From a media release:
COOKING UP COMEDY IN THREE-INCH CHERRY HEELS
- Bitchin’ Kitchen Premieres April 1 at 11pm ET/8pm PT
What’s the recipe for the perfect hangover cure? What can you cook to heal a broken heart – or break someone else’s? On Thursday, April 1 at 11pm ET/8pm PT Food Network Canada’s brand new Canadian series, Bitchin’ Kitchen explores delicious recipes for life and love with a twisted sense of humour and a rock ‘n’ roll edge. Previously an acclaimed web series, Bitchin’ Kitchen has received awards for ‘Favourite Mobile Series’ and ‘Hottest Emerging Digital Brand in Canada’. Now in its television debut, what was once a series of three-minute webisodes available only online, has evolved and expanded into a full season of 13, 30-minute television episodes airing exclusively on Food Network Canada.
Bitchin’ Kitchen is not your average cooking series. Host Nadia G cooks in three-inch cherry stilettos, she has a tea towel made of chain mail and her kitchen is decked out in pleather and animal print. Armed with a crew of misfit food correspondents, fresh organic ingredients and a sharp tongue, she whips up the perfect blend of food and humour. In each episode she shares accessible, inspiring recipes to suit life situations from breaking up to making up, all peppered with her signature ‘Nadvice’.
“Ever since I created the Bitchin’ Kitchen web series three years ago, I dreamed of seeing it on Food Network,” said Nadia G, host of Bitchin’ Kitchen. “I can’t wait to rock the kitchen with our bitchin’ blend of great Casalinga food, comedy and a sassy attitude that makes cooking fun.
During the premiere episode of Bitchin’ Kitchen, viewers can participate in a live blogging event at www.foodnetwork.ca with Nadia G and Food Network Canada bloggers. Then following each broadcast, full episodes of Food Network’s Bitchin’ Kitchen, recipes from the series and behind-the-scenes photos will be available for users to enjoy at www.foodnetwork.ca.
The first two world broadcast premiere episodes include:
Bitchin’ Kitchen: Deflate Your Mate (World Broadcast Premiere)
Thursday, April 1 at 11pm ET/8pm PT
When your lover starts packing the pounds – don’t fret! Nadia G has three fantastic low-fat meals that’ll whip them back into shape in no time. A pepper-crusted tuna steak with homemade teriyaki and a side of creamy wasabi smashed potatoes and a zesty Mediterranean chick pea stew, packed with flavour, not calories. Enjoy an extra dark and decadent Pot au Chocolat with fleur-de-sel for dessert.
Bitchin’ Kitchen: Break up Bonanza (World Broadcast Premiere)
Thursday, April 8 at 11pm ET/8pm PT
Nadia G cooks up a dinner custom-made for dumping — because you once loved them, but more importantly: they know your secrets and probably got them on tape. Your soon-to-be-ex is going to get served… a sweet fig and pesto salad with an aged-balsamic reduction, a juicy Hawaiian burger with spicy chipotle mayo and tender peanut-butter-banana fritters.
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April 17th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
This show is unbelievably horrible. I turned on the food network the other day and couldn’t believe my eyes. This show seems like a saturday night live sketch, and the host is so unbelievably ridiculous and annoying. Absolutely horrible. I only recommend this show if you want to cringe repeatedly for an hour at every stupid thing the host says.
April 22nd, 2010 at 1:52 pm
This show is ridiculous…An insult to all the other great and professional chefs and shows that air on the Food Network when it plays on the same network. The host thinks she’s funny…ummm not even close with your cheesy, played out style of comedy (what’s with the stupid New York type of weird accent she puts on), and the concept of the episodes such as a “break up meal” just makes the host and producers of the show look like try-hards. I don’t think this show will last before it gets right-fully cancelled. Go back to youtube you weird little excuse for a comedian…if you were so funny, maybe we would’ve seen you on a real comedy channel/network, but since they’ve never picked up your show or ideas, get a clue!
April 23rd, 2010 at 7:17 am
I love Nadia My wife loves her My 17 year old daughter loves her…I feel sorry for the critics who aren’t in tune with a fun loving young woman with an accent that sounds like she came from the St Leonard, (Montreal) district. If you read this Nadia,We’d like to invite you to our home in Kirkland,Quebec. for a home cooked meal. It would be our absolute pleasure. You’re a Riot…
April 24th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
I’ve just seen two episodes so far and I love the humour and camp of it all. I’m looking forward to even more episodes. The recipes seem easy enough …, even for me to try…, and the finished plates look very impressive. I love the little side bar tidbits of advice and information. Please don’t let the negative comments get to you…., just fuhgedaboutit…. maybe dey should wake up wit a decapitated muffin head in deir bed… capiche?
