Reuters food blogger Felix Salmon dug up this brilliant graph from the latest issue of Meatpaper, the matchless San Francisco “meat culture” magazine. The chart posits the theory that the level of attractiveness of a food show’s host and the level of repulsiveness of the food, both rated 1 to 10, should ideally equal 10. Thus, a very beautiful host like Nigella Lawson is allowed to make and eat lovely things, while a less attractive host like Andrew Zimmern must suffer through testicles and fried scorpions.
The chart does not, of course, explain hosts like Sandra Lee, who is easy on the eyes yet makes God-awful piles of slop.
The chart was created by Chris Ying, an interesting San Francisco fella who has his finger in many pies, including working with McSweeney’s and last weekend’s Mission Stoned Food fund-raiser at Mission Street Food. Ying’s entire article is available as a PDF on his website. It’s worth the download, as he calls Anthony Bourdain a “lanky, weathered poplar of a man.” Hee hee.
Via Eater SF
Image courtesy of Chris Ying/Meatpaper
there is something creepy/repulsive about Sandra Lee for sure.
Lol, she is fascinating, isn’t she? I can’t take my eyes off her.
Kinda like a car crash. You know you shouldn’t be paying that much attention to it. Yet you can’t take your eyes off of it. Plus she seems like she is pretty easy…
Sorry, but Sandra Lee gives me the frigging creeps. Her food is repulsive and she looks like she could be used as a flotation device in an emergency.
How about Mario Batali?
And Julia? I think she was beautiful, but hardly conventionally so.