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Little Paris Kitchen

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Mamie Tue 20-Mar-12 13:05:37

Did anyone else watch this last night? Apart from the fact that I get driven mad by camerwork that meant that Rachel Khoo was always looking over my right shoulder, I thought the food was a bit strange. The spring lamb dish should have tiny baby vegetables like broad beans and little turnips, not frozen veg and it was a pretty elderly lamb judging by the size of its neck. I wouldn't be quite as unkind as the review that said it wouldn't get past the first round of Masterchef, but even so. Very impressed by the market where everyone spoke English though.

kittylester Tue 20-Mar-12 16:54:10

I watched this Mamie and won't bother again! I am rather fed up, anyway, with cooks and chefs who taste their own food and then tell us how yummy it looks and tastes but, adding to that, the strange camerawork turned me right off. I wondered if she was trying to cash in on Jamie Oliver's first series which was set in his flat although his flat wasn't so claustrophobic.

Carol Tue 20-Mar-12 17:09:15

Yes, I switched over. Don't like that camerawork. It was the first Naked Chef that did this and it was just irritating.

Mamie Tue 20-Mar-12 17:39:21

What also drives me mad is that you can't have a programme about France without flipping accordion music. The only time I have heard the accordion played in France was by a child begging in Strasbourg and my DH gave her some money to stop.

GoldenGran Tue 20-Mar-12 17:42:34

I watched it and was very disappointed in it, I thought the food was boring and not quite right, and I didn't particularly take to her style. I won't be watching it again.

Annobel Tue 20-Mar-12 18:02:14

I recorded it, but having read your comments, don't think I will bother watching. I have heard accordion music in Paris - at the Bastille market, an old guy looking archetypically French - beret and all.

nanachrissy Tue 20-Mar-12 19:20:21

I watched it too and thought the food was very second rate. It was like cooking for students.

glassortwo Tue 20-Mar-12 19:36:56

Very disappointed in the programme sad

yogagran Tue 20-Mar-12 21:57:12

Thanks to all you previous posters - I can now delete this programme from our machine without bothering to watch it and therefore create half an hour of time that I didn't expect to have grin

goldengirl Wed 21-Mar-12 14:18:01

I found it intriguing! I ignored the food as my eyes were glued to her kitchen and what she'd crammed into such a small space. Here's me wanting a large counter top and there's her managing to cut veg on a postage stamp. I loved the coloured tiles and the herbs on the windowsill and all the utensils hanging around. It was just like cooking in a caravan - which I hated the couple of times I've tried it. Just 2 burners and a little oven AND the nerve to have Jo Public in to eat! I would have find having strangers in quite scary - OK I know she had a camera operator there but s/he's not always on site. Loved it and look forward to the next. I wished she'd come into Gransnet AFTER this episode. I'd never heard of her before.

MrsJamJam Wed 21-Mar-12 17:38:12

I thought the GC might enjoy her croque madame muffins, they looked fun, but I wouldn't do the lamb stew the way she did.

gangy5 Thu 22-Mar-12 15:57:01

With such a small kitchen she needs a bigger personality. The cooking was rather uninspirational. Praise is required for managing in such a small area. Might give it one more go as I believe that she is going to produce meals for the public and that could be interesting.