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• In Media Res
  Re: Cröonchy Stars: The "Swedish Chef" as Role Model

  Plasticity of the Chef Persona

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  Alison Pearlman Cal Poly Pomona

  Wednesday, June 26, 2013 — 3:55 am

  I too love being reminded of the Swedish Chef. The conversation circling around representations of the male chef as crazed or macho is just a reminder to me of one aspect of a very malleable chef persona--at least in recent decades. I have long thought th ...
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  Re: Nigella Lawson: Food/Lifestyle Porn

  Just right

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  Alison Pearlman Cal Poly Pomona

  Wednesday, June 26, 2013 — 4:08 am

  Kathleen: You pinpointed exactly Nigella's media format: the exaggerated sensuality in closeup mode, the luscious and well-turned phraseology, the aspirational mis-en-scene, the mammalian comforts of her upper-middle-class cocoon. All of it is why, i ...
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  Re: Celebrity chefs: Do we need them?

  Related Bone to Pick

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  Alison Pearlman Cal Poly Pomona

  Wednesday, June 26, 2013 — 6:29 am

  I apologize if my response is off the mark, because I could not click on the clip. So I'm assuming that Oliver is doing what often happens in celeb-chef self-representations: mystifying his relationship to the viewer by falsely identifying with us an ...
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  Re: Celebrity chefs: Do we need them?

  Anyone Empowered Exceeds Normal Needs for Credentials

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  Alison Pearlman Cal Poly Pomona

  Wednesday, June 26, 2013 — 11:41 pm

  Thank you, Signe, for setting me straight on the clip I couldn't click on. What you say makes sense. I would just add another thought to everyone's stimulating mix of ideas: In my experience, Oliver's expansion in domain and implied experti ...