andrew andrew andrew.....i started watching your show recently and grew to hate it. ill tell you why. i love food and travel and still watch the episodes for that, but watching you is truly unbearable. you talk slow like you....are.....talking....to.....a.....4....year.......old, and by doing so are just insulting people of the world. you describe food from different cultures as "bitter sour gamy rank and funky" and then throw in an obligatory "and i love it" after that. who describes food as "rank" and "funky" then tries to pass it off like they like it. you are a fraud and everyone knows you dont like the exotic foods you are eating. its so obvious it makes me sick. you always put the foods you dont like in the front of your mouth like a little kid, chewing only with your front teeth and keeping it away from your tongue. then you do this fruity wrist flick every single time, flicking what I am guessing are the "disgusting juices from the rank funky nasty" dish you are eating. seriously you are such a fruitcake. i cant stand poseurs and you are a big one. on top of that you are downright INSULTING to every culture you come across. cant you understand that different cultures have different foods and you need to open your mind and understand that not everything taste like a big mac you fat durian? When you were in Africa eating the food that would last these people a month, you were just insulting and rude. I cant believe that travel channel would put someone so insulting on their network. Bourdain is known for being a “tell it like it is” kind of guy, and has the reputation of a “bad boy”, yet he eats more exotic foods than you, always makes an effort to enjoy them and understand the culture and where they are coming from, and is ALWAYS polite and respectful to everybody and their cultures. Meanwhile you parade through the streets of cities across the world, destroying the visual imagery of tourists and locals everywhere. Seriously, put some pants on already. We don’t need to see you in shorts and a Hawaiian shirt. The typical “ignorant American tourist” that every country hates. I’m just disgusted. Although I will admit, when you were greased up like a deep sea manatee in goa and fell down like a fat suckling pig, I almost fell off my own chair. Seriously though, I really don’t need to see all that blubber. Start being respectful of people and their cultures, or get off the show already.

Andrew, I wish you and your family (as well as all the readers) my best wishes for this Happy New Year!

May 2009 bring us more delicious food and plenty of friends to share it with.

Isabelle MazzoniOne Bite At A Time!www.isabellemazzoni.com

No serious conversation about talentless chefs would be complete without a reference to Rocco DiSpirito. Rocco makes Tyler look like Bocuse...

I dont understand this. I know that Anthony Bourdain has little love for the food network and its stars and he actually criticizes in an original way, it sounds like you want to be just like him and so you bash tyler without any reason what so ever except to say that he is the worlds least talented chef, and that he was ogling the women on there, to me it sounds less like the "cool" person being snarky on the football star and more like the  kid who got hit with a dodgeball and afterwords picks some random student to take it out on.

It just makes you, andrew, look bad, it doesnt make you funny or clever or observant to the "real world". .

Your culinary skills were mentioned in this article:

 http://www.rosevalenta.blogspot.com/

 Rosebud

if a person truly is confident and happy with his/her art, he/she woul not get bent out of shape when he/she receives criticism. It happens to all of us! Plus..take a freaking joke!

Anyway, back off bitches. Andrew is a sweetheart, and a great chef.

Tho' I don't watch Momma's Boys, I do love "The Soup" which is a collection of the week's clips of the worst (best?) reality TV.  Host Joel McHale and company watch reality TV and report on it so his viewers don't have to.

If you haven't seen the 2008 clipdown of best clips of the year I urge you to see it - it is hilarious!  In one clip from "The Hills" a woman is talking about a particle accelerator experiment at CERN and the dim-bulb next to her is completely confused and cannot even understand the words the other woman is saying. Its squirmingly funny!

 Happy New Year to all!

Laura K

http://www.silkroadgourmet.com/blog

Last I checked, this was America we're living in. People are free to express their opinions. Besides, Andrew is right. Tyler Florence is weak. And Mama's Boys is one of the stupidest (and worst rated) shows on TV.

I am so disappointed about your bashing of Tyler Florence.  Yes, I am a huge fan, but for reason.  He is a HUGE part of why I can actually cook.  I have made so many of his recipes with great success and have learned a lot through all his shows. While I have only met the man once, he was one of the nicest people I have ever met and was sincerely interested in what I had to say about my success in cooking.

I enjoy your show, but I don't see where it takes "talent" to eat bizarre foods.  Okay, I guess the talent is in doing it, but I lived in Japan for 8 years and ate lots of things I could barely stomach.  I guess I have "talent" too.  One thing I would never do is bash someone and their professionalism for a little humor.  

Your show has really turned me off at times, but now you are the big turn off.  BOO to you. 

I also think you made a huge mistake in bashing Mr. Florence, a beloved chef that is very popular on the Food Network and other places.  Why bash him?   What has he done to you?   A little jealous perhaps of his success, popularity?  good looks?     I watched this stupid show you seem to love and never saw Tyler oogling anyone.   I think that is something you do, not him.   He has a beautiful wife at home and a brand new baby and another gorgeous baby at home and has no need to looking at these fake women.  In other words he is a nice family man with a great career, 5 great cook books, several popular shows on the Food Network and a few prime time network TV shows he has been on.   He is very sucessful and just who are you???    As Tyler said, I think it is time to stop all the chef to chef bashing that goes on.  I used to watch your show occasionally but will never watch it again if this is all you can come up with on your blogs.     I would rather eat anything I have seen Chef Florence cook than the garbage you swill down each week.    Have you ever even tried one of his recipes?   They are the best.   Check out Food TV for his many 5 star recipes that are listed there.

Andrew, at least Tyler can cook something on TV, instead of just shoving things in his mouth and masticating it like a cow with a sinus blockage.  Close your huge lips the next time you shove some animal genitals in your gaping trap and chew it so the audience can't hear it.  At least your hateful comments weren't verbal, because hearing you say them as food falls out of your gigantic pie and sheep testicle hole would be more than I could handle.  Disgusting doesn't cover it for your show, and not because of the food.  Use some manners when eating!  That enormous tongue of yours makes noise that would gag blowflies.

I was absolutely convinced that you weren't married, (certainly, not to a woman), but think you do more ogling than Tyler Florence does.  He's a family man, and far more principled than that.  Your show is just trash all the time, don't be hating that he teaches home cooks something on his.

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Zim, big mistake to bash a well-loved food personality. Also a big mistake to make misogynistic statements about the young women on this show. You've just shown that you're a small-minded little man. Delete the post. If you keep this up, you'll attract mean-spirited people, posts and replies, and repulse any fans of honest and good integrity. Choose, and choose quickly.

Seems you caused quite a stir with Tyler. He's quite upset. I responded to his Facebook statement with this: Now boys Play Nice! Each of you brings a different 'flavor' to TV, and there is room for everyone. While Andrew may not have been politically correct in his statement about you Tyler, you were just as hard on him with Camel ^&*%, lol! I happen to watch both of you for completely different reasons. That's the beauty of TV diversity. That said, I'm just a humble nobody, so my opinion may not count here, but I suggest we all go to neutral corners and rethink the issue. If you really want to duke it out, I invite you to come down to Florida and we'll let you do an on camera cook off against each other here with the proceeds going to charity!!! You In? If interested just Email me.