Nathan Lyon and his mistakes…

So, I’ve been watching (of and on) A Lyon in the Kitchen, a new cooking show on Discovery Health. I began watching because I received some promo material a few months ago and watched a few of the show clips and wrote up a brief article on Cooking For Engineers. His shows are nothing special when it comes to cooking shows, except for the fact that he spends about 45 seconds at the begining of each show visiting a source for one of his ingredients - a mushroom farm, cheese market, beet farm, etc. I had a real problem watching the Grilled Halibut and Provincial Bread Salsa episode. He starts off visiting an olive oil producer and the on screen tip tells us to eat olive oil because it contains “monosaturated” fat. Okay, it’s just a typo, and it’s probably someone else’s fault they he’s got “monosaturated” instead of “monounsaturated” on the screen. Then he come back to the kitchen to demonstrate how to make what he called a “Provincial” Bread Salsa. I’m thinking, what does he mean by “provincial”? Does he mean from a local or rural dish? Or does he mean provençal (which is of course spelled differently and pronounced differently - [PRO-von-sawl])? He then explains that the dish is an homage to the Provence-style of Italy. So, he does mean provençal. My next problem is that Provence is French! Maybe that’s why his show is on Discovery Health… and that would also explain why no one caught these fairly big mistakes that occurred in the first five minutes of this show. For all the faults of Food Network, I think someone would have pointed out that this wasn’t quite right.

I think I can stop recording his show on my DVR.