Bottom Line favs Anthony Bourdain and Michael Ruhlman have announced the nominees for their First Annual Golden Clog awards for the best and worst in food this year.

The pair will present the awards during the South Beach Food and Wine Festival later this month.

The greatest part about all of this isn’t really the nominees but instead the varying categories and who they honor or poke fun at.

For example:

THE “ROCCO” AWARD — for worst career move by a talented chef. Obviously a jab at Rocco DiSpirito, who after his short-lived reality show tanked his career and any culinary credibility he had. The nominees are: Gordon Ramsay for the cruel and pointless freak show that is Hell’s Kitchen; David Burke for the “Hooters in a Hula skirt” non-charms of the Hawaiian Tropic Zone in Times Square; Tyler Florence for Applebee’s, Applebee’s, Applebee’s.

For the complete list of nominees and the reasons they’ve been nominated, visit Serious Eats.

In other foodie-related news, Robert Sietsma has a great article today in the Village Voice about his trip to a taping of Iron Chef America and how utterly fake it is. I always presumed a level of deception when watching the show (I mean how is someone going to come up with a five-course tasting menu based on ingredients they don’t know, while coordinating that vision with a pair of sous chefs?) but the article points out how much of the show is completely fabricated and ridiculous, including the Chef stand-ins they use for Iron Chefs not competing at that taping.

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