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Skriven 2013-07-02 19:57:08 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 2060 av Dave Drum (68093.cooking)
Ärende: fancy that
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Hi Dave,


 DD> On of the things I liked in the original iteration of Mario Batali's
 DD> "Molto Mario" show on the original TV Food Network was that Mario
 DD> would give an origin of the dish, where it was made and then give
 DD> little side bars of the sort "They make this same dish in <whatever
 DD> but it has (ingredient) added/left off".

 RH> Never saw any of his original shows and very few of his other ones.
 RH> Probably saw him the most on "Iron Chef", sometimes visiting another
 RH> show. I thought I'd seen a fair amount of Food Network shows but
 RH> thinking back, I've really not seen that many, overall.

 DD> When I was running the satellite shop we had a TeeVee going all open
 DD> hours - after all, we were selling entertainment. And there really
 DD> isn't much on during the day after you have seen all the History
 DD> Channel and Discovery Channel stuff once or twice. We made it a point

I suspect the History channel has put out a lot of new shows with the
sesquicentennial observance of the war between the states. Discovery
carried the Nik Wallenda Grand Canyon walk on Sunday so you would have
had that to watch also, had you still been working there.

 DD> to watch the Price is High w/Bob Barker and Jeopardy. But, mostly it

Price is Right isn't the same with Drew Carey. He tries, but just isn't
Bob Barker.


 DD> was the early days of the TV Food Network - when they had real cooking
 DD> shows. Emeril started as one of the assortment of presenters on a show
 DD> called "How To Boil Water". And believe me - he was so stiff and
 DD> wooden as to make the mind boggle that he has become the polished
 DD> entertainer that he is today. Mario was good. The early Emeril shows
 DD> (Essence of Emeril) before he got into all the schtick were pretty
 DD> good ... and he really can cook - no matter what you may have heard
 DD> elsewhere. There was Michelle Urvater with her "Cooking Monday to
 DD> Friday", Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger's "Two Hot Tamales",
 DD> David Rosengarten's "Taste", etc., etc., etc.

And I missed it because we didn't get cable until around 1998. When we
did go for cable, the local Time Warner affiliate in Sierra Vista didn't
carry the Food Network. But, I survived. (G)


 DD> Like politics, all cooking is local.   Bv)=

 RH> With influences here & there from the folks that visit another area &
 RH> come back or others that move to a different place than where they were
 RH> brought up. I've added to the basic cooking I knew when I first got
 RH> married with every move we've made so now it is international in scope.
 RH> Used to be more or less plain northeastern US, as that was what I was
 RH> brought up on.

 DD> Well, yeah. Can you imagine Italian cooking without the tomato, which
 DD> originated in Mexico (thank you Cristobal Colon)? Or Asian (Thai,
 DD> Indian, Indonesian) cuisine without chilies (thank you Vasco de Gama)?
 DD> Or Ireland without potatoes (thank you Sir Francis Drake and Sir
 DD> Walter Raleigh)? Or for that matter Italian cooking without spaghetti
 DD> (thank you Marco Polo)?

And how much have we learned from each other here on the echo? Lots!

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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