A View Thru Cheft's Window #11
Posted 09-27-2009 at 05:18 PM by ibcheft
Tags chef, cooking, foodnetwork, love, spice
Spices and Chefs where have you gone?
I have noticed lately, that things are not all they seem to be. I write about spice in cooking, not about it but more my issues with trying to add it to food. Complacency, 1 : self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies (- Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary ) have we already settled for being complacent with our TV programming ? what happened to my spices, have they left with all the major chefs ? if you watch the cooks that network employees today, lack a few, most use very little spice in anything they cook. My whole purpose of watching the network was to learn to cook and how to spice food, why because I enjoy it, always have, always will, it is my passion, do I want to move to culinary school, not at this moment maybe later on. I use to be able to pick up tips from the chefs, maybe I have just advanced to a state that I am beyond, what I can get from the network, PBS the answer, I do not believe so, three hours Saturday morning, is not enough. The other networks offer cooking programs but not in the educational format. I like watching Gordon Ramsay on The F-Word, I have learned some of the basic dishes, very proper and almost to the point very bland, like the English and Scottish, themselves. Maybe what I need is to quit watching, and cook more? If that is the case then where do my ideas for new dishes come from, where do I find out about new spices, where do I find out the new food trends, can not afford to go out and eat all the time. The forums as great as they are, are still limited. Am I one for being complacent, no I have deficiencies that I need filled, which could be a danger, if you eat my food. Saturday use to be a day for work but if I am going to catch anything anymore, that is when it is on, not in the evening when I am done, back from shopping Saturday afternoon , or back from church on Sunday's, in the evening they have succumbed to challenges, AB is on during the prime hour, he is the only left who is even able to compete with prime time. They need to changes the format around put the entertaining, shows on when people who want to be entertained can be during the day, but put the cooking shows back on in the evenings, I have a TV I can watch when the DW is watching her reality shows. And do reruns after hours, like the entertainment shows you have on three times a day now. But I know this will never happen, what we have experienced was a once in a lifetime treat. For me what was the Food network died, became Food Entertainment. We lost the educational aspect of what the Network set out with in the beginning. We now have to surf the channels to find our chefs and they are shown now at weird hours, many to far in between shows, to many repeats of the very same show, yes what once was is gone, and probably will never be again. Remember hug some one close to you, and as always
Cooked with Passion, Served with Love
Cheft
I have noticed lately, that things are not all they seem to be. I write about spice in cooking, not about it but more my issues with trying to add it to food. Complacency, 1 : self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies (- Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary ) have we already settled for being complacent with our TV programming ? what happened to my spices, have they left with all the major chefs ? if you watch the cooks that network employees today, lack a few, most use very little spice in anything they cook. My whole purpose of watching the network was to learn to cook and how to spice food, why because I enjoy it, always have, always will, it is my passion, do I want to move to culinary school, not at this moment maybe later on. I use to be able to pick up tips from the chefs, maybe I have just advanced to a state that I am beyond, what I can get from the network, PBS the answer, I do not believe so, three hours Saturday morning, is not enough. The other networks offer cooking programs but not in the educational format. I like watching Gordon Ramsay on The F-Word, I have learned some of the basic dishes, very proper and almost to the point very bland, like the English and Scottish, themselves. Maybe what I need is to quit watching, and cook more? If that is the case then where do my ideas for new dishes come from, where do I find out about new spices, where do I find out the new food trends, can not afford to go out and eat all the time. The forums as great as they are, are still limited. Am I one for being complacent, no I have deficiencies that I need filled, which could be a danger, if you eat my food. Saturday use to be a day for work but if I am going to catch anything anymore, that is when it is on, not in the evening when I am done, back from shopping Saturday afternoon , or back from church on Sunday's, in the evening they have succumbed to challenges, AB is on during the prime hour, he is the only left who is even able to compete with prime time. They need to changes the format around put the entertaining, shows on when people who want to be entertained can be during the day, but put the cooking shows back on in the evenings, I have a TV I can watch when the DW is watching her reality shows. And do reruns after hours, like the entertainment shows you have on three times a day now. But I know this will never happen, what we have experienced was a once in a lifetime treat. For me what was the Food network died, became Food Entertainment. We lost the educational aspect of what the Network set out with in the beginning. We now have to surf the channels to find our chefs and they are shown now at weird hours, many to far in between shows, to many repeats of the very same show, yes what once was is gone, and probably will never be again. Remember hug some one close to you, and as always
Cooked with Passion, Served with Love
Cheft
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