Did Chef Gordon Ramsay turns up heat on viewers with new Cookalong show?
With all the cooking shows (not to mention an entire cable network) that have proliferated on television, cooking has become a spectator sport. We watch all these amazing chefs preparing all these fabulous dishes while we microwave something or pass out another ready-made meal to the family. Gordon Ramsay is trying to change all that. The famed chef, best known to American viewers as the fire-breathing overlord of Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen, is hosting Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live, a show that invites viewers to become at-home participants as Ramsay takes them step-by-step through preparations for a three-course meal. His mission is to demystify fine cooking by showing how anyone, by following his instructions, can cook a refined and delicious, but still relatively simple, meal. The menu for tonight’s debut episode, which every week will feature an appetizer, entrée and dessert serving four, is angel hair pasta with shrimp, chile peppers and tomatoes, followed by steak Diane with sautéed po
With all the cooking shows (not to mention an entire cable network) that have proliferated on television, cooking has become a spectator sport. We watch all these amazing chefs preparing all these fabulous dishes while we microwave something or pass out another ready-made meal to the family. Gordon Ramsay is trying to change all that. The famed chef, best known to American viewers as the fire-breathing overlord of Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen, is hosting Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live, a show that invites viewers to become at-home participants as Ramsay takes them step-by-step through preparations for a three-course meal. His mission is to demystify fine cooking by showing how anyone, by following his instructions, can cook a refined and delicious, but still relatively simple, meal. The menu for tonight’s debut episode, which every week will feature an appetizer, entrée and dessert serving four, is angel hair pasta with shrimp, chile peppers and tomatoes, followed by steak Diane with sautéed po
