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+ 3 C today, and we're melting - though the city announced that it is possible that some stacked street snow (I've seen them 4-5 m high) will not be gone before June!

Experimental cooking tonight for the Tusby jury. (I've had an easy day) There's a bit of a competition developing with Swedish-speaking upstairs.

Pictured Simon is, he assures me, Finland's best salesman. With a surname like Gold?

But I really like the style of these videos.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Mar 10th, 2010 at 12:00:58 PM EST
Ah, The Swedish chef

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Mar 10th, 2010 at 02:09:41 PM EST
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and that was meant as being affectionate to the character. It is difficult to see a cookery demonstration in that accent and not be reminded of him.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Mar 10th, 2010 at 02:53:39 PM EST
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At times it does degenerate into exactly that stereotype...

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Mar 10th, 2010 at 03:10:43 PM EST
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Exactly - and they are all muppets really. But what I have been saying to them is that a cooking program that is interrupted by family and friends and e.g RW, could be a winner, because it more closely approximates the conditions in which most amateur cooks have to work.

For TV programming it is the cheapest of the cheapest. Fairly easy to do 28 minutes at almost zero cost - ingredients, cameraman (husband) and a spot of not too demanding editing. Even at 2500 € an  hour, it can be financially worthwhile, because you can do several of these a week without too much stress.

But from a purely commercial POV, the money is in franchising. Create a program format  with concept, pilots, graphics and music - a production package, if you will - and it could be worth several millions in Europe, such is the state of our media today. There's sex, food and nappies. As Chris C. says 'It's not pocket science'.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Mar 10th, 2010 at 03:09:22 PM EST
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Need to run this idea by a friend who knows Food programming upside down & backwards.
by ATinNM on Wed Mar 10th, 2010 at 05:05:28 PM EST
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sven's bar'n'grill?

the camera man's been sampling the hooch, i trust it tasted better than the stuff that one poor guy had to spit up.

that was the funniest moment of the video! (when he tasted the coffee, i was getting ready for the full lens splatter, but he held it down.)

the kids dancing are superb, amazingly dignified and turrible cute at the same time.

the cook has a really good full-face camera style...

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Mar 11th, 2010 at 02:31:44 AM EST
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Perceptive you. Right on all counts.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Mar 11th, 2010 at 02:45:41 AM EST
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ta, me duck. everyone's a critic ;)

how's the ankle healing?

when's the next fortified youtube jam session?

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Mar 11th, 2010 at 03:32:18 AM EST
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The ankle is good, thanks. I gave up the panacod immediately on your advice.

There's a bunch of Lotten's cook videos here.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Mar 11th, 2010 at 04:42:25 AM EST
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