Moving Image Formats about Food- Blog 1

Hey all,
I have been watching a lot of documentaries, films and programmes about food throughout the months, and I have thought to maybe do reviews on what I thought of certain ones.

Dinners, Drive-ins and Dives (Nov 2006- present)

 Guy Fieri presents a food TV series, which features a road trip concept, where he goes to all the best diners, drive-in restaurants, and dive bars in Northern America. The majority of the places he goes to has comfort food written all over it, with burgers, pizzas, barbequed and deep fried menus. 

Whether its American traditional meals, receipt twists, or completely different ideas on cooking, Fieri is there to investigate. Not only is he shown the food and different meals, but is shown how they cook them (almost a behind the scenes in the kitchen), what they put in the receipts (very interesting!), and talks to the customers about how good the food is. 

Personally no matter which state in America his is in, what cafe or restaurant he is in, and whatever food he is looking into, it makes you WANT TO EAT! The steak and burger dishes really get me. More than a few times of watching them making and grilling burgers with all the mayo, lettuce etc, I have ordered in a burger meal hehe. Your mouth waters, you get hungry even though you have already eaten, and you just want to keep putting food inside you.

 

There has been a few other programmes with this similar concept, but Fieri does it a lot better. The cooks just make the food sound so mouthwatering and delicious, and as for Fieri's reactions, it is sometimes so brilliant. He's such an epic guy, cool and amazingly addicted to food.

You almost want to just go to America for their food lol. Not that British food isn't nice in its own way, sometimes you have to get a taste of other food cultures of other countries. If you were thinking of going over to America for a trip, or to live there, or just to try American food, this will totally convince you! It may be all grease, oiled and fatty comfort food on this programme, but it definately makes you want to gobble down the naughty food. 

Check out the program on the food network channel. Fieri also has his own cooking program- definitely planning to check that out.

Raquel