Michael "Dog3" wrote:
> "Janet Bostwick" > dropped this
> : in rec.food.cooking
>
>
>> I wish I was stupid like she is. . .her drive and ambition have made
>> her mega bucks.
>
> IMO she is just plain lazy and has no culinary talent (not that I do
> either). IMO she also got where she is by marrying into bucks so she
> could finance her desire to be in the spotlight. I don't consider that
> drive and ambition. Martha Stewart has drive and ambition. Rachel Ray
> (gag) has drive and ambition. IMO SL has nothing. I have to as
> myself if the wallet hadn't been around, where would she have been?
>
I don't know when she married, but I do know that she was applying her own
brand of semi-home made to her own life while she was taking care of her
step siblings at a very early age. Her ideas spring from life experience
during this time. http://www.semihomemade.com/sandra-lee/biography.htm
>> I really don't like her presentations or food, but I
>> have to respect her business sense. I mean. . .Kurtain Kraft?
>> Remember that?
>
> I don't know what Kurtan Kraft was. I can't recall ever hearing about
> it.
It was a way of making a designer drapery with little more that some loops,
I think. She info mercialed that and finally got onto QVC in one of their
product search efforts. She had a whole line of decorating items and
magazines before she ever was approached for making the current tv show.
She made plenty big bucks from her interior designing stuff. And she worked
very had to be successful with it.
>
>> I believe that she is sincere in her belief that there
>> are many folks out there that do not have time for much and she is
>> showing them how to achieve a meal in less time.
>
> I respectfully disagree. I think her demographic audience is more of
> the kind of people that don't want to learn how to cook at all. RR
> has shows that will help people with time constraints. I don't like
> RR but her recipes put SL's to shame.

I hesitantly agree -- just because I find serious fault with RR's stuff.
And certainly, RR could never be accused of being budget friendly with her
huge steaks etc.

It's a good thing we all have different views so the world continues to go
round ;o}
Janet
>
>> Currently the Food
>> Network alone has at leat 3 shows based on that premise. None of
>> them appeal to me, but I would eat Sandra Lee's food before I would
>> eat anything from "Quick Fix Meals" with Robin Miller.
>
> I don't watch Robin Miller so I can't express an opinion on her show.
>
> Michael
>