"Janet Wilder" wrote
> sf wrote:

>> My city wired for cable late, so by the time I started watching FN,
>> everyone else was "over it".

> 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.

Thats what I have heard. I missed the heyday as well. I didn't get back
stateside until Oct 2007. AFRTS (pronounced 'A Farts' by us used to it) was
the only game in town. Strange channels amalgamated of others but you could
get most stuff at least in part. You also got some of the local TV channels
so in my case, we used to watch a Japanese 'cooking channel' (was cooking a
significant part of the day but not all of it).

A few local shows were subtitled but most were not. It was interesting to
guess the recipe at times. One time I picked out a clue that it was sugar
not something else, by the lady cook using the word 'turbanado' samwiched in
the stream of words as she held it up.