TV and Cooks!
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What is it with the cooks? At this moment in time two of the five terrestrial channels are showing cooks! When they finish a third begins, this one features a group of nerds people cooking a meal intending to impress the man who would be their boss. The one that cooks the best meal wins the job. I would like to try that, there would be no cooking programmes on television ever again I fail to win employment! What is this all about? These days the TV world is stuffed full of antique shows, house programmes and cooking shows. They top this with a multitude of soap operas, which avoid any requirement to smile or engage the intellect, and fill the day up with what they refer to as ‘Hard hitting drama.’ This of course is just another soap opera exactly the same as the one shown last week but with a different background and lots more explosions.TV cannot get enough of them. Fat ones, hairy ones, individuals with twisted personalities, groups sharing the kitchen, trainees ‘chefs’ and now cook for your job! Now cooking, that woman’s job which only men tend to do on TV, (we can forget Nigella as she is less concerned with cooking than with just being looked at and enjoying her self importance,) cooking appears to be the ‘in thing’ these days. What's more they all wish to be called 'chef,' rather than 'cook.' What is the difference? If your head is over a pan full of mince it makes no difference what you are called! Mince is mince, no matter what herbs you add.
TOO MUCH! I’ve just had an e-mail from DK Books offering me a wide variety of cook books! That's it! I cancel the e-mail and I switch off the telly and head off to bed - hungry!
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4 comments:
Adullamite,
This was a funny post!
I sometimes feel the same way you do--too many cooks in too many kitchens, often times I am not sure who to watch.
I chose two people I watch consistently--Martha Stewart and The Barefoot Contessa.
I think if you find a few you really like and get rid of the rest of them, you would appreciate their craft more.
As for them being on several channels, good luck with that one! :-)
Try and have a great day despite the cooks, cheers!
One can never have too many cooking shows on TV. Or golfing coverage, for that matter.
Do your doughnuts taste like Fanny's...?
Bah! Mike Smith just said something similar to what I was going to say!
The original has been attributed to various people from Bill Tennant to Bob Langley (If you're making donuts at home I hope they turn out like Fanny's)
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