Sunday, March 15, 2009

yan can cook


last sunday, i posted a julia child video which got me thinking about just how many cooking shows i watched as a kid (shocker, i know)...  in part, i watched cooking shows simply b/c i am a pbs baby and had a mom who loved them.  part of me, though, has always been infatuated with cooking shows b/c i love to find out how things are made or how they work.  as corny as it is, i still secretly watch "unwrapped" on FN just for the factory scenes!  :))  i can STILL remember an episode of sesame street where they visited the hershey kiss factory, LOL.  it's also probably why i have a geeky soft spot for all things food science...  

next to "cooking with julia", my favorite show is "yan can cook".  when he's working, i just can't take my eyes off him...  hell, if i DID, i'd miss half of his prep, LOL.  yan is lightening fast!  if you blink, you won't see what he's doing; plus, he makes it look EASY, which is really hard.  while my brother was living in austin, he got to meet yan AND he scored an autographed chinese cleaver!  color me jealous...  to this day, my brother is obsessed w/ that knife:  says it's the best in his kitchen.  (sidebar:  my mom's kitchen-knife-of-choice was also a cleaver and i use my vegetable cleaver like crazy [pictured here: #3]...  maybe it's a familial trait, LOL?)

i can't wait til next sunday b/c i already know which show i am going to post about...  i wonder how many other people will remember it, though.  we'll see!  ;D

thx for reading bbs!  xoxox

5 comments:

Shari@Whisk: a food blog said...

I'm curious to find out what your next show is. I just realized that Wok with Yan and Yan Can Cook are two different shows made by two different people. Love the clip.

frogponder said...

oh my goodness, that dredged up a memory of the Galloping Gourmet! I should look him up.

A Little About Me... said...

I love reading your blogs. LOL. I should put up some of the stuff my boyfriend has been cooking this past week. He's such a good cook. lol. I like cooking too but he likes to cook for me.

Oh yes, I will definitely have to check out your friend's site. I have a separate thing going on the side...I should really bring it up to my blog. Fashion under $30. Yes, fashion under $30 is something we are all capable of doing and not looking like a trash bag while at it. LOL
Thanks for looking out.

glamah16 said...

I was a PBS baby too. Thats how I learned , from my mother and the shows.

rayne said...

Your posts are evolving so nicely! As for your PBS comment, which seems to have garnered much attention, one of the trips I remember from Sesame St. (or was it the Electric Co.?) was when they visited the Crayola Crayon factory: now what does that say about me?! :)