April 27th, 2010 at 11:29 am
Horrible, horrible show! I can not believe someone actually watches it let alone spend money on it.
She is a terrible actress, no personality. And what is with the accent?! People who like her like Rachael Ray and that tells you a lot. Yuck!
April 29th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Totally a different person from the one above and I like Rachael Ray
But i hate this show, IT IS SO STUPID. Not sure what episode im actually watching but their cooking for hangovers and such, and first like 5 minutes into it she started singing, i think she was trying to be funny but failed terribly. What is with her accent? it makes her sound fake and wanna be in the Italian mob. She is a try hard, not funny, no personal style, demeaning the food network and i hope this horrible show gets removed soon.
I’m not saying she cant cook, shes a good one as far as i can tell but her style/personality on the show makes me automatically turn off the tv, or just switch channels. I have no idea how anyone can like this show.
April 29th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
I have to admit, I was a little hesitant about the show. I think it’s because there’s nothing quite like it on the food network. I have to say I welcome this addition. I’m a 24 old student who loves food but can’t always listen to Ina garten or anna olsen and the sometimes haughty attitude towards food. Food should be fun, not just a carefully measured recipe intoned by a professional chef with decades of experience. Food should be more carefree and enjoyable and so I commend Nadia for trying to make it more enjoyable.
I’m definitely keeping an eye on this show.
April 30th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
“Bitchin’ Kitchen” is to TV as Malware is to PCs: How did it get on there? And, how the hec do I get it off? Enough said!
May 7th, 2010 at 8:45 am
i happened to stumble on this show by accident and luv it ever since. I’m a big fan of the food network and i think this show is differnt , original and entertaining. So what if it’s not ur typical cooking show………. There is always room for something different and God knows this is different…Keep it up…..can’t wait for nxt episode.
May 7th, 2010 at 9:09 am
ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE SHOW!!
My sister and I can’t get enough of it.
May 10th, 2010 at 8:38 am
GREAT SHOW!! she tells it like it is, I love her humor, anybody who has had a hangover knows that a poutine is just what you need the next morning, and for those of you who don’t like the show maybe you could use a drink, you think that is an accent you should come to New Brunswick. Besides shes HOT.
May 10th, 2010 at 9:57 am
Nadia’s personality is infectious. She brings a down-to earth, real, humerous and frank approach to food and life events. Her persona is so much fun. You just want to hang out with her. Nadia, come visit me and my friends in Woodbridge and Maple ON! We love you!
May 15th, 2010 at 3:10 pm
I’m watching it right now and i have to admit that she creeps me out. She it very pretty but in my opinion she would be a lot prettier if she didn’t talk. She is also very flamboyant and it seems like an act.
She is a female version of a new york itallian male. This show is stupid.
May 16th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
I don’t like to discourage a young person who’s trying to make it, but this show is by far the worst thing Food Network Canada has ever put on. I agree with the remark that it’s like a bad SNL sketch — and that’s likely the whole point. It’s as if they’re trying to pull something over on the audience. I’m embarrassed for Nadia G., the rest of the cast, and the network. Whether the recipes are good or not isn’t the point — that actually gets lost in all the cheesy theatrics. Please, Food Network, pull this waste of time off the air. Unless, of course, it’s simply to fulfil the CanCon requirements of the CRTC. In that case, leave it on — it’s about as watchable as anything on the CBC.
May 19th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
This show should go down as a case study in why Canadian television is so cheesy, unreal, unwatchable and unrepresentative of who we are. Drives me crazy.
What makes Canadian TV and movies so bad is the ridiculous and inexplicable attempt of actors to “act American” and producers to script actors sounding “American”. Watch for it. Aggressive, sarcastic, blunt, cliche ridden language that tries to make Canadians sound like tough talking Yanks. But, WE DON’T TALK LIKE THAT. The reason Corner Gas was so successful domestically and internationally is that Canadian actors got to act CANADIAN!
This silly show, named after a word that has not become socially acceptable in Canada, “Bitchin’, with an actress who sounds like she is either from New Brunswick or Quebec, trying to put on some sort of mafiosa American Italian accent just reinforces the worst stereotype of Canadians…. we’re dying to be American.
