For some strange reason, I carry with me the 'plot' of the 1968 film called "The Swimmer", starring Burt Lancaster. It was, and still is, a good film and I suspect I am just as crazy as Neddy Merrill (Lancaster) was. In the film, Neddy realises he can swim around the valley, using the pools that the various properties contain. So, he jogs from house to house, borrowing the pools of these local residents, and through this linking of the properties, manages to swim around the valley, all the way home.
To various levels of success, it is possible to achieve a similar result in respect of cookery programmes on TV. The schedules provide opportunities for one to move from programme to programme. Burt was happy to jog from one property to the next and then take a dip in the pool. It is possible to hop from one channel to another, and dip into a cookery programme, as they are so prolific.
Today, for example, one might adopt the following itinerary:
4.00 - 5.00pm ITV1 The Hungry Sailors
5.30 - 6.00pm CH4: Come Dine With Me
7.00 - 8.00pm BBC2: Hairy Bikers' Best Of British
8.00 - 8.30pm CH4: How To Cook Like Heston
8.30 - 9.00pm CH4: The Fabulous Baker Brothers
9.00 - 10.00pm BBC1: Masterchef
It really is quite preposterous that this many food-related programmes are lined up on one night! I have managed a whole blog post without using my favourite four-letter word, beginning with 'C' - and that's not the word "Cook" !!!
The Swimmer of 1968 has become The Cooker of 2012. Sad.
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