Word: cooking
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...initial inspiration is threefold. My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food. Those are the three people who molded me. Now my family inspires me, traveling inspires me, my viewers and fans, the people I meet on tours. Talking to people and other chefs, eating out, they all make me better...
SABREENA BOYD LEARNED TO cook, clean and take care of herself when she was just 7 because, she says, her birth mother was often too drunk or strung out on drugs to watch over her. After she moved in with the Juarezes, "I was told that I needed to try to live the rest of my childhood," says SaBreena. "But what does being a kid mean? I don't think I've ever gotten that explained...
...distributor, however, is convinced that Americans are ready to commit. "Reality TV has demonstrated that the American public will get behind a character for a short period," says Bob Cook, president of Twentieth Television, the development and production unit of Fox. Cook has adapted two telenovelas to air in September: Table for Three, a love triangle involving two brothers in a Mafia family, and Fashion House, starring Bo Derek as the powerful queen of a fashion empire. Each show will air daily for 13 weeks, with recap episodes on the weekends...
...left behind after the merger of UPN and the WB networks. Just as UPN featured African-American shows and the WB turned into a home for angsty teenage dramas, MyNetworkTV could make its mark with the telenovelas, its first original programming. "We're purchasing several years' worth of novelas," Cook says. If those two don't find an audience, he'll try others. "We believe in this...
...superstar salaries (comedian Ray Romano took home $2 million an episode), expensive writers ("adapters" are paid as little as $50,000 a year) or elaborate shoots. Twentieth Television has plotted out the story arcs for both of its shows and will shoot them jointly to create more efficiency, Cook says. By just changing the lighting, for example, producers can use the same set for scenes in both shows...