Martha Stewart to Debut Martha Stewart's Cooking School on PBS

Martha Stewart to Debut Martha Stewart's Cooking School on PBS

By Ali Trachta Thu., Apr. 19 2012 at 1:31 PM

Martha Stewart, who in recent years has been seen most often on the Hallmark Channel, is making the move to public television, with Martha Stewart's Cooking School premiering on PBS this fall.

As the title suggests, this show will be largely instructional. Martha isn't the gimmicky type. She doesn't promise the quick-and-easy version of everything, nor does she rely on quirky themes. This is school, kids, so pay attention. As the press release states:

Each 30-minute episode will feature Martha demonstrating classic cooking techniques and basics. Using her signature, step-by-step how-to teaching process, Martha will illustrate the building blocks of recipes everyone should know (from roasting to poaching to braising and blanching). Viewers will have Martha by their side instructing them how to select the very best ingredients, how to make the perfect pot roast, how to pan sauté a whole fish, how to make stocks and why they're essential to making sauces and delicious soups. In addition, every episode will feature Martha imparting tips and tricks, inspiring and educating home cooks everywhere.

In other words, take copious notes, because there may be a quiz.

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The New York Times censored this comment....The Martha Stewart Show was "dropped by the Hallmark Channel" in deplorable, serial media leaks by Hallmark in complicity with the longstanding hate-Martha agenda of the NY Post. Hallmark's bad-faith serial leaks to the NY Post exploited free publicity, showing the Hallmark brand to be a total farce.

The end of the Martha Stewart show on the Hallmark Channel is the beginning of the end for the Hallmark Channel in its wild goose ratings chase into oblivion. The Hallmark Channel will become extinct, just like the Martha Show jobs it destroyed, when it goes back on the selling block as in the past with no buyer. Martha Stewart is as American as applie pie; the Martha Stewart Show is seen internationally. It is an Emmy Award-winning show with an Emmy Award-winning host in its first year on Hallmark. It is Hallmark that "struggled to attract an audience" with its greedy holdout with AT&T UVerse. Being un-American and unpatriotic, the Hallmark channel and brand will be "dropped" by all loyal fans Hallmark is the new Hellmark with a devil icon displacing the hypocritical crown.

Martha Stewart's Cooking School means influencing a healthy America. This should be a prelude to a Martha Stewart cable channel similar to the Martha Stewart Channel 110 on Sirius/XM Radio.