Somehow we missed this news from last week — Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman, fellow blogger and cookbook author, is launching a new Food Network TV show later this summer!
Read on for more about her show, and an interview with Ree.
Drummond has an interview at BlogHer, where she talks about what will be in the show:
The show will take place both in the Lodge, which is a family guest house on our ranch, and in and around our house, which I call The Real World. With four kids, all of our homeschooling gear, all of the laundry and normal, everyday clutter, it makes much more sense for the bulk of the show to be filmed at the Lodge, which is probably the only quiet place on the ranch. I do a lot of cooking up there anyway, so it's natural for the show to be filmed there. But the show will also take place outside of the kitchen — out on the prairie, on our homestead, etc.
She says that it will be a down-to-earth look at real-world cooking, and that her own favorite cooking personalities include people like, "Bobby Flay, Mario Batali, Ming Tsai, Sara Moulton, Ina Garten ... they're who I watched back when I nursed my babies."
• Read the full interview: Exclusive: Ree Drummond on Her Pioneer Woman Food Network Show - at BlogHer
What do you think of this? Is this a refreshing change for Food Network and their current reality TV lineup of shows?
• Visit Ree Drummond: The Pioneer Woman
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Ree is brilliant, good for her! She deserves all the success she earns. This should be a great show.
Love love love her food. After reading her blog forever though, her voice totally catches me off guard. Lol.
I am so excited about this, currently we don't have cable (I know... ) but I think I am going to have to get it JUST so I can DVR this.. Yay, Ree.
Hopefully, she will give credit for the recipes on her show. She hasn't been good at all about doing this in her cookbook. Most of her recipes are word for word taken from other sources. She ignores it on her blog when people call her out on it .She has a great personality, but she really needs to be more honest about her cooking skills.
Good heavens! I found a bolognese sauce recipe on this blog that uses red wine, milk, AND worcestershire sauce. The easy-thar-watch-me-do-this-reeel-slow-for-yuh style kills me too. Not a fan.
I'm very excited for her.
nwatrous, I TOTALLY know what you mean about her voice though. It caught me off guard too, and every time I hear her speak, I'm a little surprised. Not sure why, but it's definitely not what I expected. haha
she cooks like my grandma, who was also from oklahoma. my grandma raised 3 obese kids in california, who had no idea how to eat properly. by properly i mean not much in the way of vegetables that didn't come from a can... and portion size? in this day and age, when more americans (of all ages) are overweight than not, do we need a show that glorifies her kind of cooking?
another thing - the aw-shucks aspect of her personality, the whole "i'm a lil' ol' rancher's wife out here on the prairie", etc. her family was well-to-do and she married money. she has a "guest house" she spent several hundred thousand dollars renovating. her life has little if anything to do with the lives of the people who will watch her show, and if she'd be up front about that, i'd be cool with her and her show. but she's not, so i won't be watching.
I don't follow Pioneer Woman and don't know anything about her cooking so can I just say: whoa. Blogher needs to lay out some cash to someone who can restyle their site. That's bad, the only thing it's missing is frames. Aren't they huge? Why do they have a site from 1995?
I get that she may not be everyone's cup of tea but I think she's great. She cooks like my family does in the Midwest (I live in CA now). Good, down home comfort food. Some days, that's just what I want.
And why does it matter if she came from money or married money or spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on remodeling her guest house? Wouldn't many of us like to do the same if given the chance? All those things have nothing to do with her cooking and recipes. I like that she seems down to earth and cooks basic every day foods that many people love. If you can cook you can figure out ways to substitute ingredients to make them lighter. Or don't if you don't want to.
I loved her "Throwdown" episode with Bobby Flay that she did recently. I knew they'd offer her a TV show after that. There really is nothing else like it on the Food Network. I wish her the best!
As a now public personna, I think it's high time Ree stepped up to the plate on food (specifically MEAT/beef since that's what her family's life revolves around) issues. She's gotten herself to the point of having a huge public platform for food and cooking that is about to get even bigger via TV. Aw shucks, but in my mind, that comes with a responsibility.
Considering the breadth of her following and the nature of her family business, she could have a HUGE influence on the industrial meat thing, yet has thus far chosen to ignore everything that happens after "shipping cattle".
Until and unless that happens, I'm over everything Ree.
Not watching it ever. Crappy recipes and zero integrity.
I love Ree! My family is from Texas, and she speaks like every mother figure i have ever met. She makes comfort food like no other.
I was really into her blog a couple years ago, but after I saw her on Throwdown it completely changed my view of her. Like others have said, I just don't buy this down home aw shucks crap. She kept calling Flay a city boy and saying stuff like "how we do things out here" and I'm sitting there thinking, 'wait, this chick spent YEARS living the city life, she brags about it in her little biography she wrote about meeting her rancher husband.' So why exactly should anyone believe that this 'country rancher girl' shtick is genuine? She wrote about missing seafood and sushi so bad and complained that her man wouldn't touch the stuff. Her blog used to be about a city girl kickin it in the country, maybe she's gone away from that now.
Also, her recipes aren't anything special. It's like she graduated from the cooking school of Paula Deen, butter is better, etc. Do we really need another Sandra Lee or Rachel Ray cooking "down to earth" food...wait, don't answer that.
Her writing and photography are beautiful, though, and she should stick to what she's good at.
I don't understand why people take these shows and blogs soooo seriously. I've been a reader of PW's blog for a few years now, and it doesn't take much to figure out that she comes from money and she also married into money. Big deal. She doesn't claim to be a girl raised on food stamps.
Her recipes, I think they are hit or miss, but I still enjoy her photos and reading about her daily life. Whether or not her stories are 100% true or fiction is besides the point. It's mindless entertainment and if I wanted to read something truthful, I'd read the newspaper.
I like her site because it is interesting to me and that is why I watch her show. Her website has come to life for 30 minutes on Food Network, and while she's little awkward on tv, I like her just the same.