On 12/31/2010 1:32 PM, sf wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:49:20 -0600, Janet Wilder
> > wrote:
>
>> I used to love that Ming guy, but they took him off. AAMOF,
>
> He currently hosts Ming's Quest on the Fine Living Network, and Simply
> Ming on American Public Television.
>
> My city wired for cable late, so by the time I started watching FN,
> everyone else was "over it". I prefer FN now mainly because I can go
> to the FN schedule, find the show and find the recipe I want very
> easily. Public television hasn't made it that easy, so I don't watch
> those shows very often even though I do love Lidia Bastianich, Mary
> Ann Esposito and Nick Stellino. Back in the day when I watched my
> cooking shows on public television, Martin Yan was appointment tv
> because my DD loved him even when she was three years old.
>
>> all of the ones who really cooked are gone now. I watch it for
>> entertainment not cooking.
>
> I don't know what you mean by "really cooked". Not every show is a
> Sandra Lee type.
>
>

What I meant is that they taught people techniques as well as showed
recipes. The cooked on TV like they were cooking in a real kitchen. Not
everything was pre-chopped or pre-measured by their staff. Sarah
Moulton taught me the proper way to dice an onion. The new people are
there for entertainment, not to impart knowledge. To me they are
personalities, not cooks.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.