can pass on:

Don't ever order 'grits' unless you are partial to a packet of solvite using only 1/3rd of the recommended water

'Biscuits' should never be served at breakfast, especially the usual ones that appear to be made from tri-wall cardboard

Gravy is not white in colour. I don't give a fook what it tastes like, gravy should be brown

I can handle Adam Richman on M v F.
On the contrary, DDD's Guy Fieri is an absolute tool.
I'd take pleasure in knocking the Yankee stereotype right the fook out.

tb used to do all the cooking in our household – until I decided that I wanted to learn to cook and took over the kitchen.

I do the vast majority in our gaff, too. I'm better at it than my wife and I'm not a misogynistic stain, so it seems to make sense.

Just lightly fried a tuna steak in a smattering of olive oil.
Added a drop of balsamic vinegar and red chillies in white wine vinegar to the pan once seared on both sides.
Placed it on a bed of basmati rice mixed with finely chopped spring onion and vine tomato's.

Tasted nice.

Likewise.

I can remember the Triple D episode with the old couple who had done I think it was 300 locations from the series. That's the life.

Have to disagree with Minty on MvF as well. While the challenge part of the show is more about gluttony than quality, the first half is normally Richman going to well known local eateries and sampling the best an area has to offer.

It may not be high end cuisine, but it's primarily about good food and has as much of a home on a food based channel as something done by a Michelin starred chef.

Quite. Women are genetically disposed to cooking and it was inevitable that you would find your way in there and spend many a happy hour therein to provide for the man in your life.

A gift for self-delusion?

That's dipstickery even by your standards.



Besides, tell it to Gordon, the Rouxs, Raymond and many, many more.