I agree. The new show just doesn't set with me.
I want the old automaton
I get my fix from America's Test Kitchen now.
Oh...that is such a great show! I get the newsletters from them, and Kimball is such a good writer. Here's an excerpt from the latest:
"Dear Friend of Cook's,
"It was a cold, snowy, wonderful Thanksgiving on the farm. We had our own family plus a half-dozen neighbors for our usual 4 o'clock dinner. The turkey was a delicious home-grown 25-pounder from Jean, who lives across the road, and we used our own potatoes, apples, and carrots from the root cellar. If I had forgotten, I was reminded that there is no greater gift than cooking for friends and family.
"The conversation around the fireside quickly turned to the old ways. Jean remembered that as a child she had picked milkweed used for filling life vests. Steve talked about the rag picker from his hometown, and Jack described the leather cape the iceman wore over his shoulders to protect him from the large, cold blocks of ice. Tom mentioned that when he was a kid his family often had to hunt to put meat on the table. Besides hunting deer, squirrel, and rabbit, they trapped blackbirds with a net. It took three or four birds just to feed one person."