imo, she makes food accessible to rookies (like me) and the masses. cooking shouldn’t always have to be about shit you can’t pronounce and stuff that costs a mint. altho, the voice does get on my nerves sometimes and she does cheat on “$40-a-day”…
Honestly she bugs the crap out of me. I haven’t made anything she has prepared but Sandra Lee from Semi-homemade is my bitch. And if THAT’S not low-culture, I don’t know what is.
“quick and cheap” . . . “irritating” . . . “low-culture”, yet somehow useful. I like her travel shows although it always pisses me off that it’s her out there eating around the world and not me. Oh wait. Now I’m doing that, too! But no film crew is following me around to catch my witticisms such as “Awesome!”
I’m going to vote with the she-demon pimpstress crowd. I find her highly annoying - everything cannot make her giggle and I refuse to believe that everything she eats is that damn tasty. She’s either eating $500 worth of food to get to the tasty $40 worth or she’s a liar. I love, love, love Alton - he’s the real deal!
You know, I don’t hate her. I think she’s cute. But I am beginning to believe that came from not actually watching a single full episode of her show. The other day I watched two or three, back to back. Now I can see what the annoyed peoples are talking about.
She does laugh an awful lot, and I do wonder about the food she gets all being so good, but I think that you have to remember she *does* have the resources to try $500 worth of food to get to the good deals that are also tasty. That’s kinda the point of the $40 a day show. *She* finds and presents the deals, so you don’t have to waste money. Also, she isn’t a trained elite chef. She got her start in supermarkets. So she is everyman focused in a way that I think makes food accessible to non-foodies–not everyone on vacation is looking to eat haute cuisine. And I still think she’s cute. Like an excitable puppy. She just wants your love and affection, man. Although, I should say, the best part of the show for me is when the food isn’t that good, and she has to come up with something to say about it, like “Mm, this meat is prepared perfectly. Pink in the middle!” Hahaha.
imo, she makes food accessible to rookies (like me) and the masses. cooking shouldn’t always have to be about shit you can’t pronounce and stuff that costs a mint. altho, the voice does get on my nerves sometimes and she does cheat on “$40-a-day”…
Honestly she bugs the crap out of me. I haven’t made anything she has prepared but Sandra Lee from Semi-homemade is my bitch. And if THAT’S not low-culture, I don’t know what is.
She-demon of annoyance beyond all comprehension. I bought one of her cookbooks–it’s the ONLY cookbook I own that I’ve never used–not once.
And the fact that she’s defecting to be a talk show host thanks to Oprah only makes me want to douse her with dirty tap water even more.
“quick and cheap” . . . “irritating” . . . “low-culture”, yet somehow useful. I like her travel shows although it always pisses me off that it’s her out there eating around the world and not me. Oh wait. Now I’m doing that, too! But no film crew is following me around to catch my witticisms such as “Awesome!”
I’m going to vote with the she-demon pimpstress crowd. I find her highly annoying - everything cannot make her giggle and I refuse to believe that everything she eats is that damn tasty. She’s either eating $500 worth of food to get to the tasty $40 worth or she’s a liar. I love, love, love Alton - he’s the real deal!
i just don’t like her.
You know, I don’t hate her. I think she’s cute. But I am beginning to believe that came from not actually watching a single full episode of her show. The other day I watched two or three, back to back. Now I can see what the annoyed peoples are talking about.
She does laugh an awful lot, and I do wonder about the food she gets all being so good, but I think that you have to remember she *does* have the resources to try $500 worth of food to get to the good deals that are also tasty. That’s kinda the point of the $40 a day show. *She* finds and presents the deals, so you don’t have to waste money. Also, she isn’t a trained elite chef. She got her start in supermarkets. So she is everyman focused in a way that I think makes food accessible to non-foodies–not everyone on vacation is looking to eat haute cuisine. And I still think she’s cute. Like an excitable puppy. She just wants your love and affection, man. Although, I should say, the best part of the show for me is when the food isn’t that good, and she has to come up with something to say about it, like “Mm, this meat is prepared perfectly. Pink in the middle!” Hahaha.