| abstract | - A cooking show is a popular TV genre that focuses on the considerably less-than-popular chore of cooking. Set in a kitchen studio, a typical cooking show demonstrates the flawless preparation of a dish by a celebrity chef, who spends most of the show doing a variety of activities, including frying food, chopping food, and providing the audience with knowledge and advice - about food - that no one will remember because they're too busy drooling over all the close-ups of him frying food. Though cooking shows have been labelled by some as "pointless", or even "stupid", they are anything but. In fact, cooking shows are very educational, with the host of the show teaching the viewers about the many facets of cookery. In particular, that no one should ever have made a TV show about it.
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