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Worst Cooks In America

Finally Friday!  That’s the good news – more snow is the bad.  We, however, will focus on food as is our custom to end the week.

There’s a show on the Food Network called Worst Cooks in America.  The premise of the program is that 2 professional chefs teach incompetent amateur cooks basic culinary skills and if the amateurs don’t learn they get tossed off the show.  Not that I’m a pro, but the contestants they brought to the program seem to have trouble making toast or peanut butter sandwiches.  The show is fun even if one wants to feel a bit better about one’s own meager skills but it turns out there was a business lesson as well. Continue reading

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Cooks Vs. Bakers

Seaman Mark Andaya prepares fresh rolls for th...

Maybe this is an idea for yet another reality show, but it’s a thought I have to end the week on a foodie theme.  I know – we need more competitive cooking shows about as much as we need more political ads on TV but I had this thought which of course also relates to business.

Cooks vs. Bakers.  That’s the thought.  I think you’re really one or the other and that’s both inside and outside of the kitchen.  Here’s why it might be an interesting competition and what it has to do with your office life. Continue reading

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I Am Iron Chef

Iron Chef

We’ve made it to Friday and our food-themed post of the week and this time it’s about one of the seminal cooking shows Iron Chef.  The first time I saw this show I was blown away.  Yes, there was the whole dubbed kung-fu movie vibe but more than anything was just the notion of walking into a kitchen, being handed a theme, and having an hour to do your best work creating as many different dishes as you can cook.  Frankly, the American version doesn’t hold a cleaver to the original from Japan although the cooking skills are just as impressive.  The bonds between the two, besides the format and the references to “The Chairman”,  are Masaharu Morimoto, a chef from the original show who has moved to the US and runs some very fine restaurants, and the ubiquitous Bobby Flay who actually was on the Japanese program twice (the first time to great controversy) and now is an American Iron Chef.

Oh, and me, of course. Continue reading

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