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I loved the TOH show in Raleigh, NC tonight!(9/13) The freebies were awesome and the recipes were inspiring! I cannot wait to go to the show next year! The only disappointment I had was that I didnt know about it sooner, if I had I could of invited more friends. Thank you so much TOH and Guy for a fun evening out on the town! See you next year!
Jamie, I was at your show in Tyler, TX in September. My friend and I had a great time. I am confused about your comments about iceberg lettuce. i understood you to say that it has no nutritional value and that we might as well just eat grass. A lady in one of my cooking clubs sent the following to me. I thought I would forward it just in case I misunderstood your comments about never buying iceberg lettuce. We are looking forward to your next show. It was quite an experience and we loved every minute of it!
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2476/2
http://gethealthycleanandlean.info/iceberg-lettuce-no-nutritional-value-or-just-given-a-bad-rap
We had a blast last night at the TOH show in Raleigh, NC last night. All of the recipes were just wonderful and Guy made me feel like I could make them at home just as easy as he made them on stage. Thanks for a wonderful evening, we will be back again next year! And on a side note…. we loved how Guy involved the audience in the songs and the show itself… Thank You!!!!
The show in Raleigh N.C on 09/13/2011 was Great! Guy kept the audience involved, gave great tips. The MC’S Were also good. The swag bags had a lot of good stuff in then. To sum this all up, I have been going to the Taste of Home cooking schools for over 10 years, and this was the best one. Looking forward to the next one!
As usual the Cooking show in Augusta Maine on 9/10/11 was great. My only complaint was the late hour. I loved some of the tips given and the goodie bags were great. Thank You.
i went to show in Rantoul ill and i have to say that it was one of the worst show i been too there was no venders and all the vip people got most of the door gifts
Had a wonderful evening in West Reading on Thursday, September 22/11. Michael B. is very informative and gives us lots of great tips as he cooks on stage. He is funny too. Makes the time fly by. I will good use of the coupons handed out in the goodie bag. Great Job!!
loved the show in Ogden!!!!!, Kristi where did you find the cool S&P grinder and 3 bladed sizzers you used at the show?
Went to the show in Flint, MI last night. It was smaller than I thought but I enjoyed the samples and the cooking demonstration. Eric Villegas was great. His enthusiasm made the show. My complaint was the lighting. You really couldn’t see what was taking place up on stage because the lighting made everything dark on screen. So when he would comment on the color or texture, you couldn’t tell, because it was black and white. I was hoping for the money I paid to be able to see the presentation better.
I have attended several Cooking School Demos in the Blytheville, AR area. There have not been any scheduled for the last several years. Could anyone please tell me if anything is scheduled for the future?
Enjoyed Dana’s show in Daytona Beach 2011 & 2010. Saw Eric on 3/1 & had a great time. Have already tried the taco casserole. Turned out great. I have many Taste of Home cookbooks & have gotten magazine for several years. Will attned next local show.
Enjoyed the show in So.Portland,I have my own version of the Ortega taco casserole. I use Ortega mild sales and tostitos hint of lime white corn chips. 4 cheese Mexican mix. Lean ground beef. Doing the same as in book except you don’t break the chips you layer them to the top of the down
I would like to know where to find the salt &leper grinder that you were using today.
Thank you see you next year
Marsha marle
I attended my second Taste of Home show on Saturday in South Portland, Maine. This time I brought 3 family members. They loved it and I had to promise that I would take them again next year. They were already planning who else we should bring. Many of us stopped and got ingredients to make some of the recipes. I loved the tips/hints that Michael gave as he was doing the show. It would be great if they had a top ten do’s and don’ts in the kitchen. Some times you miss what is said because you are looking in the magazine or people are talking near you.
Thank you again!! It was wonderful.
I attened my second Taste of Home Cooking School in Muskogee, Ok on April 5,2012. I thought Jamie had a great presentation. She kept you interested with all the little tips she gave us and her sly wit. The recipes looked great and I am looking forward to making some of them. I am excited to try some of the Johnsonville and Ortega products. They looked flavorful and easy. I appreciate Taste of Home coming to our town and look forward to another visit, with Jamie as Host, of course. I have been a fan of Taste of Home for years. Thanks for your Magazines. They are a gift to all of us cooks!
Thanks again!
linda smith from hulbert oklahoma i went to a class in muskogee ok on 4/5/2012 it was really fun i enjoyed it. the receipes were easy and i learned a few new things .
your show was very intertaining. Had a very good time. This was my 3rd show AND was verry dissapointed with the gift bags this tine. The other showes gave a real bag not a plastic bag, I could have brought my own.The other shows gave gifts ( wooden spoons, coupionS) Every one that I talked with during the show and aftetr were dissapointed with the gift bags and with the vinders . I came 2 hr. early expecting much more venders Except with that it was a good show and I will be trying some of the food in the book.. Don’t know if I will go to any more shows, seems like after the first one the rest have all gone down hill
I went to a show in Erie last night and had to agree with the above comments…I like the VIP part but thought maybe a special drawing could be given for those, a longer time with the Chef, there was a lot of down time from 4 to 7…. But the recipes were great, I enjoyed the Chef and will definitely go again!! ( I was missing the free subscription card from my bag and didn’t realize it until this morning!! )
I just got home from my first taste of home cooking Karen was awsome and such a good sport. She kept the program rolling and her food smells amazing. Your sponsors were so involved.ndnd
I took my friend and i expected more vendors,I did buy the 2 diet cook books. Just need to thank
Daniels Sentry foods,THe Janesville gazzetts,WCLO,The Aglo..Slummberland,Main appliances.
