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Sandra Lee and Semi-Homemade: what's a QVC host doing on Food TV?

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sandra lee semi-homemadeWhen I started ranting on Slashfood about the terrible "recipes" on Sandra Lee's Semi-Homemade Halloween special, I delved a bit into her background. It turns out that Lee is a Food Network star without any foodie credentials; she got into showbiz, it seems, after developing a wide variety of home decorating and scrapbooking products for QVC.

Her "ingenious 70/30 philosophy" (70% storebought, pre-packaged ingredients in every dish, even if you're gutting perfectly good pumpkin pies from the grocery bakery) appears to have been created out of whole cloth. Sure, TV casting can place a bit more importance on cleavage than actual experience. But the rest of the stars on the Food Network have real culinary training, either from prestigious culinary schools or restaurants and gourmet food companies. We have some readers with industry knowledge: anyone know how a well-coifed QVC host made it onto Food TV?

 

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