[Sca-cooks] For those new to cooking

[Angie Malone]

At 12:21 PM 2/7/02 -0800, you wrote:
>>I have nothing personal against Mario- he seems to be
>>very knowledgeable. I just happen to have trouble
>>taking him seriously because he reminds me of nothing
>>so much as a chipmunk, and watching a chipmunk cook
>>Italian food is.....interesting ;-)

I had trouble taking him seriously too at first because he does look like a
chipmunk.  I couldn't figure out why I had trouble taking him
seriously.  He was talking about chickens in Italy and saying he wasn't
sure why they were scrawny and tough compared to american ones, and that
there was one restaurant in italy he went to where they weren't scrawny and
he wanted to find out why but forgot to ask.


>I like Mario when he's doing the Molto Mario show, but his Mario eats Italy
>is horrible.  The guy they have that is his "friend" Rooney, is the same
>"evil chef guy" on Good Eats (Alton Brown).  Thus, I realize that the whole
>thing is staged, so I get bored immediately.

I don't ever get to see mario eats italy.  I manage to watch molto mario at
least twice a week.  My Dad didn't like the program around the holidays
because he was doing mostly seafood the whole program so my Dad thought he
only did seafood cooking. It was a riot to watch with Dad.  He never, ever,
ever at the traditional christmas dinner.  Bakala and something
else....  Salted cod fish and I think olive oil and something else, but to
see his face when he describes it.  It's like asking a two year old if they
would eat something they hated.

About the naked chef.  I don't like what they do with the camera, it
distracts me for some reason.  It reminds me of watching martha stewart
where you  are pretty sure she isn't the one with the spoon in her hand.