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Default A Bourdain Throwdown

Dave Bugg wrote:

> Default User wrote:


> > Her cooking show really isn't that bad.

>
> Perhaps, but then again she really doesn't have any specific cooking
> talent to recommend her show. IOW, any reasonably competent home cook
> could match her skill-level. Food Network hired her for whatever they
> percieve her hosting talent to be.


I think the skill level business is part of the reason for her show. If
she can do it, so can you!

> I don't think the RR detractors care much one way or the other about
> her show. What the detractors fume about is RR. For them, she gets in
> the way of her show.


Which is my point. They hate mannerisms. They hate her expressions.
They hate her laugh. Etc. Etc.

It's not a great show, but it beats Paul Deen's boys driving around the
country being jackasses. For that matter, I'd sooner watch that than
Emeril. He drives me nuts, so I (now this is radical) DON'T WATCH THE
SHOW.




Brian

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