>>My biggest pet peeve is when the hosts take huge samples of the food &
>>then talk. Paula borders on annoying, but the worst offender IMO is
>>Sandra Lee. She takes the biggest bite possible, talks without
>>swallowing and practically sprays the cameraman with crumbs. Eeww.
>
>
> In the privacy of my own home I might... might... lick the mixer paddle. But
> if I had my own show, you wouldn't see me dead doing it on TV!
>
> Another TV "chef" I can't stand to see eating is Ina Garten, but maybe it's
> just because she spends most of her telemeals laughing like there's a gun
> pointed at her head.
>

Grr, I never watch her. Somebody actually had suggested a syndrome for
her laughter & for the life of me I cannot rememver who wrote it or what
the name of the syndrome was. It had to do with pointlessly laughing at
nothing & everything.