Food Porn
Feminism has made many advances over the past century, but perhaps none more so than in the field of cooking. Once confined to the bland Julia Child stereotype, today’s most popular chefs are breaking out of the mold.
Now you’re not considered a real chef unless you’ve graced the pages of Maxim covered in a substance that may or may not be chocolate. So the question clearly arises, who is America’s Tastiest Chef?
Is it raunchy Rachel Ray or good girl Giada, who makes a great tomato sauce (haha). Or is it stone-faced Iron Chef judge (and intredip supermarket shopper) Cat Cora, or maybe it’s that other judge, Top Chef’s Padma Lakshmi (yeah, we know, Padma doesn’t actually cook anything per se, but as the official pin-up girl of this site, she gets a free pass to the finals).
Equal Opportunity: Look for next week’s poll, in which we feature Mario Batali and Emeril Lagasse covered in gumbo.
UPDATE: Don’t miss our second, manlier version of the poll: here.
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Photos: Maxim via Cooking Light, Esquire, FHM, Men.Style.Com
For the record – (1) I’m not condoning this poll. (2) I better see a male version next week. and (3) I voted for Padma.
For the record – (1) I don’t find chocolate sauce particularly sexy. (2) I REALLY don’t find tomato sauce sexy. (3) I still think Nigella beats all of them hands down. and (4) I also voted for Padma.
agreed on nigella – but since she has apparently never posed for a lad mag covered in food (unless I am a far less expert google-image-searcher than I thought) I declared her ineligeble for this competition.
obv. I voted for padma.
If Giada wins, I’m retiring
Anyone else notice that this poll was able to do what somehow eluded the tech-inclined folks at Fishbowl?
Try though I might, it won’t let me cast multiple votes.
Maybe if I were a bot…
I don’t know – cat cora has 1 vote – I think there’s a bot in play here
ps check it out JoeHoya – you’re the “commentarati”
I’ve been called worse…but if it’s just one person, does that make me a “commentaratus?”
That doesn’t sound quite as good.
For male food porn I nominate:
geof (ace of cakes)
anthony bourdain
and…I don’t know who else you chose the rest
*choose
She maybe a big girl, but I’ll take Ina Garten all of them
I think we need a male version of this list with…
Alton Brown (he’ll always get my vote)
Tyler Florence
Anthony Bourdain
well, I can’t think of anyone else, AB’s the finest to me!
I’m surprised no one has suggested Sam from Top Chef Season 2. To hear the folks at Bravo talk, you’d think he was a one-man FDNY calendar.
What about some of our very own DC celebrity chefs:
Michel Richard
Roberto Donna
Jose Andres
or, perhaps a bit more seriously:
Johnny Monis (of Komi)
Morou Ouattara (of Farrah Olivia)
Barton Seaver of Cafe Saint-Ex and Bar Pilar
Great pics, JH. Seaver’s now at the trendy, Hook, that I’ve yet to visit.
Oooh…totally forgot to include that. I haven’t been to Hook yet, either, but reading last week’s Young & Hungry over at the Washington City Paper totally sold me on adding it to my short list of new places I have to visit soon.
Ingrid Hoffman is the HOTTEST cooker on TV. I think her show on the food network, Delicioso should be called Cooking with Cleavage.
I definitely forsee a salsa-soaked Ingrid gracing the pages of FHM in our near future
And lest us not forget Casey on Top Chef season 3.
Is Padma a chef? My husband prefers Gail Simmons from Food and Wine Magazine.
I prefer Daisy over Ingrid.
Male version for me is Sam from Top Chef 2. I also like Anthony Bourdain and Tom Colicchio.
Rach rules..giada is a stuck up c**t….
go Rach!
What is wrong with Giada. I want to see her naked.