Your sense of humor is the best!

Dinner Inconvenient - Brilliant!

Remember, in a fight no man withstands a swift kick to the groin and RI must have balls to have convinced investors with those stories.

Dear Tony -

I love your show and just think you are the greatest. Hope to meet you someday!

Jeannine Sydnor
Baltimore, MD

LOL! Oh to be a fly on one of those Negroni! A heartfelt THANK YOU for keeping us, your devoted, in the loop! We wait with bated breath for the outcomes! Oscar who?

I tell ya, this is the next best thing to being there. Thanks, Tony, for being the last rat off the ship. (I'm sure Ruhlman will beat you out the door.)

At least you're with Ruhlman! I'm extremely excited to see who the winners are. Wish I was in Miami to watch...not like we're having a huge blizzard here in Boston or anything!

Sues

Hey Tony,

Can you believe that Robert Irvine opened a resturant in St. Petersburg, Florida? Guess he's trying for an untapped market. Not somewhere that I will be going anytime soon.
While in Florida, you should come up here for some REAL Cuban food. Yeah, I said that! And I'm not talking about La Teresita.

Just pulling your chain. Hope things get better down there.

Tpa Girl

Tony, love your show. I just have one question. We are traveling to France and I wanted to know what the name of the bakery you went to where Phillipe works and ate that french bread. that damm bread looks good and I want to try some. Please help by providing the name and address if you remember. Thanks alot keep up the good work. Michael

Anthony,

My wife wants to smoke a cigarette with you. She tells me I am not invited. We would love to meet you though. Are you making any public appearances this weekend?

Mmmmmmmmmm..........Negronis. Mmmmmmmmm..........heavy breathing phone calls ;) FYI all you foodies - Ruhlman's "The Soul of a Chef" is a great read.

Man, I hope you guys are getting some of this on video so that we can experience some of the chaos.
As I read the blog, I get the feeling of your Vegas trip with Rhulman..."For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled." - Hunter S. Thompson

Tony,
Hope you enjoy your stay in Miami. To help you keep the faith, here's one food and wine lover that won't be caught on Ocean Dr. this weekend! Praise Jah I live South of 5th.

Punk Rock Changed My Life,
Bella in South Beath

I don't particularly like food, but Rachel Ray is my hero. If you run into her at the wine and food festival, please, for the love of God, try to be nice.

Anthony,
You may have created the first professional ballet dancer to obsessed foodie transformation ever. Every time I watch your show I want to run run RUN from the suburbia im stuck in. Or preferably, fly. I hope to meet you someday, your an inspiration!

So, the boy and I are driving along last night when he announces that he's decided what he's going to do with his life. Anything to do with food, he says. I want to be surrounded by food. I want to invent something delicious, he tells me. Well, I replied, somebody invented the popsicle, the hamburger, Dr. Pepper, Stella. Somebody has to invent something delicious for all the fine dining rooms across this fair land of ours....somebody has to eat, drink and smoke their way around the globe and bring it all into our living rooms. I suggested he watch Bourdain for inspiration.

@Antoinette:

Don't forget the alcohol. Whether by drinking it or adding it to the batch, I cannot cook without it. Then again, alcohol and studying never worked for me either.

Good luck to your son!

Also, the best way to halt an awkward moment? Drink, dance and follow with bad singing.

Poor Robert. It was all downhill for him after his "best night ever" declaration at the first annual Food Network Awards. He's been bent on self-destruction ever since; I can't think of any other reason why one might name a restaurant "Ooze."

This whole 21 and over thing for the food and wine festival is !@#$&%.
Anthony has underaged fans too. =(
I'll probably spend my weekend wandering up and down south beach trying to catch a glimpse of you.

Good gawd.... get thee out of Miami and depart for friendlier pastures.

Like, say, the pastures of Colorado! Free range cattle and scorching chile in New Mexico!

I think No Reservations would have a ball in the hinterlands of the southwestern ballsack, somewhere right around where the green chile cheeseburger was invented by atomic weapons physicists in San Antonio (NM). Consider it.

Tony!!! LOVE you and your outlook on life!! Where else will you be in Miami this weekend besides having cocktails with Rachel Ray??

Thinking of moving to Italy for a few months.. Milan or Florence??? Is Milan all that bad?

Anthony,

I just met you at Emeril's Sugar Shack. You took a picture with a little smily face guy for my kids and I wanted to thank you for doing that. I will be seeing you tomorrow at the tasting event.

