"pennyaline" <nsmitchell@spamspamspamspamspamspamspameggandspam .com> wrote
in message ...
> Vox Humana wrote:
>> I guess that I haven't analyzed the kitchen. It is a "look" that I
> consider
>> classic and understated. I don't know if you can assume that the kitchen
>> looks that way when she isn't filming there.
>
> But I do assume that it looks that way when she's not filming there
> because
> of her level of comfort. Don't get me wrong, though. I don't think she
> looks
> comfortable in the kitchen at all, but I suspect that the room is normally
> nearly barren and that is her comfort zone.
>
> And the kitchen doesn't have usual things. More on that thought later.
>
>
>> My guess would be that they do
>> several shows at a time. She may just clear the decks and have only what
>> they need out for the shows. The rest of the house doesn't look all that
>> sparse. Maybe it's a case of having too much money. Maybe she is the
> victim
>> of bad advice. Who knows? Anyhow, what exactly do you find so terrible
>> about the design?
>
> Have you ever, ever known a really and truly minimalist professional cook?
> I've only ever seen barren kitchen surfaces like BF Contessa's on AbFab,
> in
> real estate listings and in magazine advertisements.
>
> And yet, she has two stoves. People tend to not have two stoves. Given,
> one
> of hers is just a cooktop, but it still adds up to another stove... and
> like
> the first it is miles of pristine countertop away from the refrigerator.
> And
> from the sink. Admit it, for most of us the stove is a step from the sink
> and a step from the fridge and a step from the microwave. BF Contessa's
> stove proper seems suited only to roasting things -- maybe because it's
> stuck back there behind her where she almost never goes. She rests roasts
> on
> it, too, so it must be good for that as well. It's an extension of the
> countertop with a hot box underneath... a wall oven without a wall. It's a
> backdrop. Face it. All those lovely burners, all of them! unused and
> unloved.
>
> Cooks I've known, professional and amateur alike, have usual things in
> their
> kitchens. I don't mean sink, stove, fridge... I mean they have cannisters
> on
> their countertops instead of bonsai. I mean they have kitchen tables and
> chairs indoors and not just outdoors or on the beach. They have trivets
> and
> hot pads. They have pot holders. They have towels. They have spoon rests.
> They have clocks. They have pictures. They have windows. They have
> ordinary
> plates and cups and flatware in their cupboards and drawers. They have
> Velveeta on hand for guilty pleasure emergencies. They have evidence of
> cooking and eating and living going on there.
>
> Most of us don't have pantries, kitchens, homes, neighborhoods and
> *neighbors* staged like Bed, Bath and Beyond vignettes. Everything about
> BF
> Contessa screams out denunciations of artificiality because she and her
> surroundings play as ridiculous. She's a fake. She a fake cook with a fake
> kitchen in a fake house in a fake neighborhood dotted with fake people
> with
> fake kitchens in fake houses in a fake neighborhood, etc.


While I'm not disagreeing with you on this but would you like to have a TV
show in your own everyday kitchen? Isn't Emeril Live in the same boat? His
TV kitchen isn't all that well laid out either.

Just my thoughts...



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