Rock n’ Roll is here to stay as so famously crooned by ‘Danny and the Juniors’ about the time Swanson’s TV Dinner was so famously cooked up….but how about a rock n’ roll culinary show. Well….the two shall….and have…met. We can also say that TV’s super chef’s are also cemented in our pans and ovens with no chance of being wiped away anytime soon.

I actually have known one of TV’s superchef’s for a looong time as evident by his insistence that he toilet paper my desk when he came to visit (the video is posted above!). I happened to be outta the office and in the field working when he stopped into our LA studios to chat about this cross-country venture that has him working with a popular local chef  in front of a live audience.

The Guy Fieri show actually rolls into ‘Tinsel Town’ tomorrow night (Thursday), setting up shop at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. Fieri, star of three Food Network shows Diners, Drive-in and Dives, Guy’s Big Bite, Ultimate Recipe Showdown, and also best-selling author is the headliner. It’s great to see a friend do so well and I can tell you success has NOT gone to that bleached dyed rather physically large head of his!

Seriously, I first met Guy while working at a small local TV station in Santa Rosa California. He was a new owner of a new restaurant ‘Johnny Garlic’s’ which happened to be located next to a looong unfinished freeway through the city. We walked in…asked for an interview with the owner and he was fantastic on the air. Years later after I had already come to work at Fox News Channel,  his friends would encourage him to enter the Food Network competition and the rest is history.

I have yet to see him in work action outside the TV box and so long as we don’t have breaking news I hope to catch the show at the Wiltern. Having said that, his success is a true representation of the popularity of food these days and those who cook it up. Don’t get me wrong, since apple’s hung on trees in the Garden of Eden, man has desired a good bite to eat, but the Food Network and Fox’s hit chef Gordon Ramsay have taken cooking to a whole different level.

I guess the title of rock star could be appropriately applied. It seems every store I walk into has some sort of food cook book from one of the super chef’s . I have been to some of their restaurants, watched some of their shows, read some of their books, tried to cook some of their recipes and I am really not one of the fanatics. You can’t help not to notice or take part since they are everywhere. Not such a bad idea many of my friends say since it has gotten them to cook and tinker more in the kitchen.

The Chef’s are truly rolling in the dough and the consumer seems to be just fine with that. This live road show seems to be the next move and so far I am told audiences like the live presentation and all the acts and music that go along with it. Have you seen any of them and if so what did you think? Are you thinking of heading out to grab a bite of live cooking? Tickets start at  $24.75.

Kevin & Brandi Norman in 2003

“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.” — Anonymous

In this day and age and especially in a business where we are fortunate to meet so many people, friends come and they go. We may not talk for months and in some cases even a few years, but good friends pick up right where they left off; as if no time has ever passed … as if older age has never come.

It really doesn’t seem that long ago. Dressed in uniform with worries that now seem so trivial, summers were spent at Cleve Borman Field in the heart of the Napa Valley. On a hill overlooking the quaint town of Yountville, sits the Veterans Home of California and at the heart of “The Home”, lies a baseball field that has been ingrained into the lives of men, young and old for generations. Somewhat appropriate that this field is where I met Kevin and so many other summer friends. Keep Reading …

Welcome to Fort Irwin

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Like the entire country, we were all saddened yet glued to the television as the horrific story in Texas unfolded at Fort Hood. So many times we have covered stories around the globe with soldiers stationed in Killeen and we have heard so many stories about the base, it makes you feel connected … right along with our unwavering support for our troops.

Within a few hours of the shooting we got the call. Many soldiers and their families at Fort Hood have at one time come through Fort Irwin, the Army’s massive training site in the middle of the Mojave Desert. While this base is not nearly as large as Hood, Irwin has about 22,000 soldiers and civilians on base each day by midday. Six-thousand cars make the drive off of Interstate 15 down about 35 miles or so across the desolate landscape each and every day. The topography reminds me of parts I’ve seen in th middle east and in Pakistan. The area is arid, cold at night and warm during the day.

Producer Laura Prabucki and I leave LA and battle traffic and the long road for several hours before arriving in Barstow. There we grab a quick hotel room and a few hours of sleep. Photographer Scott King and our satellite truck guru Eric Graychock decide to leave early in the morning and head straight to the fort. Our first task before we leave Barstow is a stop at a quick mart to grab water and any food that is not perishable. Unlike other bases around the country, Irwin is literally in the middle of nowhere.

Because of the concern about the shooting in Texas, Fort Irwin has decided to keep the media about 5 miles away. We have great relations with the men and women here and understand their decision. So, we are parked next to the sign that welcomes everyone, along with a couple of retired tanks. From the knoll where we are reporting, I look in a 360 degree area and see absolutely nothing. Topography that reminds me of stories I’ve covered in the Middle East and in Pakistan. Other than the road that 6,000 cars a day trek down, there’s some scrub brush and tumbleweeds, both greenish yellow from recent rains.

Everywhere we stop and everyone we meet is either watching the reports on television, or expressing condolences for all of those who serve our great nation. It is a tough time for the Army today no matter where you serve. Brothers, sisters, comrades, soldiers….all Americans. Are thoughts and prayers are with you.

California game wardens cover a massive amount of land and water in and off of the Golden State. From 200 miles off the coast, the the highest peaks and lowest desert, wardens do their best to protect California’s natural resources, animals and wild areas. It is a rewarding, yet tedious job since only 358 sworn officers cover an area twice the size of California (counting the ocean of course). As a kid growing up in Northern California and then as I worked in areas like Chico (the North Valley), the Wine Country, the Sacramento Valley and now for Fox as a correspondent, I have seen their good work. Tough and ever more dangerous. The budget crisis hasn’t made anything easier as a significant increase in manpower wont likely come any time soon. Here is some behind the scenes video as we along for a ride with wardens Stephen Johnson and Byron Trunnell on the Sacramento River.

So what is it like to board a Navy ship? Well the last time a photographer and I boarded this ship, the destroyer USS Milius, we were landing in a helicopter as the ship patrolled the Persian Gulf and enforced the UN Mandate on Iraq before the war began back in February 2003. Now we get the chance to do a proper boarding in San Diego, where the ship calls home. The crew has just returned from a seven month deployment and will stay in this area until some time next spring. It is good to be back on board the ship and good to see her in such great shape and in such good hands.