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Have to agree. She's right up there with our Jean!! Well, Bob and I love Jean's laugh, Ina's not so much. LOL
Ina was cooking from the new book on Today yesterday. Looked really good - and very easy.
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Still have never seen Ina, so don't know.
A while back, I mentioned having found that one of the TV channels here has old Nigella Lawson, Bill Granger, Jamie Oliver and Kitchen Nightmares shows. Well, after having watched some of each of them for a while, I would say that Bill Granger is pretty good, but Nigella tends to be boring. Some of her recipes sound okay, but nothing particularly special - more like Betty Crocker. I would say that I find Rachael Ray much more interesting for cooking AND hosting, although she does have a bit of the "Betty Crocker" feel, as well.
Kitchen Nightmares is different, and certainly not for everyone, but it's an okay diversion, once in a while. I like Gordon Ramsay, but the eventual (i.e. a couple years after the show; the second one just a month ago) suicides of two of the castigated restaurateurs does leave one wondering where the line should be drawn.
Jamie Oliver was the one who surprised me. Although I had heard of him for quite a while, I had never seen him until I watched the relatively recent Food Revolution series. That series was far from the greatest, but I had gotten the impression that the problem was not with Jamie Oliver but with the behaviours and attitudes of the people he encountered in the American public-school system. Now that I have seen some of Jamie's earlier shows, I can see that my impression was accurate. In a number of his earlier shows, he worked with his "Fifteen Foundation" to provide problematic youths (esp. those with histories of drugs, alcohol and crime) with positive opportunities to become legitimate chefs (not just cooks, but with their own restaurants, etc.) and was successful in doing so. When one sees what he was able to do for those kids, is isn't difficult to see that the teachers and administrators in Food Revolution had no idea what had hit them and that they just weren't prepared to (nor about to) change. In particular, this did show through in a couple episodes of Food Revolution where he worked with the kids, instead of the teachers and administrators.
So, of all the cooking-related shows on that channel, those with Jamie Oliver are, by far, the best, the most interesting and the most informative. Maybe, one of these days, I'll get to see Ina Garten. I'll have to check YouTube to see if there are any clips of her there.
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