I needed to get this off my chest!
The two cooking networks we receive here in Vegas have become real disappointments lately. Food Network and Cooking have both become primarily game show networks, venues for celebrity chefs, and food travelogues about places I will never be able to see and restaurants I will never be able to visit. Actual cooking shows are few and far between, and are usually braoadcast in the mid-morning and afternoon hours. And neither channel has enough content to fill 24 hours of broadcasting, so they go for “binge airing.” Who wants to watch Bobby Flay cook burgers for seven hours?
There are a couple of the contest shows I like; Worst Cooks in America is funny, and I like Ann Burrell; Iron Chef and it’s iterations are always fun. I also like Alton Brown’s Good Eats for the info and science content. But I don’t want to “beat Bobby Flay,” (I don’t care for Bobby Flay very much, if you hadn’t noticed), or watch people decorate elaborate cakes for prizes.
ATK and Cook’s Country, as well as Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street, there are a few others I watch on PBS. But they’re only on once a week.
What happened to Julia Child, the Galloping Gourmet, and those other classic chefs that weren’t really trying to get famous, just trying to teach people to cook?
I know I know. “If you don’t like them, don’t watch them!” Well, I don’t. But it’s Monday, and I’m grumpy!
The two cooking networks we receive here in Vegas have become real disappointments lately. Food Network and Cooking have both become primarily game show networks, venues for celebrity chefs, and food travelogues about places I will never be able to see and restaurants I will never be able to visit. Actual cooking shows are few and far between, and are usually braoadcast in the mid-morning and afternoon hours. And neither channel has enough content to fill 24 hours of broadcasting, so they go for “binge airing.” Who wants to watch Bobby Flay cook burgers for seven hours?
There are a couple of the contest shows I like; Worst Cooks in America is funny, and I like Ann Burrell; Iron Chef and it’s iterations are always fun. I also like Alton Brown’s Good Eats for the info and science content. But I don’t want to “beat Bobby Flay,” (I don’t care for Bobby Flay very much, if you hadn’t noticed), or watch people decorate elaborate cakes for prizes.
ATK and Cook’s Country, as well as Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street, there are a few others I watch on PBS. But they’re only on once a week.
What happened to Julia Child, the Galloping Gourmet, and those other classic chefs that weren’t really trying to get famous, just trying to teach people to cook?
I know I know. “If you don’t like them, don’t watch them!” Well, I don’t. But it’s Monday, and I’m grumpy!
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