That's the point, luvs, she was so good she got scholarships after proving herself in other culinary schools. She's never forgotten where she came from and has taken her education to help those growing up like she did.my ? is, where'd she find the dough to pay for a Le Corden Bleu education if she was so impovirished? it's EXPENSIVE!!!!! unless she scored numerous scholarships or something.
Please stop hating on Sandra. She's done nothing to deserve it. She didn't jump from school to school. She grew up terribly impoverished, she deserves praise, not hate.where'd you hear that? & jumping from school to school doesn't look great on a resume.
i just read she took a "corden bleu 2-week course".
2 weeks is an enthusiast course, not an education or a degree.
And you know her life? You've been there for all her accomplishments? You've shadowed her throughout her life? You are her shadow...i didn't i hate on sandra- i watch her show. i said she's not le corden bleu trained. dot-dot-dot
Baloney! She's out to make a buck and merely found a niche to sell her wares. Her 70% reliance on packaged products is neither nutritionally sound nor economical. If you want to help someone who is struggling to make ends meet but still wants to prepare nutritious, delicious meals for their family, give them a copy of The Settlement Cookbook, the first edition of which was written for poor immigrants more than 100 years ago; more than 2 million copies of the 40 editions of this treasure have been sold since.Sandra has her niche - a Le Cordon Bleu trained chef who has returned to her impoverished roots to try to make less than gourmet ingredients taste better, and to help cooks with few skills prepare something good tasting to put on the table. She is also very active in charity work getting food to the hungry. Cut her some slack!
The table-scape thing ... well, yeah - but my Mom would have loved some of those ideas back when I was a kid and she found herself forced into the "Officers Wives Club". Mom was a Texas girl - comfortable in boots, jeans and sitting on a horse or a tractor (or running around barefoot) - not doing military protocol or Southern hospitality dinners!
Go to your local food bank and look at what they hand out. Then come back and criticize Sandra for trying to take those ingredients and make them taste better. How would you use those same indredients and do it totally "from scratch"?
She is not my favorite TV chef - but I just hate to see a good person getting trashed for trying to make a positive contribution.