Text 2634, 134 rader
Skriven 2013-07-20 16:48:26 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 2575 av Dave Drum (68492.cooking)
Ärende: Mario, not Andretti                                      [1]
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Hi Dave,

 RH> About a week behind, thanks to travel and too busy or no connection.

 DD> Between your travel and my gall bladder .......

 DD> How did Steve's wonky back do on the trip? Travelling in pain is no
 DD> fun, I promise.

He said that overall, the back did quite well. We stopped fairly often
(every couple of hours, give or take) to stretch our legs, do a bit of
walking, get something to drink, etc. For our upcoming trip, we will be
flying which means less travel time but more time standing (in lines,
waiting for baggage). Some of it is unavoidable, sometimes I'll make
sure he has a chance to sit down. I can grab bags off the conveyer belts
just as easily as he can. (G)


 -=> Ruth Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=-
(Mario)
 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> I liked the one he conned TVFN into springing for: Mario and his
 DD> assistant/stooge bucketing about Italy on a red Vespa or Lambretta (I
 DD> forget which) motor-scooter. Peeking into out of the way shops and

 RH> That would have been fun; Food Network must have had a decent sized
 RH> budget or been really wanting some shows to get viewers to do a show
 RH> like that.

 DD> Back in the day it was a *much* different network than it is today. It
 DD> was really about cooking and teaching people how to cook and to eat -

So when/why did it change?

 DD> unlike the cheaply produced crap that is there today - the thinly
 DD> disguised reality shows masquerading as cooking shows, the game show
 DD> format stuff like Iron Chef, etc.

Iron Chef was originally a Japanese show. We saw it in HI, in Japanese.
I forget if they used sub titles, dubbed into English or how/if they
translated it but it was fun to watch.


 DD> trattorias and cooking at the drop of one of his red clogs.

 RH> I thought they were orange clogs, looked that way to me anyway. Maybe
 RH> they faded by the time I started watching. (G)

 DD> Or he may have changed colours. I have a vivid memory of him wearing
 DD> red clogs to match his red scooter. The camera zoomed in on them
 DD> several times. A search via Der Bingle shows a line of Mario Batali
 DD> clogs with orange prominently featured. Of course my memory may be as
 DD> suspect as my gall bladder ... it has been nearly 20 years since that
 DD> Italian trip show aired.

Are there any Youtube video clips possibly available? We saw that for
the first time in HI also; I recall one segment showing how to skin a
(cooked) potato.

 DD> I probably wouldn't have watched. I saw his grandad Karl drop 10
 DD> stories in 1978 - on live TV. That was before Nik was born. Don't care
 DD> to see another.

 RH> We had just broadcast in 78, still down in Swansboro on the coast of
 RH> NC. I read about it. Also recall an early 60s Reader's Digest article
 RH> about the family and a major fall in a circus performance. Grandson is

 DD> Uuuuuhhhhh, this was live on CBS - so you could have gotten it off an
 DD> antenna. I had cable (called a Community Antenna back then) which had

In 1978 I had other things going on in my life, still didn't watch too
much tv (more than I do now). Our first daughter was born that year.

 DD> I was down to watching (not really down - but, you know what I mean, I
 DD> hope) the European variant of the History Channel which had a whole
 DD> new rotation of programs presented from a European viewpoint as
 DD> opposed to the Americentic thrust of the original History Channel.

That would have been interesting. When we were in Germany, we'd watch
the Olympics on German tv (had a multi system set) and not have to put
up with the countless back stories and other distractions American
broadcasts carry. Didn't have the commercials since AFN didn't carry
them.

 RH> years and is good. OTOH, Carey is still new enough at the game and
 RH> comes from a different background. He's still learning and may reach
 RH> the point where he'll be a decent replacement. Kids will remember him
 RH> as host instead of Barker.

 DD> But, Fleming was the founding host of Jeopardy, just as Bob Barker was
 DD> the original host of Price is High and Hugh Downs was on
 DD> Concentration.

I remember watching Concentration at my grandmother's house when I was a
kid. Saw the new version years later and wasn't that impressed with it.
Remember Alan Ludden and Password, Gary Moore and I've Got a Secret? (I
think he was a replacement.) I've forgotten who was the host of To Tell
the Truth, another oldie.

 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.

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

 DD> Three of my all time favourite cooking shows were never on the Food
 DD> Channel. Urban Peasant w/James Barber, Yan Can Cook, and Frugal
 DD> Gourmet. Oh, and mustn't forgot Justin Wilson's Outside Cooking with
 DD> Inside Help.

 RH> All PBS shows, like The French Chef which is probably the grandmother
 RH> of all cooking shows. My grandmother used to enjoy watching Julia at
 RH> work tho she was no gourmet chef herself.


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Ruth
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