This blog is a collaboration with Kerri's Kitchen. kleighskitchen.blogspot.com
God forbid and this is only a hypothetical situation, don't panic, but what if the battery in your TV remote control ran out and no matter how hard you pressed the button or hit it it just wouldn't work. Crushed by the notion of trying to lift your mass out of the chair. What would happen? Well you would end up watching a TV cookery show. There are so many cookery shows on the box these days that it is literary imposable to not be watching one at any given time, and I am, its a hideous cross between Come dine with me and Blind date, called Dinner Date. It seems that if you can open a tin of beans without blood shed and lose of a finger a TV channel will throw a gravy covered contract at you. No oversized chocolate chip cookie is left unturned, everything to do with cooking is right there on the old picture box, just a click away. From the informative how to shows that actually instruct you step by step how not burn down your house while baking bread to the ever popular elaborate 'cooking' shows. These are the shows that take one cooking skill and push it to the extreme. Take Ace of Cakes a program about a Baltimore bakery called Charm City Cakes. The opening credits inform us that the bakery is run by Duff who doesn't bake by the rules, they make it bigger, better and more extreme. These are cakes that might come with moving parts and even fireworks. Then there is Man vs Food a kind of road-challenge-eating show where a man travels across America taking up the elaborate and most of the time sickening food challenges dinner offer. From eating a stake the size of a body board in 20 minutes to woofing down enough sea food to repopulate a fishing port. The list is endless, like chocolate then these choccywoccydoodah a show based in a chocolate sculpting shop which is as camp as the title implies. How about a middle aged man swearing and spitting out deep fried spiders? then there's Gordon's Great Escape where the UK's own Gordon Ramsay travels to the corners of the globe and eats bizarre local meals. Or would you like a British guy telling the Americans that they are killing their kids with the 'food' they serve up in the schools. Then you will be right at, too much sugar, mystery meat home with Jamie's American food revolution, where the cockney lad makes much needed demonstrations using tons of sugar and pink slim. My point being is, it seems now more then ever that people are thinking about and learning about food. So next time you take out that frozen curry and throw it in the microwave, maybe turn on the box, skip past The Simpsons (blasphemy) and get the recipe for boiled spider with chocolate rice followed by a ton of mustard flavoured ice-cream
