@Kardamom
Altho they do feature some really good food places, somehow I have a hunch that well before that month is up you may find yourself wishing to choke him senseless :)
Even tho they run (and rerun) all the episodes of his show practically nonstop on weekends and holidays, I can only stand to watch no more than two in a row. After that I need a break.
A little bit of Guy at a time goes a long long way :)
However , give me Jacques Pepin or Lydia Bastianich and I could hang with them forever.
They may be a lot more low key but they have so much knowledge to impart, i’d be constantly fascinated.
I find that I can only take but so much of the thousand megawatt ego trippers like Emeril or Guy before I have the urge to run screaming in the opposite direction :)
Obviously a large portion of the Food Network audience disagrees with me (altho I do think they finally got burned out on Emeril and his constant BAM, BAM, BAM.)
I remember the good old days in the beginning of Food Network where the majority of the programs consisted of substance over style (eg: David Rosengarten, reruns of Julia and Jacques, Alton Brown, etc.)
Nowadays it seems to be the opposite; whoever shouts the loudest alternating with every crazy kind of contest imaginable and glorified travelogues like triple D.