6. Sandra Lee
Famous for her show “Semi-Homemade Cooking”, Sandra Lee has become well known for her easy and “interesting” take on recipes with 30% fresh ingredients and 70% store-bought ingredients. Although the premise of her show seems to be unique, her belief that cool whip with a splash of vanilla extract is a great replacement for icing is quite terrifying to the average food network viewer. For this reason alone, she should be much lower on this list, but her love for “cocktail time”, strange Halloween costumes, and window curtains that match her outfits have scored her the spot as #6.
5. Guy Fieri
Guy Fieri is the star of the show “Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives”, where you’ll find him driving state to state in his red convertible and strange sunglasses, looking for good eats.
The show is filled with food that will make your mouth water and weird catchphrases like “Flavortown” courtesy of Guy Fieri. Unfortunately, as fun as it is to see the different foods that all of these unique diners are cooking up, Guy Fieri’s screaming voice, lack of eating manners (ahem, please use a napkin, Guy), and porcupine, bleached white hairstyle (that’s sooo ‘N Sync) bring him to spot #5 on our list today.
4. Trisha Yearwood
Trisha Yearwood, the wife of Garth Brooks, is a country singer herself, and the star of her show, “Trisha’s Southern Kitchen”. From the looks of it on her show, Trisha seems to be a your typical, lovely, sweet-accented Southern woman—the type of woman who you’d want to be your best friend’s mom so that whenever you go over for dinner, there’s always warm biscuits and sweet iced tea on the table. Although she may not be on Paula Deen’s level when it comes to butter and sugar, her foods are fattening, sugary, cheesy, and everything southern and delicious. A pleasant and silly chef to watch, but because she always oddly ends the show with a song on her guitar, Trisha Yearwood scores herself at #4 on the list.
3. Giada De Lauerentiis
The beautiful and amazing Italian brunette, Giada, makes all of her viewers feel like they’re in Italy in all of her episodes. Why? Slightly because of her Italian flared foods, but mostly because she doesn’t understand that “spaghetti” is totally not pronounced “spe-geyhhht-iii”. We’re in America, Giada, not back in Naples. Aside from that, she’s absolutely adorable and brings so much enthusiasm to the show. We love her, her foods, her kitchen, and her adorable cooking companion/daughter, Jade, which is why she is at #3 on our list.
2. Bobby Flay
Bobby Flay, one of the hottest famous gingers (besides Prince Harry, of course) who hold a spot in many of our hearts. On his most famous Food Network show, “Bobby Flay’s Barbeque Addiction”, you can find him flashing a dreamy smile at the camera as he rubs some Ancho Chile Powder and a squirt of a lime onto some a hunk of meat that’s sizzling on the grill. His food is always themed and he makes watching his show seem like you’re there cooking with him (or just staring into his dreamy blue eyes as he whips up a watermelon mojito for you). What can I say? Bobby’s a true charmer, a great chef with amazing recipes, and it’s so just too hard not to have him as #2 on our list.
1. Ina Garten (AKA Barefoot Contessa)
From her seemingly endless amount of denim button-downs to her sassy and snooty, high-class remarks, Ina Garten proves herself to be “the betch of all betches”. In her show, “Barefoot Contessa”, everybody in East Hampton seems to be her “dear friend”: the florists, the butchers, the farmers, the bakers, the firefighters, even TAYLOR SWIFT??? Yes, you heard me. They’re as close as two peas in a pod in Ina’s famous “vegetarian split pea soup”.
She’s always in the kitchen, whipping up something just absolutely fabulous and filled with perfection for friends that are probably named Hamilton and Guillaume or, of course, her loving hubby, Jeffrey. Speaking of whom, we’re not even quite sure what his hobbies are or what his job is (if he even works, for that matter), but we DO know that Ina’s Whiskey Sours and famous Strawberry Tarts are the way to his heart. Her simple, tasty, and classy dishes paired with her fabulous taste for floral arrangements and dinner parties keep her viewers wanting more of her and her fitting attitude. For these reasons, she has earned herself the spot at #1 to watch on Food Network. In Ina’s words, “Now how easy was that?”.
