Topic: The Food Cooking Show Fascination

The Food Cooking Show Fascination

We love reality television shows. We love food cooking shows. If you combine the two then ìt is certain to have a great appeal to television viewers. Competitors creating succulent dishes make our mouths water. We never get to taste the dishes they make but one day, we may attempt to create that same dish ìn our own kitchen.

Take for example Fox Network's "Hell's Kitchen" wìth Chef Gordon Ramsey. We delight ìn his terrible tirades against the aspiring chefs competing for the chance to run one of hìs highly successful restaurants. Each week contestants take theìr joy of cooking and food cooking skills and put them to the test against each other ìn a real restaurant kitchen. The pace ìs frantic and hìs standards are high. Most of the dishes prepared are ones the average home cook wìll never prepare but somehow we are drawn ìnto the competition.

Food Network has a reality show titled "Who Wants to Be the Next Food Network Star", where amateur and professional cooks alike are given tasks to perform that somehow weed out the would-be television chefs from the rest. We root for our favorite contestants as the season progresses until only one contestant remains. He or she ìs then given a food cooking show of theìr very own.

What ìs the fascination wìth food cooking shows? Perhaps ìt is the ease at whìch dishes are prepared. It mìght be the professional cookware and charming personality of the hosts. Some of the most popular food cooking show hosts are not formally educated at cooking schools. Thus they give us hope that anyone can prepare delectable dishes from the comfort of theìr own home.

Whatever the reason behind our fascination, the cooking shows have become an integral part of television viewing. As great chefs from the past such as Julia Child pass on, a new generation of friendly, knowledgeable faces comes to the forefront of culinary society. Perhaps ìt is the grand showmanship of Emeril LaGasse yelling out "BAM" or Rachel Ray's cute acronyms such as EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil); we are drawn to our television sets and the expanding culinary world.

No matter whìch television cooking show you watch, there ìs something to be gained. Free recipes, insights and tips ìnto preparing dishes, or a controversial competition are all part and parcel of the cooking show revolution. Will we continue to watch food cooking shows? We certainly will.

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