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Bogus and badly researched article.
"3. �Just because I have a cooking show doesn�t mean I�m a chef.�
This item lists Ming Tsai, Mario Batali, and Sara Moulton. All are talented and trained chefs. Batali is a James Beard winner.
"4. �Sex sells, even with foodies.�
Actress and model Padma Lakshmi, for one, has gone from guest-starring on Star Trek: Enterprise to hosting the popular reality show Top Chef."
Actually Ms. Lakshmi wrote her first (award-winning) cookbook and hosted her own show on Food Network before signing on to Top Chef. She has never claimed to be a professional chef, just a lover of food who has traveled the world eating it and cooking it (and her cookbook has delicious and creative recipes...).
Giada De Laurentiis looks like a large-headed Natalie Portman. Exactly like somebody wearing an enormous paper mache Natalie Portman head for Mardi Gras or something.
I've never even pretended to be a chef - they have to work too damn hard. I'm just some guy whose mom and grandma taught him to cook.
I've only cooked professionally once - a two-month stint at a BigBoy in Tulsa in '71. That cured me of wanting to cook professionally.
But I'm glad somebody does it - it would suck to have to eat my own cooking ALL the time.
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