went to a show in Erie,Pa. last night ..the building was very cold..very disappointed in the venders and with the gift bag not many samples and we did not get emril samples and the stonefire samples in ours and by the time we found out there was noone around to tell or ask for some. the prizes numbers that were in out bag started with 75 and most of the numbers started with 02 that one and appeared to be people in the reserved section. i had gone to one about 5 years ago and really enjoyed it ..was not happy last night . the chef was fine and the food looked good.
I have been to 3 or 4 Taste of Home cooking shows. The gift bag given out on May 14 was minimal at the least. I was also planning on having dinner before the show but there was only cookies and tea there. Last year, in Gloversville, NY there was an abundant of food being given away and for sale.
The show was great and so was Michael. The recipes seemed very usable. I plan to attend next year’s show and hope that I’ll find some food. I will bring a granola bar, just in case….
I attended my first show on May 19th in Carson City. The gift bag was filled with nothing I could use, other than the free subscription to ToH magazine and the free sample of Naan bread, it all went in the trash. The vendors were very minimal, and certainly did not need the entire day to “browse” before the cooking show started at 3. The VIP ticket was not worth the extra money. The only real benefit was early seating, but there were not enough people in attendance that this was necessary. And, when it came to the prizes it seemed that it was all the people who came in later, and very few VIP ticket holders, who won the prizes. Kristi was great. The recipes are great. But, I don’t need to attend a show, or spend $40 on a VIP for recipes. It is highly unlikely I will attend another show. If I do, I will not waste my money on a VIP ticket.
I attended TOH Cooking School on Thursday, November 10, 2011 – Arcada
Theatre in St. Charles, IL – I enjoyed Karen Davis Culinary Specialist and the gift bad. But, I thought anyone who bought a ticket would receive one year of the Taste of Home Magazine? I never received anything. Did anyone receive anything in the mail?
I attended the Cooking School in Kalispell, Montana. Erik was amazing. He kept up entertained and educated. I couldn’t even breathe when he explained how the “linebackers protect the quarterback”. i do hope he comes back in the spring. I do have a question about the MRS Dash in the Braised Beef short ribs..he said to add some, but he didn’t say how much (and since it wasn’t in the magazine) is there anyone who can respond and let me know?! Thanks for the great show!!
My daughter and I have attended the cooking school every year it has been in Amarillo, Tx.
Last year it was held in the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts and it was a disaster. Not enough room to follow recipes or to move around. We left early as many did. We will not be attending this year, but will watch in the furture for a location change. Hope to see you next year.
I just attended the cooking show in Idaho Falls, Idaho. First, I must say that I love your recipes! Almost every single one I’ve tried gets rave reviews from my family and friends. However, your cooking show was a complete let down. I paid for the extra VIP tickets thinking I’d get time with your chef and get lots of extra VIP stuff. Nope. We walked in (thankfully we did not arrive 2 hours early!!) and there was no one to greet us. The seats were not marked clearly and many were reserved for businesses. We had to hunt around to find someone that could tell us what was going on and she didn’t have much to say. We were told to fill out our green cards. I thought this was going to be raffles for VIP tickets since we paid FOUR times the price, but no. They were for everyone. At the very least, we should have been given 2 raffle tickets or even a separate raffle all together. But, besides the raffle (which is not why I came at all) we had no “back stage with the chefs”. We were not even allowed on the stage. So, we got there 1 hour early and sat there. Bored out of our minds. There were about three “vendors”. None of them had anything to do with kitchen gadgets or time savers in the kitchen. Everyone wanted you to give them all of your information so they could bombard you with junk mail. The yogurt place was not “giving away” yogurt. It was $2 a cup! Then the show starts and, again- BORING!! There was no witty conversation or even interesting tips. There was NO audience participation at all. It was all very strange. And then she tell us to use chocolate chips in a recipe the clearly states it’s chocolate CHUNK! If you ask me that would make a HUGE difference in the taste! We were not able to TRY any of the food she made. Huh? I was expecting to get SOME samples of food at a cooking show. I don’t think that’s out of the ordinary. All in all, I would have to say that I would not go to one again. I will do my best to let everyone know what a let down it was too. I don’t think it would have been that disappointing had I not paid for the VIP tickets. But, as it was, it was not worth it at all!
I forgot to mention that the hardest/most interesting parts of the recipes weren’t even shown. For example, it would have been nice to watch her put a pie crust together. EVERYONE has problems with that. Instead it just magically appeared because someone else had made it prior to the show. It also would have been nice to learn more about shaving chocolate swirls. But, someone else had done that prior to the show too. What???
