Dr. Bruce wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Apr 2021 07:24:36 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
> > On Friday, April 2, 2021 at 9:43:49 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> >> Bruce wrote:
> >> > Gary wrote:
> >> >> I watched a 30 minute show last night about the traditional
> Hawaiian >> >> food. Australian chef, Curtis Stone, went to Kaui to
> be educated. >> >> Good show.
> >> >
> >> > Curtis Stone is a prostitute chef.
> >>
> >> lol. You must have seen his old shows, "Take Home Chef."
> >> I used to watch that. What a player he was.
> >>
> >> He'd go into a grocery store and pick one woman shopping alone. It
> was >> always a very pretty woman. Then he would approach her,
> explain his show >> to them, and offer to cook a gourmet dinner for
> her in her home for free.
> >
> > Like Door Knock Dinners. I fondly recall the episode where two
> > of the original Iron Chefs (Morimoto and Michiba) had to make
> > dinner out of whatever they found in some American family's
> > kitchen. I seem to recall they family had just come back from
> > vacation, and the cupboard was pretty bare.
>
> All a setup, no doubt.

No doubt but probably fun to watch! Here's a real example though I'm
not that level of 'chef' and actually a pretty basic cook at that time
of late 70's or very early 80's.

I did that once at my bosses house. I was working fast food and he was
the manager who'd gotten hurt in a car accident and was out from work
for 2 weeks. I lived real near by and he called and asked if I could
make a shopping run for him. Keeping it completely on the straight up,
he'd pay and he needed some things that were 'fast to fix' as he had
limited standing capability just then and left arm in a cast.

I went over and surveyed the situation and he did actually have quite a
bit there, but didn't really understand it the way I did. I looked at
his grocery list then made some suggestions. The method later got
named 'cook once, eat many' by someone famous but it wasn't me.
Microwaves didn't exist yet in the home.

For the next 2 weeks, he ate some things he wasn't as familiar with but
liked. Like, I browned up 3lbs ground beef and froze 2lbs of it in
empty cleaned plastic butter tubs in smaller 1/2lb amounts. I took out
his small frozen porkbutt and loaded it in my crockpot and returned
about 4lbs of shredded pork, some with BBQ sauce added and some plain
to be spiced later (all in more butter tubs).

He had spagetti, various quick wraps, lots of canned tomato products
and canned veggies common to the era. Lots of pasta.

I got flour tortillas, a tub of margarine, bag of onions, and some
spices he didn't have. A thing of Icecream, and a few TV dinners.
Told him to save the trays and next week they would be reloaded with
frozen meals for more TV dinners after adding some of his canned
potatoes (they do not freeze well so have to be added just before
cooking). A jar of Mayo, and a case of his preferred beer. Oh, hot
dog buns as his left arm was in a cast so that was an easy one handed
bread. Next week he needed more beer and hot dog buns. I loaded the
trays up from the previous week. He was still eating up the meats that
were prebrowned.

He had spagetti, various quick wraps, chili, carnitas, hotdog bun
garlic bread, an odd dish common to that part of the south that might
be called 'pork stew' (a little bit like a brunswick stew).

It was a minimum wage 3.25hr era if I recall. He paid for the
groceries (had called the store to let them know he had a presigned
check with me and his DL so it was ok). He paid me 20$ which was more
like 5$ an hour over the 2 weeks.