Quit it.
May 21st, 2010 at 5:30 pm
This is the worst show I have ever seen. It makes a joke out of every chef I have ever known. Your so called chef is commical to say the least, she is rediculous, obscene, and totally crass. She is way out of her leage. Why don’t you through her back in the bay, she is such a smelly fish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 22nd, 2010 at 3:22 pm
I realize this is a character being played by someone pretending to be an actress/cook, but either the character is terrible or the acting is terrible or both. I’ve tried to watch this show on several occasions and can’t get past the first 2 minutes without scrambling to change the channel to absolutely anything else. I have no idea if the recipes they have her cooking are good or not, or whether she can actually pull that part of the show off because as soon as she opens her mouth I’m done.
May 22nd, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Uninspiring recipes. Horrible fake accent. Bad campy humour. Sorry Nadia G.
And to Stacy from New Brunswick, it IS a fake Brooklyn accent. Nadia is from Quebec.
May 23rd, 2010 at 8:19 pm
Yall who don’t like her just aren’t accustomed to something different then your stuffy chefs on the network, I think she’s a breath of fresh air, fun and spunky. As a woman of the younger crowd, I’m sick of trying to keep up with these chefs who try so hard to be like Gordan Ramsey. She makes cooking fun and even easy, specially something that I need. This show is supposed to appeal to the younger crowd under 30 so think about it before you get too huffy and snotty people. Keep it up Nadia, you’re a blast and look amazing doing it! Love from Alberta baby <3
May 27th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
This program is definitely different. Despite being young, this program does not appeal to me. I have tried to give it a chance and have watched only a couple minutes of each episode before I had to change the channel. I don’t care about the weird accent, but I just can’t stand Nadia’s mannerisms when she speaks and the way she speaks. It is extremely fake, and trying way too hard to be cool and hip with the kids or something. I can’t pay attention to what she is actually cooking because I’m constantly cringing whenever she talks. If Nadia talked like a normal person, the show would be a hundred times better. I will say that the show does have elements which I like such as interesting themes and decor. But fortunately, this is probably not enough to save it for another season.
May 28th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Mia, I am under 30 (18) and this show pisses me off. The host is annoying, not funny, and she cooks food which is not very good looking. Not all the chefs on the network are trying to be Gordon Ramsay. Also, the Gordon Ramsay on Hell’s Kitchen is an act as well, he is actually a caring and good person if you watch his other shows, especially his ones on the british networks.
May 28th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
This chick is seriously hard to watch. How can the producers of this show think this is worthwhile tv. Her food looks terrible and that accent makes my stomach turn. I’m 26 and would way rather watch a chef like Jamie Oliver, Giada, or Ina Garten then this mess.
June 1st, 2010 at 9:43 am
Nadia G ROCKS! I love her! She is too funny and cute at the same time! The attitude the remarks the recipes… all fantastic. I love the set / kitchen with the kewl gadgets set up colour and appliances.. love that stove-top!!!!! Want one!!!!!! You go girlfriend! ROCK ON! From one stronge willed Italian woman to another! Keep up the fantastic work!
June 3rd, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Just because the food doesn’t look appetizing doesn’t mean it isn’t delicious, personally I find chili to be the most disgusting thing I’ve seen for food and it’s taste far outweighs its look. Don’t judge a book by it’s cover is a great way to think but oh well, to each his own. I quite like her fake accent because it keeps my attention whereas a couple of the ladies doing cooking shows have a pretty monotone, steady voice. Boooooooooooring.
June 3rd, 2010 at 9:03 pm
I just came across this show & watched for about 8 minutes before I had to turn it off! While I think it is commendable that they are trying a light-hearted & “twisted” approach to food, I think Nadia is over-acting WAY too much. You can see the jokes/punchlines coming a mile away (yawn!), and the over-the-top theatrics is a bit too pandering and insulting to the intelligence of the audience. Maybe she should watch Guy Fieri on how to get that right balance of bigger-than-life personality without being a completely boring and sad cliche. I hate to knock a young girl down, but really, please tone it down & get some of the real YOU on there – then maybe we could watch without cringing.
June 4th, 2010 at 9:10 am
The concept is OK, the campy thing is funny, done, but good enough. I know she is french but the added Ginette accent though made me turn this off and never turn back. I really hope this isn’t Canada’s answer to triple D and Guy Fieri.
