Thursday, March 11, 2010

Posh Nosh

If you've never seen the genius that is Posh Nosh, I highly recommend you seek it out. It's a fantastic comedy miniseries of short (~9 minutes apiece) cooking segments featuring the Honorable Simon Marchmont (Richard E. Grant) and his wife, Minty (Arabella Weir), owners of the posh restaurant, "The Quill and Tassel".

I love it because of its exaggerated, yet somehow pitch-perfect mockery of foodie snobbery (Minty tells us she'll show us "extraordinary food for ordinary people") and foodie jargon ("interrogate the root vegetables until they are embarrassed"). It doesn't just depend on making fun of foodies for the humor; there's plenty of British class tension between social-climbing Minty and aristocratic Simon.

So sad they only made eight of these.

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