Lisa Denton and Barry Courter
LISA DENTON: Barry, I’m thinking I could learn a few kitchen tricks at the Taste of Home Cooking School at the Tivoli Theatre on Thursday. I’m also thinking that, if there’s anything Courters’ Kitchen has taught us when it runs on the first Wednesdays in the Life section, is that your dear wife could probably lead one of these expos.
BARRY COURTER: As long as people don’t mind watching her read a dozen cookbooks and change her mind a half dozen times before beginning to cook. I’m not complaining at all. It’s her process and it works. She would be the first to tell you she’d never make it on any of the food competition shows.
LISA: I got excited when I looked at the website, www.tasteofhomechatt.com, because there’s a section where you can shop for cookbooks and gadgets from the show. There’s a cake cutter that looks like a carpenter’s hand saw, a pizza cutter that looks like a circular saw, salad servers shaped like hands, some gnarly-looking meat shredders called Beast Clawz and Star Wars stormtrooper salt and pepper shakers. I know it’s bad form to play with your food, but there’s no law against having stuff that helps you enjoy cooking, serving and eating it.
And the Taste of Home Cooking School culinary expert, Michelle “Red” Roberts, is said to be a pro at making the recipe demonstrations enjoyable.
BARRY: I need that pizza cutter. It will go with my sausage-slicing chainsaw.