aem wrote:
> sf wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:27:15 -0700, Pennyaline wrote:
>>
>>> That is what he said: "Cilanthro." "Careful how you chop your cilanthro"
>>> or words to that effect, "because it gets its culinary feelings hurt,"
>>> etc., etc.
>>>
>>> Yeppers, that's what he said. He's been saying it constantly on this
>>> morning's show. Chiarello is calling cilantro "cilanthro."
>> OhMGawd! He DID actually say "cilanthro"! How funny is that? He
>> wasn't even close to rolling his "r" either. Sill-an-throw with a
>> short vowel a at that. Whoever let him get away with it should be
>> fired. ROTFLMAO!
>> --
>
> I guess I'm missing the joke here because I don't know this guy
> Chiarello. Does he usually speak distinctively in some way? People
> on cooking shows mispronounce things all the time. Why is this one
> particularly funny? -aem
To my mind, Chiarello is the worst of the FoodTV posers. Unlike other
hosts, who have given up even a passing knowledge of other places in the
world, Chiarello's universe seems to extend no further than his
vineyards in California wine country. His perspective is short and
narrow. His ideas, speech, recipes and food staging come straight out of
magazines and it's easy to guess that he's never been, so to speak, off
the farm. He is another one of those cooking show hosts who stage
everything as a "party" and uses his "friends" as set dressing and
extras in his own great pageant. Like the Big Fat Contessa's,
Chiarello's "friends" are servile and vapid, and in conversation and
while returning demonstrations in food preparation demonstrate primarily
that they have never done a God-damned thing in their lives. And there
is the matter of this stringy old bird who flutters about him constantly
and must be the kind of mother he never had. He introduces his
parties/episodes with references to "being surrounded by good friends
and GREAT food" while these host-proclaimed second-rate "friends" orbit
him and pretend to chat and cook and swill a few bottles of the estate.
And he, like all obedient slaves to fashion, puts cilantro in everything
he hasn't already put basil in. As a good fawning shill, he raves about
it, but can't even pronounce it.
