[OT] Cooking shows

[beats me]

I'm still half assed keen on doing a cooking show.
I'd like it to be about where our food comes from, how it is produced and so on.
A kind of field to fork type deal.

I just watched a few episodes of Good Eats and it's pretty much what you are talking about. It goes over the history of certain foods and then how to make a few basic dishes using it.

I'm still downloading a season of Three Sheets (just saw it's also available on itunes) and it looks like the show is a drinking game too. Fun shit.

On the topic of alcohol research, when I got my DUI I had a copy of Modern Drunkard magazine sitting on my passenger seat for all to see.

<-loser

[oblique strategies]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qup74Dv8Wds&eurl=

[Homebelly]

I'm still half assed keen on doing a cooking show.
I'd like it to be about where our food comes from, how it is produced and so on.
A kind of field to fork type deal.

I just watched a few episodes of Good Eats and it's pretty much what you are talking about. It goes over the history of certain foods and then how to make a few basic dishes using it.

I'm still downloading a season of Three Sheets (just saw it's also available on itunes) and it looks like the show is a drinking game too. Fun shit.

On the topic of alcohol research, when I got my DUI I had a copy of Modern Drunkard magazine sitting on my passenger seat for all to see.

<-loser

Okay..
back to the drawing board for me then...

[Stigmama]

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... D=46976033

[beats me]

I'm still half assed keen on doing a cooking show.
I'd like it to be about where our food comes from, how it is produced and so on.
A kind of field to fork type deal.

I just watched a few episodes of Good Eats and it's pretty much what you are talking about. It goes over the history of certain foods and then how to make a few basic dishes using it.

I'm still downloading a season of Three Sheets (just saw it's also available on itunes) and it looks like the show is a drinking game too. Fun shit.

On the topic of alcohol research, when I got my DUI I had a copy of Modern Drunkard magazine sitting on my passenger seat for all to see.

<-loser

Okay..
back to the drawing board for me then...

Yeah it kind of sucks when you have that "I can't believe nobody is doing this" moment only to find out somebody is. Back when I was in high school my friends and I tried to start a band and I thought we were writing some really great tunes only to find out a few weeks later we were playing some obscure Metallica covers and my friends didn't bother to tell me.

But food shows are really big now so maybe you'll have another idea that can be used.

[Tone Deft]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktMPT6oJPFg <-- Food kitty - The Young Ones - BBC comedy

food prices are up, I don't use much gas but I sure do produce a lot.

[selthym]

I learned how to cook watching the UK version of Ready Steady cook and Jamie Oliver. Being an Aussie in the UK, with no job but drinking pints, hitting the clubs and playing a bit of sport in the middle I had nothing better to do in the afternoon than watch TV.

Neighbours at 1pm Ready Steady at 1.30, Home and Away at 2.30 Jamie at 3 and then repeats of home and away and neighbours until 4.30 then Conundrum (I think that was the show) Then Off to Safeway buy some stuff to cook, I would try to copy one of the ideas I got during the day.

Annyway The Cook and the Chef does it for me. I watch it every week and each episode is available for download for the next week. http://www.abc.net.au/tv/cookandchef/ Basically some old duck who has her own line of gourmet jams, pate etc. and writes aan occasional cookbook and a top class chef take the same ingredients and talk through how they prepare a two course meal each. They aalso have special features about particular ingredients.

[Low Frequency Obstinator]

Keith Floyd; Proper blokes type cooking person.

Excellent mariage of booze and grindage. Still manages to create mouth watering dishes whilst getting increasing more inebraiated on whatever booze is closest to hand.

http://www.floydonline.co.uk/index.php

Heston Blumenthal: Incredible chef, always shows the science behind the cooking.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_a ... lumenthal/


For laughs: The legend that is Fanny Craddock (loads on you tube of this scary 70's food mangler)

[brightonalex]

Two fat ladies is best. They do things like "how to get rid of that leftover pheasant" and "catching and killing your own Stag".

Also I like this new one "what to eat now" which is a new geeky bloke that eats hedges.

[fatrabbit]

Gordon Ramsay is quite entertaining but trying to learn knowledge of cooking from his shows is a bit like learning to sing from American Idol, or at least the shows I have seen, Hell's Kitchen and some other show where he runs around fixing fucked up restaurants.

Watch both UK and US versions if you want to see the difference between UK and US tv.

US version tries to make everything dramatic - constant sampled string music all the way through, deep-voiced narrator, really badly edited and over-produced to make it more interesting.

Try Cookalong Live with Gordon Ramsay (new programme, pretty interesting).

Chinese Food Made Easy and sister programme Indian Food Made Easy (BBC).

Hairy Bikers is interesting but when they were making chips once they said "We don't know why but if you put them in water first they turn out better" and surely everyone knows why that is!? Still, pretty funny to watch.

Also Rachel's Favourite Food and for something different Cooking In The Danger Zone.

[Low Frequency Obstinator]

All well and good but for any serious foodies on here there can be only one:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nBSof3VeQOk