Chef Robert Irvine Fired from Food Network's Dinner: Impossible

Recently, Chef Robert Irvine was fired from his Food Network show Dinner: Impossible for inflating his resume. I find it very unfortunate that he was so taken with status and the trappings of success that he felt he'd have to lie to impress people. It's very obvious just from watching the show that he's an impressive chef. On the show, he was challenged each week by a different culinary situation, but invariably, they involved serving very large numbers of guests with uncommon supplies and unusual cooking situations. He always comes across as well organized, but also sometimes appears to fall short when dealing with volunteers and holding his temper. Because his show scenario is so different from most of the cooks and chefs on Food Network it can be hard to compare him to others, but in the end his show is about the food and about his own personality, just like any show on the Food Network.

One of the most popular Food Network personalities, Rachael Ray, once was on Iron Chef. On that episode, she seemed tense and overwhelmed, and she's said herself in interviews and on her talk show that she hated it and she'd never do it again. Obviously, she'd never want to host a show in the style of Dinner Impossible either, but in her own format, Rachael Ray is plainly a star and has millions of fans. She's not only got a number of series on the Food Network, including Thirty Minute Meals, Tasty Travels, and Forty Dollars a Day, but she also has a syndicated talk show on network television called Rachael Ray. She is actually not a chef and has never tried to say she is. She's proud of her upbringing working in restaurants and attributes a lot of her success in food to her mother's teaching.