Guy Fieri talks about UNLV and Triple D

In a recent interview with Menu Vegas, Guy Fieri expained why he chose to get his degree at UNLV. Guy Fieri graduated with a bachelor's degree in Hospitality Management in 1990.

I wanted to own restaurants. Being a chef was not enough for me. I didn’t want to just do that. I wanted to have a business and be in charge of my entire space shuttle. I knew I had to have a real strong business foundation, and UNLV is the premier place for that. When you have that many hotels surrounding you, supporting you, just harvesting students, there's no question where to go. I had some fantastic mentors, I was a proud ATO frat member, I had all that stuff going for me. When I graduated, I was going to take two yeas and go to culinary school, but my dad said to get out there and "see if you need it." In hindsight, sometimes there are a lot of things I wish I had gone to school and learned. I didn’t get classically trained, which is a good and bad thing. But in the end, bro, there is nothing I would really change. I am completely satisfied with who I am.



And Guy's thoughts on why Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives is such a popular show?

I don’t know, bro, but it is the number one show and I don’t take credit for it. I look at it as I’m the quarterback of the team and you can’t throw a touchdown pass to yourself. It takes about 50 great people to make that show happen. Why do people dig it? I think people just get the impression or feel a connection with me, that I'm just some dude who lives across the street from them, he's a little crazy, and he takes them on this tour. I'm just like you. I’m a food junkie. I’m having as much fun as anybody on this show. I mean, really, I get to eat all this stuff, then we're gonna talk about it, and I'm going to drive a Camaro. Tell me what part of that sucks. I think people watch it and think, "I wanna go, too!"

(full story)

Related Posts:
UNLV to award Guy Fieri for excellence in April
Guy Fieri interview at KSRO
Guy Fieri to co-host a UNLVino event in April

TV Guide interviews Guy Fieri

This video interview was shot on Sunday, May 3, 2009 at Baby Blues BBQ in Hollywood, CA. Guy was there to host a lunch for the Rock n Roll Fantasy Camp. www.rockcamp.com/hollywoodCamp.htm The next Fantasy Camp in Hollywood is scheduled for November 12 - 22, 2009.

Description: TV Guide Network's Nikki Boyer hangs with Guy Fieri. Guy explains how he went from reality show contestant to the busiest guy on cable's premiere food network.

TVGuide

Guy Fieri was also recently interviewed by the Ladies Home Journal (website). Check out the article here.

Related Posts:
Fieri Cooks for Rock Fantasy Camp
Rock n Roll Fantasy Camp Giveaway
Rock Fantasies, Pork Promos, Ribbon Cutting and Cook with your Kids

Guy Fieri at the Shoreline Amphitheater

Guy Fieri was in three public events at the Great American Food & Music Fest. He did a cooking demonstration of Hong Kong Noodles (recipe)from 3:00 - 3:45, a brief book signing from 4:00 - 4:45 and had a feature presentation on the main amphitheater stage from 7:45 - 8:30, making gallons of margaritas and his Pork En Fuego (the Tonight Show). Sometime between 5:00 and 7:30, Guy joined Bobby Flay and several of the music acts for a private meet & greet with VIP ticket holders.

Guy Fieri center, surrounded by his crew. The woman is Susie Fogelson, right back is Dirty P and right front is Kleetus.

At the mid-afternoon demo on the Serious Eats stage - a stage set up in front of a grassy area, The Examiner wrote,

"He was having the time of his life cooking, joking and all-around kvetching with the appreciative crowd. One woman in the back of the crowd was handed a microphone and asked Guy if he remembered her? 'Well, ma'am,' he quipped, 'I can't see that far, but your voice sounds HOT!'. A fun, lighthearted moment for the hungry, stressed throng, one that enabled me to leave the event with a smile."

The book signing was fast and furious. Rdshft said,

"... the most dissapointing thing that happened was with my 3 year old daughter who is a big Guy Fieri fan. She had gotten a wrist band that she wears like guy on her right arm and all week had talked about going to see Guy. We waited in over an hour long line for his book signing, having already bought 2 of his books. We finally get to the front Guy barely looks up at her just signs her name. My wife asked him if we could take a picture with her. Guy response was "OK but i have to keep signing" which is understandable. We go to walk around for the picture since Guy said it was Ok, but one of his people standing on the side says sorry no pictures and doesnt let my daughter get her picture. So now I have an upset 3 year old who doesnt understand why she cant get a picture with her favorite Food Tv star even though he said it was ok. That was it for us we left."

Then came the big demonstration - what Guy described as a preview of what's to come in his upcoming "Knuckle Sandwich Tour," which Bay Area Bites described as,

"A Rockstar Performance ... Must give props to Guy, he rocked the crowd with a highly entertaining blowout performance complete with loud rock n'roll, gratuitous hot chicks on stage, big machinery, power tools, and pyrotechnics."

And Pages, Pucks & Pantry said, "He was like a rock star, the crowd was going wild, he was blaring Mas Tequila while he had the slushomatic going. He was putting on a great show and I think the crowd needed his enthusiasm at that point. Not sure about his cooking as we were a bit too tired and hungry to stay to watch."







More video

Other comments:

One VIP ticket holder wrote to me saying, "I was disappointed when Guy had everyone in the 'cheap seats' move down towards the front [during the evening demonstration ~D]. I'd paid a lot of money to be in the front rows and felt even more ripped off than I had before. The shows were great, but all the other hassles combined made it for a bad experience."

There were reports that Lori, Guy's wife, joined him at the Food & Music Fest in Mt. View, although I've found no pictures.

