Jamie, Dave, Oprah and Hillary

What do these names have in common? They were all involved or invoked on David Letterman last night.

Dave did repeated bits with Hillary, including one in which she entreated us to check out her website for a Snickerdoodle recipe. I did and there it was. Even if it was Cat Cora’s recipe, I thought that was funny. (It’s not on Hill’s home page anymore.)

Jamie was a guest and talked about Oprah. I didn’t realize Jamie
is on Oprah’s new good works reality show. I am a bit sick of hearing how this show is the first reality show “that’s about what you give instead of what you get”. Of course it is. This is Oprah we’re talking about. I think it’s a great idea, but I just wish that the folks involved didn’t use the exact same words to describe the show. It sounds a little bit like they’ve all drunk the Kool-Aid.

Jamie did cook on The Late Show and he and Dave together were like a modern-day Laurel and Hardy. Jamie was the oh-so-cute straight guy to Dave’s Jerry Lewis-like antics. Jamie cooked away (the recipe is near the bottom of this link), pouring and stirring and tossy-tossing his ingredients, while Dave waded wrist deep in crab lungs. It was funny.

Jamie was also on Oprah today, talking about Big Give. He demonstrated a pizza recipe and some strange cocktail, but at least he didn’t kill anything on the stage. I really didn’t know that Miss Winfrey (Jamie called her Mrs. Winfrey and she corrected him) knew so little about cooking and food. It is kind of amazing. Now if he would just allow the Food Network to publish EVERY recipe he does on his show (only two recipes from each Jamie at Home episode appear online), I’d be happy. That to me would be a Big Give.

Hot Off The Presses: Rachael Ray On David Letterman

Ok, I'm really trying to be nice. The best part of Rachael's appearance was that there was no cooking involved. And she looked fine...nice dress.

One thing that was weird, though, was that she sat straight up on the edge of her chair, like she had a rod down her back. Her conversation was relaxed, but she looked uncomfortable.

One of the problems could have been that I'm not sure David Letterman knew who she was. Plus, he kept asking her about sweetbreads. To what end, I'm not sure, but it wasn't terribly riveting. AND it didn't seem that she had anything big to talk about it. I know her new season is starting on Monday, but that was mentioned as an afterthought.

Oh wait, there was one interesting thing. Rachael Ray admirers will love this, others will grimace. She spent nearly the entire summer taping MANY new 30 Minute Meals AND her tasty travel show or whatever it is. She took a day and a half off at the beginning of the summer and another day some other time and THAT WAS IT...her only breaks. Dave asked her why she would want to work that hard, that she'll end up looking like him. And she said because when people ask her, she can't say no.

It wasn't as bad as Paula on Larry, but Dave certainly didn't get to the root of what her fans love about her. As for the rest of us, her anti-fans, it was so lukewarm an appearance, that there wasn't even much to rail against.

David Letterman's Top Ten Titles Of His Recent Blog Entries

There is the one chocolate entry, so I thought this would qualify for a food blog...sort of.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

10 My big decision: hair plugs or hairpiece
9 A summary of today's hate mail
8 Fun places to take off your pants
7 101 reasons why chocolate is better than men -- am I right, ladies?
6 Ways to take down a gator
5 Tuesdays with Shecky
4 Rick, the creepy intern who won't stop staring at me [shot of creepy guy staring at Dave - psycho sting]
3 Are you there, God? It's me, Dave
2 Monkeys or kitties -- which is cuter?
1 How is Scott Baio still single?!?!