Food on TV
I normally don't watch much food on television. Programs like "Top Chef" or "Iron Chef" don't appeal to me at all, and most of the so-called cooks like Rachael Ray or Paula Deen leave me more than cold. (Ina Garten is OK, though, because she is so likable and low-key.) But Monday night, HBO presented a special on the famed Le Cirque restaurant in Manhattan, actually a profile of the Maccioni family who owns it, and the generational struggle that ensued about opening a new Le Cirque in a new location.
The show illustrated how the restaurant business has changed through the years, with the sons wanting so badly to serve creative food, and father, Sirio, insisting that no restaurant could exist if it didn't offer classics like melon and prosciutto.The impasse never got completely resolved, but the show sure offered, er, food for thought.
Anyone else see it? What did you think?
