The Goldman State
Ed Goldman is a longtime newspaper and magazine columnist, the author of five books and creator of The Goldman State, a three-times-a-week online column with subscribers in 40 states, Canada and Europe. A professional playwright, composer and painter, Ed has also taught journalism at five California Universities and community colleges. His bucket list includes becoming the victim of a corporate takeover. This podcast is an extension of his unique take on the world around us and his interpretation, with all the creativity imaginable, of what that would literally sound like if he were to speak it.
The Goldman State
Episode 88: Megan Markle, The Love Cook
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Deliciously deceptive dishes from some of the most unlikely and, in some cases, unliked leaders of the world. With a little of my own spice added.
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00:12 - Ed Goldman (Host)
Hi, this is Ed Goldman with the Goldman State Podcast. Calling a cooking and lifestyle TV show with love Megan might have been a misguided decision by the Netflix marketing department. The name implies that Meghan Markle, who became in a few short months a fresh new English royalty and b disgraced former English royalty, has the cuddly sort of personality we might attribute to the late Julia Child or the punctual Ina Garten televised chefs known as much for their warmth as their recipe. But ever since Markle and her husband, prince-ish Harry his status isn't clear at the moment quasi-quit the crown without the standard sixth generation's notice her popularity has waned a bit. It was neither aided nor abetted by Harry's ghostwritten book Spare, whose original subtitle was reportedly Nobody loves me, everybody hates me. I'm going to eat some worms until the publisher sobered up. With Love, megan is serving both as a showcase for the Duchess of Something as well as a chief irritant for that rarefied group of first responders I call social media acolytes. Even so, I think the undeniably glam former co-star of Suits, the nine-season Netflix smash, may be on to something Counter-intuitive cooking shows hosted by unlikely, unlikable personalities. Here are a few waiting for air dates First hugs and smooches from Daddy Vladdy, deceptively dimply Russian.
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President Vladimir Putin takes viewers inside the kitchen of one of his six or seven mansions to dish up traditional plates of blintzes and borscht. And if recipe doesn't work, here's what you do, he says to the camera with that adorable accent and twinkle in his eye. He then takes a pan full of overcooked blintzes to the camera, with that adorable accent and twinkle in his eye. He then takes a pan full of overcooked blintzes to the window and tosses them out. I treat bad blintzes like enemies of state, he says, cracking up everyone on the crew except for a lighting director who soon thereafter sleeps with the blintzes, as they say in the KGB.
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Another show Egg Fu Young and Old with Xi Jinping While he quips. It's a state secret. The president of the People's Republic of China not only has a delicious sense of humor, but also a few thousand years of accumulated Asian recipe cards at his disposal, which is also what thousands of his dissenters have been Videotaped outdoors in Tiananmen Square, site of the 1989 massacre. Egg Fu young and old gives Uncle Zai as he demands. Viewers call him, but never allowed the chance to joke around, as only a communist party-on dude can I admit. He says through his translator that an hour after eating this scrumptious meal, you may still be hungry. To achieve world domination.
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Here's another show. Harvey Weinstein's Grab and Go Cafeteria, everyone's favorite sexual predator, returns with this delightful cooking show streamed directly from his cell at Rikers Island Jail, or, as he ambitiously puts it, my gated community. The creepy chef K-Tiff offers his amoral morsels menu, inspired equally by his daily prison cuisine and crimes against humanity, including egregious eggos, heinous hamburger sliders, wicked watermelon chunks and rapacious rum balls. Still another show kooky cooking with Kim Jong-un, the North Korea love bug, shows he's more about gentle than genocide prepping, but having young girls in uniforms sobbing gratefully to actually cook Notable Korean dishes, to which the scamp whose cheeks you'd pinch if you already had your fares in order, has added his own personal touch.
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There's the fermented cabbage appetizer named for Kim Chi Chi Jong-il, his late father and role model. Bulgide bulgogi, that's grilled beef, and subdued sundubu jjigae, a stew that requires the consumer to wear a bib while maintaining absolute fealty to the government. Finally, there's bitcoins, bellinis and BFFs during Sam Bankman Freed, currently serving a sentence of 375 years with a possibility of parole in 236 years. The fraudulent founder of FTX is apparently a lactose intolerant vegetarian, which has forced him to come up with meals appropriate to his condition, presenting tofu tarts, salisbury soy steaks and gluten-free gluten. Bankman Freed is also about to reveal that he's juxtaposing his hyphenated surname to Chicken Fried Bankman on the advice of his unpaid and not-happy-about-it attorneys. Bon appétit. I'm Ed Goldman. My column, the Goldman State, comes out every Monday, wednesday and Friday. You can subscribe for free at GoldmanStatecom. Thanks for listening.