My daughter, whose does a great Rachael Ray imitation, will like this commentary, by chef Anthony Bourdain:
Where the saintly Julia Child sought to raise expectations, to enlighten us, make us better -- teach us -- and in fact, did, Rachael uses her strange and terrible powers to narcotize her public with her hypnotic mantra of Yummo and Evoo and Sammys. "You're doing just fine. You don't even have to chop an onion -- you can buy it already chopped. Aspire to nothing . . . Just sit there. Have another Triscuit . . . Sleep . . . sleep. . . ."From a longer commentary on Food Network personalities:
September 6, 2011: That link is gone, but the commentary lives on at the Internet Archive.Nobody Asked Me But(ruhlman.com, via kottke.org)
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Which reminds me... I was watching Unwrapped the other day and saw something about a website where you can order candy and other things such as Sen-Sen. For whatever reason, I remember you talking about that in-class. I think it's oldtimecandy.com or something similar... Anyway, I thought I'd let you know.
Yes, oldtimecandy.com it is. Thanks for reminding me -- I'm looking at the site now and enjoying the Proustian accounts of being brought back to childhood by the smell of Choward's Scented Gum.
Is this AK writing? Someone else?
You got me!!! Yes, it's AK. If you don't mind, please tell Rachel I said hello...
Will do!
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