On Nov 29, 10:00 am, Boron Elgar > wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:37:33 -0500, "Dee.Dee" >
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> >"Nancy2" > wrote in message
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> >> If this has been mentioned, excuse my duplication: Mario was a guest
> >> on Martha's show this week, and explained (in answer to her question)
> >> that he was still going to be on ICA (he has a 17-competition winning
> >> streak going), but that the Food Network had decided that his Molto
> >> Mario didn't fit in with their stated desire to appeal to more of a
> >> mass market. He said he wasn't mad at them or anything.
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> >> He is doing a series where he and Gwyneth (?? - daughter or wife?) are
> >> traveling and eating their way through Spain, and it will air on PBS
> >> next fall. He said he was also "talking to" the Travel Channel.
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> >I feel lucky to see new Mario programs, but unlucky in that I will not be
> >able to see him in food lessons and preparation.
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> >Hopefully it will not be a la Floyd preparation out in plein air. Although
> >I'd settle for that.
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> >Thanks for the update.
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> >PS I'm sorry that I missed the program, but after seeing Martha do a cooking
> >segment with Chevy Chase, she has been gone forever from my thoughts.
> >Pufffoooot! Her zip has gone and went .... Must've been that knitting in
> >prison that slowed her down -- or was it that someone knitted a shaw for
> >her, or gave her a pattern, or promoted it -- oh,well, not important ...
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> >Dee Dee
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> I saw Martha with Meredith Viera on the "Today" show the other day.
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> Martha was demonstrating how to decorate ginger cookies to be used to
> decorate and place along the tall sides of a fancy ginger cake.
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> Meredith used her icing bag to make an outline, and though it was
> nice, it wasn't perfect. The dialog went something like this - I don't
> have it anywhere near word-for-word, but you'll get the gist of it.
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> Meredith: Oops, I guess it doesn't have to be prefect.
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> Martha: Of course it has to be prefect.
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> Meredith: Well, here, I 'll just put it on the cake.
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> Martha: No! You can't put that on the cake.
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> Meredith: What do I do with it?
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> Martha: Eat it.
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> Meredith: You eat it, Martha.
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> I howled.
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OTOH, when an audience member asked how to get discolorations off
cookware like LeCreuset, she said not to worry about it if it didn't
come off. Actually, she said, "So what?" That's a big change from
the Old Martha.

N.