Mark Knows It All

We have become a nation of foodies. We all love to eat and cook at home. The Food Channel is filled with celebrity chefs making money showing us how “easy” it is to cook and entertain. We run to the Viking store and buy $10,000.00 stoves to place in between our Sub-Zero refrigerators and marble counter tops over which hang racks of expensive pots and pans. We can grill in or grill out, eating off earth toned dishes that are every bit as expensive as the Lenox place settings for which our parents forced us to register when we got married 35 years ago, and we use regularly once every 5 years. And we all need one of those $180.00 knives to make our lives complete. Oh yes, don’t forget 50 different varieties of martini glasses. And after we buy all of this stuff, and spend our weekends praying at the foodie temples of Williams Sonoma and the Pottery Barn, we eat out 5 nights per week. I have to admit, I do watch the Food Channel. There is Paula Dean, that ripe southern fruit with the grizz...