Food Network

邊做運動，邊看電視已經成為了我每天的生活一部份。我是不是奇怪？我總喜歡在大汗淋漓的瘋狂消脂時段看Food Network的節目。也許他們介紹的大多是西方美食，個人比較喜歡亞洲的，所以也沒有特別覺得肚餓。比較會讓我想吃的，通常是和甜品有關的節目，尤其是蛋糕！因為我從來不做蛋糕的，但非常的愛吃

除了甜品，我更愛看比賽性的美食節目。大部份情況，參賽者都要在很短的時間裡面收到材料菜單，也許只有1-2分鐘的時間去想怎樣去煮，20分鐘裡面要造出一到具色香味的菜。昨天看了"Top Chef Masters"的決賽，好看的不但是兩者以各自具自我風格的卓越烹調技巧對壘著或是評審們對每道菜評價時造出的緊張氣氛，而是他們比賽時先跟對方握手示好，表明友誼第一的立場。主持人也先說一句, "We want a clean match"，使整場比賽令人看得舒服。最觸動我寫這篇文章是一個日籍的廚師除了狀況，對手的美籍廚師不單沒有袖手旁觀，更大方借出餘下的材料，好讓日籍廚師得以順利完成菜式。雖然我沒有親口吃到美籍廚師的菜，不過我覺得後來的勝利是實至名歸，他有了大廚師的風範，對自己和對手的要求都高。希望拿冠軍，也不怕得失，更使對方輸得心服口服。讚！！

Doing cardio and watching tv are becoming part of my daily life.  Am I strange?  In the way that I love watching on gourmet shows while I am sweating on the elliptical machine?  Well, I guess I am into Asian stuff that's why the Food Network shows don't make me feel hungry.  Haven't said that I am excluded from the western diet.  I love desserts. especially cakes, because I don't bake!!

Apart from desserts related shows, I enjoy a lot watching the competitive shows, such as Cup Cake Wars, Top Chef Masters.  All the participants have to prepare, cook and present the dishes within a very limited time frame. Like last night's the "Top Chef Masters," I was not just impressed by the unique cooking style and outstanding skills of any individual chef as well as the thrilling moments when the judges were making comments, nit also their hand gestures before the match which showed friendship went first.  Since the host said, "We want a clean match" at the beginning, I felt relaxed and comfortable in watching the whole show.  The scene really moved me to write this page was that a Japanese chef encountered a situation in a match against an American chef.  Instead of leaving the Japanese chef alone, the American chef lent his leftover ingredients to the Japanese chef so that the competition went on in the fairest way. I personally believe the American chef deserves to be the winner.  He seemed having high expectation to himself and his competitors.  Of course, he wanted to win but not worry to lose the competition. He is such a great Chef!!