When I hear "domestic goddess", the first person that comes to mind is Nigella Lawson because of her book by the same name, and just because she's just amazing to look at. She cooks some seriously heavy stuff, but some of it is really comforting.

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will somebody please make sandra lee go away? if she spent a little more time in the kitchen and a little less time on her bleeping "tablescapes" her food would be about a million times better. cooking is not THAT hard! and there's nothing wrong with using pre-prepped ingredients, but use the right ones! don't use tomato SOUP to make lasagna, use tomato SAUCE! and keep the cornnuts out of the CAKE!!!

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Sandra is *not* a DG. She's a divorcee with an awkwardly-proportioned bust line and torso. She is contributing more to the decay of American home cooking than even Raytard, who used to be the most annoying Food Network personality, in large part because the food she "cooks" is loaded with flavor enhancers, modified food starch, high fructose corn syrup and everything else that is wrong with convenience foods, but people feel better about serving it to their families because it's "semi-homemade". Perhaps a better name would be "semi-adulterated"...

Nigella is the *ultimate* DG. I find her utterly irresistible, even as a gay man, a tendency my husband finds highly disturbing. Her ease and comfort with food just make me melt, and when she picked up a breaded pork chop with both hands and "snuck" a bite in this weeks episode, I began to consider the logistics of stalking transatlantically. I have this sense that she has a home that is always ready for drop-in guests, that she's going to tell the naughtiest jokes at her cocktail parties and that she has the most tasteful holiday decorations. Take that, Raytard.

Eric

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I love you, Eric. You took the words right out of my mouth, which is puckered up to kiss you, my new best friend.

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A picture of SLop and there's no alcohol in sight? Oh wait, I bet there's some in that coffee cup she's holding...

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Ugh, I agree with all the Sanda Lee feelings here. I do not see her as a domestic goddess. She tries too hard. Her "shortcuts" are not anything I think any sane person/food lover would use (much less actually eat).

As for Giada de Laurentiis, all I have to say is this:

"Never trust the skinny chef"

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Just because someone may look good in a bikini doesn't classify them as a domestic goddess. Try being a woman without your own stylist and makeup crew, have to make an entire family food AND clean for them, AND..still work a full time job? THAT'S a domestic goddess to me

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The comments on Sandra Lee are great and right on! I'd like to know how she can be so dam skinny. She must live on what she can lick off the spoons and spatulas.
My idea of a domestic goddess is one who can prepare ultra-wonderful food and keep the kitchen looking spic and span while doing it.Hmmm?

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We have cheapened the title "Domestic Goddess" by including Sandra Lee in the category. I used to cater and hope to get back into it soon. We entertain often and I love making everyone feel welcome and make sure there is something on the buffet table for everyone. And I need to preface this with the fact that I'm blessed to be able to be at home to work and to take care of personal business.

I am a Domestic Goddess. I have a type 2 diabetic Sweetie. Aside from all the other things I have on my plate, I prepare, from scratch, three fully nutritional meals a day, taking the time and effort to make sure they are visually pleasing and tasty. For the first time in my life I am challenged to make meals that someone (anyone!) would want to eat out of low glycemic index items such as lentils, Great Northern White Beans, barley and brown rice.

He also enjoys a morning snack (usually fat free yogurt or half a banana) and airpopped popcorn in the evening.

I check his blood glucose before breakfast and 1-2 hours after each meal, to see how he's metabolized
them. He's doing so much better.

So, on top of keeping the house in a marginally pristine condition, handling the adminstrative duties of his business, managing our rental properties and keeping his blood glucose and his blood pressure down, I'm also his gourmet cook and nurse. And it's the best "job" I've ever had. I love being a Domestic Goddess.

I love entertaining and do it well. I do not do "tablescapes", I do employ centerpieces and other decorative touches, but I call them what they are.

Let's all get real, okay?

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Sandra Lee is not a domestic goddess! She is a craft lady that cooks already packaged foods!! People like Giada and Nigella are domestic goddesses, because their recipes work and the food is good. The fact that they are attractive while doing it, just makes for a bigger audience. Sandra Lee is a joke!!

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Someone from CBS named Rachel Sullivan posted on another forum that the FoodNetwork was looking for people to be their new "star". Since she was looking for responses she provided her e-mail addie.

Here's what I wrote:
sullivanr@cbsnews.com

Since you are looking for responses I guess it would be OK to take
this opportunity to say that food people no longer see
any value whatsoever in the FoodNetwork.

You feature personalities that are either useless for
extending anyone's knowledge of food thereby insulting
our genuine interest or so hopelessly overexposed that
they become irritations. Add to that the constant,
predictable habit of turning food into competition and
ramping everything up to near hysteria as though food,
creatively and well done has no intrinsic value for
intelligent people, and you can easily see why people
with any genuine appreciation of food have little to
none left for the FoodNetwork.

MOST sincerely,

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If Sandra Lee is the new domestic goddess, we're all in trouble. Nigella Lawson still reigns supreme.

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None of those blonde generic looking women are remotely sexy at all. Its like the came from the same mold....the boring one.

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if i hear sandra lee say "right out of your own pantry" again i am going to scream--i mean whose pantry would you be using? doesn't everyone have a pantry--i.e. cupboard. lol. that kitchen that changes color scheme for every show and matches her outfit just kills me! that's where the show budget goes, certainly not to food.

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Every time I see Sandra Lee open or add some pre-packaged product to a recipe... I die a little inside. I can't even watch the show. Sure we all have our shortcuts - but it shouldn't be a cooking genre!

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I agree entirely about Sandra Lee...ick, who is she kidding? Giadda ("don't hate me because I'm beautiful") clearly admires Batali ("I'll show you this recipe, but don't even remotely believe you are capable of pulling it off")too much. I have become numb to Rachel's hyperactivity, but at least her recipe shortcuts are much more wholesome than Sandra Lees and might encourage home cooks to give it a try instead of calling takeout. That's a step in the right direction! Sandra fans could do better at Mc Donald's for heaven's sake!

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