If the speculation thread isn't whether Alton Brown or Bobby Flay will kill her first (and with what), it should be.

My bets are on Bourdain.

Now I want mac n cheese with cut up hot dogs.

Word.

And Anthony Bouradin is too busy hating Rachael Ray. He was in China bad-mouthing her in passing and worrying about one of her fans sneaking up and killing him.

Damn, I miss cable! I want Bourdain and Alton and Mike Rowe! Just let me have Travel, Food Network, Discovery, and TLC, and I'd be a happy, content woman! Oh, and Fox on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Seriously. The woman is whacked.

don't. even. get me started.

Issue 1 -- skinny cooks. Don't trust 'em. Clearly, you don't actually eat. If you don't eat, how do you know how the food tastes?

Issue 2- The recipes are OFTEN more time and effort (and cost) than just making the damn thing would be. In addition, your "recipes" are so simple that you add elaborate steps and ingredients to justify your existence. As Aimee said, it's adding stuff to mac 'n cheese.

Issue 3- you're a drunk. Every show features a cocktail, even a child's birthday party show. You are more excited about the booze than any other aspect. Coincidence? I don't think so.

Issue 4 - Your "tablescapes". People come to dinner parties for the food. The decor is nice, but your over-the-top, tacky, EXPENSIVE ideas seem orchestrated to distract attention from the food. Which is bad. further, your decorating ideas often involve items that people do not already own (who owns "card themed" bowls? much less in multiple sizes!), inciting them to spend more money.

Issue 5 - Lay off the mascara. It makes you look even more scary. You're stick thin with big black lines around your eyes and a tube of mascara per show. Corpse much?

Note last ingredient

See???? In a sane world, that comment would have been a mean-spirited exaggeration on my part, but it's just not possible to exaggerate how horrible she is.

Now I want mac n cheese with cut up hot dogs.

My sistah!! I may make that for supper.

Vortex's entire post has me cackling. Because it's True.

I have a few friends that don't cook - I am afraid they will see her and continue being afraid of cooking

skinny cooks. Don't trust 'em. Clearly, you don't actually eat.

I'm thinking that everything Giada de Laurentis eats must go entirely into her giant head. It's the only way I can reconcile her figure with her recipes. (Which are quite good, even if her show is irritating beyond belief.)

I'm thinking that everything Giada de Laurentis eats must go entirely into her giant head. It's the only way I can reconcile her figure with her recipes. (Which are quite good, even if her show is irritating beyond belief.)

I am SO with you. I like her food, even though she looks like a ghoul when she smiles. I also don't like the way she's so disrespectful to her aunt when she comes on the show. Also, when she tastes the food, she puts like two spoonfuls into a tiny dish. So, she eats, just not a lot.

I love how she leaves the husk dangling from her corn and then wraps the ear in foil.

her giant head

And her mutant teeth. My god, that woman has a terrifying grin.