She criticised "ghastly" reality programmes and boasted that unlike other TV shows, Bake Off can be watched by young and old.
I have always felt that non-experts (journalists, players, administrators) are too quick to believe that groundsmen make pitches the way contestants on primetime TV shows bake cakes – but it's not so easy!
I wish I could say this was a one-off, but I've slept through plenty of other shows baked and basically don't remember the plots of any movies I watched between 2005-2010.
Ms. Lee, the companion of Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, has invited his young daughters onto her Food Network show to bake cupcakes.
A lot of these people leave their entire job for weeks on end to compete on this show (does Bake Off have such jeopardy?).
We are all food lovers now, of course, years of bestselling cookbooks, celebrity chefs and affordable foreign travel mean we're clued up about sourdough, know the difference between za'atar and ras el hanout, and can rustle up a show-stopping bake or two.
Thankfully, the fun is not over yet, for, as series five finalist Richard Burr remarked at the Cake and Bake show at ExCel London recently, one of the best bits of being on Bake Off is that 'they let you do a book' afterwards.
As Dretske (1981) puts it, the task is to show how to "bake a mental cake using only physical yeast and flour".
Baking classes continue to be highly sought-after with our chefs often asked for tips on replicating some of the show's signature bakes.
So they have to be recorded, and the BBC and independent production companies that make its big shows, such as Bake Off, The Apprentice and MasterChef go to great lengths to keep things secret.
