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> it's just what one notable person happened to decide Oh no. Chances are the real engine of this change is the recent mass-media discovery of food-prep as a h
by toyg 3y ago
> it's just what one notable person happened to decide
Oh no. Chances are the real engine of this change is the recent mass-media discovery of food-prep as a heroic and cool activity.
Celebrity chefs used to be obnoxious, "always-be-prepared", by-the-book home-goddess archetypes like Delia Smith; at some point over the last 25 years, they turned into sexy, improvising, creative rockstars. The creativity-impoverished masses, bored to death by day after day looking at computer screens, now get their kicks by eating and cooking.
- randomdata 3y agoYou are quite right that another notable person came along and, to buck the trend, decided it would be entertaining to watch "the help", and then the rest started to follow thinking that must be what is required to become notable. But it could have gone the other way. The first notable person could have recognized the entertainment, and the later notable person could have decided it was better to keep hidden. We don't know why the first one decided to go with hidden, and likely it was just a random choice.