I am a HUGE fan and it was my pleasure meeting you. You made my whole weekend tonight.

One more thing. DANG your tall.

See ya tomorrow.

I read all about it on Eater...so cool that Rocco got it and presented his own award.

I didn't read, however, whether or not Ruhlman won the award for best boobs...I mean, HAIR. BTW, tell him to return my email. I've got six months and the money saved and I need advice on where to go and what to do. Feel free to p%#@ on any suggestions you may have...

Tony, All I can say is please please get the Golden Clog Awards on video for us poor souls who can't be there in Miami.
BTW NYC got dumped with snow on Thursday aren't you glad you are some where nice and warm and on a BEACH.

Great show.

Ah yes, another evening of disappointment equaled only to the displeasure of your company. As usual, you paint the picture. The ever omnious non chalant descriptions that only one who has lived a life in kitchens would be able to conjure. From one chef to another chef, thank you for representing the truth.

Umm...Bourdain or the Oscars...and the winner is...

Regarding your (justifiable) fear of Robert Irvine, rest %#@ured that you are likely too high profile to be the recipient of his wrath. I would watch Ruhlman's back, though, if I were you. He is just low profile enough that Irvine could take a swing and not end up in ONTD.

Tony,

Even though I am only 2 hours away from Miami the thought didn't even cross my mind to come over and see "The Gang". I hope you get extra compensation for the the B******* you are going through.

Love Ya!

Mildly amusing at best. Too bad about RI though; bottom line - he lied. No respect now.

Love your show Tony!

Are you upset about Robert Irvine lying about his work history?

What could be cooler than a food and wine fest in south beach. way cool.

.....and one more thing...
Tony, you seem to be on a personal mission to find your "inner person". Last night's show... you in the Amazon, brought that to light. POVERTY in that region and many others you {visit} provide us insight to your personal impression of and internalization of that nation's people's acceptance of their situation. Where you may not DESIRE that lifestyle for yourself, you seem to be searching for your own temperance level for something in that level of existence. It seems obvious that the stress we endure on a routine basis here in America.. ( I movedout of Chicago to central Illinois to escape the rush around mentality) is what bothers you most.... until the ABJECT POVERTY comes to mind. The, you're ours again. Love ya Tony. (smile)

The Golden Clogs...humm, sounds like an event I'll have to attend in the dead of winter, right after I leave the snowy streets of New York for my beloved Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Would love to watch you squirm, Tony. Not that I don't love you, I do, it's just one of my hobbies, enjoying the torment of others. Robert Irvin, who cares!?! He's got a show, he'll write a book, and he'll probably get to meet the Queen! God bless him!!

hmmmm sounds like a desperate bid for CONSERVATIVE CULTURE to me. ALAS, I prob can't deliver that about now; I think I'm suffering from indepth MUTHUH...FATHUHism. Empty Nest grown over with residual offsprung issues and mentos. Se La Vie
Anyway, here's a remedy if it gets worse. Try TOMATO SOUP: Several packs of McDonald's Ketchup blended with McDonald's salt and Pepper to taste. (College campus idiom) Try this ONLY while waiting for start of classes and never beyond distribution of first issue scholarship funds.... afterward, eat MOUSSAKA

PS... add mozarella and parmesan cheese to moussaka. It becomes something like a deepdish eggplant pizza

I can't tell you how many people have padded resumes, given misleading statements, have put themselves somewhere were they were --marginally... and have gotten ELECTED into politics.

Food Network's own body-politic dictated finding someone who seemingly had it all, and so they gladly took Robert Irvine at his word.
Pity, because there was nothing wrong with his real CV! Nothing wrong at all.

But just wait. He'll be back. I'm just glad he hasn't gone into politics.

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I pull into the parking lot once more... Macarthur Park... dang it! Curses fall on Tony and the crew. I'm beginning to really be ticked off by their freedom. Monday morning I'll be back at work, sitting in that dang chair waiting for 7hrs to tick by so I can catch the last end of Tony's slide across one more sheet of ice in Frozen Arctica. There ya go. My day. Yeah, that's pretty hot but no hotter than the days are getting in central Illinois. (sigh) The sound of it... sigh. And I just bet I won't even make it to MONTANA in September. Closest I'll get is mayb going onto the SOUTH BEACH DIET... where's that book......