For two years, we’ve had a Saturday television appointment that didn’t involve college football. We’ve made a noontime ritual of watching Cook’s Country, the homecooking-friendly PBS spin-off of America’s Test Kitchen.
So devoted are we that when fund-raising pre-empts its regularly programmed showtime, we dial it up on youtube.
My daughter really loves the show, which for her is not “Cook’s Country,” but merely “Cooking Show,” as in, “When is Cooking Show coming on?” She calls the hosts by their first names (Bridget and Julia) and has been known to imitate the show’s complements of various foodstuffs (e.g. “Taste the way the layers really come together!”) when eating real food or making fake food with her play dough.
Today, my daughter’s devotion to the show hit a new level, and I hope some TV exec is reading this.
My wife is making a pumpkin spice latte bundt cake this afternoon for a family reunion tomorrow She is allowing my daughter to help her. My daughter is thrilled.
As she watched Cook’s Country, my daughter anticipated her own baking and speculated on another spin-off for the show.
“I wish,” she said, “there was a show called Kid’s Country.”
Go on.
“Yanno, where kids made all the food? I would watch that all the time.”
Does this show exist?!?
PBS, get on this! You are sure to have at least three devoted fans.
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