Subj : Food TeeVee was: Decrepit
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Wed Jan 17 2024 14:28:41

Hi Dave,


 DD> All the Kitchen Aids I remember seeing in person have been that garish
 DD> red. I pay so little attention to the boob tube that there may have
 DD> been, indeed, probably were, other colours shown on Emeril, Rachel
 DD> Ray, David Rosengarten or the Too Hot Tamales sets.

 RH> There are at least a dozen different colors of KA mixers. Our older
 RH> daughter has a 5 qt model, in red. Seems that red is the color they use
 RH> for most of their side accessories like scapers, measuring cups, etc.

 DD> So Amazon's web page shows me. IIRC most of the Food Network folk used
 DD> the 5 quart version w/tilting head. When I got my first KA in the 6
 DD> qt. size its head did not tilt - which made changing beaters, etc. a
 DD> PITA
 DD> sometimes. Or having to release the beater to remve the mixing bowl.

That is the one major downside to the 6 qt size but I can deal with it.
I'll be firing up the mixer later this week for another fig cake.


 DD> One of my favourites, back when I was watching TeeVee was David
 DD> Rosengarten, host of Taste, he took a deep dive into a different food
 DD> every episode.

Never saw him but sounds interesting.

 RH> Our favorites were "Good Eats" and "Iron Chef".....while in HI, we
 RH> caught some of the Japanese versions of the latter. Couldn't
 understand RH> what they were saying but still fun to watch.

 DD> I had several hosts that I enjoyed. And a few - Bobby Flay and Guy
 DD> Fieri - who had me reaching for the remote. Fieri came to my town to

I don't mind Bobby but I don't care for Guy at all.

 (Lanny DD> Huggins) develop his menu - I w3as a taste tester for
 new/proposed DD> dishes, I was curious to see how they were treated by
 TVFN.

 DD> When I went there for lunch soon after he had blown through town I
 DD> asked my waitress how it went with the "big deal". Her comment was
 DD> "What a
 DD> 'Richard Cranium'!" (not her exact words ... cleaned up for use in the
 DD> echo)  www.charlieparkersdiner.com

 DD> Previous owner Mike Murphy won a $25K first prize in the Thomas
 DD> English Muffin Breakfast contest. In a very classy move he divided the
 DD> prize
 DD> money among the staff.

That was very classy of him, don't usually see much of that.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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