I was reading for an anthropology exam most of the evening and realised, at just a few minutes before 10pm, that Finding Bigfoot was about to start. Yes, that’s how I roll, if you haven’t figured that one out by now. Without thinking, I grabbed the remote and switched on the television just in time to witness Taylor Dayne expressing confusion over a little something she called ‘Moosh boosh.’
‘A little welcoming bite,’ Rachael Ray clarified.
‘A small, all-encompassing, one bite appetiser,’ Guy elaborated, as though ‘A little welcoming bite’ wasn’t clarification enough.
‘Huh,’ I said, punching in the numbers for Animal Planet. ‘You learn something new every day. And yet I still hate this fucking programme.’
Discovering that amuse-bouche is another term for hors d’oeuvres or ‘a small, all-encompassing, one bite appetiser’ was fascinating in the same way I find it fascinating that Food Network haven’t shelved this Worst Celebrity Cook atrocity yet. But I did find rather a strangely arousing picture of Giada gently gripping and tugging a firm shaft of pasta…