Quote Originally Posted by RICHARD View Post
Scooter's Mom,

I am talking about Aaron McCargo

The Ultimate Recipe Show is not my cup of tea! I HATE mac and cheese! It just a taste/growing up thing......NO way I eat it as a requested dish.

The AM thing is more personality than recipe, I want to see him cook, not preen.

I don't care for Symon, it's his laugh, he reminds me of my brother's laugh-forced and obnoxious.
I do blame The Food Network for that - remember in the "Next Food Network Star" they kept criticizing him for not having "enough personality"? They said that about him almost every week, when he obviously just wanted to cook and present his food - they have created a "character" out of him, instead of letting him be who he wanted to be. Sad, but true. You can tell he's uncomfortable, at least I can, being so "over the top" about things and mugging with his kid. But that's what The Food Network pushes and pushes and I don't know why, frankly. I liked watching him before they "transformed" him a whole lot better. Interesting to see Adam, who lost the "Next Food Network Star" show apparently now has a show ... I don't know what it is, as I have the DVR on "skip" over the commercials, I just see his face flash by.

I watch the Ultimate Recipe show today, and Richard, for some of us, mac and cheese - the REAL stuff, not the orange stuff in the box - is comfort food. Yet I know people who, even as adults, still eat the orange stuff as their own "comfort food" - all has to do with what you ate as a kid, obviously!

And I'm guessing growing up where you did, in the climate you did, there wasn't a lot of call for heavy "stick-to-your-ribs in bitter winter weather" type food!