Welcome to the First “the Good…the Bad…Decide Right Now!!
This Week the object of our Judgement generic cialis professional is…Cooking Shows
We will present the Best Cooking Show and the Worst Cooking Show and you, the Reader will be asked to decide which is cialis soft tavs which…Right Now!!
(otherwise the Title will simply not make sense).
The criteria and standards for judging something Good or Bad is not only totally arbitrary, but subject to change as we see how well this thing is going to work. At present, the Judgementees will be presented by (your Writer) and any Progenitor or DownSpring we can inveigle upon to contribute. The process will be to put it out there and see if anyone cares. Just so this does not appear totally random, in case of ties, we will turn to Friend(s) of the Doctrine, Mel (Spatula in the Wilderness) and Jason (Project: Enlightment). (“Hey guys hope this elevation to final arbiter does not come as too much of a surprise”)
So let us do this thing.
Cooking Shows: the nominees are:
America’s Test Kitchen aka “the Potato Show” so called because the first time we came across the show, they did the entire episode on what was the best way to make Mashed Potatoes…every possible variation and permutation, including but not limited to using half ‘n half and the true role of parsley…clark? now why would you think that?…lol
Good Eats another clark but with much more flair for entertainment
At Home with Giada yes, she is a scott…what gave that away? the neck things or the eyes? either are a valid way to detect the scottian female
Emeril the Willard Scott of chefs…ample demonstration that nothing is undignified, as long as you can get the audiance to watch
Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee one of the craziest scottian women to be on or running her own cooking show…you go tell her to stop
Paula’s Home Cooking fake-accent, fake friendly rogerian female with the sincerity of an out-of-work IRS agent
Yan Can Cook “look at that”…”look at that”…”look at that”…”look at that”
UPDATE July 15 2010
Hey, found this on the ‘remarks’ section of the youtube page that I got the music vid from, real quick now, clark, scott or roger?
…”I’m a big fan of the Food Network. Even though I can barely cook myself, I still learn how the best ways to cook new and exciting dishes. I learned how to cook eggs properly thanks to Alton Brown’s show, Good Eats. Now that show is funny because Alton Brown can act like such a dweeb, but he cracks me up. His show is freakin’ hilarious. I just can’t stop laughing sometimes”…
(Sorry, way too easy.) anyway, love the version of the Temptations song that they use behind the promo for one of their new rogerian competition shows. Here, take a listen:
OK, that should get you in the mood to vote. Now tell us which of the shows listed above is:
…the Good
…the Bad
Decide Right Now!! (sorry, seemed a lot more cleverer at 4:00 am lol)
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Olivia and I would watch several after school each day, and we clearly preferred Sandra Lee. Led her to develop her own recipe- pretzels dipped in Marshmallow Fluff. Try it!
yeah…but thing is…what kind of mixed drink truly compliments Marshmellow Fluff…a sassy little Merlot perhaps?…(Ms. Lee seems to have a thing for the ol’ mexikeena, no?)
My fave is not listed. Nor is it on PBS any longer. Daisy Cooks. Daisy Martinez–Puerto Rican Goddess of the kitchen. Demonstrating all manner of Hispanical cooking styles. Constant references to “Adobo sauce”. Also lots of film clips of Daisy’s family–her mother, her uncles, her kids, her (unfortunately) husband. Daisy was (is) a stone fucking FOX. The food looked good–but she was so delectable all by herself. She was a roger, like a good standard PR wife. All about family, togetherness, food as a way to connect generations–all that rogery crap. My interest in Daisy,alas, was not about food. I am not always such a good man. I know this surprises many people. I lusted after her. I still do. She put a quiver in my liver and static in my attic. Daisy did not get renewed on PBS, but has been rediscovered by Rachel Rae and now has a morning show on The Food Network. Bit of a comedown–but she still FINE, yo.
As far as the other ones listed above–I kind of like the clarklike quirkiness of America’s Test Kitchen. The two women who work with the clark are very good. Cannot remember their names. We refer to them as “The Fat One”. and “The Big Nose One”. Actually “The Fat One” is sexier than the other one. Then there’s the collection of oddball clarks in the features on appliances (The Equipment Corner) and food science. Gargoyle-like creatures. One of them has what we call a “game-eye”. You know, one of those eyes that doesn’t look in the same direction as the “good” eye. They test everything to death–and then talk it over with the clark. There is a small amount of sexual tension between the clark and his lady cooks. Very small–but that is about the only amount possible–he IS a clark.
Another show I used to watch years ago was Justin Wilson–the cajun cook. He would tell “quaint” cajun stories, and talk with an exaggerated cajun accent. Always talked about his “pick-em up truck”. Always making a roux. (Pronounced roo). Said he went out in the swamp once in his pick-em up truck, because his wife said she wanted alligator shoes for her birthday. “I Cotch me a big ole gator. I turn that rascal over and —Donchu know? Dat gator ain’t wearin’ no shoes! I cotch me a barefoot gator! I Guaraaawwntee!”.
So the best? Right now? Daisy Cooks. My criteria? I better not say. I’ll get censored. But she cooked good, too.
ahhh…the Potato Show…and a clark as ‘front man’ damn! I’ll bet a hat (for your damn head) that no one (other than a clark) can tell us his name*. We could (and probably will) do a whole Post on the interpersonal dynamics ala Wakefield Doctrine on that show alone.
I would submit that Alton Brown (Good Eats) while also a clark, is more evolved to point of being the entertainment and the instructor on his show…currently my favorite.
*no fair googling the show
Glenn, methinks you are exhibiting a clarklike tendency towards “longwindedness”:)
Having not viewed cable tv in almost 8 years, tell me (anyone) – who of the 3 (clarks, scotts, rogers) is represented most on these programs?
Who has the most boring cooking show? Who has the most exciting cooking show?
Actually this:
clarks: Test Kitchen, Good Eats (Alton Brown)
scotts: Giada (sigh), Sandra Lee and Emeril
rogers: Paula Deen, Martin Yan (Yan can Cook)
I must say they all entertain in their (respective) ways, just a matter of what you are in the mood for?
They all are good…they all are bad…tomorrow we must Vote!
Looking (at my own Comment above) we should not be surprised at the breakout in terms of clarks, scotts and rogers…even allowing for such a small sample…the thing of it is…
it (cooking show) is still entertainment first, expertise second…(who does that remind you of?)
The music is from “The Next Food Network Star.” Like “Chopped” too. In the spirit of the scottain viewer “Chopped” is pretty much as the name implies. One by one the 4 chefs competing for the title are chopped out of the competition. Amusing to watch each contestant comment on the fact that they are better than the others and why they should win. Eventually they all eat (no pun intended) their words except for the winner of course. Sorry, never saw any of the above-mentioned shows..
I’m getting hungry. Gotta go.
yeah that “watching each contestant comment on the fact that they are better than the others…”
the watching (and enjoying) is scottian, sort of like those Japanese restaurants where they cook at your table or that scene in Hitchhiker, where they bring the talking steer to the table for the diner to pick their cut of beef directly.
But the premise or rather the tone of shows like this is so totally rogerian…
(Remind me and there should be a Post on that topic specifically)
That is to say, everybody can learn and have fun while they’re doing it? For everyone’s enjoyment?
…the better question…is which (of the three as hosts) are better for learning (which is not to say which is the better teacher)…a clark a scott or a roger?
These damn Cooking Shows might be the best context for looking at this aspect of Wakefield Doctrine i.e. Teachers and teaching…
Anybody up for a Post (co-Post)?