The Little Paris Kitchen - BBC2

[MollieO]

I'm rather impressed that she is doing her cooking on a camping stove!

My Paris kitchen was like that. Except it was an electric ring rather than a gas ring and the "hob" was part of one metal unit which included a tiny sink. Not that keen on health & safety, those Frenchies! They also don't seem to do fitted kitchens like we do either. It's all odds and ends and different height work surfaces and wobbly cabinets.

Has this been as annoying as it looks? Only just switched over. Have they mentioned anything boring like the regulations you'd need to comply with to have "restaurant" in your own home?

No. I wonder if there aren't any!

The very opening, when she delivered the obligatory speech about cooking fresh, delicious food made from all the best ingredients, blah blah blah, sounded exactly like Lorraine Pascal's very similar spiel.

All very aspirational, and don't get me wrong, she's pretty and cute and fresh, but tbh these cookery progs feel like they're popped out of a mould...all just the same, basically

Exactly. She mentioned she's been to Cordon Bleu school. Can't you just pay to go there? Just seemed another indulgent programme with cute girl in cute flat living a cute life.

I was rather envious too but that's why I like these programmes. I wouldn't be interested in watching someone that looks like me cooking in my kitchen

Must say my FAVOURITE cookery programme is Barefoot Contessa with Ina Garten. I love her house (in The Hamptons), love her style of cooking (looks delicious and the recipes always work), and love her! Much better than all these breathy young fillies!

We missed out on the food, we were so busy wondering where she kept all her little frocks and cardigans, and all that red lipstick in her little tiny flat.....

Didn't like this prog, like you say, popped out of a mould. Couldn't stop watching it tho. Which made it even more annoying. And I thought the cornflour-red wine sauce for her coq au vin sticks looked a bit ugh. Madeleines looked great. She is pretty, and has an easy patter about her I think. All seems a bit, well, superficial or something, iykwim.

What channel is barefoot contessa on?

Toffs on telly

Boooooooooring

Barefoot Contessa is on Food Network I think.

Thanx pigeon. Will have a look.

I thought it all seemed very nice but I spent most of the programme wondering why she was living like a student (she seemed a bit old for that). Do you think that's actually where she lives?

Barefoot contessa is awful IMO. I guess you either connect or you don't with some tv cooks. When was this on?

Last night 8.30

Missed that then

Iplayer?

Aah yes! Thankyou

saw a bit of this. I am getting a bit sick of what I call 'lifestyle' cookery programmes where they are ever so aspirational and imoho not really related that much to real life.
Where's the programme about someone living on the dole or making ends meat and cooking for a family?

I wish the BBC would spend the money on other cookery shows.

I know it's always Jonty and Hugo skipping down country lanes picking dandelions and wild rocket while the nation sits in their three bed semi, just off the motorway slip road, wondering what the hell this has to do with their life.

I want programmes on mince 100 ways and how to feed two carnivores and three veggies in a single sitting.

I mean it's all very nice these escapist cookery shows but I can't help feeling that the money could be spent on a programme about eating on a budget/ teaching kids and young people to cook would be a better use of the money.

Just make a programme that more people can relate to in these hard economic times!

Bring back Delia I say. Get her to do a series on budget cooking....as an antidote to her pre-recession 'buy all the prepackaged shite you can' cooking for cheats series she did

I say bring back Delia too! I do like Nigella though as well.

I'd rather a no nonsense programme. Although I do think that the internat has probably killed off the back to basics kind of food programme nowadays.

You can search Google for 101 ways to turn one chicken into eleventy meals for the week.

So no need for St. Delia to show you how to turn it into twelvety - people now watch cookery programmes as much, if not more for the aspirational shite.

Unless Delia peppers her series with trips to a gorgeous local deli and artful shot of her leaning over the counter whilst salivating over cornichons or the like, I don't think we'll see those kind of shows again.