"tert in seattle" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote:
>> Something about cooks and cons or chefs and cons. Are they real? Or
>> cons?
>> Who cares? Food Network. Bleh.
>
> any midgets??

I don't think so. It's like they stole the idea from that old show that
aired when I was a kid. To Tell The Truth. But there was also cooking.
And judges. And I guess I should have clarified. No, not butter. Heh!
The cons were not criminals but people who are not really chefs but trying
to make you think that they are. Only reason I didn't flip the channel
right away was that I was busy doing something and was forced to have to
listen to about 5 minutes of the drivel. I only glanced at the screen a
couple of times. I think Geoffrey Zacharian was a judge.

Oddly enough, later that night I did see what I thought was a good show but
I will likely never watch it again because I can't remember the name or what
channel it was on. Not a food/cooking channel per say and not one that I
normally watch. This one pitted chefs and kids. The winner was this little
Asian girl who was very cute but one of those who appears to be a lot
younger than she really is. She said that she was 7 but was missing her top
two front teeth. I think most kids lose their teeth in that spot before
that.

You should have seen her knife skills! Appeared to be able to cut things
uniformly and could cut and chop very quickly. She also knew which
seasonings to use. And she chose ingredients like lobster and caviar.

That thing had to have been scripted. I'm not saying that a 7 year old
couldn't cook. When I was that age, I could do very simple things like
scrambled eggs by myself and I knew how to do things like peel fruits and
vegetables or grate cheese. But it wasn't until I was 8 before I began
following cookbook and other recipes and learning things like oven temps.
and candy stages. This girl seemed to be able to whip out anything and
everything with no assistance or recipes.

And I learned something new. The term "mashups". Still not entirely sure
what it means. I gather that it means foods or ingredients put together in
a way that they are not normally done. The girl made lobster rolls using
the white part of hard boiled eggs instead of bread and included some caviar
and panko breadcrumbs.

Since then, I keep seeing that term all over the Internet. Maybe I had seen
it before but it didn't register. Dunno.