a comment received on this post last night:

IP Address: 68.166.220.77
Name: M. Chiarello
Email Address: michael@napastyle.com
URL: http://www.napastyle.com

Comments:

I really appreciate all your honesty....love to hear how you think my show can improve...hate is hard to fix but a few constructive thoughts can go a long way. I try to cook dishes that are simple...ingredients avail. at an Piggly Wiggly but feel an obligation to encourage all to use best possible when possible.

Lets hear your thoughts

M. Chiarello

my original post reads:

i got inspired last weekend by watching my usual hungover sunday morning foodtv lineup of everyday italian, barefoot contessa, and easy entertaining with michael chiarello. these people are all fancy bitches who are constantly rambling on about how their recipes and entertaining methods are going to make your life SO MUCH easier, when really it's only easy for them because they a) live on tv b) have two billion dollars c) have a staff of minions that actually do everything for them so they DO make it look easy....(by the way, i just have to bitch about this: i CANNOT STAND when these "italian" cooks on food tv like giada and michael chiarello, who probably grew up in long island or something and can barely sneeze out a proper-sounding "buongiorno", insist on pronouncing absolutely every italian ingredient in faux-authentic-italian. like, mozzarella. i fancy myself able to speak italian, and when i'm IN ITALY, i say mozzarella with the correct pronunciation. but i don't go prancing about saying MOE-ZAH-RRRRE-LLAH with extremely enunciated syllables EVERY OTHER SECOND. JESUS! you're not fooling anybody! and if you've pissed me off with your pretentiousness, you must be WAY GONE.)

i am a terrible person who is going to hell. michael chiarello spent his friday night reading that i hate him. i feel SO BAD. i'm watching his show right now and i can't even look him in the eyes.

michael, darling, i'm sorry. fly me out to napa for a chat. we can fix this hate, i swear.