{"id":3269,"date":"2010-01-25T13:21:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/?p=3269"},"modified":"2016-03-28T12:45:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T16:45:21","slug":"worst-cooks-in-america-ep-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/worst-cooks-in-america-ep-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst Cooks in America, Ep 4"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Flavors in Jennifer Cross’ Head Saved Her Butt<\/h3>\n

\"\"Thank you, Food Network for proving that the Worst Cooks in America are those forced to follow recipes.<\/strong> I\u2019ve been saying it for years! I\u2019ve seen it in my cooking school, and I hear it from thousands that also know it\u2019s true. I\u2019m thankful to have the MTV of food finally admitting it in their programming.<\/p>\n

Worst Cooks in America is starting to confuse me more than Jenn Vecchio with half a fig<\/strong>. \u201cYou\u2019re reading it off a recipe card and just going blindly\u201d<\/em>, Jenn explains. It can\u2019t be her fault that she doesn\u2019t know what \u201cdone\u201d looks like because she\u2019s relying solely on the written recipe.<\/p>\n

\"\"The show is supposed to be about duplicating a Chef Beau or Chef Ann dish to fool restaurant critics.<\/strong> If so, why the heavy reliance on written recipes? Why not teach them how to cook in the STYLE<\/em> of Chef Beau?
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\nThere are constant recipe problems in week 4, but the contestants are left to figure it out themselves.<\/strong> \u201cI don\u2019t know what to do\u201d<\/em>, laments Marque. \u201cWhy is it doing this\u201d?<\/em> It\u2019s all critique from the chefs, there\u2019s no help, no secrets of WHY something is happening or HOW it\u2019s supposed to look. Yet, everything is about the written recipe, someone else\u2019s\u2019 opinion of how something should be cooked.
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\nHowever, it all changed when the six survivors of saut\u00e9 were told they could invent their own crostini. <\/strong> Eyes widened, mouths smiled at the sudden freedom they were given. \u201cI\u2019m already thinking of great flavors in my head<\/em>\u201d, says Jennifer Cross, revealing the inspiration that would be her savior, despite a complete logistical and emotional boil-over.<\/p>\n

The artistic interpretation of flavors in her head was the best dish of the day.<\/strong> Her problems came from the pressures of following a recipe under time constraints. She couldn\u2019t hang with the time-task that\u2019s mandated to increase the emotion for the cameras, but blew them away with her art.<\/p>\n

For a moment, a small part of the show had realized a goal for me.<\/strong> In a blink of an eye, it showed the excitement, confidence, and superior results of making up your own recipes. It\u2019s a message I\u2019ve been trying to bring to a mass audience for years. Jennifer Cross proved it. Cooking is joyous expression, not jealous competition. It\u2019s accomplished with full heart, not fast clock. Unfortunately, the message was only a blip on a show that doesn\u2019t teach anyone to cook, Worst Cooks in America.<\/p>\n

Previous posts about Worst Cooks in America:
\nCooking is About Crying and Salt<\/a>
\nWorst Cooking Instructors in America<\/a>
\nAre You the Worst Cook in America?<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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