Britain's Best Home Cook with Mary Berry
Publicity shot from the BBC: judges and host of Britain's Best Home Cook. |
The format is very much like The Great British Baking Show, except that the third challenge on each episode is the "elimination round" where only the weakest contestants are required to cook, usually following a set recipe. At the end of each episode, one contestant "goes home." Finally, in the last episode, the last three competitors vie for the top honor. It's enjoyable to observe these talented home cooks create amazing dishes, which they don't necessarily know beforehand, and to watch the contestants with various ethnic backgrounds use recipes, spices, and techniques that they had learned from their mothers.
The food the contestants make always looks scrumptious, too. For example these chocolate desserts from Episode 5:
Barbecue, a Documentary by Matthew Salleh and Rose Tucker
The second show we watched was a repeat viewing of Barbecue, a 2017 documentary from Australia. This film consists of a large number of different brief episodes about barbecuing meat over an open fire, in a pit, or on a spit. These vignettes come from all over the world -- Mongolia, New Zealand, Texas, Uruguay, Sweden, the Philippines, and many more. I found it disconcerting that some of the episodes this time were different from the ones we saw in 2017; in particular, we didn't see the one on Yakitori in Japan, and the first episode was completely different. Searching for reviews or other news about the show, I can't find any mention of these changes. I wrote a review in 2017 here.
This review copyright © 2020 mae sander.
BBC images are screen shots from the streaming video.
10 comments:
J'ai un peu de mal à imaginer ce que peut être une émission de cuisines anglaise :-). J'ai dans ma jeunesse passé quelques temps en Angleterre et j'ai pu constater à quel point il y avait une vraie déficience culturelle dans ce peuple qui nous a tout de même apporté le rugby. C'est là que j'ai appris que savoir cuisiner pouvait vous ouvrir bien des portes et susciter d'affectueux remerciements
I like Mary Berry's cookbooks but haven't seen her show. I would love to see the British Bakeoff. Maybe the library has it.
I loved watching the British Bake Off when Mary Berry was on it. Once she left, I haven't watched the show once. It's on my PBS channel.
I'm glad the latest show is also not cut throat like some reality shows are. It's good to see amateurs making such great food. I like to watch kids bake on the Food Network. Some as young as 8 are far better cooks than I will ever be.
In season two of Britain's best homecooks they were even friendlier. I enjoyed it a lot more as they had worked on the concept to make it flow better, imo. Shabbat Shalom.
Those chocolates look amazing. I enjoyed Bake Off especially when Mary Berry was on it. I've been doing a lot of cooking while shut-in, but haven't been watching cooking shows.
I may have to subscribe to Hulu. Love her!
We arrived late to the table for Great British Baking Show, but now I think we have watched all the episodes. I'm so happy to hear that Mary Berry has a new show. Sadly we have only Amazon Prime and Netflix but maybe it will eventually come to one of those places.
I've enjoyed what little we've seen of the British Baking Show, but really I don't
watch much TV. And, don't do much baking, since there's usually just the two of us and we've been eating a lot less lately :) However I am putting together a strawberry trifle this Holiday. Comprised of the left-overs of Bob's birthday cake.
fun!
I enjoy watching those kind of British baking shows because they are always very positive and all about the food!
How weird that that documentary seems to have been changed.
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