Movies & TV - Nov. 19, 2009
OnMedia: You don't need cable TV for help with your Thanksgiving dinner
With the arrival of the digital TV era this year, you don't need cable to get wall-to-wall cooking tips as you get ready for next week's Thanksgiving dinner... Channel 12's Portia Young details her weight loss... And 15-year-old Nora Collins loses -- this time.
Tags: PBS Create, Channel 36.4, Food Network, Portia Young, Channel 12, Emmy Awards, Bill Maher, John Oliver, Nora Collins

Dining - Sept. 1, 2009
Palermo's Pizza gets "Unwrapped" Sept. 14
Milwaukee's Palermo's Pizza makes its national television debut on the Food Network's "Unwrapped" show. The episode, titled "The Big Chill," airs at 8 p.m. on Sept. 14 and gives audiences a peek inside Palermo Villa, the company's facility in the Menomonee Valley.
Tags: Unwrapped, Food Network, Palermos, TV, tours, Menomonee Valley, Gaspare "Jack" Falluca, Rustico, Primo thin, Palermo's, pizza, Chris Dresselhuys

Dining - July 20, 2009
Zimmern, Fieri showcase Milwaukee dining
Milwaukee's "fresh energy and old world charm" are featured on "Appetite for Life" with Andrew Zimmern. While The Food Network is ready to showcase Brady Street's Cempazuchi.
Tags: Andrew Zimmern, Bizarre Foods, Appetite for Life, Travel Channel, Food Network, Guy Fieri, tourism, Diners, Drive Ins and Dives

Dining - July 18, 2009
Auditioning to be "The Next Food Network Star"
We'd been talking about it for a while and the plan had finally materialized. Jon and I would join our friends Tom and Dora in Chicago so Dora and I could audition for the Food Network series "The Next Food Network Star."
Tags: the next food network star, food network, reality show, cooking show, culinary, mitmita

Dining - May 4, 2009
Food Network's Fieri finds Comet and Cempazuchi
Back in February, Milwaukee ex-pat Kris Ausan, who works as a researcher for the Food Network's "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives," hosted by Guy Fieri, contacted me to ask for some suggestions. Last week, Fieri came to film at two area restaurants.
Tags: Guy Fieri, Food Network, Kris Ausan, Comet, Cempazuchi, Diners, Drive-ins and Dives