[Sca-cooks] Food Network and Master A's nightmare

[Sue Clemenger]

"Spinning chickens thing?" Why does that strike this ignorant peasant as
a Stooooopid Peer Trick?
--maire (ignorant peasant & non-t.v. watcher) (well, non-cable or
satellite)

Michael Gunter wrote:
>
> Last night, while flipping through the channels, I tripped across "Food
> Fantasy" on
> Food TV. This was the glorious one with the couple who wanted to be "Lord
> and Lady"
> for an evening. If you don't remember, Food Network contacted Master
> Adamantius
> and asked for assistance. But it turns out that "assistance" had more to do
> with
> getting constumed characters than anything to do with food. They had a
> German
> chef who created his own dishes.
>
> The entire episode made me cringe. From the bad costumes to the food to the
> blatent
> anachronisims. And the funny thing was that I watched this with Selene. As I
> was
> wailing at the food, the costumes and the bad acting or general attitudes of
> the
> people, she was cringing at the fight scene, the garb and the fact they were
> playing
> Beethoven on a lute.
>
> Heh. Different tastes and both wanted to crawl under the couch.
>
> On a totally different note, has anyone else watched Al Roker's visit to an
> 1820's
> recreation village? Very cool. Some nice info and they even did the
> "Spinning Chickens"
> thing with turkey. I intend to do that at Estrella this year.
>
> Gunthar
>
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