On the Food Network: When you’ve never had the smell of farm animals in your nostrils, a show about ranch life counts as entertainment.
My children’s new TV heroine is a redheaded, knife-wielding, 43-year-old mom. On the Food Network, she cooks, takes pictures, and keeps house for her cowboy husband and their four children. You may know her as the Pioneer Woman. For grown-ups, hers is a dreamy romantic tale. Oklahoma-born Ree Drummond lived the big-city life in L.A. as a young woman before returning to her roots, falling in love, and becoming a rancher’s wife. One day in 2006 she started a blog. Her story has since spawned cookbooks, children’s picture books about her basset hound, a memoir, a movie in the works, and a new season for her TV series. For my urban kids, the Drummond family passes for exotic. My kids dodge four-wheeled vehicles; Ms. Drummond’s kids wrangle …
Viewing parties will be held at Met restaurant locations in Back Bay, Chestnut Hill, Dedham, Natick and Nantucket.
Food Network is no stranger to the Back Bay. The latest Boston appearance on Food Network will come this Thursday when Met Back Bay will be featured on the new show "Chef Wanted" with Anne Burrell. According to an email sent by The Met, viewing parties will be held at all Met restaurant locations, including 279 Dartmouth Street Boston "Chef Wanted" is the latest competition show out of Food Network. It features four chefs (selected by Burrell) who compete for the executive chef position at a restaurant. Kathy Sidell, owner of the Met restaurant group, will appear in the episode alongside Burrell. The two will ask the chef candidates to create a signature burger for the 200-seat restaurant, among other challenges. The show and viewing …
