[Sca-cooks] OT: Another Japanese cooking contest show

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Phlip:
>Suppose anybody could come up with the names of these shows? I suspect some
>of the rest of us might be interested in watching, if we had more to go on
>than we have so far.

The one I was talking about (with the cook who works outdoors, 
sometimes in what amounts to a Blasted Heath, making Dill and Potato 
Soup until Macbeth rides by...) would be "New Scandinavian Cooking 
With Andreas Viestad".

My fave is still anything with Keith Floyd. He would have had fun 
with the Andreas Viestad format: "Well, here we are on this Blasted 
Heath, making Consomme Celestine over a tin of Sterno. But through 
the modern miracle known as Television..."

Viestad's backdrops are often quite pleasant -- don't get me wrong. 
It's just that _sometimes_, you want to look at anyone else in the 
room and say, "What the H**L is he doing out there, with absolutely 
everything you need to make römmegrot, and absolutely _nothing_ 
else???"

Adamantius
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brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them 
eat cake!"
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Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782

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