She has no qualifications as a cook, AFAIK. She never spent a day in
culinary school or owned or cooked in a restaurant, probably never
spent a day working the fryer at McDonalds. There are cooks on the
Food Network with a thin culinary resume (Rachel Ray comes to mind)
but Rachel CAN cook and compared to Sandra Lee, Rachel Ray is like
Julia Child. As we learned from the fallout following the infamous
Kwanzaa cake, she doesn't even develop most of these recipes on her
own, she purchases them from others, as she bought the Kwanzaa cake
recipe from somebody else who developed that culinary crime against
humanity. I bet she doesn't even come up with the tablescapes
either. I made the comment once before that after the shooting of the
show is over, I guarantee that all that food Sandra makes winds up in
the trashcan or is fed to animals; you know the camera people and
behind the scenes people don't eat any of that garbage she makes.