At first sight, Take cook home

Food for thoughts. is this correct?

when i saw Curtis stone on "Take home a cook" program on TV, i forgot the food!!!

the most sexiest and handsome cook ever came to my TV. 

I could not take my eyes away from TV. I Thought how to take the cook HOME?

I even started thinking to start such venture in Lucknow. But then on second thought I dropped it. Since in Lucknow this format of take home a cook concept may not work. Though now when so many cook shows are being aired, who knows even this concept becomes popular.

Earlier Nigella show was on the top slot on Discovery and TLC TV channels

Few shows I liked are Kylie Kwong, Madhur, Floyd's James Martin etc . 

Initially Nigella Lawson was always on our must see list, when the living channel of Discovery started beaming in our home TV. Her trade mark has been the scene where at the end of her shows she is shown eating some left overs kept in her fridge/refrigerator. Thus on one hand she teaches not to waste or not to throw away left over food. on the other she indicates that there is no specific time of eating, specially if you have desire to eat.

One of the Kylie's show where grandmother, mother and daughter came together was very nice one. They cooked the mashed potato, a sweet dish. We never eat or prepare potato with sugar etc, its beyond our apprehension or pallet's taste. But the show was nicely done. There was a type of competition between Kylie and her mother. The daughter was supposed to judge, as to who the kylie or the grandmother cooked tasty.  I remember grandmother won the contest. This symbolized that the elder generation had lots of magic in their hand, and most probably the magic was the untiring LOVE for the children. Though Kylie is a professional cook but still her mother cooked a better dish, as far as the grand daughter is concerned. Family bonding is most essential ingredient to making of a perfect HOME. not the walls or materials of wall, or the cost of A/C in your house. The bonding between the family members must be healthy.

Moreover Kylie describes every nuances related to food or dish in a very tactful manner and often with her smiling face lots of positive vibes comes into the cooking. Thus she makes cooking a lighter and stress-less exercise. She often tells about cooking secrets of Chinese food/dishes. { Confucianism etc in food ]

I saw other show, Anthony's Burdoin?, Ian wright, Food bazaar or Feast bazaar.
Anthony Bourdian's show is very light and free spirit type. often a traveler's diary type. it is without any element of stress. But with lots of information, hints.

The Floyd's was something strange. I felt it was full of Colonial Aura!!. The show was only meant for the UK. Then there was a show by famous Smt Madhur Jaffery. Dont you remember her. She acted in a Ismail Merchant film of Merchant Ivory? this pic shows her in that role

Her show was earlier telecast on other channels also prior to Discovery's living channel. Her style was if i may say so, full of RAW Technics- means devoid of any sophistication. Everything is just thrown into the hot WOKE, put together and mixed to cook. Which, otherwise people on other shows take time in sprinkling even a pinch of salt. It is sprinkled in a very decorative manner isn't it.

Floyd's concept of using the bowls made from leaves is superb and ecofreindly. Unlike, in other shows i find there are small and smaller bowls of glass for everything. for a spoon of vinegar, a spoon of masala etc. which look funny to me. But in Madhur and floyds show it is different. Madhur ji  done a show on Wagah border, that too i liked
However they are all nice. But in few cook shows i found food and food making concept takes a back seat than the personality of the cook itself. then these shows become personality shows not the cookery shows.
In this context latest addition ranked First among all the shows. Kismet production- The FOOD SAFARI on Fox Traveller. The show concept is totally different, but the packaging and editing is very cleverly done. I like this show. In a short span of time it tells the story of food culture, the background, the process, the variety of food, the ways of cooking etc besides the cooking itself. So it is a nice mix of everything. As I found out.













I just wish that if i can keep copy of all the programmes.

Samantha concept is somewhat based on projecting the Hotels and travel, but not the FOOD.
Next time i will write on the new shows.