In Videos: Posh Nosh
A couple days ago, Serious Eats contributor Lucy Baker put me on to Posh Nosh, a short-lived series of comedy shorts on BBC2 television. It's a send-up of upscale cooking shows, in which husband and wife hosts Minty and Simon Marchmont (Arabella Weir and Richard E. Grant) cook "extraordinary food for ordinary people." They pretentiously demonstrate recipes and wine advice all the while using nonsensical cooking terms ("Then thrill your mussels in hot, bubbling water," "Appliqué the currants," "First you'll want to alienate the chorizo," etc).
A typical episode has Minty doing most of the work, while Simon prattles on with overwrought descriptions of food, wine, and food-related travel, with a sort of uncomfortable underlying tension that bubbles to the surface at inappropriate moments. I'm sure there's subtle British humor going on and that I'm missing a lot of the jokes, but it still seems funny to this here Yank.
It's a great little series to go through if you've got some time on your hands. There are about 8 episodes or so, and each is around 10 minutes long. Here's Episode 1 below; you can find more on YouTube.
Link: Posh Nosh, Episode 1 [YouTube]
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4 Comments:
I love Posh Nosh, didn't ever think to check Youtube for clips!! Thanks :)
Sarahrm at 2:08PM on 04/12/08
Thank you, thank you! my PBS station used to run these, but haven't been lately. I LOVE them. ("bread AND butter pudding", e.g.) Cheerio!
passy at 4:46PM on 04/12/08
Thanks! Never caught the show on tv. That was quite entertaining! =)
Cassaendra at 9:33AM on 04/13/08
OMG, the husband is Darwin Mayflower from Hudson Hawk :)
anitaepler at 3:41PM on 04/13/08