Lay My Hat

Hi All
If you like France and James Martin then his new show on ITV is a must see. It was wonderful to see our part of, often hidden France, depicted in such a positive light. Guaranteed to make you feel hungry

Jeez, not another Gendarme Bake Off vs Patisserie Bikers!

I don't get cookery shows.

Gosh Essar, not all of us want to watch Top Gear
I love the sight seeing food combo. In this crazy world it's so relaxing and reassuring.

farley wrote:Gosh Essar, not all of us want to watch Top Gear
I love the sight seeing food combo. In this crazy world it's so relaxing and reassuring.

I've never seen Top Gear either or any other reality/celebrity/Khardigans or anyone elses "watch me" show.

One or two cookery shows would be watchable; but, dozens of them!. I saw an ad for a children's cookery kid off and almost choked on my cuppa. Why do they think everyone wants to watch several international versions of a cake off - Oz Bake Off, Dutch cheese off.....

To be fair, the James Martin programme is largely travelogue, very much in the style of Rick Stein or of Martin's hero, Keith Floyd. He explores an area rather amiably, meets up with the locals, samples their wine and rustles up a regional-type dish with something of a flourish.
I don't like pure cookery programmes either, but this one is entertaining and informative as well as opening one's eyes to the wider possibilities of the French countryside. It's not everyone's taste, but it works for me.

Mols

Ah yes, but does anyone remember Fanny Craddock, the TV chef who always did her cooking in an evening gown? Mind you she had assistants to do the dirty work including her husband, Johnny. This was long before Delia came on the scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWTg78lug90

AndrewH wrote:Ah yes, but does anyone remember Fanny Craddock, the TV chef who always did her cooking in an evening gown? .

Don't remind me!

Moliere wrote:To be fair, the James Martin programme is largely travelogue...

...hmmmm yes and so is The Grand Tour. Jeremy Clarkson's new Amazon indulgence that takes us to a different venue each episode. Its just a production "effect" for YACP(*)


(*) Work that one out !

e-richard wrote: for YACP(*)
(*) Work that one out !

Your Average Couch Potato.

(Sorry, I suffer from EAD!).

e-richard wrote:

Moliere wrote:To be fair, the James Martin programme is largely travelogue...

...hmmmm yes and so is The Grand Tour. Jeremy Clarkson's new Amazon indulgence that takes us to a different venue each episode. Its just a production "effect" for YACP(*)


(*) Work that one out !

Youth Action to Counter Pestilence
Young And Chic Person
Yeovil Anti Crime Patrol
You're A Crap President (oh no, not Trump again)
Your Actual Celebrity Pontification
You Are Cooking Professionally

. . . I give up!

I remember Fanny Craddock. I still have one of her cookery books. Must be vintage now, like me.

Giraffe wrote:I remember Fanny Craddock. I still have one of her cookery books. Must be vintage now, like me.

And the famous quote by her husband on air when Fanny was cooking..

"You too can cook doughnuts like Fanny's".

Note the capital F here!!

Moliere wrote: [YACP] . . . I give up!

Depends on which side of the railway lines:

Yet Another Cookery Program
OR
Yet another Car program

Oh well, that's easy - cars rock, cookery palls.

M

e-richard wrote:

Moliere wrote: [YACP] . . . I give up!

Depends on which side of the railway lines:

Yet Another Cookery Program
OR
Yet another Car program

But James Martin is a car nut as well as a tellychef... He did a programme on and with Jackie Stewart without a saute pan in sight, and very good it was too. Although he did enthuse about driving a De Tomaso, which did lead me to question his palate...