I just returned home from the 10/23/12 cooking show in Fishersville and I’m sorry to report that I was extremely disappointed. I had paid $20 each for three tickets (for myself, my sister and my brother) and driven an hour and fifteen minutes to the show. I had a bad feeling when we entered the building and had to ask where we were supposed to sit. We were told to “just sit anywhere”. Almost all of the seats from the front to 3/4′s of the way to the back were filled. Since our tickets were numbered, I had assumed that the seats would also be numbered and that we would be shown to our seats. However, seating seemed to be on a first come, first served basis, except for the VIP seats up front. Also, the “goodie bags” were basically just a bunch of advertisements from companies hawking their products, a plastic/rubber disk for opening jars, a couple of abbreviated Taste of Home magazines and a few coupons….I can get better coupons from the Sunday paper and it would only cost me $1.50…..No taste-testing of the recipes or samples of anything. My brother, who at the outset had high hopes for food samples, ended up going to the Expo-run food counter and purchasing an over-priced burger. I think it would’ve kept folks (at least my folks) more interested if even itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny bites of the food had been passed around to help maintain the audience’s interest. The food that was made during the show was “raffled” off at the end of the show, along with other door prizes. They even included the set decorations (pumpkins, gourds, mums) in the raffle. We left when they started drawing participants’ names for the gourds….that was my limit to the amount of time I could waste in one evening. The chef was ok, but not nearly of the caliber I had expected from Taste of Home. Both I and my sister get the Taste of Home Magazine and each have several of the cookbooks, but I can’t imagine that we’d ever waste our money on another of these shows. Our time and money would’ve been much better spent on purchasing groceries and then making recipes along with the chefs on the Food Network channel at home.
I attended the Idaho Falls Taste of Home cooking show in October and I enjoyed the cooking deomonstrations and the magazines in the gift bag. Unfortunately, I have misplaced the magazine with the recipes from the demonstrations–and my notes that I took on the note page. I know my notes can’t be replaced but can you please tell me where I can get another copy of the magazine with those wonderful recipes used in the show. Thank you!
my 2 girlfriends and I get together each year, and this year we want to attend one of your cooking schools. However, I live in Illinois, they both live in the State of Washington, near Seattle. Do you have the schedule for 2013? I will travel to Washington State , or they will come back to the Midwest. Could you please list the dates for shows in the Midwest in 2013, near Illinois or Washington State, near Seattle. Thank you so very much.
I attended the TOH cooking school in Texarkana, Ar last night and enjoyed it as usual. One complaint is that Mario didn’t turn the hopper when he drew a name for the prizes. If you notice all the prizes were given away on one side of the room and only a couple on the other. That’s because he never spinned the hopper. I think he should spin everytime he is going to give away a prize instead of taking out a handful and picking the ones he wants to win. Just didn’t seem the right way to do it. thought I would let you know.
Linda
I attended the Taste of Home cooking school, Nov. 8th in Texarkana,AR. The show was great had a lot of fun. First one I have attended.Jamie Dunn was great , I will be back next year.
I do think the drawings should have been put in a hopper and everyone see them draw the names. Never saw that, just called names out, and they all seemed to be in the same area.Sort of didn’t seem right.Maybe do that different next time. Sue
i would like to know if there is going to be a taste of show in harrison ohio or lawrenceburg indiana this year and when.
i would like to know if there is going to be a taste of home cooking show in harrison ohio or lawrenceburg indiana this year.
Jamie, There six our group that went to the TOH cooking school in Great (West) Bend,Ks. We have a blast. It was my sister first time and you got her hooked. You did great with all the tech. mess ups. We all like all the gadgets that you use and showed us how to use them. We also liked the easy recipes. Hope to you soon.
My daughter and 9 year old granddaughter thoroughly enjoyed the TOH cooking show in Atlantic City, NJ this week. We had gone to our first show in Eatontown, NJ late last year.We noticed that there will be another show the end of this month in NJ and are wondering if the recipes/demos will be the same as those in Atlantic City. If they are not, my granddaughter is urging her mom and me to take her – again. Can you get back to me and let me know?
Thanks you!
Hi Guy! Great show in Bettendorf Ia. on 4-16-20. Loved your singing. Were can I get the wooden spoons, and salt&pepper shakers? Littlle dispointed in vendors, and long wait to get in, but your end of show was great!
Tell me where do you get FRESH cherries and Peaches in april ?
I loved the show in Edison, For dinner last night I made the Mushroom Turkey burgers it was a hit, Today I am making the Mango pie. Thanks so much!
I really enjoyed the show in Kenosha and learned several fun new cooking tips!
However, as a registered dietitian, I must comment that mushrooms are actually not a significant source of protein as was mentioned during the show. Though they provide great “meaty” texture and flavor to foods & can be a great option for vegetarians, it’s important that consumers continue to include beans, cheese or eggs to meet protein needs.