Related Posts:
Guy Fieri on the Tonight Show
Reviews of the Great American Food & Music Fest
The Great American Food and Music Fest

Knuckle Sandwich Tour cities and dates TBA

*update*
Tour dates and cities have been announced - see blog post. Guy Fieri tour dates for 2010 have not yet been announced. Keep an eye on Fans of Guy Fieri homepage, or check GuyFieri.com.

As Guy Fieri sent from Twitter, he and his "krew" will tour 22 cities on the Knuckle Sandwich Tour. (I still don't like that name, "Knuckle Sandwich," but done is done, I suppose. Oh, and not to be confused with "Knuckle Sandwich" by Ellay Khule & the Rifleman. ~D)

Guy said recently in an interview, "It's been a trip ... I don't think I ever imagined this. I always wanted to be a rock star, to be a drag car driver, wanted to do something!

But I've always been so down-home secure, so satisifed with being a chef and having restaurants — so to ever think that the two would have collided, such a thing as a rock and roll chef, I never would have imagined it, but boy am I enjoying it."

The tour is scheduled in November and December, starting in Rhode Island and ending in Las Vegas.

The show will be a mix of rock music and food.

*Update*
If you're looking for Guy Fieri Knuckle Sandwich, sponsor of NASCAR's Tommy Baldwin Racing, search here.

Reviews of the Great American Food & Music Fest

Or as one blogger called it, the Great American Food and Music Fiasco.

Blogs and newspaper articles are rifling today over the debacle that was yesterday's Great American Food & Music Fest. There were so many, I didn't even jot down the url's for all of them.

"Where was the music," one blogger questioned. "We left after one hour, and warned everyone waiting in line to not go in," wrote another.

From a Serious Eats blog, here are a few more comments:

"As we were walking from our car to the venue in mid-afternoon, patrons walking back to their cars were warning us not go. They said that lines for food were hours long and some food was running low or gone altogether. I should have listened and turned around because not only were the lines ridiculously long and some food running low, there were way more people than I had ever anticipated. It was pretty much shoulder to shoulder. No wonder there was a problem getting food to everyone. I did see Guy Fieri's first demo (which was well done) squinting through at least a hundred heads."

"bobby flay and guy fieri should have fire their agents for talking them into such a poorly planned event."

"Did anyone even see Bobby Flay or Guy Fieri? Did they even show up?!"

And a reply from one of the event coordinators (A Mr. Jim Lewi, producer, of the Agency Group if I'm not mistaken)

Thank you so much for taking the time to write. I am so incredibly sorry about what you went through.

We certainly had every intention of making everything perfect. The fact is, the problems were not anyone's fault by ours. Not the building's, not Live Nation. We wanted to keep lines down so we invested all this money (upfront...not too smart) for the "cashless system" that would do just that... according to the company that was running it. This company had a resume that included NASCAR races (200,000 +) so when we heard that every transaction could be made in 3-seconds or less, we were in. We had them come in a week early and start testing...making sure everything worked...then as we opened the doors, the system failed.

The Fest did have an emergency system in place and cash banks and credit card machines were distributed prior to the show, but it took us nearly 45-minutes to switch over and by that point, we had very large lines. Added to that, it was our first year and we had no way to really judge attendance. We looked at "pre-sales" and doubled them thinking that was safe...and we would be over. We were wrong...and very sorry.

It is important to us as producers for you to understand that we do care and put years of hard work into this just to have one company take us down.

If you would like a refund, it isn't the easiest process, but it does work.

PLEASE SEND A PHOTOCOPY OF YOUR TICKETS BACK TO

Shoreline Amphitheatre
One Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
ATTN: BOX OFFICE REFUNDS

Again, we are all so sorry this happened...but at the same time are not giving up. We will come back next year on our tour and will have something special for those who were put out this year.

Thank you again for writing.

Jim

When I get reviews from people who saw Guy Fieri's demonstrations, I'll post them ... uh ... post haste. ~D

Guy's Backyard Steakhouse (GI0613H) with video

Guy's Big Bite - Guy's Backyard Steakhouse - Aired: 6/14/09

Guy Fieri brings the steakhouse experience home with this do-it-yourself Dry-Aged Ribeye with spicy Horseradish Gremolata. For dessert, fudgy Conquistador Chocolate Chip Brownies.

Dry Aged Rib-Eyes - recipe
Fan favorite

(no photo available)

Mexican Rhubarb Chocolate Chunk Brownies - dessert recipe



Keywords:
beef rib or loin roast, cheesecloth, Horseradish Gremolata, rhubarb, chocolate

Related Guy Fieri Recipes:
Main dishes with beef
Desserts

-> more on Guy's Big Bite <-

Tickets on sale Monday for NY Wine & Food Fest

Tickets for the New York Wine and Food Festival go on sale Monday, June 15, 2009. The event is scheduled for Columbus Day Weekend, October 8 - 11, 2009.


Some highlighted events for Fans of Guy Fieri:

Chelsea Market After Dark - October 8, 2009
Hosted by Guy Fieri
$95

Guy Fieri Culinary Demonstration presented by Whole Foods Market - October 10 & 11, 2009
$35 each day

The Guy Fieri Package
(oh, I can hardly wait for the puns from THAT moniker)
Chelsea Market After Dark
Guy Fieri Demo
Choice of one Grand Tasting session (Sat or Sun)
$280

For more information, visit http://www.nycwineandfoodfestival.com/2009/tickets.php

Related Posts:
Inside information on Guy's Big Bite set
Searching for the Next Pork Personality
Fieri kicks off the NY Wine and Food Fest weekend in October