Asian Food Channel... yum... it is definitely my most loved channel on cable. One of the reasons is because they hardly/never repeat any shows. Also you will not believe how many cook shows are made these days! In fact I am so inspired that I want to buy a Sonycam with tripod to record me cooking my daily family fare.
However the point of this article is to propose a limit to be put on certain gastronomy exploits on telly. I personally disdain arty farty self proclaimed nouveau young chef. Of course, this is not solely a jealousy motivated attack, but rather, I seriously doubt the quality of the food they put on show. I can recall at this immediate instance 2 chefs I dislike. They are both Jamie Oliver wannabes. One attempted to make Thai green curry which will never fool a Thai food enthusiast like me. The other cooked for a kid's birthday party and the chocolate dessert he made to entertain the kids looked like a pile of horse poo. (Clarification: I have no opinions with regards to Jamie Oliver because I do not watch his shows)
I then realise that a production house could actually hire an actor to pretend to cook since that there is no way telly audience could tell what the food taste like. Most of the time when they open the oven to put something inside, they ALWAYS simultaneously pull out another dish which they claim they have made earlier. Whether they have or not doesn't matter anyway because as I have said earlier, there is no telling whether the food tastes good or not. The food just have to "look" the part.
Again I repeat that I am not jealous simply because they have got a tv show while I do not.
Having aired my grievances, I have to say that there are cook shows that even my hubby loves to watch with me. Our favourite would be Escape / Return to River Cottage. In this show, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall moves to a village in Dorsett and farms his own food. Every episode, he will be cooking something which he has raised, grown or killed. I like the show's down to earth, gore and no fluffy approach. E.g. When he had to slaughter his poor piggies (which by the way can only be done by EU certified abbatoirs if one intends to sell the piggie produce), he made sausages, smoke ham and cooked all the piggie innards including black pudding. I can assure you there isn't any fancy pancy food presentation.
The other show we like is Scandinavian Cooking. I personally think that the food is a little bit bland but we watch it for the comedy. My hubby thinks that the cameraman is either drunk or high on some illegal substance due to his habit of zooming in and out repeatedly on the cook's hands.
All in all, AFC is a good staple channel to have.
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