June 10th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
I would rather stare at a TV turned off then watch Bitchen Kitchen. I like the food network but come on this is garbage. See is not inspiring, nor is she funny. What food network was trying to receive by airing this show I will never know nor understand. Terrible terrible terrible.
June 14th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
Lots of other countries manage young/hip/funny/silly + cooking without it resorting to a cringe-worthy collection of ethnic stereotypes. Beautiful Cooking, from Hong Kong, or the old Japanese Iron Chef come to my mind as examples of young, silly cooking shows. Or if you’re looking for classier, but young, go for something like Cook Yourself Thin from Britain or even the Post Punk Kitchen.
Nadia’s not just awkward and trying desperately to make you laugh – she’s crass, insulting and childish. It’s as if one of those STD ridden horrors from Jersey Shore decided to become a cook.
BTW, I’m in my early 20′s, so I suppose Food Network is aiming for my demographic. But my friends all hate BK as much as I do.
June 17th, 2010 at 4:54 am
Maybe it is me that is reading too much into this show but I think it is awesome. It makes fun of all the awful tropes out there on the cooking shows. It is irony and sarcastic laden. The recipes aren’t the point. I admit I wasn’t sure the first show.
In terms of the act, it is a story of a young Anglo of Italian descent wishing to be an actress and having to resort to a cooking show and just trying to be herself. Just like all those other fake setups on the Food Network, (Paula Deen, Ray Ray, Giada — a trained chef no less). It is comedy show about food shows.
There is the soft petroleum jelly shots of the food, the beefcake spots and the matching set to the clothing. For a hint of the humour, look at the details on the set and how they change. Goth settings, some of the books in the background for the food shots. Its about the little things.
It is the funniest thing that the Food Network has done in a long while.
June 17th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
I’m not sure about this show. The first time I saw it, I kind of just cringed. It seemed like she was trying to hard with the intense makeup and cheesy jokes. I’d rather watch Ina Garten, Michael Smith, or even Guy.
June 24th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
She is annoying!
June 24th, 2010 at 8:05 pm
STOP Bitchin’ in the kitchen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 25th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
A lot of spiteful, jealous people here who don’t get humour. She’s a hoot! I love her kitchen, I want it.
June 25th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
I get the feeling there are a few people posting here under a few names. Yes, spread the negativity.
June 25th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
I have been cooking for a great many years, and I love watching the food channel, however same old same old. This is the most refreshing new show on this channel, and I just love it. It has brought cooking to a new and humorous level. Great stuff, I hope folks give it a chance, and lighten up. After all we spend a lot of time in the kitchen cooking for our loved ones, and why not make it fun along with the great recipes that this show provides. Congratulations on trying something a bit different.
June 27th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
There are a couple. Same with the positives.
June 29th, 2010 at 2:11 am
I think if you have nothing nice to say then don’t say it all, specially to a lot of people out there saying she’s overdone and that other bullcrap. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it simple as that. You either like it or you don’t so stop nit picking.
Rhudder has an excellent point about THE point of the show, it’s not just about the cooking, it’s a comedy show about a cooking show…look it up on youtube maybe yall will understand her a bit better instead of judging instantly because she’s not your style of school girl giggles.
June 29th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
i think your great! i watch your show and i love love love it. i also love to so i love your dishes. i would love to have you in my home with my family and have a bitchen good time in pointe claire! love lena!
June 30th, 2010 at 11:19 am
If the show doesn’t work on its own, it doesn’t work. I shouldn’t have to look it up on youtube to understand what she’s doing. From her show, it seems she’s doing an ethnic stereotype of a loud, vulgar, trampy Italian. Ha. Ha. Explain to me why that should be anything but offensive…?
July 6th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
I’ve been watching the Food Network since I started to cook – it’s my favourite channel. At first, Nadia’s show caught me off-guard as I haven’t seen anything else like it. But the more I watch it, the more I love it. I just love the show now. She’s got a popping personality, and may not suit everyone’s taste, but that’s the point. It’s easy to find a host with a flat personality who can cook and will please everyone (or at least not displease anyone) – but that’s boring. She’s fun, fresh, smart, sexy, and breaks a lot of stereotypes. It’s great to see a young woman who doesn’t feel like she has to act like all the other women on the Food Network. Why is it that only the men get to be quirky and have fun? As a young, professional woman who loves to cook and have fun, I’m a big fan of the show.
To those with only negative things to say – open your minds and perspective to new things and give it a chance. If you still don’t like, switch the channel, but no need to insult anyone. If we all liked the same things, life would be BORING.
