Saturday, July 08, 2006
Never trust a skinny cook: A short foodie rant
Being, as I am, cable-deprived blessed with no cable television at home, vacation was a time to soak up all things good on cable. By that I refer exclusively to the Food Netork.
Alas, as Bakerina so well put it (tho I can’t find it in her archives, (Bake, can you drop the link in the comments below?), the trend to eye-candy, non-chef “hosts” on FN is apalling. Awful. Bad.
Seriously, when I look at a bleach-blonde bimbo cooing about the joy of making colored ice cubes, I have no choice but to give up and turn off the fucking television.
From now on I live by one simple rule which I will call the Rachel Ray Test: Never waste even one minute watching any show on the food network where the host/hostess (or better chef, we like real chefs folks, that’s why we tune in!) is thinner than Rachel Ray. And even Rachel is looking a little scrawny lately as she tries to survive on $40/day.