What was it like to lose a Throwdown to Bobby Flay?
It was awful. I was crying. It was the most disappointing thing in the world. I think I was crying on TV – they were like, ‘Oh my god, the chowder guy is crying.’ Aw! And it was so close, too. Yeah… I read some blogs afterwards that were talking about it and people were saying they thought Bobby Flay was such an asshole because of it. I think since my episode they’ve tried to gear the show so that it doesn’t look like he just comes in and tromps these people. But I did get to taste both of his chowders, and they were incredible… How did The Food Network find you? Well, they found me and I found them, sort of. I pitched a TV show to them, and they were like, thanks for your pitch but no thanks… and so then, literally ten minutes after being almost sort of rudely shoved out of their office, the woman calls me on my cell and is like, ‘How much do you like chowder? Do you really like chowder? We may have something for you.’ And then a few days later, they were like, ‘You’ve got your show!’
