Eden Eats
So............. and this is completely a set-up question I'm posting.......... Am I just a dirty old man or is Eden Grinshpan just terminally cute and fun to watch? The show is Eden Eats (on Cooking Channel) and it's in the Tony Bourdain/Guy Fieri/Adam Richman vein.................. but cuter.
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I'm surprised there weren't more comments about this show. Am watching my recording right now of tonight's show.
I absolutely love this show! Eden is nice, enthusiastic and not full of herself. Plus I absolutely love all the cultures she visits and seeing their food.
Way to go Cooking Channel - in my opinion the best new show on any food channel!
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scubadoo97
Sep 22, 2012 06:10 AM
I just watched the Baltimore episode. Eden is engaging, enthusiastic, fun and certainly not full of herself. I love the variety of ethnic food she visits in her episodes.
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kukubura
Sep 23, 2012 06:43 AM
I was impressed with the Baltimore episode. They dug deep to find those places! (Although I will say that most of the places she went aren't actually in Baltimore and a couple are actually pretty far away. The African places specifically are actually in DC suburbs where finding great African food is no surprise.)
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HillJ
Sep 13, 2012 08:19 AM
Eden Eats actually reminded me of CH, Aida Mollenkamp and her show on The Cooking Channel where she meets food folks and tastes their products. Also reminds me of Liza de G dazzling us (in a good way) with CHOW video travels focused on Brooklyn and surrounding stops. So selecting the ultimate fun, energized individual doesn't really factor in for me as much what they share and how accessible the food is. The good hosts stay employed or create their own gig. I don't think these hard working gals wanna be known as perky....as much as professional.
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Phaedrus
Sep 12, 2012 10:38 AM
The ebullience factor is nice but can grate on me sometime, but I find her exuberance much less grating than Jeffrey Saad on United Taste of America and they do a lot of the same things, alberit in a different time scale and format. She is very easy on the eyes but I think she does a very good job of being empathetic with the people who are trying to teach her stuff, i.e. she doesn't cut them off in mid-sentence as often as Saad does.
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scubadoo97
Sep 11, 2012 11:23 AM
I've only seen the Austin show but she sure is easy on the eyes. Problem is I don't remember anything about the food. :-))
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DiningDiva
Sep 11, 2012 11:02 AM
Okay, I'm a straight female and even I find her "cute", although I think adorable is probably a better word. She is, however, F-A-R too cutsey and perky for my taste, but then again, they're not aiming her at mid-century women now, are they ;-)
Squealing about how "amazing" something is that she just ate doesn't win a lot of brownie points from me. But, I have to give whoever did her research for the San Diego show last week, they found some really off the beaten path spots that don't even show up on the SD board here on CH
