Before I picked up this book, I only knew as far as cooking shows on TV - so interesting. In the book, the author while taking us through her journey of Pillsbury contest, gives an inside look into her approach to cooking.
While the contest did seem like an exam, post contest stuff of being rushed to and from shows, and what the author gathers about 'presentation on TV' makes one wonder about the make believe there.
As a cooking contest memoir, its interesting to see the focus on main incident maintained and not veering off into the whole life, but still relating relevant incidents to keep the story wholesome.
The best revelatory, ungarnished truth for me was when the author realised that the whole hype about the shows was about the hosts themselves.
Ellie Mathews was asked by Oprah, 'What did you bake?' when she appeared on her show as a winner of Pillsbury Bake Off contest with her Salsa Couscous Chicken. She thought,"Of course, I handnt baked a thing(in the winning recipe),but is a natural question,given the contest's name." Turns out that a list of ingredients for Curry Dinner Rolls started me on baking. True to the spirit of inspiring.
This is what I like about non-fiction: real consequences.
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