Before the Food Network, there was the Great Chefs series. By modern standards, it’s pretty dry, but it had one thing that nobody else can match: Mary Lou Conroy. She narrated much of the cooking process for the audience (especially when the chefs didn’t speak English) and has pretty much the most mellifluous voice ever captured on tape. I would listen to her read the phone book, if that was still a thing. In the first 5 seconds of this video, she speaks my favorite word to hear her say: pepper. Excuse me: pep-pah. The only thing that I might love hearing her say more is butt-ah.
I swear that when I turned off the TV earlier, it was still 2011.
Sorry, Salon, but all your slideshow on sandwiches made me want to do is re-watch (for, like, the 7th time) Sandwiches That You Will Like. I prefer my listicles to have more folksy charm.
He Had Refinement [from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn] (Elaine Stritch)
Sorry, CNET, but why would I want to look at a bunch of pictures showing The making of Crayola’s crayons, when Sesame Street has already shown me how they’re made?! By old people!!!
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