It's Sunday morning and I am sitting in the big comfy chair at my daughter’s listening to her chop vegetables as I write this Blog. I am watching the marathon of cooking shows that come on every Sunday morning instead of attending my favorite place of worship. Today I needed to write, and relieve my mind of the stresses that filled my head with a fog of disdain.
Food TV Network has been on for 15 years and the transitions have been truly amazing. It started with just a few celebrity chefs and grew to include a colossal number of cooks who could entertain. If you pay attention to the new cooks on Food Television Network you will see that they do not have the cooking experience, knowledge and finesse of people who actually cook everyday. Chefs cook for a living, but real, down-home cooks cook for their family everyday; it’s not about money, pride or prestige, it’s about love and life.
A down home cook, a cook dedicated to cooking from the heart fills each dish, each pot or pie with their own secret touch. Cooking for a good old fashioned cook is about preparing the tastiest most flavorful food for the folks around the table. If I can just offer Food TV Network a word of wisdom after over thirty years in the kitchen; educate your new celebrity cooks first, and don’t toss them out in front of the wolves, saying god knows what. For example, one young cook said "you can use parchment and wax paper interchangeably;" not true. If a cook were to follow that piece of advice they might burn their kitchen down.
Today, there are very few programs on Food TV Network or any other network that I enjoy. I still check out the new stuff, just to see if there is anyone really doing down home authentic cooking; and there are a few. Ina Garten, Nigella, Oliver, and Tyler. I thought the new guy Aaron McCargo, Jr. of Big Daddy's House would offer something a bit different, until he attempted to make a sweet potato pie. The pie was lumpy and just not what I expected. Oh, let me stop, I sound so critical, and I don't mean to be. I guess I just would like to see simple food and regular folks, not necessarily trying to make to laugh, just showing me the ropes and some new techniques. Onward and upward, until that date comes I will continue to watch the "foodie" shows and skip through the channels to view the new folks. And maybe at some point Food TV Network will come up with some new ideas like those created by SFA (Southern Foodways Alliance.)
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