Keep it up, Nadia!
Love,
Karima in Toronto
July 6th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
This has to be the stupidest show EVER put on T.V.
It is ridiculous, silly and just plain dumb. If it is trying to emulate hard core, punk rock it is so far off it is embarrassing, not to mention insulting.
We are just waiting for this travesty to be cancelled.
Oh dear GOD Food Network HURRY!
July 8th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
What is going on? This person is the reason small soap dishes have a personality. I absolutely would not watch this show ever again. She is the worst act I have seen anywhere. The phony accent and attitude may be one of the reasons people turn gay. I would not touch her with a fourty foot pole and I believe even Roman Polanski would agree. Get her the hell off of tv and stay with your original winning formula. Could anyone really see themselves settling down and having children with this attrocity, I think not. Get her the hell off of tv.
July 8th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Wow…cannot believe how people feel they have the right to put down others in such harsh ways all in the name of internet anonymity!!! I have seldom ever left comments on blogs or sites of this nature but felt compelled to do so after reading so many of the above disses, insults and attacks!
It’s just television, people! The show is meant to entertain, and obviously break the mould of the typical cooking show by adding in an element of humour and apparent “acting” on the part of the host. Yes it’s clear that she’s not really from New York….who cares!?
I have started recording this show so that I don’t miss it….obviously not everyone’s taste but I can’t stop laughing at her the campy humour and one-liners!! The chocolate sauce writing “IT’S OVER!” in the break-up episode sent me into hysterics!! LOL
I hope the show finds its target audience…and I genuinely hope that the naysayers don’t rule and the food Network allows this show to continue!
July 9th, 2010 at 5:36 am
This show is crazyyy good. I stumbled accross it by fluke, and loved it instantly. The set, the energy, the NY accent – unbelievable! I though it was an american show – who would have thought that a canadian would do something so fresh and radical!
Nadia is pretty, great sense of humour, the recipies are very useful, and the side characters hilarious! What is there not to like?
For all the critics out there – you try and do something better, then come back and complain…or simply don’t watch it – “its not rocket surgery”.
Nadia, keep them coming, and if you don’t make it in Canada, I am sure south of the border they are already loving you!!!
July 9th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
Horrible show…seriously….I hope they discontinue this show ASAP
July 10th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
I can’t believe some people don’t like this show. The people who don’t like this show must be really boring I mean Nadia is my favourite chef and I’ve only watched it twice. She makes cooking entertainung. And all those fancy chefs are just pplain rude and they make me wanna hurl. And she doesn,t try to hurt anyones feelings you neerds!
July 15th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
now my favorite cooking show, funny good down home simple cooking and tips. The other characters spice it up. Campy in a rocky horror picture show type of way but fun, original, well produced and entertaining.
July 16th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
I can’t STAND her show, and I have TRIED to watch a recipe to the end, and it SICKENS me. Her ‘accent’ and her stupid ludicrous jokes make me puke, therefore, I have no desire to eat, let alone cook. Take this poop OFF Food Network, in case someone starts to copy her ‘accent’…its not even New Jersey. She’s probably from Brantford Ontario.
July 19th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Ok Ok OK – listen up people! I’m a 64 year old woman – I may not be young any more because you claim she’s geared for the younger viewer but I can tell you I think she’s hilarious! I will admit the first show turned me off because she was overdoing it (in my humble opinion), but the last few shows she has tone down the accent and her repetitive “Italian slang” words – I now think she’s absolutely the freshest thing on t.v. – I just wish she would get rid of her 3 guys — totally unnecessary. Her humour and perfect timing (as well as her cooking) are enough for me. Why do you need these guys Nadia? That I don’t understand – spend more time explaining the length of time you need to cook your dish and show it more fully and less time letting these guys waste time. Talk more about your family and your experiences with them — make it more personal. You’ll see – make this show all about you and your cooking!
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:28 pm
didn’t quite get her the first time I watched but I think she’s totally cool – love her “guys” – they are all so stereotyped yet – as stereotypes sometimes are – totally lovable. I think this is pure entertainment – I haven’t seen any recipes I’d make yet but I love to watch it. What is wrong with all those critics??
July 26th, 2010 at 11:02 am
Funny program ! …. love all the tips … I watch this for the laughs … and sometimes the food; her ‘guy’s are totally cute! Why are you all moaning ???? This is definitely fun in the kitchen ! … more please. I need more of this on a Friday night. Well done.