Cooking Shows

Welcome to Vine to Wine this is your host Linda Moran. I’ve been wondering - Has television created a new armchair sport, the people who would rather watch someone cooking than actually do it themselves?

Recently I participated in a cooking event for a great charity. I was invited to be an amateur chef. You know create a recipe, prepare it for professionals and then they judge you and your food. It was a great experience. However, it has caused me to wonder how many of the people who watch these programs are really cook. Do they follow a recipe exactly? I mean making this recipe is killing me, I am not certain I have ever done this – I usually just make it up as I go along. Yes I occasional watch Iron Chef or catch a moment here or there of a cooking show, I love Jacques Pepin. I can take or leave the big guy in the crocs, but for the most part where I enjoy cooking is in the kitchen not in front of the television. You can’t smell it or taste it for heavens sake. It appears to me these programs have just become another competition another sport for us to sit and watch and criticize rather than actually participate. It is just like the armchair quarterback he’s never going to actually get up and play ball himself. I love to read cook books because it inspires me, I get lots of ideas and then I go make them – some are great some are not so good but I’m the one having all of the fun laboring over my stove in my kitchen and serving it up to my friends with the wines that I find go best with it! I’d rather cook than watch. Remember to send your wine questions to Linda at vine to wine dot net and thanks for joining me on today’s Vine to Wine.