Puester wrote:

> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm sure r.f.r. is another group that has changed over time ‹ it goes
> > back to at least 1993. I'll guess that when it first started there
> > were not the myriad online recipe sources there now are * did the Food
> > Network even exist * and people posted whatever they had to answer the
> > call from wherever they acquired it.
> >
> > I don't read it regularly but find it interesting to compare recipes
> > that have the same name. Casual entertainment.
> >
>
>
> I stopped reading r.f.r. when it became mostly requests for
> "copycat" recipes for things served at chain restaurants. I couldn't
> believe how many times people asked for "cheese biscuits like Red
> Lobster's" or "Applebee's Chinese Chicken Salad".
>
> I can't decide whether all the TV food shows have elevated or dumbed
> down our taste.


The Food Network I now consider at about the same level as WE (Women's
Entertainment Network), e.g. useless drivel for brain - dead teevee
watching...

I pretty much now only watch cooking shows on Public Television, they are
still informative, plus which they are not as overly commercial - driven as
the Food Network shows...

It's interesting because I now find much of prime - time Public TV
programming to be at about the level of the WE network, e.g. stoopid Suze
Orman programs, etc...

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Best
Greg