Reviewing the Food Network: All Star Christmas, Appendix
As I mentioned in Part I of my All Star Holiday Party opus, Nick nails the description of Sandra Lee. Here is Nick's report on who Sandra Lee is and why she's a problem. Nick, if this doesn't deserve a =u) , I don't know what does." sandra lee, huh? well, pretty much i think she's a fraud. she's not a "chef" and has no place on the food network. i mean, i guess there's a place for her and what she does in the world... those are the kinds of recipes real housewives in the midwest really trade with eachother. which is fine, i guess, but that's something for a cheap little magazine at the checkout counter, not really something to go along side bobby flay, mario battalli, sara moulton, et al. she shows you how to put together packaged and processed products and PASS THEM OFF as "homemade". her "recipes" (and i hesitate to use that word) are either the kind of thing you get right off of a package of whatever or they're just overkill. one of her christmas "recipes" was to take a package of white chocolate covered oreos and make some colored frosting and drizzle it on them. what?! gale gands would be showing you how to MAKE oreos. or her christmas idea to buy tons of packaged candy and let the kids decorate a mini tree with candy necklaces and gumdrops and licorice, etc. nothing says home or family or baby jesus more than a fake tree with twizzlers on paperclips. she's the anti-martha stewart... she's all about artiface and no quality. her whole angle is these "shortcuts" because she "doesn't have time". what does she do all day? other than shop thriftstores for her themed tablescapes? she's always concerned about and referring to "the kids" and yet, she has none. obviously she doesn't have any kids of her own with that 
dumbass decorate-a-tree-with-candy idea... who would want to deal with their sugar shocked kids after that? but she only thinks about the kids until it's cocktail time when she includes a cocktail recipe in every episode (i guess to help her deal with all those two nieces of hers) and adds alcohol to recipes that don't need it (and usually she goes for the hard stuff, too.) i think the saddest thing is that she represents a larger trend on the part of the food network to take the lower road and go this direction with their programming in general. less and less is it actual chefs showing you new and fresh ingredients, techniques, and fundamentals... more and more it's personalities showing you shortcuts with packaged products. oh, she also deals with processed foods all day and yet she's rail-thin... how does that happen? at least paula deen is full-figured! "
dumbass decorate-a-tree-with-candy idea... who would want to deal with their sugar shocked kids after that? but she only thinks about the kids until it's cocktail time when she includes a cocktail recipe in every episode (i guess to help her deal with all those two nieces of hers) and adds alcohol to recipes that don't need it (and usually she goes for the hard stuff, too.) i think the saddest thing is that she represents a larger trend on the part of the food network to take the lower road and go this direction with their programming in general. less and less is it actual chefs showing you new and fresh ingredients, techniques, and fundamentals... more and more it's personalities showing you shortcuts with packaged products. oh, she also deals with processed foods all day and yet she's rail-thin... how does that happen? at least paula deen is full-figured! "
posted by Matt the Great @ 1/01/2006
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