Mario Batali: Update
"sueb" > wrote in message
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> On Nov 29, 10:36 am, Nancy2 > wrote:
>> On Nov 29, 8:37 am, "Dee.Dee" > wrote:
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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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>> > > N.
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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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>> Gwyneth is evidently Gwyneth Paltrow, and they are taking another
>> couple of people along, too. Paltrow is fluent in Spanish.
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> Isn't she a vegan? What a dull food program that would be!
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> Susan B.
It will be dull to me by the very fact that it is Gwyneth Paltrow, one of
the biggest name-droppers and full-of-herself persons I've ever seen on any
of the talk shows.
I guess to some people she is angelic, so it oughta fly.
Dee Dee
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